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The former employee who gathered documents that formed the foundation of The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series says that her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant, not to stir anger toward it. “I love Facebook. I want to save it.”

I am an AI skeptic. I am baffled by anyone who isn’t. I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ”machine learning” field that leads to…

VR Productivity in (or Above) a WFA World

Inspired by a post by Paul Tomlinson, I wrote my last blog post entirely in virtual reality (VR). You put on goggles and see a virtual version of your computer screen wherever you would like. Otherwise, everything around you can be anything you would like. Right now, I am floating in space, I can see … Continue reading Working in virtual reality

The goal is not 'reform' but *a government that actually controls the government*

How braided nylon became such a hip part of our charging cables. Long story short: people like it when their cables feel like rope!

Top of mind in the natsec ecosystem this week and probably for the weeks to follow will unquestionably be the collapse of our project in Afghanistan. The story is unfolding still and there are many more chapters to be written. Regardless, all the oxygen in the room will mostly be consumed there....

4,882 photos taken over 30 hours. More than 670,000 flags representing American lives lost. An incalculable measure of grief.

A lawsuit involving the rights to Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and other Marvel heroes has been making headlines. It's complicated. We're here to help.

Researchers comparing information from death certificates with data from organizations that track police killings in the United States identified a startling discrepancy.

We’d like the systems we depend on to do what we expect and need them to do. A useful component of that sort of system is that there’s a bedrock set of expectations, principles and boun…

Well, leathernecks, Marine Corps Times has got you covered with the inside gouge, which was ­stumbled upon in the Marine Corps History Division Archives recently.

The reality of returning to workplaces and schools is staring us in the face – and it’s going to be a much bigger problem than anyone anticipated.

Futurists have long been fascinated by the idea that future conflicts will be “push-button wars,” fought by geeky technical experts who exhibit few of the

In the late 1920s, a group of German officers stood side by side at a range, practicing their marksmanship by firing at target dummies dressed in Polish

Once Starlink launches its full 12,000 satellite network it will be involved in 90 per cent of all close approaches, which experts say is ‘getting out of control’

Masks work best when everyone in the room has one on, but you’ll still benefit from masking up even when those around you aren’t.

Posted on Thursday 30 Sep 2021. 1,062 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.

Using money can be seen as a ritual in a symbolic relationship. The cash in your pocket is a promissory note, its a promise from the state to the individual. The states says, one day I will pay you back. We pass these promises around and build things, create things and employ people, all based […]

And how to fix them.

Cloudflare’s new storage offering is potentially disruptive both economically and strategically.

This is the default for allocating something that’s scarce. It’s also rarely the fairest or most efficient alternative. And it’s sort of lazy. I called a service provider yesterda…

Tech was once always in your way. Soon, it will be almost invisible