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Is Justin Timberlake the pop star anyone wants?

Justin Timberlake’s resurfaced scandals involving Janet Jackson and Britney Spears have soured his image. Can he pull off a comeback with Everything I Thought It Was? #Culture #Music

2024-03-14T04:30:00-0700 Vox Kyndall Cunningham 2,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:45:03-0700

A Social History of Jell-O Salad

Shaped by the rise of home economics, the industrialization of the food system, World War II, and changing expectations about women's labor, the Jell-O salad—the wobbling jewel of domestic achievement—can teach us about U.S. life in the 20th century as few foods can.

2015-08-19T02:00:00-0700 Serious Eats Sarah Grey 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:44:54-0700

The Berkeley Software Distribution

UNIX is always litigious

2024-02-04T18:32:00-0800 Abort Retry Fail Bradford Morgan White 7,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:44:41-0700

lori's blog - Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

d-shoot.net

Rated 2024-05-14T08:40:53-0700

The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment

Jia Tolentino on an experiment in which she tried to hide her pregnancy from her phone and on how we are increasingly trading our privacy for a sense of security. #Parenthood #Pregnancy #Surveillance

2024-05-04T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 2,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:38:39-0700

Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

Plus: animation news.

2024-05-05T20:58:35-0700 Animation Obsessive Animation Obsessive Staff 4,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:36:20-0700

Plea deal for driver accused of DUI crash that killed cyclist is unjust

The proposed one-year sentence for a driver accused of killing SF cyclist Ethan Boyes in a DUI crash is a shocking injustice, writes Gabriella Wong. #Vision zero

2024-03-15T11:36:48-0700 SFGATE Gabriella Wong 1,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:33:29-0700

Scientists Like Me Knew There Was Something Amiss With Andrew Huberman’s Wildly Popular Podcast

He recommends supplements. He’s iffy on the flu shot. And more. #Health Care #Science

2024-03-27T12:53:32-0700 Slate Andrea Love 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:29:22-0700

The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound - Audio Academy Audio Legends

While modern improvements in technologies have the benefit of being far more powerful and lightweight, the Wall of Sound remains unparalleled.

2019-02-01T16:11:19-0800 Audio Academy 1,000 words

Rated 2024-05-07T20:41:55-0700

Opinion | What Medical Stories Do We Trust?

How vaccine injuries and long Covid test our partisan beliefs.

2024-05-04T04:00:16-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-05-05T19:21:07-0700

Opinion | The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know

Three terms in, she’s exiting her political adolescence and coming into her own as a veteran operator. #Congress #Joe Biden #US Politics

2024-05-04T04:00:07-0700 The New York Times Gaby Del Valle ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-05T19:17:49-0700

How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

danluu.com 20,000 words

Rated 2024-04-24T13:03:34-0700

Opinion | Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?

Revisiting Michael Crichton’s prophecy of cultural stagnation. #1990s #Artificial Intelligence #China

2024-04-19T10:25:07-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-04-23T00:00:11-0700

Opinion | The ‘Blood Bath’ Battle and the Electric Car War

Does President Biden expect to win on a Jan. 6 strategy alone? #Donald Trump #Joe Biden #US Politics

2024-03-23T04:00:22-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-04-22T23:55:55-0700

Responses to Tyler Cowen on Rationality

In his recent podcast with Ezra Klein (recommended), Ezra asked Tyler his views on many things. One of them was the rationality community, and he put that response on Marginal Revolution as its own post. Here is the back and forth: Ezra Klein The rationality community. Tyler Cowen Well, tell me a little more what…

2017-04-04T16:40:02-0700 Don't Worry About the Vase 4,000 words

Rated 2024-04-22T23:51:53-0700

Thoughts on seed oil

Don't get distracted.

