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You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams.

Let websites framebust out of native apps

A lightweight commenting system using GitHub issues.

Quite possibly the dumbest project I've ever undertaken, this was an odyssey but well worth it in the end. It's hard to fully explain the depth of the rabbit...

They’re not cuddly, they don’t behave at all like us – yet they are sentient. Why fish belong in the moral community

A biannual leftist magazine of useful, unexpected writing.

“Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here.”

A neuroscience sleuth challenges data showing one toxic form of amyloid protein is a cause of brain condition

An anarchist biohacker collective has developed a DIY kit to make and discreetly mail abortion medication at home.

What do we actually know about burnout? What does the research say? Is burnout preventable? All the research, in one free, updated place.

No matter how hard you work, it still takes a little bit of luck for something to hit. That can be discouraging, since luck feels like a force outside our…

Une fuite de documents internes montre les manœuvres douteuses employées par Uber dans sa conquête du monde.

Professors are facing more and more pressure to self-promote on social media.

Attachment theory suggests that early interactions with caregivers can dramatically affect your beliefs about yourself, your expectations of others, and how you cope with stress and regulate your emotions as an adult

Electricity Maps is a live 24/7 visualization of where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it.

A multiyear search attempts to explain one of the most extreme, and baffling, cases of human survival.

That "rapper" accused of billions in crypto fraud was also a Forbes contributor. Is it finally time to move past the contributor network?

The Saker women were the model of rural ingenuity, running a successful restaurant and gourmet food businesses on Cape Breton Island. What they were mostly cooking? The books.

The team behind games like Eliza are closing shop on their own terms

Visit websites, find them again.

One of the most-used tools on the internet is not what it used to be.

Tag along with me while I hike the Appalachian Trail, in real-time.

The Danger of Minimalist Design(& the death of detail)A short thread... pic.twitter.com/byrgyZzl6O— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) June 18, 2022

We are in the dark corner of the pub together. We have been here for some time. Out of my coat I produce a pile of old photographs. Something to show you. They are a gift from the past, together we will look, I will tell what comes to mind.

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