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Walled Culture the book (digital versions available free) is about the incompatibility of the traditional copyright system with the digital world, and its failure to reward creators fairly. That raises the question of what might replace it, and the book’s last chapter offers one solution in the form of true fans. These are people who love […]

The continuing end of broadcasting  Jason Lewis: It's Over—Talk Radio (as well as traditional media) has run its course.   A newer beginning Nitin Badjatia has been laying out more and more reasons—and ways—that enterprises will adapt to customers, rather than the reverse. More at ProjectVRM.

“Generic drug manufacturers will have two years to move production to the U.S. or face a 100% import duty from August 2028, President Donald Trump said in a social media post Tuesday,” Bloomberg reports. “That levy would then double a year later, to 200%, in August 2029.”

Scientists have created a programmable optical chip that can slow light on demand, giving engineers far greater control over how optical signals propagate through a circuit. The technology could provide the delays, synchronization, and buffering functions needed to make light-based computing more practical. A single chip could eventually perform several tasks that currently require separate devices, potentially reducing energy use, cost, and complexity in AI servers and data centers.

The genius of Carl Sagan is well known.

In 1995, he joined Christian Nationalist Dennis Prager to debate science versus religion.

It wasn't a fair fight.

Here is the full interview.

Sagan's reasoning is magnificent.

The word "belief" is so important in science.

Evidence is the key.

Open thread.

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Composition N. 1 with Red and Blue, 1931 #pietmondrian #neoplasticism

“The U.S. measles case count for this year has surged past last year’s total and now stands at 2,295 — a level that hasn’t been seen in 35 years, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker that compiles state and local health data,” Axios reports.

That’s a wrap on day 1 of the Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) 2026! For the first time, FSGP is running at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minnesota, a 3.1-mile road course better known for racing cars of the gas kind…until this week. The energy among stu...

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

BREAKING: Katie Hobbs has won the Democratic primary for Governor of Arizona.