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Are seemingly increasing operational failures a sign of a bigger pathology?

It’s been almost five years since I deleted my Twitter account. I didn’t just delete the app or deactivate – I deleted my whole account and my entire tweet history, lighting a match and…

The asking price is true, but it’s also an illusion. If you are offered a job and negotiate a raise of 10% over what was originally offered, that’s good, but it has nothing at all to do…

Districts should rethink imposing on millions of children an intervention that provides little discernible benefit.

Future answers are preserved no matter what the NYT does.

If you want environmental justice, you need voting rights first. The same people who need voting rights protected also need climate justice.

Last week, I reported ID.me’s claim that they were not doing 1:many facial recognition. Turns out that’s not true… Whether you are a fan of or hate the idea of a national ID, ID.me is on the path to become one. I don’t think having a private third party run the national ID system is a good idea.

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Optimism describes a social behavior whereby individuals or groups tend to favor evaluating a subject's positive sides rather than seeking to balance their view by also considering negatives. We

I’ve just spent the past hour writing a blog post about why on earth certain websites have autoplaying videos that must cost them a fortune in bandwidth. And then it dawned on me. Video ads! …

I didn’t know how my workout had gone, or how I’d slept last night, until I opened the app.

I grapple with philosopher Byung-Chul Han’s view that we are living in a "Burnout Society" where excessive positivity causes widespread depression and psychic ailments

I’ve worked from home since 1998. All along I’ve hoped many more people would enjoy the privilege and share in the benefits. Now that it’s finally happening, and seems likely to c…

Our wealth, health and happiness problems are not individual personal troubles that can be resolved by exhorting people to think or act differently.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sets forth what Russia might do next with respect to Ukraine.

Twitter thread here.

The transistor radio/car radio was the internet of its time.  Content was free, and there were multiple radio stations, though not nearly as many as we have internet sites. People tuned into the radio, in part, for ideas, not just tunes.  But the ideas that spread best were attached to songs.  Drug use spread, in […]

Here’s how consumers, designers, and companies can create a better Internet.

From Neolithic constructions to atomic clocks, how humans measure time reveals what we value most

It's hard to fix electronic gizmos, and the tech industry is fighting to keep it that way in Washington.

A new system was installed in 2005, which was then hacked in 2018, and fixing that exploit apparently requires replacing the entire communications infrastructure. SFDEM has been downplaying this and referring to this security firedrill as simply "upgrades". tl;dr version -- I keep seeing articles asking what happened to the sirens, and then answering themselves that they "are antiquated" and ...