Bjorn's Garden of Hypertext 🪴

The mass adoption of the consumer web and the smartphone changed the occupational structure around software.

Let's say you're like me, and enjoy looking for birds of many different species in the District of Columbia.

This year some friends and I have been doing a "Hegel Year" reading group.

I have a hunch that one of the more useful applications of LLMs in the longer term will be transforming unstructured prose into structured data with the guidance of a schema.

Many economists argue that the tariffs mooted by the new U.S. administration are likely to decrease economic growth relative to a scenario without additional tariffs.

I have been a skeptic of some of the more breathless claims made for Generative AI since at least October 2023, when I participated in a panel organized by Syracuse University.

If you had a standard American education more than a few decades ago, your view of Native American societies before the arrival of European colonists is likely inaccurate.

Have you heard of the "socialist calculation debate"?

People's Republic of Walmart, by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, is the latest short text on a political theme to issue from Verso and Jacobin Magazine's joint publishing venture.