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Neat effect. I never thought about why "straight" roads would shift slightly.

Gory but well done. I loved the health display guy grunts.

Neat effect, though enough CG aid hesitate to call it "live action".

Gorgeous, even when I don't have a 4K display.

This is super strange.

Lovely support for freedom of speech. This is how I always used to feel; I think increasingly I have been exposed to the idea that some speech is inherently threatening and I have more doubts on where any restrictions should kick in.

Still seems pretty nuts that this was even considered. Atomic rockets featured heavily in some of the '50s sci-fi and comics I got via my dad.

Going to have a big impact around Portland.

There is a long nasty history with regards to bathroom segregation, and it's mostly about keeping cis white men in power.

Unions mean higher pay and better benefits... Which means smaller margins that can be plowed back into growth.

The hard part with all of these is adoption. But if GMail moved to a new encrypted protocol, that could move the whole market.

There are some very preachy expository elements, but this does frame some interesting ideas for how an automated future could go.

Oof. So much of this covers what I end up trying to fix. I think one of the worst offenses is not deleting unused code, which makes big maintenance tasks much harder. "Changing Anything Changes Everything" indeed.

Wow. Some pretty nasty actions in all their pasts.

"This post is about people who use a laptop the way that we know many many people do." Great points. Lots of noise about how tablets can't do "real work" mostly from people who spend all their time with computers doing a very particular niche of work and talking to one another about that niche. That said a lot of the people who say they never need a full OS again tend to be in a different niche.

This is a pretty sad example of how deregulation offloads risk from the corporation (and the investors reaping most of the profits) onto individual workers.

Sad story of a dream enabled and then ruined by celebrity.

There will be a backlash but I think this is a win for letting kids be who they are.

This is an apt description of all that's wrong with Republicans, but in the end seems to imply that Clinton's neoliberalism is worse??

Fascinating tales. It's one thing to use a tool, and another to rely on it to the point of ignoring all else.

There is so much good writing in this I don't know where to start. It's a funny narrative to begin with, and makes great points about writing and technology and thought. Also some funny digs at hipsters and distraction-free and tablet obsessive a and so on.

Small-c conservative matters for academic hiring, and increasingly the so-called conservative party just wants to burn everything down.

Chilling stats. We have to stop.

Points for getting that phallic title past the editors. He's a vile hateful man whose narcissism makes America actively worse. Maybe not for me, but for a lot of people.

As a child, Lindy West was told she was ‘off the charts’. In this exclusive extract from her new book, Shrill, she explains how society’s fixation on thinness warps women’s lives – and why she would rather be ‘fat’ than ‘big’

Fascinating tale. Seems clear to me that the kids should still be birthright citizens of Canada.

It really sounds like Musk had the money and motivation to put Mars Direct into practice.

Totally correct. Podcasting's distributed nature thanks to RSS is what makes it a great open platform.

Definitely up there as far as indirectly world changing electronics go.

So great that people are so fearful and racist that they think an Italian doing math is an Islamic terrorist.