The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud ~tech Article 3976 words 13 votes
Gov. Jim Justice is West Virginia’s richest man and owns its most storied resort. When lobbyists and state agencies book there, he profits. ~misc politics Article 5791 words 9 votes
Interoperability and privacy: Squaring the circle ~tech privacy Article 3156 words, published Aug 13 2019 6 votes
How Instagram uses static analysis like linting and automated refactoring to help manage their multi-million-line Python codebase ~comp Link 10 votes
Keanu Reeves is having a really great year — and personifying what celebrity means in 2019 ~movies Article 3766 words 5 votes
A tiny Alaskan island faces a threat as deadly as an oil spill - rats ~enviro Article 4569 words 9 votes
The young man and the sea sponge: How a marine biology teacher gave life to Spongebob Squarepants, who turns twenty this year ~tv Article 3240 words 4 votes
A cozy alliance between insurance companies and law enforcement has turned the justice system into the industry’s hired gun and left innocent customers facing prison ~life Article 5864 words 8 votes
The entropic brain: A theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs ~science Article 14 770 words 10 votes
The story of Sealand, a “micronation” on an eerie metal platform, tells us plenty about libertarianism, national sovereignty, and the lawlessness of the ocean ~life Article 5739 words 9 votes
People often complain that English is deteriorating under the influence of new technology, adolescent fads and loose grammar. Why does this nonsensical belief persist? ~humanities.languages Article 3895 words 11 votes
The anthropocene is a joke: On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch ~science Article 3728 words 15 votes
This land was our land: The Mississippi Delta's history of Black land theft ~humanities.history Article 7676 words 7 votes
Henry Flynt: The meaning of my avant-garde hillbilly and blues music ~music blues rock experimental Article 5910 words 6 votes
Director's Cut Part 1 - Destiny 2's game director on where the game has been over the last few months and where it's heading next ~games Article 4024 words 3 votes
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks to Jesmyn Ward about writing fiction, reparations, and the legacy of slavery ~books fiction Article 5464 words 4 votes
Arming the cartels: The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring ~life Article published Aug 7 2019 6 votes
The tragic story of Jimmy Aldaoud, deported from the streets of Detroit to his death in Iraq ~news iraq usa.mi.detroit Article 3542 words, published Aug 9 2019 7 votes
How big pharma was captured by the one percent ~health healthcare medicine Article 3231 words, published Jun 28 2018 4 votes
Losing my religion at Christian camp: The way a decade at Christian summer camp both shaped and condemned views of faith and girlhood ~humanities religion Article 6490 words 16 votes
Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy: A lifelong teacher, she’s the most professorial presidential candidate ever. But does America want to be taught? ~news usa politics Article 7123 words, published Aug 6 2019 13 votes
Ferguson, five years later: The killing of Michael Brown sparked protests against police brutality, but the city faces new, insidious problems ~life Article 5785 words 6 votes
The Great Escape - The origin, business, and attraction of escape rooms ~games Article 5270 words 7 votes
How San Francisco’s wealthiest families launched Kamala Harris ~misc politics Article 3652 words 8 votes
Is it possible to stop a mass shooting before it happens?: Somewhere in America, an investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country ~life.men Article 3997 words 16 votes
Forty-eight male patients say a USC doctor sexually abused them — and the university was warned ~health healthcare Article 5407 words 9 votes
Meet Thomas Cullen, the Trump-appointed US Attorney who's putting white supremacists in jail using an anti-riot statute passed in the 1960s to rein in leftist Vietnam War protesters ~news usa.va law Article 3209 words 10 votes
Nicolas Cage on his legacy, his philosophy of acting and his metaphorical — and literal — search for the Holy Grail ~movies Article 4469 words 5 votes
Concrete Utopia: An art exhibition on Yugoslavia documents an extraordinary architectural legacy that has been neglected by mainstream historians ~design architecture Article 3232 words, published Nov 6 2018 7 votes
The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough. ~humanities religion Article 4552 words 9 votes
Drink up, stoners: Big Alcohol's pursuit to make weed beverages ~food drinks Article 5567 words, published Jul 30 2019 8 votes
The absurdities of 'franchise fatigue' and 'sequelitis' (or, what is happening to the box office?!) ~movies Article 3534 words 6 votes
Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens and is under investigation by multiple international tax authorities ~games Article 3006 words 22 votes