2024-04-18T09:01:11-0700 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 5,000 words

Rated 2024-04-18T14:45:50-0700

Dragon In My Garage • Skeptical Science

skeptical-science.com

Rated 2024-04-18T14:32:59-0700

(1) Patrick McKenzie on X: "It occurs to me that I have explicitly explained to my children that teachers respond well to guessing their password and that a rule of the game is you aren’t supposed to explicitly say that is what you are doing. “Remember this is just game, not all games have the same rules.”" / X

X (formerly Twitter) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-04-17T23:27:23-0700

This Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on Woke Kindergarten program. Test scores fell even further

This Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on Woke Kindergarten. Test scores fell even further #LGBTQ+ #Maryland #San Francisco

2024-02-03T04:00:00-0800 San Francisco Chronicle Jill Tucker 1,000 words

Rated 2024-04-17T23:08:49-0700

(1) Prof. Ian Walker on X: "And this is where we saw the big win-win: there's a clear negative relationship between water pressure and consumption. More powerful showers used less water overall. A LOVELY TINGLY SHOWER MIGHT BE *BETTER* FOR THE ENVIRONMENT THAN A WEAK DRIBBLE. I know, right? https://t.co/dVCWHgb7JO" / X

X (formerly Twitter) 500 words

Rated 2024-04-17T19:31:22-0700

12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9

The Map Happenings series on the hugely impactful events that forever changed our world. This week: the story of a little known company called 'Etak'. I think you'll find it a fascinating read...

2024-04-11T08:00:00-0700 Map Happenings 4,000 words

Rated 2024-04-16T21:02:02-0700

This is a teenager

pudding.cool

Rated 2024-04-16T21:01:53-0700

The Ex-N.Y.P.D. Offcial Trying to Tame New York’s Trash

The city has lived in filth for decades. Can the commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, a scion of one of the country’s richest families, finally clean up the streets? Eric Lach reports.

2024-04-08T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Eric Lach 6,000 words

Rated 2024-04-14T09:00:12-0700

Stop being mean to slutty women

It codes as low status and doesn't accomplish anything

2024-03-23T06:39:58-0700 The Walt Right Walt Bismarck 6,000 words

Rated 2024-04-08T18:44:12-0700

How the Alt Right won

a Retrospective from Walt Bismarck

2024-01-26T16:54:31-0800 The Walt Right Walt Bismarck 15,000 words

Rated 2024-04-08T17:59:30-0700

The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It

The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis: most of the US went to year-round daylight saving time beginning on January 6. "It was jet black" outside when

2022-03-15T12:20:40-0700 Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com/author/abeaujon/#author ... 1,000 words

Rated 2024-04-08T13:15:24-0700

What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?

Sam Knight on the Tory U.K. Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak, and issues including Brexit, the N.H.S., inflation, housing, and the economy.

2024-03-25T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Sam Knight 8,000 words

Rated 2024-04-06T07:06:14-0700

Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate

I watched 15 hours of COVID origins arguments so you don't have to - but you should!

2024-03-28T04:24:57-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 105,000 words

Rated 2024-03-30T20:49:37-0700

The asbestos times

Asbestos was a miracle material, virtually impervious to fire. But as we fixed city fires in other ways, we came to learn about its horrific downsides.

2023-11-15T07:18:37-0800 Works in Progress 3,000 words

Rated 2024-03-21T08:01:24-0700

How Israel turned homeowners into YIMBYs

Homeowners are often the biggest opponents of building new homes. An Israeli reform reversed this by making homeowners the main beneficiaries of development.

2024-02-16T05:30:44-0800 Works in Progress 6,000 words

Rated 2024-03-20T07:50:46-0700

Using axis lines for good or evil

add them only if they mean something

2024-02-29T09:00:41-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 1,000 words

Rated 2024-03-19T23:20:50-0700

Less Utilitarian Than Thou

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2024-02-27T21:03:18-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 65,000 words

Rated 2024-03-19T23:08:24-0700

Vaclav Smil and the Value of Doubt

David Owen interviews the author and scientist Vaclav Smil, whose books on environmental issues include “Size: How It Explains the World” and “How the World Really Works.” #Climate Change #Environmentalism #Renewable energy #Science

2024-02-20T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker David Owen 4,000 words

Rated 2024-03-19T22:44:49-0700

TinyLetter had a big moment

On February 29th, 2024, Mailchimp shuttered TinyLetter, a simple email service that attracted a number of personal and experimental writers in the mid-‘10s.

