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DIY AI, more on Musk, and the NYT strike

Rian Johnson’s murder mystery follow-up takes on the self-styled founder class, with riotous results.

New Legacy Fund Should Be Used to Ensure Compensation for World Cup Workers.

“We have clear evidence that people that ran on progressive platforms or were for working families won competitive elections … For too long, there has been a backwards D.C. idea that progressives shouldn’t run in competitive districts.” 

Creating a new international economic order "sounds like an impossible dream," said the former Greek finance minister, but "not more impossible than the principle of one person, one vote, or of the end of the divine right of kings once sounded."

The Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) in Providence, Rhode Island works to give immigrant farmers opportunities to sell what they grow to wholesale markets.

The New School reached a tentative contract agreement with its part-time faculty this weekend, ending a strike that lasted nearly a month.

Holding the government accountable for its lack of preparedness is crucial. However, given the sheer scale of the impact of the climate crisis on the Global South, talking about adaptation has its limitations.

The pandemic exacerbated a preexisting and long-standing shortage of teachers. The shortage is, instead, the result of a lack of qualified teachers willing to work in what has long been a highly stressful job for compensation that is well below what is available to college-educated workers in other professions.

DeepMind’s AlphaCode outperforms many human programmers in tricky software challenges