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Clean energy is being reshaped by cross-industry thinkers, from aerospace engineers to banking boffins, and beyond

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Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me […]

I’m traveling today – consider this brief post a placeholder of sorts. I’ve long railed against the privatization of public space, and the hidden regulation inherent in the submis…

Our plan is radical – but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from the World Inequality Lab

Awareness of the relationality of all being is a response to the planet in crisis.

The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do

And not enough high-status cushy jobs to go around

Can our 18th-century institutions survive 21st-century technology?

The data center revolt is a symptom of our political failure on AI.

Talk about backpedaling.

Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.

Two-thirds of Americans play an hour or more of video games per week, according to a new report published Wednesday by the ESA.

Making sense of the very large Wonder Valley project in Alberta and the even bigger Stratos plan in Utah

Most Americans work in the service sector so it’s not surprising that most export-related jobs are in the service sector (The U.S. exports about $2.2 trillion of goods and $1.2 trillion of services, but services are more labor intensive than manufacturing so they support more export jobs per dollar.) Richard Baldwin writes: In 2022, US […]

The country is for people.

The tech right's ideology, explained.

The true enemy within

Communists to my left, fascists to my right, I shall take the middle road.

The enemies to your left

Dougald Lamont: Instead of addressing the economic crisis of the pandemic, monetary stimulus made it worse. It has contributed to a global affordability crisis in housing, a private insolvency cris…

Why is the birth rate declining in every country on Earth?

Weapons of mass deception

The truth is right in front of your eyes

But the people now see.