2024-02-29T06:00:00-0800 The Verge Kevin Nguyen 3,000 words

Rated 2024-03-19T22:27:14-0700

Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings—Asterisk

America’s HVAC labor force is plagued by dishonesty and frequently incapable of meeting industry standards. Interventions in indoor air quality are the next frontier in pandemic prevention — but are they up to the task?

asteriskmag.com 3,000 words

Rated 2024-03-19T07:13:01-0700

Driving at ridiculous speeds should be physically impossible

Intelligent Speed Assistance, a type of speed-limiting tech, is being tested in New York, DC, and Europe. But will it take off?

2024-03-01T04:00:00-0800 Vox David Zipper 1,000 words

Rated 2024-03-18T23:20:59-0700

Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation

danluu.com

Rated 2024-03-18T22:49:24-0700

40 years of programming

liw.fi

Rated 2024-03-12T16:12:19-0700

“Rabbit Test” unwins the Hugo

I cannot convey the supreme depths to which I'd rather be doing anything else with my Saturday afternoon other than writing this blog post, but here we are. If you have been blessedly insulated from the current furor over the 2023 Hugo Awards -- good for you! (I'm going to have to explain this post…

2024-02-17T17:08:27-0800 SAMANTHA MILLS 2,000 words

Rated 2024-02-18T21:22:35-0800

Berkeley's Upzoning Would Be Among Nation's Largest

A proposal to end exclusionary zoning would allow for 100,000 more homes in Berkeley's neighborhoods.

2024-02-17T07:02:03-0800 The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words

Rated 2024-02-17T21:20:37-0800

Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.

jacobian.org 2,000 words

Rated 2024-02-16T20:44:56-0800

Taste games

or why I avoid midrange beer

2024-02-15T09:01:14-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 3,000 words

Rated 2024-02-15T20:46:06-0800

Activists vow to keep installing guerrilla benches at East Bay bus stops

Berkeley has replaced one DIY bench with a city-approved one. A pair of activists have added at least four more wood benches in the East Bay. #Transportation

2024-01-12T16:30:00-0800 Berkeleyside Iris Kwok 2,000 words

Rated 2024-02-11T21:22:54-0800

Jacques on X: "Sharing a long, but insightful comment @Gwern made in response to the question: "EA had a pretty weak hand throughout and played it as well as can be reasonably expected"? Gwern: It was a pretty weak hand. There is this pervasive attitude that Sam Altman could have been…" / X

X (formerly Twitter) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-02-11T13:27:12-0800

The rise of the American oligarchy

What targeting Russia’s wayward billionaires revealed about our own.

2024-01-22T11:26:54-0800 Mother Jones Tim Murphy 7,000 words

Rated 2024-02-10T12:02:16-0800

40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl Forever

An oral history of Apple’s groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as TV’s biggest commercial showcase. #Apple #TV

2024-02-09T08:53:45-0800 The New York Times Saul Austerlitz ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-02-09T18:39:04-0800

How to hire low experience, high potential people

Finding diamonds in the rough

2024-01-26T20:51:43-0800 Working Assumptions Tara Seshan 2,000 words

Rated 2024-02-07T19:06:32-0800

Why You Should Be a Luddite

Tech columnist Brian Merchant takes us back to the 19th century to see who the Luddites really were and what they fought for. Luddism, he says, is about “questioning who machinery serves.”

Current Affairs 6,000 words

Rated 2024-01-31T21:27:05-0800

Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand

Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?

2024-02-01T06:00:00-0800 Scientific American David A. Taylor 4,000 words

Rated 2024-01-30T22:35:20-0800

At Penn, Tensions May Only Be Growing After Magill’s Resignation

Professors at the University of Pennsylvania have begun to organize, fearing what they view as a plan by the billionaire Marc Rowan to upend academic freedom. #College

2024-01-29T09:20:18-0800 The New York Times Stephanie Saul ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-01-29T19:12:22-0800