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Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead investors to frame unprofitable, unsustainable, environmentally-damaging and mediocre cloud

Xizhi Li pioneered a new method that enriched Latin American drug lords and China’s elite. A DEA investigation found the Chinese government may have been involved.

Working around the edges just won't cut it.

Rage over unelected billionaire Elon Musk sends protesters to Tesla showrooms as America wakes up to the reality of our oligarchy.

He was beloved by Neil Gaiman and Robert Jordan, and so good that he won a World Fantasy Award for a Christmas card. How did John M. Ford disappear?

Good to see this- been suggesting it for quite a while. Working Paper No. 658, March 2011 Keynes after 75 Years: Rethinking Money as a Public Monopoly L. Randall Wray Economists and government policymakers fail to recognize that money is … Continue reading →

Six years ago, spring came early to Europe; February felt like early May in 2019.

A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now.

The political-technological crisis is only deepening in the United States, and I hardly know where to begin today's email to you, other than to say that I hope you're okay. And if you're not, do feel free to hit "reply" – I can't promise anything other than a very human ear

If you scour the pages of LinkedIn, it won’t take long before you begin running into folks from the corporate sector who are attempting to rationalize Elon Musk‘s current approach to organizational…

The day after Elon Musk’s infamous use of the Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute in an Inauguration Day speech, Thomas Lecaque — a professor of history specializing in religious violence — pointedly observed: “Elon Musk did a Nazi salute. There isn’t a discussion, there aren’t interpretations, this isn’t a controversy, there are people lying about it...

The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role.

When I was in high school, I picked up a copy of Václav Havel's "Disturbing the Peace." It’s a book-length question-and-answer exchange between Havel and Paul Wils...

The official website for the ideology of Utahism - proposing the redrawing of U.S. states to achieve true representation at the local, state, and federal level, and finally bring an end to American polarization, radicalism, and un-representative government with the most overdue reform in United Stat

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Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come.

Germany holds a snap election on Sunday and the current coalition government of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP) is heading for a heavy defeat. The main opposition conser…

Josh Anarchism and Taoism

First they stole your data. Now, they’re stealing your future

A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman

Scientific data and independence are at risk. We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political…