Why are we here? On the philosophical possibilities of “cosmic purpose”. ~humanities philosophy Article 6754 words, published Jan 19 2024 2 votes
What a century (plus a pandemic) does to moviegoing and why it matters ~movies Article 8570 words 3 votes
Dear Mr. Borges, which translation should I read? ~books Article 4717 words, published Jan 6 2019 13 votes
The world’s most annoying man: Steven Pinker ~humanities Article 7762 words, published May 29 2019 26 votes
Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy ~tech Article 8513 words 17 votes
The opaque industry secretly inflating prices for prescription drugs (gifted link) ~health healthcare Article 4092 words 18 votes
Reuters investigation: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic ~health medicine Article 4207 words 110 votes
Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II) ~humanities.history Article 5364 words 8 votes
The time I built an ROV to solve missing person cases ~engineering Article 285 words, published Jun 6 2024 22 votes
Twiddler: Configurability for me, but not for thee. (From the coiner of "enshittification") ~tech social media Article 3254 words, published Feb 19 2023 23 votes
Wired's inside investigation into the Titan submersible disaster ~transport Article 6172 words 35 votes
The great deterioration of local community was a major driver of the loss of the play-based childhood ~life parenting Article 3438 words 26 votes
A Texas corporate lawyer got mad about illegal evictions—and did something about it ~life housing Article 10 835 words 33 votes
Asylum seekers from Mauritania are settling in Cincinnati as immigration to the United States has soared ~life Article 3118 words 13 votes
Wirecard and me: Dan McCrum on exposing a criminal enterprise ~finance Article 4814 words, published Sep 3 2020 17 votes
We live in a system of capitalist oligarchy ~finance economics Article 5504 words, published Apr 26 2024 35 votes
Divine Hiddenness argument against God’s existence ~humanities philosophy religion Article 8377 words 23 votes
How we used esbuild to reduce our browser extension build times by 90% ~comp web development Article 3157 words 12 votes
Significant cyber incidents | Strategic technologies program ~comp security.cyber Article 8881 words 1 vote