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archived 2 Nov 2023 16:46:29 UTC

The pandemic kicked off a "doom loop" that has gutted cities and towns across the country. Big banks are making it worse.

Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote: I wish people could see how ugly it is to be envious, and how obvious it is to those around you when that's what's happening. There's not much uglier than trying to tear someone down because they achieved what you wish

The structural and technical factors that cause banks to behave in ways customers find bizarre.

A meta-JavaScript adventure game by Alex Nisnevich and Greg Shuflin. - AlexNisnevich/untrusted: A meta-JavaScript adventure game by Alex Nisnevich and Greg Shuflin.

Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care

[Image: From Die Hard, directed by John McTiernan based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorpe].While watching Die Hard the other night—easily one of the best architectural films of …

Tools and knowledge to help you ask for what you need and deserve, written by Ashley Hefnawy with illustrations by Ludmila Leiva.

A North Carolina facility’s record of violations undercuts the dream of plastics recycling.

“Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar.” —Kyaw Kyaw, frontman of Burmese punk band Rebel Riot 1 Back in early July, I started working on a quick

When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.

The year had barely started, and I already felt nervously excited, but also slightly off balance. Writing a book in English while completing a PhD and running Ness Labs… Wasn’t I trying to bite more than I could chew? This is my 2023 annual review.

The best H-bomb movie of the year wasn’t Oppenheimer.

Fluid responsive design

Tesla records reveal the automaker has long known far more about the extent of defects than it has disclosed to consumers and safety regulators.

Fun stories from my time working as an AppleCare Dispatch contractor going door to door in Chicago.

An excerpt from Tamara Shopsin’s debut novel, LaserWriter II.

A quitter’s manifesto.

The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.

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Unstaffed tills were supposed to revolutionise shopping. Now, both retailers and customers are bagging many self-checkout kiosks.

Well before the hippies arrived, LSD and other hallucinogens were poised to enter the American mainstream.

On YouTube videos and Reddit boards, adherents of a bizarre conspiracy theory argue that everything you know about the history of architecture is wrong.