Societies have long known that when inventors don't ask hard questions of themselves, the results can be catastrophic. Mark Zuckerberg learned this the hard way this week when he testified before Congress over two consecutive days concerning Cambridge Analytica's breach of ...read more

It's almost Halloween, which means two things: 1. Idiots dressing in all manner of inadvisable costumes and quickly becoming internet pariahs. (Hopefully more on that phenomenon tomorrow, given that I got almost all the way to the end of a piece I'd written on it for today ...read more