Reclaiming the Web.

How To Break Open The Web.

The Internet's designers and a new generation of hackers are unraveling the knots keeping the web from living up to its original promise.

Will Solid and IPFS re-decentralize the Web?

Facebook, Google, eBay, and others own vast swaths of Web activity and have unprecedented power over us, inspiring an effort to re-decentralize the Web.

Self-Driving Cars Will Improve Our Cities. If They Don’t Ruin Them.

If we take action, we can build a dream transportation system around self-driving cars. If we don’t, we’ll create a nightmare.

Relevant: Tough moral questions about self-driving cars posed by the Moral Machine.

Into the darkness of neo-reactionary fascism.

A Mysterious Author Just Wrote a Fascinating History of the Alt-right (PDF).

Meet the worst ants in the world.

Argentine ants have invaded every continent in just one century. Can they be stopped?

Same here.

A massive new study debunks a widespread theory for Donald Trump’s success.

Although Trump voters tend to be the most skeptical about immigration, they are also the least likely to actually encounter an immigrant in their neighborhood.

My feminism will be capitalist, appropriative and bullshit merchandise.

We are supposed to be ashamed of our financial shortcomings. The public discourse around poverty or broke people is one of morality. If you do not make money, you are a moral failure. You don’t work hard enough; you are lazy, something is wrong with you.

“How I Earned Flip-Flops for a Day’s Work.”

The Decline of War.

We are experiencing one of the least discussed, yet most remarkable cultural shifts of all time: war, one of our species’ most abiding and defining social practices, is at its lowest ebb ever.

Looking forward to De La Soul’s new album.

Drawn ft. Little Dragon.

The wonderful Kerry Bishé about her role in “Halt and Catch Fire” which revolves around two women running a gaming company in the 1980s.