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No.408 — Futures studies as a mosaic 2 ⊗ Digital Colonialism ⊗ How the Squamish built Senakw ⊗ Extreme dynamic symmetry

No.409 — The golden age of Bond villains ⊗ Predictions Volume 1 ⊗ GLM-5.2 is a step change ⊗ Earth’s underground fungus network ⊗ Huge collections of Leonardo’s codexes

I bought the most confusing jacket in America.

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In the days before the Civil War, the South worked hard to censor any literature that cast slavery in a negative light. Officials in Charleston, S.C. went through mailbags for abolitionist newspape…

Explore the astonishing amount of music available to AI developers.

The rise of machine writing is a great opportunity for literature.

Almost exactly three years ago the Oceangate submarine implosion happened . The disaster came about when a billionaire called Stockton Rush ...

Revisiting "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology” (1992) by Neil Postman.

Matthew Butterick

A new report from Credit Suisse has found that individuals with assets worth more than $50 million, referred to as “ultra-high-net-worth” (UHNW) individuals, spiked to a record high last year.  Cre…

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

pI've befriended some of the most thoughtful, brilliant, curious, eccentric, and sincere people I've ever met in the tech industry. Many of my dearest frie...

For $100, I bought bric-a-brac that explains a nation.

What the most powerful model yet teaches us about the future of knowledge work

This desire to reduce liberalism to economic liberalism is taken to its extreme in the dark enlightenment.

Micro teams and rotation can strengthen collaboration, spread expertise and build resilient SRE cultures across teams.

Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They …

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"Musk’s real genius lies in mythmaking."