The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, water and money. 

The pursuit of ‘high-quality training data’ at any cost is a window into the psychoses that drive modern tech oligarchs who view all as subservient to profit and ‘progress.’

New Trump rules place political appointees between researchers and federal grant money. They’re forbidden from appealing to peer review, which is to say ‘science.’

Meet Anita Tension, the New England-based performer who uses ‘feral burlesque’, costume engineering and queer spectacle to challenge beauty standards while building new spaces for creative access and exchange.

The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, in water and in money. 

On July 7, 2026, Hyvemind received an official statement and video from Ana Bell following the conviction of her brother, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada.

Dr. Emily Schoerning’s American Resiliency transforms anxieties about a rapidly changing climate into functional communities working to brace for what’s coming.

In Port Townsend, Washington, artist and grief worker AJ Hawkins is pairing retail with peer support, disability education and mutual aid to build a more caring community around grief and mortality.

What else could the money spent on the Iran War have been used for to benefit the American public? Why does no one in power seem to even be asking?

This first installment of The Trillion Dollar Man examines SpaceX’s public listing as a case study in how retirement defaults, index rules and founder-controlled governance can place ordinary workers’ savings inside companies they may never choose or meaningfully influence

For 36 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has challenged the surveillance, censorship and corporate control shaping modern life online.

Trump’s ‘UFC Freedom 250’ celebration felt like a hyperreal living satire in an age where pointing out that things feel like satire has become tiresome.

With SPACE and his feature project LIFE INSURANCE, the young filmmaker is pushing for Black characters to exist across romance, horror, comedy and everything in between.

Backrooms evokes younger generations' sense of wandering in a failing society, lost somewhere between its glory days and its inevitable demise.

Meet the New Class of Indie Filmmakers We Can’t Stop Watching.

At a time of deep concern over children’s reading, Missouri is preparing to cut a low-cost program that sends books directly to preschoolers’ homes.

In a moment shaped by rising misogyny, attacks on LGBTQ rights and a deepening war on the poor, The Blushes are making songs and shows that give people somewhere to put their rage.

The signs it’s time to move on are not always dramatic but they are almost always persistent.

They show up in jobs, friendships, romantic relationships, family dynamics and long-held dreams that once made sense but then slowly stopped giving anything back.