John Cassidy July 28, 2016 President Obama during his speech Wednesday night at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia.Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker It was about 8:40 P.M. last night when President Obama climbed aboard Air Force One for the hop to Philadelphia,…

Disconnect 2016-07-27 All the best, happiest, and most creatively productive times in my life have something in common: being disconnected. No internet. No TV. No phone. No people. Long uninterrupted solitude. When I was twenty-two, I quit my job and spent five months alone in a house on a remote…

Over the last year or so in the US, a lot of the plastic credit cards we carry around every day have been replaced by new one with chips embedded in them. The chips are supposed to make your credit an

Tonight, Donald J. Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president of the United States. And I am, for the first time since I began covering American politics, genuinely afraid. Donald Trump is not a man who should be president. This is not an ideological judgment. This is not…

For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force. Early Friday morning, Dallas police used a bomb-disposal robot with an explosive device on its manipulator arm to kill a suspect after five police officers were murdered and seven others…

I love Twitter. 45,000 Tweets. 263,000 Likes (even though they’ll always be Favs to me). Their commitment to free speech has always been clear (thank you amac!). But they’re, by many accounts, losing users to continued abuse and trolling. And Twitter has said they want to fix this, but never…

I am a Black woman. Not only that, I am a Black woman working in tech, one of the most homogeneous industries ever birthed. As a woman in tech, I account for 30% of the tech workforce. As a Black person in tech, I account for 5% of the tech workforce. But as a Black woman in tech, I account for only…

Andy Doyle 5 min read· Mar 4, 2016 -- Medium aspires to empower individual voices and avoid the bureaucracy that often accompanies traditional organizational structures. As a result we have explored new management philosophies as we figure out what fits us best and what will scale. For the last few…

Venmo is turning our friends into petty jerks

One night in January 2015, two Stanford University graduate students biking across campus spotted a freshman thrusting his body on top of an unconscious, half-naked woman behind a dumpster. This March, a California jury found the former student, 20-year-old Brock Allen Turner, guilty of three counts…

> > > > > > Many of us are familiar with a concept know as Security by Obscurity >. The term has negative connotations within the infosec community—usually for the wrong reason. There’s little debate about whether security by obscurity is bad; this is true because it means the secret being hidden is…

DealBook LinkedIn’s Manhattan newsroom. Some investors, including Warren Buffett, are critical of excluding stock-based compensation from earnings calculations.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times “Let me explain why.” Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn’s chief executive, wrote a lengthy memorandum to his…

State of the Art Can Apple Think Outside the Device? Credit... Stuart Goldenberg More than any other company in tech, Apple prizes physical objects — expensive, perfectly designed, self-contained nugg

San Francisco has become one huge metaphor for economic inequality in America

This Week in Stratechery 2026.23: Power Shifts (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for everyone. Additionally, you…

Gender by , Brenda Major and Cheryl R. Kaiser January 4, 2016 U.S. companies spend millions annually on diversity programs and policies. Mission statements and recruitment materials touting companies’ commitment to diversity are ubiquitous. And many managers are tasked with the complex goal of…

Jim Bankoff, chief executive of Vox Media, in the Washington office. The company plans a media brand devoted to digital technology and delivered primarily on Facebook.Credit...Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times Vox Media, the ambitious online news start-up that runs Vox, a politics site; SB…

Published in Data & Society: Points · 4 min read · May 13, 2016 -- A pair of Gizmodo stories have prompted journalists to ask questions about Facebook’s power to manipulate political opinion in an alr

by Owen Phillips Over the weekend, the New York Times raised concerns over “dark patterns”: web interfaces carefully crafted to manipulate users. For example, there’s the “roach motel,” named after the brand of insect trap that provides a seamless sign-up, but a difficult cancellation process. More…

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey after a meeting of Donald J. Trump’s national finance team in New York in June. The governor has risen as an influential adviser to Mr. Trump, his party’s presumptive presidential nominee.Credit...Brendan McDermid/Reuters Defeated by Donald J. Trump in the 2016…

