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...

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · August 26 · 1h 5m

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?

Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.

You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming , right? It's a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems, where there is -- by design -- no…

Whether the issue is redistricting, affirmative action, voting rights, abortion, presidential immunity, or any of the other country-defining questions that the Roberts Court has decided over the last....

An interactive map of every new multiplex in Toronto: duplexes through six-plexes, laneway and garden suites, and secondary suites. Built from City of Toronto building permits and refreshed every day.

Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

Shifting the Vibes Again

Candidates affiliated with (or sympathetic to) the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) have recently won several Democratic primaries.

Ignore the haters. Mayor Bass' signature housing policy is a big success.

It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.

Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

Why our most vital institutions should be placed in a constitutional vault - beyond the reach of any President.

A week ago, the Supreme Court of the United States decided to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for Southern states to reimpose discriminatory maps that strip representation from A…

Damon Clark, Paco Martorell, The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 122, No. 2 (April 2014), pp. 282-318

GHG reduction potential for every California block group, zip code, city, county and the state overall

On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop

Trump’s bid to strip birthright citizenship from millions is a moral, administrative, and legal catastrophe.