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Recent cuts to earnings have made it increasingly hard for shoppers to make a living on the app.

Successful small businesses often stumble when they seek to get to an entirely different scale. It’s easy to believe that things are dramatically better when there’s more. More customer…

Revisiting the Homestead Act could could support rural communities in decline—and help mitigate climate change in the process.

And Wolf's 2 cents about the high “failure rates” of new businesses, being a small-business owner myself.

Insufficient effort creates work that’s wasted. If you do a slapdash job, then the roof leaks, the food is inedible, the car doesn’t start. Insufficient effort is a shortcut that wasn&#…

The saga of the Missouri governor reflects a failure by the powerful to embrace curiosity—curiosity encouraged by the HTML language he fails to understand.

Capturing resilience and local pride in the Welsh industrial town of Port Talbot

How the post-USSR neoliberal land grab played out in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Needless to say, not pretty.

Now that pay cuts are on the table, remote workers have to determine how much an office-free life is really worth.

Facebook critics miss the point when focusing on brain chemistry

Before there was Big Tech, there were auto companies that prioritized profits over safety—until a leaked memo made it clear regulation was the only cure.

Early adopters change the world. While one person choosing not to eat meat will have a small impact on our climate, it will have a much bigger impact on the restaurants, groceries and food supplier…

The organizations are calling for a data privacy law to "shut down Facebook's surveillance machine" following Frances Haugen's Senate testimony.

An in-depth analysis of a range of popular Android mobile phones has revealed significant data collection and sharing, including with third parties, with no opt-out available to users.

Artist Xomatok (previously) translates the vibrant, geometric motifs of handwoven Andean blankets, or ilicllas, into large-scale works that mark the pathways through the hilly Alisos de Amauta neighborhood in Lima, Peru. Painted during the course of two months as part of Pinta Lima Bicentenario, the

When we remember this time, we’ll do so through a bunch of little boxes on a laptop screen. The photographer Thomas Dworzak captured our strange, sad year on Zoom.

Videoconferencing is flawed, but it’s still better than the alternative.

Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the deficiencies of economic deregulation and market liberalization, a new policymaking paradigm is emerging. But its success depends on concrete reforms and the creation of new mission-driven institutions.

Twilio continues to evolve its DEI strategy, including recently implementing Racial Justice and Equity Initiatives that will drive forward the company’s antiracism commitment. Efforts like these shift the focus away from short-term goals toward lasting systemic change.

Government programs that help people recover their wealth after natural disasters end up reinforcing inequality

When plotting Russian election results, a structured grid patterns appear. From The Economist: When Dmitry Kobak and Sergey Shpilkin, two researchers, analysed the results, they found that an unusu…

Pondering how a meme from a quarter-century ago might have gone over in today’s much-more-mature creator economy.

The former adult film star has been vocal about the industry’s exploitation of performers. But her time on OnlyFans has reframed her view on porn.

Epic Games' Fortnite is a terrific example of how to successfully implement 2FA across a massive, distributed user base.