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In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this—it had to be remade for the... See more

An excel spreadsheet crashed this company's network. But it wasn't malware. The truth is *much* weirder. Try this out, open up a xls (not xlsx) file in your favorite text/hex editor. Notice all the repeating characters in the header. ___LINEBREAK... See more

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With the benefit of hindsight, it is now clear that Section 230—in combination with the wider overthrow of antimonopoly law and regulation in the 1980s and 1990s— cleared the way for the creation of an entirely new kind of communications corporation. Unlike publishers, these new legal constructs enjoyed the same freedom from liability traditionally... See more

There is a lot of talk that AI is going to be able to do everything that humans can, better, and soon. That there will be nothing left for us to do. That is not how this works. This is a strategy memo for humans. https://t.co/kJXhfd9hbE

Everything that has occurred in Silicon Valley in the last couple of decades also occurred in the 1850s. Anyone who thinks that wild-ass high tech venture capitalism is a late-20th-century California phenomenon needs to read about the maniacs who built the first transatlantic cable projects. The only things that have changed since then are that the... See more