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Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet

Type as both language and composition

Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google’s self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit. Now the Feds are on the case.

Finding the particle we assume is responsible for dark matter has always been a guessing game. We guessed wrong.

The pursuit of excellence has infiltrated and corrupted the world of leisure.

As humans, we have an underlying “blueprint” for how we perceive and process the world around us, and the study of psychology helps us define this blueprint. And as designers, we can leverage psych…

Get next edition's tickets info here: https://goo.gl/yfHbBG Josh will be giving a workshop this year on May 22nd about how to make your app more whimsical https://www.react-europe.org/#schedule-item-1581 This talk explores various ways that we, as front-end developers, can make our products more delightful to use. While it’s design’s job to give us static mock-ups, it’s our job to bring those designs to life. Slides: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-europe-talk-2018 Mail demo: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/whimsical-mail-client Get next edition's tickets info here: https://goo.gl/yfHbBG

The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies by compromising America's technology supply chain.

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The care and feeding of a drug addict

For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It's time for a new paradigm.

The first few times it happens, it feels like a positive signal. Somebody wants your advice and perspective. You must be good at what you do. And th

People love to party! Well, at least some of them do. For the rest of us, parties bring on waves of feelings, good and bad, much like the events themselves. Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about being the hit of the party.

Powerlifters are loud. They all look different. They’re laser-focused on their skill. And women are joining in droves.

One remote founder's struggle with isolation, depression, & anxiety. And what remote companies can do to address the mental health challenges of a remote workforce.

Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)

This is my bag of tricks — loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb, tools, cheatsheets, gimmicks, leverage points, descriptions of systems, key questions, risks, and unknowns.

I worshipped militaristic Mormon science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card -- until we met.

Engineers at Monograph talk about their culture, key values, current team members, open jobs, and what it is like working at Monograph.

Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.

Populism, pointless work and panicked youth: an interview with David Graeber of LSE

Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?

It’s easy to learn when you’re obsessed. Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re really good at something. It was a passion — a calling — that ta

“I want those tapes to be used against him [Trump], but it might be unfair.”

If you wear women's clothes, you already know this. But now we've got the data to show it.