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.@gankstrr: I wanna show you my Halloween costume. Me: Is it sexy?Gen: ...maybe... pic.twitter.com/6ERcN1szvF— Greg Miller (@GameOverGreggy) September 30, 2017

One of the most valuable experiments I ever ran was intentionally practicing the skill of making close friends, and this directly led to most of my friends today. This post is the story of that experiment, and distills the lessons learned

"And I was still the same person."After 10 years of marriage and two children, Les and Scott GrantSmith were struggling. Les had a secret that caused him to ...

Chronic back pain is incredibly limiting, and is more and more common—even with younger people. I've kept a short guide to solving back pain issues for a couple years, and a friend requested that I publish this publicly. Around 80% of people who have used this guide have told

The game is mid at best, and its real-world harms are impossible to ignore.

Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in Gizmodo, he is described as "a tireless ambassador for the future."

Mounjaro did what decades of struggle with managing weight couldn’t. Welcome to the post-hunger age.

The question of why some countries join the developed world while others remain in poverty has vexed economists for decades. What makes it so hard to answer?

In November 2021, we finished our series A Chemical Hunger, where we argue that the obesity epidemic is the result of environmental contaminants, and that one of those contaminants might be lithium…

The “everything store” has gotten junkier and more chaotic. But, for the company, it’s only good business.

“In order to get the PDF into a redactable format, I had to export it to TIFF and then reconvert it. There's a big loss in quality, unfortunately. But let's take a look at this demand letter, generated for me when I asked to sue someone in small claims court!”

and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

L'octroi d'un contrat à une entreprise détenue par des intérêts chinois soulève des questions préoccupantes

Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronics is a visual feast for those who love electronics.

Since 2007, Romania has lost between half and two-thirds of its virgin forest. The environmentalists and activists trying to protect it keep getting killed.

As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.

Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no…

See how top brands design their onboarding, upgrading, downgrading and other key user flows

How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.

qubibi: A label by Kazumasa Teshigawara focused on Digital Art

The first large-scale, crowdsourced study that monitors how Meta tracks people across the internet

Thoughts on elevating product quality

Here is a short and curious Twitter thread from app developers and security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry: Apple’s analytics data include an ID called “dsId”. We were able to verify that “dsId” is the “Directory Services Identifier”, an ID that uniquely identifies an iCloud account. Meaning, Apple’s analytics can personally identify you. […]

Wine commands wealth, prestige, and attention from aficionados. How much of what they admire is in their heads?

A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.