How Google tried to silence a critic and ignited a movement
A month after Gebru was pushed out of Google, hundreds of workers at its parent company, Alphabet, announced that they were unionizing. For Alex Hanna, a senior researcher on Gebru…
‘Solidarity, not charity’: Mutual aid groups are filling gaps in Texas’ crisis response
Not asking for proof of income or hardship is a core tenant of mutual aid
‘The Dig’ – Hiding Sutton Hoo’s women
My immediate impression after watching the film was to question why the three female leads were presented as a vulnerable, passive, with a dull ongoing focus on their fictional problems,…
Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In
The esteemed science fiction author on how we may never go "back to normal"—and why that might be a good thing
I Will Never Watch “Children of Men” the Same Way Again
How my feelings about this dystopian film changed after living through a dystopian time
Against Apocalypse
This approach to storytelling has its origins in what Michael Chabon has called the “utopian world” of the Bay Area and other metro regions along the Pacific coast. California was…
Foreign Affairs: Unrest continues for a seventh day in former British colony
Unrest and protests continued for a seventh straight day in the former British colony of the United States as the government vowed to use its military to end the demonstrations,…
Noam Chomsky Makes the Case for the Lesser of Two Evils
While Scheer agrees with Chomsky about the imminent danger Trump poses, not just to Americans, but to humanity as a whole due to his suicidal approach to the climate crisis,…
Noam Chomsky: America Has Built a Global Dystopia
“The reason it’s a relevant question right at this moment,” Scheer continues, “is because we had the best and the brightest, as David Halberstam had described them, who gave us…
The rise of Indigenous horror: How a fiction genre is confronting a monstrous reality
Indigenous writers, on the other hand, acknowledge the mundane horror of living in a country that dehumanizes you, weaving the reality of Indigenous life with fiction to scare audiences. In…