Month: September 2025

Trump and DOGE are not just undoing decades of privacy measures. They appear to be ignoring that they were ever written. @ibogost and @cwarzel on the rise of an American panopticon:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/american-panopticon/682616/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTQ8O-QAUaW-EPUlYhQZ9Dk&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

If a mysterious deep sky object turns out to be a primordial black hole, our story about the early universe will need serious revamping. @andersen on an intriguing, new discovery:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/09/primordial-black-hole-cosmology/684349/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTdHuzPkUSUS2toHj0uOjb4&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Political scientists recently coined the phrase “need for chaos,” @DKThomp writes. Once you learn what it means, you’ll see it everywhere.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/need-for-chaos-political-science-concept/677536/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYY7rwtqj1KFUVuohCrKmCfw&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

In recent years, experts have worried over an online crisis of “misinformation,” Charlie Warzel and Mike Caulfield write. But that term doesn’t begin to describe what’s really happening.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/january-6-justification-machine/681215/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYX2T0kuWvDSAmZhku8lR3SI&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social