Opinion | Covid’s Deadliest Phase May Be Here Soon
Like all pandemics, this one will end either with millions — maybe billions — being infected or being vaccinated. This time, world leaders have a choice, but little time to…
Hear Jeff Bezos Roar
As FilmCritHulk explained, the media mega-mergers are not only consolidating power in the industry and narrowing what gets produced, they’re also designed to crush the power of industry unions. For…
Poor in Tech
I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because one time everyone else in my department quit or was fired in the space of six months,…
‘FIND THIS FUCK:’ Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism
Internal documents, messages, and roadmaps show how crime app Citizen is pushing the boundary of what a private, app-enabled vigilante force may be capable of.
‘OK Broomer’: Seattle’s bike lane sweeper gets a name
SEATTLE — Seattle’s new protected bike lane sweeper will be named “OK Broomer.” More than 1,500 people voted on twitter polls to name the sweeper. “OK Broomer” received 57.3% of…
“A Clockwork Orange” Made Me Long to Be a Monster, But It Only Saw Me as a Victim
In the epic battle between good and evil for the fate of the soul, I had never been the soul in question; I had always been the stumbling block on…
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Commuting is psychological torture
“People worried about recouping their corporate real estate expenses are gonna use every lie and find every ‘expert’ possible to tell us why we don’t actually enjoy the new model,…
Harassment Isn’t a Social-Media Problem—It’s a Strategy
The internet is not an unflawed arbiter of justice, and it should be okay to admit that without invalidating what it has afforded in terms of a platform for the…
Chronically Ill People Face an Old New Post-Pandemic World
chronically ill and disabled people are hoping that the accommodations they were able to access during COVID don’t disappear. {read}