Subscriber Only Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Audio : Listen to this article. Available only to New Atlantis and Apple News+ subscribers. In May 2020, apropos of nothing, Tesla and SpaceX
I had an aha! moment recently that helped me figure out what it means to exit the culture wars. Not a high-minded martyr flounce that only looks like an exit, while keeping you as entangled as ever, o
Rules of thumb, and general philosophy Below you’ll find a collection of general principles we try to keep in mind at 37signals when communicating with teammates, within departments, across the compan
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← Back to Kevin's homepage Published: 2019 August 22 I recently visited a friend who runs Keycult , a business that designs and sells $500 keyboard kits. Not keyboards — keyboard kits — the buyer must
The Diff Inflections in finance and tech By Byrne Hobart · Over 47,000 subscribers This Substack is private Subscribe to see all their posts. Already a member? Sign in
Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have posed the question of whether the recent SolarWinds cyberattack was an act of war. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Mitt Romney share
Our authors fail as critics of meritocracy because they cannot get their heads outside of it. L ast fall, Toby Young did something ironic. Toby is the son of Michael Young, the British sociologist and
This is an excerpt from the book First Platoon , by Annie Jacobsen, about the US Defense Department’s quest to build the most powerful biometrics database in the world: a system that can tag, track, a
Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election defied long odds and the widespread assumption that Hillary Clinton had the contest in the bag. That experience led many to suspect that —
(Bloomberg) -- Mike Frazzini had never made a video game when he helped start Amazon Game Studios. Eight years later, he has released two duds, withdrew both from stores after a torrent of negative re
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Jay Ackroyd went to a conference last week where he heard Daniel Ellsberg speak. He apparentl
The ability of a concentrated few to shape the speech environment has waxed and waned throughout history. The printing press exploded elite control over ideas, leading to revolution, conflict, and an
Enlarge / What does this stream of binary digits have to do with DNS? Nothing, really—but good luck finding a pretty pic somewhere that does! Santo Heston If you want to be a sysadmin or network admin
The metaphor of learning-as-purchasing pervades language — “are you buyin’ this?” What is the currency of knowledge exchange? Perhaps it used to be ‘facts’ — but as explored in Wittgenstein’s Revenge
Early in the Cold War, the preeminent First Amendment theorist Alexander Meiklejohn denounced cancel culture as an appendage of “the monster” of capitalism. Red-baiters then were trying to silence lef
Thread Reader Share this page! Email Samuel Sinyangwe Follow @samswey Oct 6, 2019 • 16 tweets • 5 min read For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what
When Donald Trump launched Operation Warp Speed last week, he borrowed language from Star Trek to describe the drive for a Covid-19 vaccine. “That means big and it means fast,” the US president said,
On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the weekend to hammer out an emergency aid package addressing the coro
Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me For decades, I have been talking about the importance of individual privacy. For almost as long, I have been using the metaphor of digital feudalism to describe
This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series Weirding Diary We’re barely seven weeks into 2020, and it’s already the weirdest year in my living memory. We’ve been through: Australia on fire, a near-war b
13 min read · Dec 8, 2019 -- Towards a more open, contributor friendly, vendor neutral model for accelerated learning in InfoSec By John Lambert, @JohnLaTwC, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Threat I
Not so long ago, companies that cracked personal devices on behalf of governments did so in secret, closely guarding even the descriptions of their capabilities. Now, it seems, they proudly tweet abou
This is an evolving document, describing currently known attack surface, a few mitigations, and several open questions. This is a work in progress. We document our current understanding with the inten
In many ways, it's not the best time to be working on a Star Wars game. Over the last 18 months, a lot of negativity has built against Electronic Arts, currently the sole holder of the licence when it
This entry is part 3 of 13 in the series Domestic Cozy I increasingly like a thesis I initially resisted: many unusual and toxic culture-war phenomena in nominally public spaces can be understood as a
I n his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour workweek in the 21st century, creating the equivalent of a five-day weekend. “F
Cynthia Decker …a feeling that I was standing at twilight on a deserted range, with an empty rifle in my hands and the targets down. No problem set — simply a silence with only the sound of my own breathing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald The phenomenon popularly known as a ‘mid-life crisis’ (henceforth,…
It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem . Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare would reveal its newest game, the plan had been to go with a di
This entry is part 8 of 15 in the series Psychohistory I like the concept of the Anthropocene. It finesses or postpones at least some of the conflict around the idea of climate change, broadens the co
James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Imp examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to urban planning and cens
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