From The Guardian this Monday, November 4 : Fresh evidence has also emerged of attempts by the Kremlin to infiltrate the Conservatives by a senior Russian diplomat suspected of espionage, who spent five years in London cultivating leading Tories including Johnson himself… The committee’s report is…

Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images This is not just an impeachment. It’s the end-game for Trump’s relentless assault on the institutions, norms and practices of America’s liberal democracy for the past three years. It’s also a deeper reckoning. It’s about whether the legitimacy of our entire…

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Jessica Alter Contributor Jessica Alter is co-founder and chairman of , an organization building the lasting tech and digital arm for Democrats and has helped over 200 campaigns on this front since 2017. Jack Dorsey’s announcement that Twitter will no longer run political ads because “political…

A new craze is gaining traction among tech workers, and it entails doing absolutely nothing. As humans become increasingly subjected to endless choices, whether they be for food, romantic partners, or content, some people believe we run the risk of becoming overstimulated - which, in turn, could…

“So what does a game designer do? Are you an artist? Do you design characters and write the story? Or no, wait, you’re a programmer?” Game design is one of those nebulous terms to people outside the game industry that’s about as clear as the “astrophysicist” job title is to me. It’s also my job, so…

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Our portfolio company Cloudflare posted yesterday about the two and a half year war it waged against a patent troll called Blackbird . This was the battle plan that Cloudflare came up with: After we were sued by Blackbird, we decided that we wouldn’t roll over. We decided we would do our best to…

Peter Thiel , a member of the Forbes 400 list with a net worth estimated at $2.2 billion in 2014, is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, Mr. Thiel has been involved with some of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley during the past two…

The Optimistic Thought Experiment by Peter A. Thiel Tuesday, January 29, 2008 And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood…

"I am the Lord your God.” — 1st Commandment Human culture began with a murder. That culture was fueled by rage and rivalry, which led to violence. Managing that violence is the secret reason for all religious and political institutions. In The Bible , The Cain and Abel story is the first act of life…

☝️Above: Michelle Rial ( follow her at @TheRialMichelle ), then working at Buzzfeed, posted this hilarious infographic with all the “X for Y” ideas. Here’s the original article . I had a quick laugh, of course. But then seeing this infographic made me think through some deeper things: What are “X…

Arinze Stanley “W e have to decide,” Daniel Miller told me, speaking Texan to Texan: “What is right for our people? Do Texans, at a fundamental level, want the right to be governed by themselves?” If Catalonians, Kurds, and Scotsmen deserve their own land, he said, Texans do too. We were drinking…

“Hunter Biden and his Ukrainian gas firm colleagues had multiple contacts with the Obama State Department during the 2016 election cycle, including one just a month before Vice President Joe Biden forced Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating his son’s company for corruption, newly released…

On 20 August 2015, Google quietly shut down Google Flu Trends (GFT), its flagship algorithmic syndromic surveillance system, which was designed for the ‘real-time’ tracking of outbreaks of influenza. Over the preceding year or so, GFT had become the object of mounting criticism: on a number of…

California, the land of golden dreams, has become America’s worst housing nightmare. Recent wildfires have only heightened the stakes for a state that can’t seem to build enough new homes. The median price for a house now tops $600,000 , more than twice the national level. The state has four of the…

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I Am “Not Allowed” to Get up at 5am. There’s a popular practice of getting up at 5am, well described by Benjamin P. Hardy .

The self-driving Uber car that hit and killed a woman walking her bike across a street wasn’t designed to detect “jaywalking pedestrians.” That's according to an official dossier published by the US National Safety Transportation Board (NTSB) on Tuesday. The March 2018 accident was the first…

A man uses a garden hose to try to save his home from wildfire in Granada Hills, California, on 11 October 2019.Photograph: Michael Owen Baker/AP The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark…

Issue Section: Viewpoint Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world,…

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(Bloomberg) -- Forty years ago, scientists from 50 nations converged on Geneva to discuss what was then called the “CO2-climate problem.” At the time, with reliance on fossil fuels having helped trigger the 1979 oil crisis, they predicted global warming would eventually become a major environmental…

Launched in 2017, Superhuman is quickly becoming one of Silicon Valley's darling startups. They did this not with advertising or content marketing (in fact, Superhuman goes against most traditional startup "best practices"). Instead, they converted their product's onboarding process into a sales and…

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‘People who visit the coast at least twice weekly tend to experience better general and mental health,’ says Dr Lewis Elliott.Composite: Getty Images A fter her mother’s sudden death, Catherine Kelly felt the call of the sea. She was in her 20s and had been working as a geographer in London away…

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One of the most interesting trends I’ve seen over the past few years is the rise of paid newsletters. Not nearly a week goes by that I don’t run across a new paid newsletter that people seem to be excited about and are keen to join. And for good reason. It’s one of the most attractive models I’ve…

I t was the headlines that most upset Amy Orben. In 2017, when she was a graduate student in experimental psychology at the University of Oxford researching how social media influences communication, alarming articles began to appear. Giving a child a smartphone was like giving a kid cocaine,…

Continue reading the main story Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Facebook isn’t defending free speech, it’s assaulting truth. Mr. Sorkin is a playwright and screenwriter. Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network.” Credit... Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures, via…

Like millions of other Americans, I’m exhausted. But I’m not tired from #Resisting or tired from screaming at a MAGA rally. I’m tired of the toxic tribalism infecting the very foundations of our democracy, straining our relationships, and poisoning our view of our fellow humans. I’m tired of…

Top highlight An unconventional and compassionate guide to becoming an early bird Bryan Ye Oct 3 · 15 min read Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash I’m no stranger to reading about the benefits of waking up early or having the same sleeping routine — all of us have probably read this at some point…