Tag: politics

• The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived

  August 9, 2020

  But it’s not just QAnon. The strain of living in this particular time, with a dragging, devastating pandemic and a global uprising against police brutality and racial injustice, crashing together… more ›

• [Report] Trumpism After Trump, by Thomas Meaney : Harper’s Magazine

  August 9, 2020

  day one The course of true nationalism never did run smooth.—Ernest Gellner The city was not beautiful; no one made that claim for it. At the height of summer, people… more ›

• 130 Degrees

  August 8, 2020

  So now we have some sense of what it’s like: a full-on global-scale crisis, one that disrupts everything. Normal life—shopping for food, holding a wedding, going to work, seeing your… more ›

• The top 50 African Disruptors (41-45)

  August 8, 2020

  The Africa Report’s inaugural ranking of the top Africans who are disrupting the status quo in politics, business and the arts: from investigative journalists to world-class athletes and Nobel Peace… more ›

• Black lives will not matter until the economy does

  August 6, 2020

  In the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police officers in the United States and the global movement for Black lives, there has been a resounding call to re-examine the… more ›

• Germany’s sex workers demand easing of Covid-19 restrictions

  August 6, 2020

  Sex workers in Germany are appealing to politicians to ease coronavirus restrictions that have prevented them from working during the pandemic. Groups representing the more than 40,000 sex workers officially… more ›

• Deepfakes are the most worrying AI crime, researchers warn

  August 6, 2020

  Deepfakes are the most concerning use of AI for crime and terrorism, according to a new report from University College London. The research team first identified 20 different ways AI… more ›

• COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse.

  August 4, 2020

  A global crisis has shocked the world. It is causing a tragic number of deaths, making people afraid to leave home, and leading to economic hardship not seen in many… more ›

• The Mask Slackers of 1918

  August 3, 2020

  As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. The masks were called muzzles, germ shields and… more ›

• Medieval information

  August 3, 2020

  Claude Shannon, American mathematician, a stern but somewhat kind dark look in his eyes, defined information as the measure of novelty or surprise one can expect in a message -… more ›