Society

Capitalism breeds anti-social behavior, and a downturn accelerates it.

An Argument into the Agora

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Governance determines the evolution of an innovation, giving society power over a technology’s ultimate form.

If you’ve been following technology news recently, you’ve probably noticed a sudden increase in references to a 19th-century economics theory called the ​Jevons Paradox​, which ... Read more

Trump, in his crude way, is forcing us to confront the false stories we have told ourselves about who we are.

This election should be a slam dunk for Democrats. There are billions of reasons it absolutely is not.

Most of these decisions were not made by people who understood the limits of the technology.

Today Bloomberg.com published my opinion piece in which I analyze the connection between economic inequality and political instability. It starts: Complex human societies, including our own, are fr…

Are our first principles as Americans, as humans, as creatures, sifted and rightly laid down?

I saw someone post on here about why small towns vote red and as someone with family from a VERY small town, like one road small, I’d like to throw my blue hat in this ring. They vote red because...

Robotaxis are the beginning.

A Crisis Dispatch

So why do people keep betting on them?

Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.

Unsurprisingly, the few thousand residents of the small community of Saline Township in Washtenaw County, Michigan, were worried about OpenAI and Oracle's massive new $16 billion Stargate...

The 1909 story that eerily predicted our tech-mediated lives

“Imagine the tech without the tech companies.”

It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented.

From historical materialism to mycelial economics — a philosopher-builder synthesis. Marx's diagnosis has hardened into evidentiary fact: concentration at the 0.01%, ecological overshoot, and the exhaustion of legitimating institutions. The constructive question is no longer whether Marx was right but what builds next. We position the Univrs Cloud Commons as one answer.

Every day, millions of pieces of fake content are produced. Videos, audio clips, posts, articles, generated by artificial intelligence, distributed at

We dropped the torch. They picked it up.