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“What is the meaning of life?” is more like asking “how does orange look?” The sentence has superficially appropriate structure, but no set of words can adequately convey the (true) answer.

The piece above is part of a series called Pluralism by artist Deborah Roberts -- it's a collage of dozens of Black names marked as misspelled by Microsoft Word's built-in spell checker. I don't know about you, but thi

“Just” makes me feel like an idiot. “Just” presumes I come from a specific background, studied certain courses in university, am fluent in certain technologies, and have read all the right books, articles, and resources. “Just” is a dangerous word.

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“I began to wonder… how might I organize my to do list so that it makes me feel the way I do when I look at my pantry? How might it become a place that gives me a sense possibility, where I want to create—to work. I’ve been playing with this idea for a couple months and have come to some preliminary conclusions.”

From Matt Baker of UsefulCharts, this chart traces the evolution of our familiar alphabet from its Proto-Sinaitic roots circa 1850-1550 BC. It's tough to see how the pictographic forms of the original script evolved in

Congrats on a super neat project! I wish only that it had a better name. Ableist language is any word or phrase that intentionally or inadvertently targets an individual with a disability... Exampl...

Great code reads like great prose. It is succinct, expressive, and clear the first time you read it.