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Lucy E. Parsons was a leading figure in American anarchism and the radical labor movement. Born a slave near Waco, Texas, she married Albert R. Parsons who had become a white radical Republican after serving first as a Confederate soldier. In 1873 Albert and Lucy … Read More(1886) Lucy Parsons, “I am An Anarchist”

How do developers get paid? Is Game Pass burning cash? We dig into the financial specifics of the subscription service.

How do developers get paid? Is Game Pass burning cash? We dig into the financial specifics of the subscription service.

The UK may have been too clever by half with its scheme to retrade the Brexit deal.

Most large organizations would disagree. They hire cheap labor to answer the phone. They install recordings to mollify people who are on hold for hours. They measure the cost of the call center and…

We've long illustrated how U.S. broadband is dominated by regional monopolies, which, in turn, are often coddled by state and federal governments (aka corruption). That broken market (and regulatory capture) results in all manner of problems...

And that's bad for your customers – who else is gonna ultimately pay for it?

Social media services try to force people to use their clear name, which opens the door for stalking, identity theft, and more.

DevOps leaders must make their teams as efficient as possible--and automation can help achieve that goal.

Twitter is changing CEOs once again; what if the company changed its business model from ads to subscriptions?

Twenty five years ago, when I was co-editing Wired, we ran a controversial article called the Long Boom. This was a scenario forecasting 25 years of economic and cultural prosperity. (It also included 10 Scenario Spoilers that could disrupt the longer

Apple was turning heads when it released its $19 screen cleaning cloth. And while it might seem surprising to price an item like this at such a high price, according to the Wall Street Journ…

Come with me, and you’ll see, a world of OSHA violations.. https://t.co/FDXakRiNrB

This chart, made by someone who is against vaccinations, shows a higher mortality rate for those who are vaccinated versus those who are not. Strange. It shows real data from the Office of National…

The chip maker is stockpiling legacy technology at a facility in Costa Rica for security tests that can be done from anywhere in the world and it plans to expand the facility to house 6,000 pieces of equipment.

The world is a very different place to the one we left behind in 2020. Among other seismic changes, flexible working is here to stay.

According to Inc. Magazine, the Great Resignation is officially a thing. People quitting their jobs in previously unheard numbers, etc. Which is

There is an old principle in law, “Nullum crimen sine lege” (No crime without a law). In other words, for something to be a crime, first, there needs to

Foreward This is the entire bitcoin+fungi series combined into a single article. I have more unpublished material, should I turn this into a book? Let me know on twitter, my DMs are open. Also, would you like to be notified when I publish new articles? Signup here. I need to give credit to Dan Held […]

It is a sobering time for freedom of expression around the world. According to a recent study by Freedom on the Net, two-thirds of all…

Are you just tired of listening to how programmers in their 20s need to start preparing for retirement at the age of 40? “Oh no! who wants…

From 1960 to 1965, a range of vault experiments and projects took place across Cuba that helped with the cheap mass production of houses, schools, and factories.

The company selling the world’s first commercially available handheld railgun says their projectile power is comparable to a 22 caliber rifle

How many times have you read something like this, “Bitcoin uses as much electricity as Malaysia or Sweden or Denmark or Chile….”. What a bore. Have you ever wondered, however, why the comparison is to countries? Why don’t they ever tell you what would seem to be a more natural comparison which is how much […]

The evidence is clear: Climate change is turning forests into scrublands across large swaths of the Western U.S. after wildfires.