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Online jerks and offline jerks are largely one and the same. Here’s how to keep them from affecting your happiness.

"This wasn't something people were bragging about or trying to flex. This was actual instructions."

OSAKA -- A 21-year-old woman working at an izakaya pub near the Umeda district of Osaka spent some of her teenage years at a juvenile reformatory. Rec

“I was asked for the reason that putin/russia is so hell-bent on conquering Mariupol. Let me explain. Thread: Originally putin assumed the invasion would be a cakewalk, allowing for a quick annexation of Donetsk and Luhansk (dark red). Other regions (light red) would then 1/8”

It’s clear that BA.2 is finishing what BA.1 started. Because of this, the shape of the overall Omicron wave (which includes all the sublineages— BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2, BA.3) is varying across the globe. We saw a similar phenomenon last spring with Alpha. In general, there are four Omicron wave shapes:

With a brand-new Harry Potter game on the way, now is the time to unpack and try to understand the impact of franchise creator JK Rowling's discriminatory behaviour.

It includes one of the largest infusions of U.S. foreign aid in the last decade.

You never know how people are going to process your art.

In 1890 William Morris imagined a world free from wage slavery. Thanks to technology, his vision is finally within reach

"The Third Empire" is an ethno-nationalist nightmare and the Kremlin loves it

The NRA says the hack brought its network down for two weeks.

Since the bombs started to drop, Kyiv School of Economics President Tymofiy Mylovanov has been working on the nightmare logistics of humanitarian aid in a war zone.

Russia's internet regulator has called Facebook an extremist organization, while the BBC and Deutsche Welle sites are blocked.

The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence.

Maintenance isn’t an exciting word. It’s practically synonymous with “chores,” something most people would rather avoid. But many of the tas

I wake up, head down to the kitchen, and pour myself a large bowl of AmazonBasics-brand Zorn Flakes. They’re not legally allowed to call them corn ...

These days, it is easy to go to art stores and buy a variety of paint colors and without needing to understand they come from. But according to The Harvard Art Museums, some of the world’s rarest colors come from exotic sources, like beetles that live on cactuses or dry urine from cows that only

Also energy financing, Russia’s interest payment, Robinhood stock lending and insider YOLOing.

A new breed of blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Communities could be how we save the world.

Our challenge is that our economic systems are revving society and the planet into out-of-control spirals. The scale required to change that spiraling is unlike anything we’ve faced. It was never g…

Photo by freestocks on Unsplash Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite writers, penned an excellent rumination on the perils of information overload in his must-read book, The Shallows. The stress that …

Though the Russian army dwarfs the strength of the Ukrainian army, the underdog has managed to resist during the early days of the Russian invasion. Military reforms are part of the reason.