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The fediverse is dealing with a huge wave of Twitter people bringing toxic ideas with them.

The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.

Stephen was a hired gun at my first start-up. His contract started a year before I arrived, but he was long gone before I walked in the door. The story goes that when Stephen started, he found a small, solid team of five engineers, a QA lead, and a project manager. They were slowly and steadily goin

Chasing swipes and clicks is now a losing strategy—the rising stars on the web have found a way to create a higher level of engagement.

The mystery of why Judas forsook Jesus goes to the heart of Christianity. A newly translated gospel offers a new view

We’d all like life to be simpler. But we also don’t want to sacrifice our options and capabilities. Tesler’s law of the conservation of complexity, a rule from design, explains why we can’t have both. Here’s how the law can help us create better products and services by rethinking simplicity.

It's myth-busting time! The world's richest and largest city is cheaper and roomier than you think.

Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications

No public subsidies. A day pass for the equivalent of 98 cents. Unlimited 90-minute rides for $14 per year. How?

We’re more predictable than we thought.

‘“Dolphin safe” labels on our tins are reckoned among marine scientists to mean next to nothing.’ Katherine Rundell on tuna and extinction speculation.

Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to find answers in scientific research.

Psychologists explain what an abundance mindset is (and a scarcity mindset) and how it can change your life.

Tracking natural disasters on Earth

Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.

“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 percent faster if they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front page of Bild, Europe’s largest daily newspaper, just beneath their update about the Germanwings crash. From there, it…

Looking back, and forward

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

A growing number of men are undergoing a radical and expensive surgery to grow anywhere from three to six inches. The catch: It requires having both your femurs broken. GQ goes inside the booming world of leg lengthening.

Society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person - and ignores the politics of their distress, says psychologist Sanah Ahsan

We've got the wrong theory about how minds work and it's ruining our lives

WikiHouse is a digitally-manufactured building system that makes it simple for anyone to build beautiful, zero-carbon homes.

From 2019: How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

To understand why so many adults are acting just like children, don’t blame Millennials – look to Japan in the 1990s

A case study on how the government censors TV in China.

Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"

I made a very very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here a demo on the official Dutch government jobs site. The noise starts while typing the domain name already. Code, currently Linux only:

Years of notes on business, productivity, courage, stress, success, relationships and more.