June 2026 produced more state-level action against data center tax incentives than any prior month. Illinois paused its program. Arizona enacted a moratorium. Oklahoma’s ratepayer protections took ...

Streaming is more profitable and more popular than ever, yet the industry that creates its content has lost 30 percent of its workforce. The audience grew while the people who serve it disappeared.

A comedian famous for deflection is choosing the most undefended form of performance — a one-man show about total loss — as his response to having his home of 46 years destroyed by fire. The cultural ...

Two genuinely important values — protecting people from over-medicalisation and ensuring access to effective treatment — are being forced into a false opposition that leaves vulnerable people without ...

Misreading overpreparation as a character flaw — in a partner, a colleague, or yourself — leads to interventions that shame the behavior instead of addressing the childhood pattern underneath it.

That asymmetry is why enforcement keeps catching US platforms off guard and why the fines keep landing. Google keeps absorbing enormous European fines over data and consent practices, yet the pattern ...

You can tell almost everything about someone by watching them cook. Specifically, you can tell whether, ten minutes into the recipe, the cutting board has been rinsed and put away — or whether it's ...

Users who trust a single privacy toggle to stop tracking are protecting one layer of a four-layer system, and the gap is where their data still moves. Headlines about browsers 'allowing' users to opt ...

A major web company honoring a browser privacy signal sounds like user control, but the signal itself is only as strong as the weakest large participant willing to walk away from it. The debate gets ...

Misreading self-sufficiency as strength lets the people carrying the most weight go unseen — and lets the institutions and relationships that should be catching them off the hook. Resilience gets sold ...

Tucson's council voted 6-1 to adopt one of the Southwest's strictest data center zoning frameworks, one year after killing the Project Blue proposal. An outright ban stayed off the table because of ...

You're three people deep in the checkout queue. The person behind you is shifting their weight, glancing at their phone, holding two items, breathing slightly differently than someone with all the ...