Today’s links Born on technology’s third base: Material forces shape life-chances. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Glue; iPods v unions; RIP Jack Layton; Gibson on cities;…
On Sunday, July 19 in New Delhi, India, a whole generation prepared to commit a crime. Young people were coordinating on digital safety, anonymity, clothing, health, their meeting points, and…
Yasmin Nair is a writer, cultural critic, and longtime contributor to Current Affairs. She also seems to possess an uncanny ability to predict political events before they happen: she warned that…
Hello, CitSci community! This summer has had us out in the world and back at our desks in equal measure. In this newsletter, we’re featuring new functionality on the Observations page…
This week, EFF, along with Big Brother Watch, Defend Digital Me, Liberty, Open Rights Group, Race Equality First, Statewatch, and Stopwatch, wrote to Nottinghamshire Police Force in the UK raising concern…
Researchers are finding evidence that fish feel pain. What does that mean for the ethics of seafood?
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New documents detail industry efforts to roll back federal regulations on methane, the main component of natural gas.
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Nintendo has filed seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub in a single day, wiping out more than 400 Switch emulator repositories in one coordinated campaign. The targets include copies of…
For Ari, a six-year-old boy with learning difficulties in Jamaica, artificial intelligence (AI) opened the door to something many children take for granted: reading a book in his own language….
