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Techdirt: I wrote about the companies and organizations most likely to benefit from California's AB 2273, the "Age Appropriate Design Code" bill that the California legislature seems eager to pass (and which they refer to as the "Kid's Code" even though the details show it will impact everyone, and not just kids). The bill seemed to be getting very little attention, but after a few of my ...

The appreciation of Russian genius is all well and good, but appreciation only gets you so far.

Logic suggests that having options allows people to select precisely what makes them happiest. But, as studies show, abundant choice often makes for misery

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When we went to the south of France for a beach holiday vacation a while back, we did the usual tourist program: Visiting Nice, visiting Cannes, and enjoying the riviera’s beaches. Already arri

Google has killed more than 200 projects over the last few decades. They fail all the time. More than once a month they shut down a business that frightened the competition and seduced consumers. T…

For some companies, revenue is a feature.

There are many books about remote work, some of which I’ve even read (e.g. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]). There are also countless blogs and podcasts on the subject, I’ve gone through too many to list. After working remotely for 4 companies over 5 years, interviews with hundreds of others, managing fully remote teams, interviewing hundreds of employees for remote roles, chatting with thousands of remote workers, and voyeuring the activities of many amazing remote teams, I concluded that, to my surprise, I need to write a different take about why, when and how remote work is worth it.

“I stuck my Aranet4 CO2 monitor in my kid’s backpack today (h/t @DavidElfstrom). My kid’s classroom’s CO2 is a rollercoaster ride, rising and falling between 600-900 ppm. The class has 20 kids and 1 adult.”

They may not have grown up with TikTok, but the generation that came of working age in the era of dial-up modems were seen as tuning out of work, too.

Recently, Nike had almost all employees take an entire week off. No negotiating. Balsamiq, a European software firm, mandated 18 days of vacation. No

There are many terms from classic and modern SF that remain unresearched, and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction will be continually updated, especially as additional resources are put on…

For her new book, author Kimberly Kay Hoang researched a complex web of interconnected subsidiaries that are virtually impossible to identify and track.

Cloudflare—and other companies like it—are turning a blind eye to hate and misinformation, critics and researchers say

It would also force businesses to change how they handle data.

Policy will go into effect in 2026, apply to everything that gets federal money.

Debra Steidel Wall, Acting Archivist of the United States: that’s the signature on a May 10, 2022 letter to one of the defeated former pres...

Delightful polymath Fran Blanche restored this 1966 short film about wheels. “This classic 16mm Coronet film takes us into the modern world of go carts, barrel rides, rotary phones, and hand …

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The narrative doesn’t match the numbers.

Researchers found that taxes on sweetened beverages funded programs mainly benefiting lower-income households, including grocery subsidies and pre-K education.