For farmers, few examples of those corporate constraints are more frustrating than repair restrictions and patent rights that prevent them from saving seeds from their own crops for future planting.

Beware overtures to ‘personal responsibility’ for the response to COVID, at either the individual or national level. They may be used to deflect from corruption.

Most people think of ignorance as the absence of knowledge. Proctor and others in the field of agnotology argue the opposite — that ignorance is socially constructed in the same way that knowledge is.

This one is about the global-capitalist thoughtpolice and their ongoing efforts to purge society of “insensitivity.” Yes, that’s right, insensitivity. If there is anything the global-capitalist thoughtpolice can’t stand, it is insensitivity.

We who dedicate our attention to AI find it plausible that one of the biggest transformations in humanity’s history is likely to happen within our lifetimes.