[photo1]Simon HillOnce upon a time, a terrible take on social media might have sucked me into an argument. Nowadays, it simply speeds my curmudgeonly decline. My attempt to break out of the echo chamb...
Four and a half months after the chaotic rollout of paid checkmarks, Elon Musk's Twitter is following through on a plan to remove verification from individual accounts that don't pay $8 per month for ...
Silicon Valley's full of people from all walks of life, but very little of its wealth is distributed evenly, especially when we're talking about the LGBTQ+ community.Currently, it's estimated that les...
How do you begin your work emails? Do you go with a simple "Hey?" Or are you into formal greetings like "Good afternoon?" or "Salutation, right, trusty, and well-beloved friend?" Or are you one of tho...
This week's Out-of-Touch Guide is a look at the widely different ways technology affects youth culture. On one end of the spectrum, constant connectedness to devices is leading to ridiculous trends l...
The last decade or so has seen the creeping techification of the auto industry. Executives will tell you the trend is being driven by consumers, starry-eyed at their smartphones and tablets, although ...
Climate change produces lots of risks that are difficult to predict. While it will make some events--heatwaves, droughts, extreme storms, etc.--more probable, all of those events depend heavily on yea...
[photo1]Bianca NogradyAlaska isn't supposed to be an inferno--but its summers are now so warm that apocalyptic wildfires are almost inevitable. In June 2022, lightning strikes set the drought-stricken...
[photo1]Jason KeheMost years, Brandon Sanderson makes about $10 million. Last year, he made $55 million. This is obviously a lot of money for anyone. For a writer of young-adult-ish, never-ending, spe...
[photo1]Marah EakinA few weeks ago, during an otherwise bleak couple of days in Brooklyn, New York, thousands of podcast fans got a special treat: They got to be a part of My Favorite Murder. No, they...
Ah, the joys of pitching. Your entire masterplan squeezed into a few sentences, a room of powerful strangers with your future in their hands, and mere seconds to impress them. Who doesn't love a quick...
In the latest efforts by Republican lawmakers to enshrine into law Americans' right to freely spread deadly infectious diseases to each other, the Missouri House this week advanced a bill that would b...
Look, I'm not anti-bidet. I have one at home and I appreciate it. But there are some nonsensical bidet related myths going around that need to be flushed away. Chief among them: the idea that if you d...
Khari Johnson[photo1]In June 2021, Dave Zvenyach, director of a group tasked with improving digital access to US government services, sent a Slack message to his team. He'd decided that Login.gov, whi...
At a company that helps people find jobs, 2,200 employees will now have to embark on a job search of their own. Indeed laid off 15% of employees today, CEO Chris Hyams announced in an all-hands meetin...
[photo1]Believe it or not, I was an altar boy for many years (they now call them "altar servers" and girls can do it too -- hey, even the Catholic Church progresses somewhat over time). However, unles...
By now, you've read a lot about generative AI technologies such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, which translate text input into images in seconds. If you're anything like me, you immediately wonde...