A massive pool party was held recently in Wuhan. This outraged many people on Twitter, who didn’t know that there have been no new cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan for months. At first the Covid […]
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Google Sued for Illegal Anticompetitive Conduct
The lawsuit is the most significant antitrust action against a tech company in decades, and the DoJ says it is still investigating other companies. The case alleges that Google, an Alphabet subsidiary, has maintained its […]
Who’s Afraid of a Meme?
Pakistan’s TikTok ban is not like the ones in other countries. TikTok gave Pakistan’s underclass a platform for dissent that authorities couldn’t control. Over the past three years, the Chinese video app became a sensation […]
Beijing Believes Trump Is Accelerating American Decline
China’s leaders are split between wanting America to decline “in an elegant and decent way” under Biden, or risk more “star performances” from Trump. The American response to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic—which has left over […]
Congress Gets Ready to Smash Big Tech Monopolies
I’ve read a bunch of these reports from enforcers all over the world, this one is by far the clearest and most aggressive. The basic thesis of this report isn’t a surprise, and consists of […]
General AI or Full Employment?
Even if we were to produce a general AI tomorrow, we would still have 200-300 years of full employment for every human who wanted a job ahead of us. I’m talking about climate change, of […]
Give Everybody the Internet
We need to get the internet to everyone in America. Here’s what it would take to do it. Since the pandemic set in, Grace Riario and Melissa Morrone have witnessed a similar phenomenon at the […]
Expanding Internet Access is Critical to Achieving Global Goals
Without ambitious action, we’re on course to miss the target to connect everyone to the internet by decades. While those who negotiated the SDGs understood the importance of internet access, COVID-19 underscores like never before […]
The Men Behind QAnon
Experts and researchers said the key to “Q” is hiding in plain sight. The two Americans most clearly associated with the author of thousands of “Q drops” dating back to October 2017 are James Arthur […]