” theScreen Junkiesfind an animated series based on a video game that “taught your 13-year-old cousin all his favorite slurs” is actually pretty good. The series features “cyberpunk, steampunk. skatepunk, and Punky Brewster” and is in a world where “magic is like...
• Gold is not a commodity per say. Gold has always had the same value. When gold was 35 oz., it would by a large steer, or a nice Italian suit. Today gold at 1300 oz. still buys the same steer or Italian suit. It’s not the gold that has increased in value, but...
Questions of self-governance are woven into the fabric of the internet. An open-access, do-it-yourself "hacker ethos" propelled early technical innovations; John Perry Barlow's influential "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" argued for cyber-libertarianism during the '90s dot-com boom;...