Doctorow, after all, is a techie and tech writer from a union background (of which, of course, I highly approve), which means that he wrote a very particular kind of book. As I read it, though, I noti...

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What I’m about to say is going to seem like a bad joke: the trouble with the left is its egalitarianism.

The tech Industry, and the fields that grew from it, are dead.  The Industry, which, as Yasha Levine details in his book, ‘Surveillance Valley’, was always a tool of oppression, and never &#82…

I still remember when I encountered my first far-right netizen in the wild. It happened in 2011 while I was living in Japan. Internet citizens, netizens for short, referred to Japanese who practically...

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...