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A list of things you're allowed to do that you thought you couldn't, or didn't even know you could.

What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. It is incomplete as the GMail word limit cut off the…

A boy’s death launches a movement to end pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in New York City and beyond.

If the plastics industry is following the tobacco industry’s playbook, it may never admit to the failure of plastics recycling.

*May 26th, 2022*: some notes

Some psychotherapeutic approaches are not only ineffective, they’re actively harmful. We’re now starting to identify them

Standards for developing consistent, flexible, and sustainable HTML and CSS.

Apple has launched its Self-Service Repair program for its iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and third-gen iPhone SE, letting customers repair them for the first time. We tried it out, replacing the battery of an iPhone 13 Mini.

How American life was changed by a subsidy that ride-hail companies can no longer afford.

The environmental and cognitive factors at play that have people eating more without realising.

Substitute dollars backed by almost nothing are taking down the market.

Over and over again, I’ve seen people fix some wireless-related problem and go “wow, I had no idea how much better this could be!" • Wireless protocols often silently operate in an extremely degraded state that makes them substantially worse than wired equivalents.

Amelia Whelan used social media as an accelerant for her sales community. Then things blew up.

Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?

Part 1: Quebec City's poorest residents breathe some of the worst air in Canada.

The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman

This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.

Somewhere between 15 and 20 years ago, I worked for a company. It was a very prestigious company, and it was a glorious and frustrating time. The company did amazing things. Literally unbelievable achievements - from my point of view anyway. But this was coupled with levels of chaos that

Some problems even a wife can't fix

The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.

The existence of love, trust, respect, and safety in a relationship is often dependent on moments you might write off as petty disagreements.

The malware toolkit, known as Pipedream, is perhaps the most versatile tool ever made to target critical infrastructure like power grids and oil refineries.

Docs for the Pinry project.

DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google. The next Google can’t just be an input box that spits out links. We need new thinking to create something much better than what came before.

What is Agile? And where does it come from?

A conspiracy theory spreading online says the whole internet is now fake. It’s ridiculous, but possibly not that ridiculous?