Culture

Fighting for the Right to Repair Our Stuff 0
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
It’s hard to overemphasize how new repair restrictions are historically. For most of human history, tools were both produced and maintained locally. Blacksmiths, for instance, furnished items but also maintained them. Moreover, fashions changed slowly, and people made things to be durable, often repairing and preserving them for a lifetime and even longer. As the
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The Chinese Communist Party and Their Brave New World 0
- Culture
- July 24, 2019
“Graham Allison (China expert and Harvard professor) knows of a Shanghai deputy mayor who says he looks forward to the day when every upper-middle class family in Shanghai has an American house-boy.” – Aaron Sarin Every once in a great while an online article will reach out from the screen of my laptop, grab me
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Squashing Free Speech With High Heels 0
- Culture
- July 24, 2019
Political correctness has now conquered beauty pageants. On July 18th, Kathy Zhu was suddenly stripped of her Miss Michigan crown. Subsequently, she was disqualified from competing in Las Vegas for the Miss World America Organization (MWA) competition. Why? For “offensive” Tweets that date back to over a year ago. Based on those tweets, MWA’s National
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The Secret Lives of Robopets 0
- Culture
- July 23, 2019
There has been a great disturbance in the force, like a million chirpy robot voices crying out for owners. In every day terms, we are facing what Wired terms “the second coming of robot pets.” This surge in companion robots is exemplified in a cutesy little bot called Kiki, whose appeal (beyond being utterly adorable)
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Epstein’s Entente: The Four Biggest Names in the Scandal 0
- Culture
- July 23, 2019
Following his arrest on July 6 for charges relating to sex trafficking, billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was denied bail on July 15. Judge Richard Berman cited multiple concerns: “Mr. Epstein’s alleged excessive attraction to sexual conduct with or in the presence of minor girls — which is said to include his
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Jordan Peterson’s Thinkspot Is a Welcome Social Media Option. Will It Work?0
- Culture
- July 23, 2019
Last month, the controversial psychologist and popular public speaker Jordan Peterson announced that he is creating a new social media site. Billed as an “anti-censorship” platform, “Thinkspot” would allow users to post virtually whatever they want. “Once you’re on our platform we won’t take you down unless we’re ordered to by a US court of
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