Media
"Here in six short chapters is the tale of Craigslist’s rise to a business generating hundreds of millions of dollars a year, how Newmark has used that fortune and how newspapers, slow to adapt, failed to respond effectively to the digital shift.”
Media
"In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder."
AI
How to think about vendors, technology, and power
Culture
Designing a values-centered life from first principles.
Media
Building community-driven public media for the post-federal funding era.
AI
The Trump administration is using AI as a way to shill fossil fuels. But even for tech companies that don't care about climate change, renewables are a far better option.
AI
OpenAI claims a significant result: gold-level performance International Mathematical Olympiad. But they're scant on details and it needs to be independently verified.
Democracy
When vendor promises meet government warrants, the warrants win every time. Microsoft's Senate testimony shows why "trust us" isn't a data protection strategy.
Media
Without public media funding, local stations will close, creating news deserts and allowing political corruption to thrive.
Technology
Global Majority nations are building ways to store their citizens' data locally. But will they own the datacenters themselves?
Technology
Tony Stubblebine's account of saving Medium is remarkable in its transparency - and in its execution.
How to transform the internet's most toxic platform into essential infrastructure.
