Philips
Modern e-commerce is pathological; an example.
More issues
Killing God, again
What happens to religion in a Utopia?
Reclaiming rye
Is sourdough goyish? A personal essay.
A nice pairing
The dark, moody undertones of Chris Hayes' piece on internet fame go nicely with the bright, yet restrained optimism of Stasavage and Schneider's application of early democracies to the internet.
Under review
Nothing to see here, just Nature totally slipping into the business of curating preprints.
Solarpunk reading list
My favorites so far. Extremely incomplete!
Going solar
The 'solar' in solarpunk is both a literal reference to renewable energy and a metaphor for decentralized, locally controlled, but interconnected resilience.
Token retreat
Let's talk when the metaverse can directly feed the hungry, house people, or remove carbon from the atmosphere.
A corrective to the disinfo corrective
Maybe the people who are trying to understand why conspiracies take root online are themselves part of a giant conspiracy to prop up the online advertising economy. Personally, I think the truth might be weirder and a bit less nihilistic.
NSF...
There's only one search result for 'marxist' on PornHub.