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Jottings on an elusive term.

A case pursued by the FBI, the CIA, the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security, CENTCOM, and the sister of Ben Padilla

These apps are refined sugars and seed oils for the mind, causing a comparable type of mental sickness as those have on the body

The aspartame myth goes back to a letter circulating on the '90s internet

In communications newly revealed, TikTok executives discuss being aware of the harms caused by their app. TikTok officials were warned of the app’s dangers to minors.

For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns. The confidential material was part of a more than two-year investigation into TikTok by 14 attorneys general that led to state officials suing the company on Tuesday. The lawsuit against the popular video sharing platform claims it was designed to keep young people hooked on the service. Documents uncovered by Kentucky Public Radio show that the company's internal research may help support this accusation. For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

Better browsers made things worse.

I am working on a theory that would explain how comedy works, and turn the process of writing jokes into an understandable, structured process that anyone can learn.

Our God is a devourer, who makes things only for the swallowing.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

I had been discussing the concept of Google dorks on the social network Misskey, and some people had said that the concept was unfamiliar to them. So let's di...

A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.

Google Search is dead to me. Here's how and why Kagi's high quality results and compelling value proposition allowed me to fully make the switch.

(There is good discussion on this article on Hacker News and Reddit) Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.

Defining the identity of iA Presenter next to iA Writer was a three-year process that went hand-in-hand with the UI development. Design takes time.

Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn it?

Unproven hypothesis seeks to explain ChatGPT's seemingly new reluctance to do hard work.

Ruling out the icecaps melting, a meteor becoming crashed into us, the ozone layer leaving, and the Sun exploding, we're definitely going to blow ourselves up. H'okay. So basically we've got China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, The UK, and us, with nukes. We've got about 2600 more than anybody else. Whatever. H'anyway.

Apple has a long track record of trying out new features in iMessage the app, but has seldom re-evaluated how the text of messages themselves could be improved on. That’s where Markdown comes in…

What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?

Michael Jordan grew up wearing Converse kicks like his idol David Thompson. He played at North Carolina in Converse kicks.…

When millions of African-Americans fled the South in search of a better life, they remade the nation in ways that are still being felt

When do you hang with an old dude online? When he’s running for office!

In the 1890s, in remote locations such as railroad construction sites, lumber camps, turpentine camps, or coal mines, jobs often existed far from established towns. As a pragmatic solution, the emp…