Have had some success just by reloading the page when I get this message

Steve Jobs is already in hell though, he ain’t getting your money either way

That Wikipedia was unreliable

Talk about hidden figures…

Smuggling

Viva Colombia

This is an empirical question that people are baselessly speculating about from the armchair, when we’ve know the answer for years. Even the neoliberals over at The Economist think it’s a good idea.

That’s mistaking a structural problem for a personal one. Zeynep Tufekci has a great argument about why that wouldn’t work:

It’s reasonable, for example, for a corporation to ponder who would be the best CEO or COO, but it’s not reasonable for us to expect that we could take any one of those actors and replace them with another person and get dramatically different results without changing the structures, incentives and forces that shape how they and their companies act in this world.

Journalistic malpractice to repeat their “accidentally” claim without attribution or quotes

Ban surveillance advertising and help speed the demise of the site, or mandate interop and make it easy for those still on it to take their followers with them, but holy fuck bro—calling for a government to ban a communications platform for an entire continent?

You mean Brewster Kahle? Maybe a little?

Did you just invent donating to ProPublica?

Selver lives

In fact anonymous review is an important part of the scientific method, precisely because work shouldn’t be judged by its source

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Eduardo Ballerini reading Jess Walter’s The Cold Millions

Bostrom…possessed one of those elusive, rather abstract personalities that perhaps lend credence to the simulation theory.

What a sick, understated burn