Society

The huge pay gap among workers at the top and bottom makes the middle more difficult to calculate.

Sophisticated socialists and anti-socialists rightly dunk on “socialism is when government does thing” takes. But sometimes these takes cont...

Sam Zeloof combines 1970s-era machines with homemade designs. His creations show what’s possible for small-scale silicon tinkerers.

The pioneer of co-creation design lasted for nearly 15 years

The Door of Perception is an ever-growing compilation of things that speak to me on a deep level, a personal archive of re-enchantment.

In an era when hundreds of free web browsers exist, Orion Browser has a novel idea: It wants to charge money. Why’s that? Simple: It wants to fix the paradigm.

"[Historical knowledge] gives understanding of how the present world came to be, and maybe more importantly, an appreciation that everything that is, never necessarily had to be" -from "History as Freedom" —Joe Costello...

“Don’t readers ever get tired of being told that the world is coming to a nasty, ugly end and only a very few people will survive, by luck and by violence?” That’s the question asked by legendary s…

Digital Visual Artist

Tupinipunk(name derived from tupiniquim, a major native-brazilian ethnic group and a slang to refer to anyone or anything that is brazilian) is a term generally used to refer to the sci-fi...

In this academic article, the authors explore two contemporary movements associated with the literature and art of the Amazon region: Amazofuturism and Indigenous futurism. Amazofuturism is underst…

That’s how culture perpetuates injustice and indignity. Because that’s just the way things are around here. But the status quo isn’t permanent. The world doesn’t stay the wa…

The solarpunk movement has a diverse real-world global following that promotes decentralized infrastructure, community engagement and a DIY attitude.

82 books based on 84 votes: Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers by Sarena Ulibarri, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley R...

Solarpunk is a positive vision of your future, grounded in our world. It emphasizes our need for social justice, self-governance, and sustainability.

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At once a vision of the future, a thoughtful provocation, and an achievable lifestyle. In...

Solarpunk is a genre of speculative fiction that is also its own distinguished aesthetic, focusing mainly on renewable energy, living in harmony with nature, and the better future envisioned...

There’s a famous Scandinavian saying: “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.” What it means is that it’s never a bad day to go outside, as long as you’re appropriately dressed for the conditions. It’s particularly an encouragement to get outdoors during the cold, dark winter when one might otherwise be inclined […]

I define a heresy as: something you believe that the people you most admire and respect don’t believe and reject out of hand. With that criterion in mind, here are 47 Contemporary Heresies I’ve collected. These are not necessarily my

“We said yes to working here because we thought this was where we could matter, do big things, and make a difference. Instead, the opposite has turned out to be true.”

If you’re getting health care in the U.S., chances are your providers are now trying to give you a better patient experience through a website called MyChart. This is supposed to be yours, as…

Today in Castle News: The thing you need to understand about today's Zillow find is that it was built in 2010 in the United States of America. Two full years into the financial crisis, these people decided that what they needed was a MOAT. It looks like the part of Disney you aren't supposed to see, like there should be dumpsters of half-consumed turkey legs and a Mickey Mouse holding his own

What tech leaders need to know about the metaverse and why it might be something for us to reconsider.

The oft-ignored role of an alphabet in politics and identity.

A nice, well-reasoned piece from Harold Lee pushing back on the idea that we should buy experiences not goods: While I appreciate the Stoic-style appraisal of what really brings happiness, economically, this analysis seems precisely backward. It amounts to saying that in an age of industrialization and globalism, when material goods are cheaper than ever, […]

The author of two popular open source libraries intentionally corrupted them, causing a debate in the programming community.