OVER the past several years, we have borne witness to grainy videos of what “protect and serve” looks like for black lives — Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell, to name a few. I don’t think any of us could have imagined how tiny cameras would allow us to see, time and again,…

Let me say this right off the bat: I don’t at all condone any shooting of police officers or attacking them in any way. I hope that the people responsible are caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law – which, given that the attacks appear to have been premeditated and directed at law…

This is not a joke. Hillary’s team had talked to me a few weeks back about doing something, but I didn’t want to do, like, a “If Hillary Were Your President” type thing, and then they got in touch on

Cody Brown 6 min read· Jun 20, 2016 -- Gawker is filing for bankruptcy. Peter Thiel, who is a Facebook board member and Donald Trump delegate, secretly sued Gawker in a proxy lawsuit and, even though the case is unresolved, it was enough to bleed and bankrupt the company. And so much of the Silicon…

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One of the many tradeoffs that early startup employees choose to make is between cash, and options. For some employees however this may end up being a Faustian bargain of sorts. At first glance, the calculus seems simple: the employee will take more stock options for less cash, because over time the…

“Even 15 years after Blogger, it’s still hard to publish on the internet,” a Medium executive told a group of publishers this past spring. Medium has now made it its mission to make publishing easier: After a few years of back-and-forth about whether it was a publisher or a platform (or, ugh, a…

Opinion Credit...Jon Han “DON’T go anywhere near a mosque,” I told my mother. “Do all your prayer at home. O.K.?” “We’re not going,” she replied. I am the son of Muslim immigrants. As I sent that text, in the aftermath of the horrible attack in Orlando, Fla., I realized how awful it was to tell an…

This image was removed due to legal reasons. I’m sitting here looking at my burgundy-red British passport, with EUROPEAN UNION emblazoned in gold letters across the top. I’ve fastened the shirt I’m we

It’s a throwaway line in a longer talk and we probably shouldn’t make too much of it, but I will anyway. In five years time Facebook “will be definitely mobile, it will be probably all video,” said Nicola Mendelsohn, who heads up Facebook’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, at a…

Asa Mathat for Vox Media At 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night, at an exclusive resort along the California coast, Elon Musk blew a lot of millionaires’ minds. Musk is the CEO of two audacious companies, SpaceX and Tesla. He was onstage at Code Conference, a prestigious, invite-only tech event to which…

Op-Ed Contributor Credit...Andrew Holder THEY call you Lady Luck, but there is room for doubt” — Frank Loesser, “Guys and Dolls” Almost a year ago, the curtain rose for “Hamilton” at the Richard Rodgers Theater. Since that day, everyone involved in the production has had many wonderful experiences…

From Lauren Goode’s interview with Phil Schiller for The Verge, specifically regarding the new 85/15 revenue split after the first year of a subscription (italic emphasis mine): But Schiller insisted that it wasn’t any kind of “Apple tax” backlash or companies encouraging users to go to their own…

Op-Ed Contributor Nick Denton speaking to the media about Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker.Credit...Eve Edelheit/Tampa Bay Times, via Associated Press I HAVE been attacked pretty much my entire career by Gawker. I made its list of “least important writers” twice, and it put me in 62nd place on…

2016 update: I wrote this essay (blog post, really) years ago as a way of articulating how my most-frequented websites and apps were making me feel. A number of the services listed below as examples of “Slow Web” are now defunct, and the “Fast Web” seems today to be even faster, more frenetic, more…

Pork roll or Taylor Ham? What you call it may depend on where you live in New Jersey. Joel Rose/NPR At the White Rose Diner in Linden, N.J., owner Rich Belfer tosses a dozen round, thick slices of processed pork to sizzle on the grill. To Belfer, it's beyond dispute that those are slices of Taylor…

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