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.
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.
4 x 8 About a month ago we switched to a 4-day, 8 hour per day workweek. Here are some reflections from the first few weeks.
GSD What if your todo list is part of a distributed, unsupervised task management app that's running your company without anyone realizing it?