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Two years later, Seattle is still fighting over meaningless accounting moves while squandering an opportunity to build a real police alternative.

We're just too practical to be too stylish.

“Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/”

The long read: By the end of the century, Africa will be home to 40% of the world’s population – and nowhere is this breakneck-pace development happening faster than this 600-mile stretch between Abidjan and Lagos

Elon Musk said the overwhelming wealth is inversely proportional to the number of children they have, but considered himself a rare exception

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A new report from the Geena Davis Institute, Google Research and USC uses AI to analyze representation in media.

Could a shorter work week be the answer to the UK's productivity problem?

We are now off the edge of the map. Elon Musk has laid off 50% of Twitter’s staff in a move that some call ‘backbreaking.’ Twitter has suffered a “massive drop in revenue” as major advertisers, including GM and Audi, paused their spending on the platform based on Musk’s chaotic leadership

A proposal from Washington's Public Works Board would limit the power of private companies' objections to stall public broadband projects.

“I grew up in Dallas, TX, drinking sodium fluoridated water, and all the scientific studies show my IQ has been reduced by at least 20 points. The shadow of who I would have been calls out from the…

A young mother rents a house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.”

Both in and outside fiction, we are pushed to the past tense. The reality is, many Indigenous cultures in North America survived an apocalypse. The key word is survived. Any future with us in it, t…

If it’s getting difficult to imagine a future, and a lot of culture seems to take refuge in apocalyptic fantasies, it may be time to turn to other sources for considering how we might thrive …

Ryan Zemke revisits lives lived through the imagination, and the people and places that define both our memories and sense of self

“As a result, an inordinate share of our public information, in journalism and government, effectively recycles and launders the insights of not just a handful of think tankers but a bunch of - sorry friends - randos who spend a lot of time in certain corners of the interwebs. /13”

Forthcoming in the January, 2023 issue of Locus Magazine.

Hunter S. Thompson's scathing obituary of Nixon

Understanding Musk's Speed-Run to Main Villain Status

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Why Democrats win the cities and lose the states, and what to do about it.

Democrats have only begun to do better in rural America—but the road map is there.

Generations robbed of meaning and purpose struggle to find their place.

Working to transform our culture into one that repairs more readily than it purchases, that repairs because that's just what you do.