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Benchmark results for an iPad Pro (12.9-inch 5th generation) with an Apple M1 processor.

Literary Lingo While serving in World War II, Joseph Heller concluded that war was a farce in which anyone crazy enough to shirk combat was considered sane enough to fight. That became the theme of…

This is a kind of manifesto. It’s available for iOS and macOS.

The internet’s quintessential, paradoxical message is “Only Connect.”...

Paid groups, bespoke social networks, and the meaning of community for internet-native businesses.

On April 3, the day The Outline was shut down and its editorial staff let go, my coworkers and I received hundreds of messages in public and private that went a long way toward making me feel better about suddenly losing my job during a pandemic. Weirdly, one of the sentiments that made me feel […]

If a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.

One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career. Across from him was Mark Zuckerberg. With his characteristic geeky excitement, Zuckerberg described the promising initial test flight of Aquila, a drone with a wingspan larger than […]

What the Internet is doing to our brains

Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.

We’re not looking for answers. We’re looking for logic.


 
 'Not to lie about the future is impossible and one can lie about it at will' - Naum Gabo

How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election

Since Philip Roth died in May 2018, Russ Murdock, the caretaker of Roth's Connecticut property, has tended to the space his friend left behind.

Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin' corporate name as your own Internet address.

The universe is being built half an hour outside London. About a dozen game developers are working on it.

He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.

The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech.

It's a one-of-a-kind geological artifact. What's it worth? $100 million—or nothing.

Winning millions of dollars seemed as good a retirement plan as any.

An interactive guide that introduces and explores waveforms.

This is the second part of ‘a comprehensive guide to being really annoying on the internet’, an attempt to explain how this blog works. This is mainly just a technical explanation so I’d recommend reading the first part before getting mad at how boring this is. The Basics This website is hosted on Neocities, a […]

New, technologized forms of anti-Asian appropriation betray both old prejudices and new desires

DJs had to fight misinformation and isolation.

Lately, over the course of the last few months, I’ve realized that I’m lacking something crucial to building this business: my inspiratio...

After her long career as America’s beloved morning-news anchor, she has decided to write a wild, unflinching memoir focused on the messy parts. Why?

Seemingly overnight, there’s been a whole new version of the Web invented, dubbed “web3.” I’ve seen a lot of people talk about it online ...