Published in Counterfictionals II · 4 min read · Sep 26, 2013 -- This is my thesis, which at least apparently contradicts what we are given about his character in the released films, but actually seem
2014 was the year that the Internet of Things (IoT) reached the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” on the Gartner Hype Cycle . By 2015, it had only moved a tiny bit , towards the “Trough of Disillusionme
(Photo By Photo: Getty) I saw Star Wars this week like everyone else, and yes, it was madly entertaining, and no, it wasn’t perfect, and if I want to see a film that’s deeply iconoclastic and challeng
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Todd Heisler/The New York Times In 2015, I conducted a series of 19 interviews with philosophe
It’s strange to edit a feminist website when almost nothing offends you, because the feminist website is traditionally imagined to run on offense. This is not how we imagine it ourselves while we’re w
This story was published in the August 2015 issue of Esquire. The incident was small, but Jason Box doesn't want to talk about it. He's been skittish about the media since it happened. This was last s
Over the weekend, even as most of us were celebrating the fact that a new Star Wars movie did not in any way suck , some portions of the internet got sucked into a pointless, silly debate. Is Rey, the
A scene from the first season of “Doctor Who,” in 1963, with William Hartnell as the Doctor, outside the Tardis, his time-and-space ship. Courtesy BBC Behind the door labelled Studio Four, where “Doct
C ontrary to a hard-to-source quote that’s long been floating around online, Harrison Ford insists he never said that he “outgrew” Han Solo. And as he sat in a Beverly Hills hotel suite in November fo
Read Editor's Note n a speech at the Center for American Progress last December, President Barack Obama declared that economic inequality was “the defining challenge of our time.” Massachusetts Senato
It is a fact universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of an opinion must be in want of a correction. Well, actually, no it isn’t, but who doesn’t love riffing on Jane Austen? The answer is:
An Unbelievable Story of Rape An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins. March 12, 2009 Lynnwood, Washington No one came to court
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Nov 23, 2015 • 7 minutes to read Addendum (Nov 27, 2015): Now also published in French as an op-ed in Le Monde . In light of the recent terrorist attacks, things are getting heated for the regular security and encryption software developer. Being one myself, I’ve been on the receiving end of a small…
On November 26, 1949, Albert Einstein published an essay in the Saturday Review of Literature in which he described two pivotal moments in his childhood. The first involved a compass that his father s
V ermont Sen. Bernie Sanders – just plain “Bernie” to his backers – is the unlikeliest of political sensations. The self-styled “democratic socialist” has packed arenas and meeting halls from Seattle
Illustration by Randall Munroe There once was a doctor with cool white hair. He was well known because he came up with some important ideas. He didn’t grow the cool hair until after he was done figuri
I am lost in thought when Coffeemaker speaks to me, timidly, to say she is almost empty. Not the emptiness of a depleted urn; it is still half full. No, this is the emptiness that strikes at Coffeemak
Actor James Earl Jones as Othello in 1981. Photo by Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images Is Othello black? With the news that David Oyelowo will play Othello opposite Daniel Craig’s Iago and tha
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Note: This is a personal essay I wrote for a friend’s compilation about women’s experiences in 1989. It happens, oh so conveniently, to be the year I graduated high school. Sixty-two miles per hour over the New London bridge, when you told me. You’re in a tuxedo that’s actually yours, your…
The New York Times published a piece over the weekend about the political prospects of Bernie Sanders , a politician who apparently does not kiss enough babies : “[Sanders] rarely drops by diners or c
I work some days from a small office in San Francisco, and every day, I gotta eat. For a stretch of several weeks this year, I obtained my lunch from an iPhone app called Sprig. It’s a beautiful piece
Dear Polly, I’m writing with a deceptively simple question. How can I be vulnerable? Some pertinent background: I’m an academic, working in a field that requires me to live in very remote places for e
Life is good when you’re James Bond . At least, it seems to be for Daniel Craig . When we meet him at the Corinthia Hotel in London at the end of two years of shooting for the latest 007 film , Spectre, the 47-year-old is in a good mood, with a mercurial smile, a firm handshake and a spring in his…
When people who care about technology look back at the year 2015, they will remember October as the month when the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor collapsed. An international legal agreement that has been in plac
Michael Thompson See Taylor Swift’s Stunning GQ Photo Shoot “That’s a pap,” she says as we leave the restaurant, pointing toward an anonymous gray car that looks like the floor model in an auto dealer
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10 min read · Oct 6, 2015 -- Long-time interfriends may already know that about me — I’ve told some of this story before, back in October 2011 over on G+ — but with a new spoopy season upon us, I’ve d
One week ago, my 10-year-old niece turned me into a Minecraft addict. I've known about Minecraft for years, of course. Who hasn't? The creative block-building game, first developed as a side hobby by
Even as he deplored the depressing regularity of gun massacres in the United States, President Obama struck an entirely new tone for progressives in reaction to the Oregon murders: I’d ask the America
*Pokes head in, sees comments are generally positive* There’s been a lot of discussion in my comment sections (and on LWN) about what makes a good community, along with suggestions of welcoming open source communities to check out. Your hearts are in the right place, but I’ve never found an open…
Published in Medium.design · 10 min read · Mar 18, 2014 -- How hard could it be to draw a horizontal line on the screen? It seems wrangling a few pixels together to stand in a file would be something
Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has struck down the 15-year-old Safe Harbour agreement that allowed the free flow of information between the US and EU. The most
Exxon and Mobil stations, New York, 1979. Two years earlier, according to a new report, Exxon’s scientists told the company that its main products contributed to global warming. PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN AL
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed News The thing about covering tech, especially for a long time, is that you have these moments where you get to really reach out and touch the future. They're rare. But you get to
Launa Hall is a teacher in Arlington, Va., and is working on a collection of essays about teaching. 'Remember that activity when we all get in the closet and pretend we're not even there, so our princ
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