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San Francisco’s problems are largely attributable to a small coterie that knows how to bend government to its will.

We were always told that the internet would bring about a new era…

Madison Campbell is determined to get DIY rape kits into survivors’ hands, no matter who tells her it’s a bad idea.

Subjecting engineering to Marxist analysis yields complex results.

In 1976, the shop stewards at the British Lucas Aerospace Corporation published a document that would come to be known as “The Lucas Plan.” The company was planning to lay off a significant number of workers as part of a restructuring effort. Faced with the prospect of losing their livelihood, many of these workers banded together to propose an alternative: that the British government should intervene to prevent layoffs so that the workers could redeploy the productive assets of the company towards socially useful ends rather than military contracting.

Read Grayson Haver Currin’s review of the album.

Learn the true history of the underground revolutionary podcast, Cum Town

Signs of ethical decay can be found on both sides of the ideological spectrum

Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released on July 27, 1993. It is a processor-independent, multiprocessing and multi-user operating system.

Shiny globules, green fields, tropical fish – memories of an era dominated by glossy, naturalistic design are taking over the internet

Many of the ­private colleges and universities in the US arose as much out of vanity or whim as necessity. But for...

During the first ten minutes of Tár, it is possible to feel that the critic Adam Gopnik is a better actor than Cate Blanchett. They sit together on a New

Back in the summer of 2020, I quit what was ostensibly a very good job in media to write this newsletter full-time. I didn’t do it for money. I didn’t do it because I didn’t like editors (I had excellent ones, whom I appreciated deeply). I did it because I had Layoff Brain.

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When malware repository vx-underground launched in 2019, it hardly made a splash in the hacking world. "I had no success really," said its founder, who goes by the online moniker smelly_vx.

This Mission mainstay's notoriously grumpy bar staff smile more these days.

One step forward, two steps back

Details still remain foggy regarding the Common People mystery, but Yanis Varoufakis says Danae Stratou was ‘the only Greek student of sculpture at Saint Martins College’

Cosplay commandos are posting nationalist thirst traps to mobilise the SIMPs – but why?

I spent some time looking into SBF's political giving and what I found was pretty shocking. SBF was collaborating with AIPAC and Trump supporting billionaires to stop the growth of the squad and the electoral left.https://t.co/S5gra6NsRv— Max Berger (@maxberger) January 3, 2023

Good morning! The other day some friends and I were reminiscing about an app idea we had years ago that would allow you to “blind cancel” on your friends. That is—flag if you were open to canceling a plan, which would only be revealed if the other person flagged it too. Basically, it was Tinder for bailing. This was our ultimate dream: an official, guilt-free conduit for that quiet hope that your friends wants to cancel, too.

Trafficking, extortionate prices and rampant capitalism – has 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' succumbed to the dark side?

Monster of 2022: The coffee shop that is a bank.

Normally I just ignore navel-gazing tech-industry articles like this, but people keep sending it to me, so I guess this guy is famous or something. Michael Arrington posted this article, "Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining" which quotes extensively from my 1994 diary. He's trying to make the point that the only path to success in the software industry is to ...

After a pandemic dip, the number of married couples “living apart together” has started to rise again. And women, in search of their own space, are driving the increase.

The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

From Glass Onion and The Menu to Triangle of Sadness , right now, there's only one message (ironically) coming out of Hollywood: rich people are bad.

I feel that one thing that effective altruists haven't sufficiently capitalized on in their marketing is just how amazingly exciting the whole thing is. There's Holden Karnofsky's post on excited alt…

The highest-impact career for you is the one that allows you to make the biggest contribution to solving one of the world's most pressing problems. On this page, we list some broad categories of impactful careers, followed by about 30 more specific and unusual career paths we think are especially impactful, such as long-term AI policy research. The lists are based on 10 years of research and experience advising people, and represent the careers it seems to us will be most impactful over the long run if you get started on them now — though of course we can't be sure what the future holds. You can use the lists on this page to get new ideas for impactful careers and make sure you haven't missed a great option.