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The chances are if you know someone who is a former Apple employee, you’ll have heard their Steve Jobs anecdote, and that it was rather unflattering to the Apple co-founder. I’ve certai…

Toward a phenomenology of the phone.

When the economy thrives while half of America struggles, something has got to give.

A wristband that teaches you how to use technology for activism! Our black RESIST bracelet has a hidden USB storage drive (64MB) and comes loaded with a copy of the ultimate guide to modern ...

“Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest” is riveting firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challenges. Written by Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina and a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times who is currently also a faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

After the election, some American women are turning to South Korean feminist activism.

Feeling despair after Trump’s election victory? Viktor Frankl can help.

A Democratic guide to minimizing harm from the coming Trump term

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, who just won re-election, called out the Democratic party for failing to understand where Trump voters are coming from.

The hard conversation we need to have if we have any hope of saving American democracy

What return to office mandates mean for the future of hybrid and remote work.

Top-line indicators pointed to cooling inflation and a strong economy. What did Democrats miss?

What’s really behind these return to office mandates?

In the wake of the 2024 election, Black people are using memes to share their sadness, frustration and anger online

Many fear Trump's second term in office will bring a rollback of women’s rights and freedoms.

Voters this week approved a first-of-its-kind measure to pay property owners if cities don’t address camps.

What happened and what comes next.

John Gruber: The Brutal Clarity of This Result I realized this year — or perhaps over the last four years — that for me, belief in the merits of democracy is quasi-religious. It’s more than a philosophy. It’s a fundamental belief. I have faith in democracy, and part of that

It falls apart we all got work to do

As stories about flashy new technologies eclipse more measured coverage, it becomes easy for foreign audiences, particularly those in America, to lose track of the actual harms inflicted by China’s surveillance state.

Right. Here's your to-do list for the next two months to put you in the best possible position to survive what's coming: 1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.

The 4B movement, from South Korea, calls for women to not date, marry, sleep with, or have children with men. Women are calling for the movement to take off in the US after Donald Trump won the election.

How could this have happened? What now?

Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins. Our story begins with some very smart and idealistic developers, known a...

Italic and bold emphasis are information-density additives. But as Kottke observes, used deftly, hypertext links are an information-density *multiplier*.