They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that espouse views certain interested parties want espoused. We flood forums, online comment sections, social media. … It’s amazing what a...

In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in...

Everyone on the Internet is talking about television and everyone on television is talking about the Internet. The whole damn thing is a self-licking ice cream cone and you’re blaming me?

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget.

Some potential protest knots in Portland and Austin, but defiance-related tag cloud groupings in social media put us within the three-sigma rule—meaning roughly sixty-eight percent of the values lie within one standard deviation of the...

As it stands, our patrols and bases are just targets, and the more firepower we use, the more enemies we make.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature’s way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

You never understood games. Maybe that’s why the world was such a mystery to you.

It’s knowing one’s … limitations … and then ignoring them.