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The Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court

Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to

Florida Passes Bill to Protect Billionaires if Their Exploding Rockets Kill People

Animals Are Dying in Droves. What Are They Telling Us?

80 Percent of Shell Shareholders Vote to Let the World Burn

Make Parking Impossible

Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest

Silicon Valley’s Titans Are Realizing a Lot of People Don’t Like Them

A New Texas Bill Seeks to Ban Abortion Pill Websites Statewide

Artificial Intelligence Is Dumb - Programs such as ChatGPT have been greeted with an unholy amount of hyperbole, but they just can’t live up to the hype.

The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley’s Prophet of Urban Doom

The Climate Apocalypse Will Be Google Mapped - Google Maps’s air quality indicators and wildfire warnings suggest one approach to a warming world

Blame Palo Alto

YouTube Contractors Lead First Strike in Google History

The Vast Humanity of Anton Chekhov

There's Bipartisan Agreement on One Thing: Ticketmaster Sucks

The Gamification of Everything Is No Fun Adrian Hon’s book “You’ve Been Played” warns against the abuses of game logic in work and politics.

The elite, underpaid, and weird world of crossword writers

Big Tech’s Big Shield Goes to the High Court - The Supreme Court is going to get a crack at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—and the internet may never be the same.

Can the American Mall Survive?

Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions

The Last Days of Sigmund Freud

Buckminster Fuller’s greatest invention was his own image

Growing Up with Frank O’Hara

Gab’s Andrew Torba Wants to Build a White, Christian, Extremist Internet

Washington Plays Itself

Republicans Say “Woke” Wall Street Is Boycotting Fossil Fuels. The Numbers Prove Otherwise.

H.G. Wells, the Rational Escapist

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