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Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past

Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.

How to get people to NOT contact you

An essay by Austin L. Ray

My wayward months as the best telemarketer in America.

In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held dire...

Agency announces research misconduct finding for neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah as scores of his papers fall under suspicion

CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...

The best supplements are exercise, a good diet and strong relationships.

archived 20 Nov 2025 17:45:34 UTC

It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.

The work is the work.

an AI researcher going back to school for immunology

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.

How someone I don't know hacked the scammers back

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work for Company1 doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that’s what led me to the Snarfus. So, let’s dive in! 

The loneliness and sterility of children’s “educational” videos in the Trump era.

A breakdown of recent research supporting tactics for dumbing down your iPhone (as I've discussed previously). Dumbing down your iPhone can lead to a wide range of benefits, including improved attention, reduced stress and depression, improved wellbeing and reduced anxiety.

Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and creative trends shaping the video game industry.

Internal ≤ external.

500 priests, cartographic n00bism, and the limits of scale

Husserl’s well-tended archive has given him a rich afterlife, while Nietzsche’s was distorted by his axe-grinding sister

Social Spam is backed by a microcosm of the modern economy. In order to understand this world, I infiltrated one of the largest communities for spammers with my real Facebook account. Here’s what I learned.

There is more than one way to dice an onion…