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When an incoming freshman at Harvard enters her room in the Yard for the first time, she's greeted with a little scrap of history meant to k

Once, Kottke.org’s tagline was “Liberal Arts 2.0.” It’s a terrific description of everything the blog co

Write to dispel the curse of knowledge, to find your people, and to become.

The Meaning Behind The Song: Dreaming of Paris by Van Dyke Parks The song “Dreaming of Paris” by Van Dyke Parks is a beautiful and haunting melody that captures the essence of longing and nostalgia. It takes the listener on a journey through the streets of Paris, evoking a sense of romance and wanderlust. The … The Meaning Behind The Song: Dreaming of Paris by Van Dyke Parks Read More »

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX and Alameda Research, has been found guilty and is likely going to spend time in jail. There is no shortage of hot takes and explainers about SBF and his crime…

It is difficult to overstate just how much better everything would be for everyone except the parasites if software patents were abolished.

Rather than turbo-charging the free market, Amazon et al have brought back a kind of feudalism

The tragedy that is industrial humanity.

Years of mismanagement and declining oil production have left Osage Nation with a higher concentration of abandoned wells than anywhere else in the country.

What I learned about remote work after Covid and why it's so hard.

The industry claims to offer answers for all our stress and symptoms – but we ‘still lack the fundamentals of wellbeing’. How did this happen?

The fate of hundreds of Louisiana nursing home residents warehoused during Hurricane Ida reveals a system vulnerable to disaster.

Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?

After they fled Iran decades ago, Nasrin Bahrampour and her husband settled in a bright public housing apartment overlooking the university city of Aarhus, Denmark. They filled it with potted plants, family photographs and Persian carpets, and raised two children there. Now they are being forced to leave their home under a government program that […]

I recently stumbled across a screenshot of this classic old tweet from Arthur Chu: Whenever such an observation appears on social media, it inevitably provokes a storm of responses along the lines of “workers wouldn’t be able to make anything if they had to make their own parts and tools.” For example, as part of...

Nostalgia for the hope we lost along the way, and the dreams that never were. The 1990s will not return. We are the lost generation.

Eating less beef, cheese, and ice cream would slash emissions. But given the nation's taste for them, science strives to make climate-friendlier cows.

Attorney General Merrick Garland continues to let big companies skate.

iPhones, insurance, and streaming are where the search money is.

Did the Good Boy of crypto break bad?

Crypto is an ideology, an anti-government, individualistic belief system, one that Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t really...

Do not expect total war to end tomorrow.

A new book explains what, specifically, the organizers of Unite the Right sought to invert.