Adjust Share When I was a kid, in the touch-tone era in the Midwest, I often dialed, for no real reason, the “time lady”—an actress named Jane Barbe, it turns out—who would announce, with prim authori
“It's a bilateral failure for the designer and the player to meet on an understanding that this is an intentional work of art by a human being and instead to treat it like it's a functional plastic tool made in a factory that is there to generate a particular biochemical response in your brain.…
“S o, how would you describe your marriage? What happened?” Every time someone asks about my marriage, or about my divorce, I pause for a moment. Inside that imperceptible pause, I’m thinking about th
I love nothing more than to read blog posts written by nerds fueled by stubbornness and spite. Reading this glorious post on why a pedestrian bridge to seemingly nowhere exists is like listening to a full season of a true-crime podcast. No spoilers, but there is definitely a satisfying conclusion.…
Energy makes time 04 Aug 2023 by Mandy Brown BECAUSE I WORK WITH a lot of high performers, the kind of people who are frequently responsive to both the unending needs of their workplace and the unendi
For almost a complete decade—starting with discovering Haskell in about 2009 and right up until switching to a job where I used primarily Ruby and C++ in about 2019—I would have called myself first an
Tim Wehage grew up in South Florida. At home, the TV was often tuned to Fox News, where he heard a lot of rants about liberal hypocrisy, but he didn’t consider himself political. After high school, he
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Photograph by Dietmar Nill / NaturePL Common Origins Science & Nature Biodiversity 06.07.2023 WORDS BY JASON P. DINH Our new series on species interconnectedness traverses through a 60-million-year-ol
I’ve recently been telling anyone who will listen that I am excited to be on the precipice of using Sorbet to write a type-checked edition of Mocktail that has the potential to unlock productivity wor
By Jessica Wilkerson Issue 121, Summer 2023 June 06, 2023 Public Courts, 2019, watercolor on paper by Charlie Roberts. Courtesy the artist and Woaw Gallery I spent my childhood in the country about fi
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Alia Smith. The other night, I was making dinner when I realized that we were completely out of ginger. Our grocery store is pretty close by, but it’s too far to
“I’ll wipe my hands on my penis.” Essayist and activist Sophie McAllister is confident she’d never uttered those words before this week. Now, she tells Rolling Stone, she must have said them over a hu
E lon Musk is a singular visionary driving humanity toward a better future—or at least that’s what he and his admirers want us to believe. For the past two decades, supporters and news outlets have pr
So I was blocked by someone (that really should know better, I'm honestly disappointed/sad) for saying that "overpopulation arguments to deal with climate change" are disgusting and racist.
This is not a new idea, and the env. movement has demons here.
https://t.co/g64RPbThW2
India, and other liberal democracies, must prevent any app, foreign or home-grown, from coming to dominate our information space. Why an ‘ everything app’ is bad news for liberal democracies and free
Reviewing this list really makes me appreciate what a great time it is for science fiction.
The Martian, Murderbot, Wayfarers, Broken Earth, Machineries of Empire, Three Body Problem, Children of Time, Binti, Divine Cities, Teixcalaan… all this decade?
https://t.co/wmxRY2mVR5
Christopher Storer, the creator of The Bear , during filming of the show. FX Yes. Your friends are right. If you haven’t done so yet, you need to watch The Bear . That should be perfectly clear by now
An individualistic, markets-oriented, accelerationist, expansionistic reaction to Solarpunk . Term coined by NASJAQ — About Me Related, but not identical (todo: piece apart): Elliot Hershberg ’s frami
For awhile now, I’ve had the thought that an economy based on renewable energy might return to using sailing ships as working cargo ships. Apparently some other people had the same thought, and those
Spoke at @turingfest today about what I see as being the ingredients in building great software.
I wrote this up as a post, too: https://t.co/fBTGggheTn
It’s an exciting time to be following developments in clean technology. There are plans for oversized water heaters that can prepare an entire day’s hot water whenever electricity is cheapest, “distri
An Audi e-tron vehicle with charger at an event outside the Department of Transportation in Washington on Oct. 20. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Imagine a world where every Blockbuster Video has been conv
In 2009, I left my graduate job in Australia and moved to the UK with my British partner. I'd been working as a programmer for about two years. The economy was reeling from the 2008 crash, so I took w
This would be easier if you could hear it for yourself. I can tell you what TropeTrainer was, what it did, and what it meant to people. I can tell you about the person who made it, about what happened
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. I t is an insolent
I've given this blog post as a talk which you can watch here: A while back, Guillermo Rauch (creator of Socket.io and founder of Zeit.co (thecompany behind a ton of the awesome stuff coming out latel
This is great science: instead of telling Long Covid patients to fuck off, Dr. Pretorius and her colleagues went back to the basics, literally blood under a microscope, and may have cracked the case for long covid AND other post-viral fatigue syndromes https://t.co/18Oal88IwM
The Matrix: Resurrections was one of the worst films I saw in 2021. I wanted to walk out several times, and probably would have had my partner asked to go. It was difficult to sit through. The best th
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