>"Following a crowd surge at a Houston concert that left at least eight people dead and dozens injured, authorities will examine key causes behind the surge and what could have been done to get attendees out of harm's way, police said _...Read More_

Is it ever okay to speculate that Hollywood celebrities are drinking the blood of children?

"As the world reckons with the grim reality of the climate crisis, right-wing populists are adapting their message."

>"Vulnerabilities in Signal, Facebook Messenger, Google Duo, and more all point to a pervasive privacy issue."

One of the most important articles this month is this book excerpt, published by NYT, describing how private spy agencies (GPS) manipulate journalists _...Read More_

"As the value of gold reached new heights last year, those mining it continued to face crippling deprivation and dangerous conditions"

How the concept has evolved to mean different things to different people.

>"Discrimination in speech-translation software adds to existing digital and physical infrastructures set in place to _...Read More_

? >"Stef Mitchell upends traditional tropes and photographs modern faces in the new issue of i-D."

Blockchain smart contracts can address the power imbalance where artists have long been expected to accept contracts, not produce them. The resistance to _...Read More_

"In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?" A vote for Richard Nixon for President is a vote for a man who wants Homer to have the chance to own _...Read More_

We are living astride two epochs in geological time. The first, the Holocene, began about 11,700 years ago; the second, the Anthropocene, now defines our troubled present. In a _...Read More_

The book is mostly technical, but strives to eschew the naive techno-optimistism or market fundamentalism of conventional smart city hype.