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This is an attempt to seal off one of the main pathways out of interaction with its monopoly. “This will make you safer” is a common refrain of those who seek to maintain control o…

If they are this desperate, prepare for net neutrality to become more important. I’ve already started to experience delays in streaming speeds and reliability. Please call or write…

If humanity wants to improve the net balance of human rights, what better way than to reallocate available financial capital away from regimes that subscribe to undesirable religio…

Maybe we should ask how human rights abuses plan to persist if their proponents are funding new platforms of self expression and better flows of information that offer tremendous e…

Wow what a fantastic tax evasion scheme, especially for real estate developers!

Sexuality is fluid, non-binary, with most of humanity probably some degree of bisexual. The categorization of one or the other is a cultural superimposition championed by the ancie…

I'd like to suggest a theory here, that a brain's primary function is to study and occasionally override the information processing algorithms contained in the "unconscious" DNA of…

In order for this to work, you have to define "universal" in the context of how automation affects the global economy, not just the US or any national economy. Example: are we goin…

This is exactly what spacious.com in NYC is working on, a network of coffee / meeting lounges across the city, inside really nice restaurant dining rooms that are otherwise closed …

I'm not sure that evidence of stone tools means that these were human animals. Many other species can conceivably use stone tools.

Scientists? Or WITCHES!?!?!? Seriously though, the human behavior study on this is as fascinating as the animal one, and would be really hard to explain in a Salem courthouse. And …

Why don't we study our own social media habits with as much scrutiny? I mean, if our version of the Chinese state is free market capitalism, how much of our own social media ecosys…

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If there was ever a perfect plan to widen the gap between rich and poor, this is it. I predict this will bring about a future of unionized renters, followed by home-trust-busting e…