Society

Capitalism is on the wane. Cloudalists, owners of a new form of “command capital,” have gained exorbitant power over everyone else.

New Yorkers still tell stories of browsing at Harlem’s Liberation Bookstore or spending the afternoon at Scribner’s.

It is found or it arrives. It is hosted many places or it has a single home. It earns and delivers on permission, or it’s spam. It changes over time or it’s static. It’s the work …

The Internet is filled with comment spaces, most of them only barely regulated. But that is not enough. One must have the right to talk however one wants, here, specifically.

The internet has made credibility harder to detect, opening the door for misinformation and conspiracy theories. The internet has led to great advances, namely the dissemination of massive amounts of information to billions of people around the world. However, this glut of information has made it easier for malicious actors to publish misinformation and conspiracy […]

Lapsus$ hackers leaked Microsoft’s Bing and Cortana source code. How bad is that, really?

Posted on Monday 11 Apr 2022. 873 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

Some of the comments in regards to Dwayne Haskins' untimely death shows we have a long way to go in how we look at athletes

Hustle uses shortcuts and effort to bend the conventions of society to get more than the hustler’s fair share of attention. Hustle burns trust for awareness. Because it’s a shortcut, hu…

Fresh off a record revenue quarter, Lenovo plans to add 12,000 R&D staff members to their global ranks over the next three years, according to the

"Shame on Congress for not sucking it up and doing what needs to be done," the senator told Recode.

Our new project, The Carbon Almanac, is now inviting supporting partners to join us. We are all volunteers and we’re focused on offering institutions a chance to amplify the conversation abou…

Linda Ronstadt had Rupert Murdoch’s number as far back as 1983, three years before he launched Fox News. Appearing on Australia’s Don Lane Show, she said, “You gave us Rupert Murd…

Attitudes to work by younger colleagues could not be more different to those of their predecessors, especially the ones portrayed in two recent TV series.

gilded age and the limits of the sentimental period drama

A fantastic template letter for Florida teachers to send to families of students regarding the implementation of “Don’t Say Gay” is naturally freaking out a conservative group tha…

Life’s a tragedy. It always surprises us, and eventually, we all die. But tragedies don’t have to lead to catastrophes. A catastrophe is a shared emergency that overwhelms our interacti…

The U.S. botches its India diplomacy as it fails to comprehend Delhi’s understanding of the new realities of the emerging multipolar world.

Forrester Research is DeFi-ing current hype

If you’re among those who can still work remotely at least part of the time, you need to reconsider your wardrobe.

Ars chats with historian Barry Strauss about his book, The War that Made the Roman Empire.

The photo above dates from early 1978, when Hodskins Simone & Searls, a new ad agency, was born in Durham, North Carolina. Specifically, at 602 West Chapel Hill Street. Click on that link and y…

We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.