The Late Enlightenment

We're still in the Enlightenment, only now reason has shown us that we are not reasonable - and a more empirical study of man helps us remember the point of the whole program

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Questioning Outrage

1) News flash: people asking for money on the street are sometimes lying. When you give a beggar money, part of the deal is lack of acco...

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Specialization: Or, The Rest of Us Have No Chance

One of the problems in complex societies is that specialization produces information asymmetries in the marketplace , and without reasonably...

Monday, February 18, 2013

Tool to Search State Legislative Activities

This is a massive step forward in forcing government transparency and letting us evaluate the performance of our legislators. Without good ...

The Law-Giving Machines

This post also appears at Speculative Nonfiction . This article includes story spoilers. There are now actual drones in our skies, both w...

Alternative Geography: New States Based on Equal Population

A previous alternate ("what-if") map of the U.S. here . From Fake is the New Real. Yes, I know you can't see it, so view t...

A New Fairy Tale

In Hungeree, from the Rose Carnival in Cologne. What I love is that it's insulting to everyone involved, although the symbolic scheme...

"The enforcer class is primarily concerned with itself (see Dorner)"

Please read this great piece by Ian Welsh, the Logic of Surveillance , which contains the statement in the title of this post. What was mos...

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