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One of the major turning points in my life was reading my dad’s copy of Robert Cialdini’s Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion as a teenager.

Believe it or not, it’s been over three years since Twitter announced it was being sold to Elon Musk. When

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Yet another journalism article about how AI is not really intelligent and all the tech industry hype must stop now or else we'll write another strongly worded article about how they are not really intelligent just like the 800,000 previous articles about how AI is not really intelligent.

Marijuana prohibition is a Texas tradition. Unless Governor Greg Abbott vetoes Senate Bill 3, the state’s new ban on THC, the state is about to suddenly and drastically renew its commitment to that tradition—at a potential cost of thousands of jobs, billions of dollars in lost taxable revenue, and countless lives broken in the prison […]

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You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.” - - - I stopped writing wh...

A new website and API called AI.gov is set to launch on the Fourth of July.

A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

"Well, definitely, the third period is an unraveling," Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said, and he was underselling it in a nice little piece of dry coachspeak. Edmonton seized the opportunity of getting blown out to take out all their collected frustrations toward the Panthers...

A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from the Manning book, “Fluent Bit with Kubernetes:” Chapter 1,  An Introduction to

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Just a high five to McSweeney’s for the month-by-month documentation of the horrible crap Trump does. Just a paragraph reminder with good links to confirm. I try to keep my own little mental list of things that horrify me. Not to slather myself in, as I don’t have the mental health spoons to live like […]

Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted with permission from Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life (Beacon Press; June 10, 2025). My dad drummed for presidents once. He drummed for admirals and ambassadors, movie stars and ministers. He drummed in halftime showcases of the NFL and […]

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Which are the best noise-canceling headphones you can buy in 2025?

Apple's new additions this year include a wrist flick gesture to dismiss a call and a personalized Workout Buddy to tell you when you "crushed it."

Sometimes you feel like a fist. Other times, you feel like the ashtray after a party no one invited you to. Both are fine. Just don’t throw the fist or eat the ashtray. - - - You can cry. It doesn’t make you weak. It just means you are hydrated. - - - Anger is a hot beast. P...

Neither the US federal government nor the City of Austin will say how teleoperations, self-driving’s critical safety feature, will be used in the service launching in Austin in just a matter of days.

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.

Outro, which is now available in seven states, wants to help people taper off antidepressants without experiencing debilitating side effects.

For a while now, IBM has said that it planned to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029. What wasn’t

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In the trade war between the United States and China, the biggest sticking point is a handful of metals that are essential to the U.S. and almost entirely under the control of China. The problem is, China has now cut off America’s access to those metals, threatening American...