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| Feb 7, 2026 | Gen Z is nostalgic for 2016 amid economic unease. Mall brands like Abercrombie & Fitch may see a revival | Gen Z is romanticizing 2016, a period many associate with a stronger economy and lighter cultural mood.
Experts say nostalgia is functioning as a form of risk aversion, as consumers gravitate toward brands that feel familiar amid economic u... |
| Nov 24, 2025 | CNN’s Latest Innovation: Slathering Your Screen With T-Mobile Ads | CNN, like most U.S. cable news networks, professes to provide users access to journalism.
Instead, what you’ll most consistently find is a sort of generic, ad-slathered, center-right, corporatist drivel with the rough edges (read: truth) sa... |
| Oct 3, 2024 | The Paywall Paradox: CNN's Struggle for Relevance in a Digital Age | CNN stands at a crossroads. The once-mighty news titan is now grappling with an identity crisis. As the digital landscape shifts beneath its feet, CNN's response has been to erect paywalls. But will this strategy save it from the abyss of i... |
| Oct 2, 2024 | CNN Seems To Think Annoying Paywalls Will Save It From Irrelevance | CNN, like most cable news networks, professes to provide users access to journalism. Instead, what you’ll most consistently find is a sort of generic drivel with the rough edges (read: truth) sanded off. On any given day you’ll find a rotat... |
| Jun 21, 2024 | A Sinclair Exec Bought The Baltimore Sun And Is Turning It Into A Right Wing Propaganda Mill | Back in 2018 (pre-brunchlord owned) Deadspin posted the definitive video on Sinclair Broadcasting, highlighting in less than two and a half minutes how the local broadcaster is a right wing propaganda mill pretending to be a local news orga... |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Former Politico Owner Launches New Journalism Finishing School To Try And Fix All The ‘Wokeness’ | I’ve noted more than a few times that the primary problem with U.S. journalism is the fact that most major media outlets are owned by out of touch billionaire brunchlords who genuinely don’t understand the modern media environment, can’t se... |
| May 31, 2024 | Vivek Ramaswamy Buys Pointless Buzzfeed Stake So He Can Pretend He’s ‘Fixing Journalism’ | We’ve noted repeatedly how the primary problem with U.S. media and journalism often isn’t the actual journalists, or even the sloppy automation being used to cut corners; it’s the terrible, trust fund brunchlords that fail upwards into posi... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Rich Americans who want a backup plan are getting second passports. These are the countries they're choosing. | Travel Rich Americans who want a backup plan are getting second passports. These are the countries they're choosing.
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| Jul 7, 2023 | Время «рок-звёзд»: когда разработка ПО основывалась на талантах и креативности | Впервые за 5 лет в отпуске на Гватемале. Заканчиваю эту статью
В качестве саундтрека для этого поста я выбрал песню Torn Натали Имбрульи.
Какие статьи у нас выходили после «Куда подевались все хакеры?» Самое масштабное из того, что помню – ... |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Jesse Watters' rise at Fox, from Bill O'Reilly's ambush man to Tucker Carlson wannabe | Redeem now
Jesse Watters seemed to be enjoying himself.
Dressed to impress in a black tux, the Fox News host puffed on a cigarette as he chatted with a small circle of Fox News colleagues. Following the 2016 White House Correspondents' Dinn... |
| May 28, 2023 | Почему поиск по фото у Google и Apple не способен найти обезьян | В мае 2015 года Google выпустила отдельное приложение «Фотографии». Люди были поражены тем, что оно способно анализировать изображения, разбирать их на детали, а потом маркировать людей, места и вещи. Даже переводить текст!
Была только одна... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Does Removing Tragic Content Diminish The Public’s Desire To Stop Tragedies? | We’ve written a couple times about Andy Parker, whose story is truly tragic. His daughter, a local TV news reporter, was murdered on air by a former colleague, in the middle of a live news broadcast. Truly horrific stuff. Parker has now spe... |
| Apr 27, 2022 | Edward Snowden Played Key Role in Zcash Privacy Coin’s Creation | Edward Snowden, the former U.S. defense contractor whose leaks ignited a worldwide debate about internet surveillance, played a secret role in the creation of the privacy-enhancing cryptocurrency zcash (ZEC).
The whistleblower, who was gran... |
| Mar 21, 2022 | The ‘Culture Of Free Speech’ Includes Criticism Of Others’ Speech; Get Over It | Over the last few years we’ve seen this ongoing bizarre infatuation with “cancel culture” despite little evidence to suggest that it’s a serious issue. As we wrote nearly two years ago, in response to Harper’s trying to sound some sort of v... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | As War Rages On In Ukraine, Don’t Forget The Real Victims: Disney’s Profits | Like many of you, I’m sure, I’ve spent the past week following the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and feeling mostly helpless about such tragic events. On the other hand, Disney wants you to remember the real tragedy happening here: h... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Cash-strapped antibiotics player Entasis could go private with a small-dollar buyout offer on the table | It looks like antibiotics player Entasis may be getting off Nasdaq the same way it arrived — with a whimper.
Entasis revealed in an SEC filing that Innoviva, the holding company that already owns a good chunk of its shares, is offering to a... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | With new buyout, J&J jumps back in on a storied but troubled Holy Grail target | Over a decade ago, some pharma executives fell in love with a molecule called rapamycin and its genetic target, called mTOR. (Literally: “molecular target of rapamycin.”)
It was easy to see why. Originally identified in 1972 by an Indian-Ca... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | 4SC pulls plug on domatinostat; Pharming says leniolisib meets both endpoints | The management board of 4SC has discontinued its domatinostat program after the most recent clinical data has been released, the company announced Tuesday.
The orally administered small molecule class I selective inhibitor was being develop... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | With new buyout, J&J jumps back in on a storied but troubled Holy Grail target | As pharma continues to seek new breakthroughs across drug modalities, few areas have garnered more interest than protein degradation. And Amgen is taking a flyer out on a small biotech that thinks its broad approach to degrader R&D coul... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | The curious case of the BioNTech priority review voucher | Gilead’s trouble with its $5 billion drug magrolimab is considerably worse than it disclosed in a press release last week.
Originally, the big biotech alerted investors that they had to slam the brakes on enrolling patients in a slate of cl... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | With new buyout, J&J jumps back in on a storied but troubled Holy Grail target | Trying to see if it can find new uses for a suite of antibodies its Janssen subsidiary has developed, J&J has tapped Mersana Therapeutics for an antibody-drug conjugate discovery pact.
To kick things off, J&J is handing over $40 mil... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | FDA takes a rare step and asks Pfizer to submit a Covid-19 vaccine EUA for the youngest children | What does the FDA know that we don’t? Hopefully a lot.
Without offering much detail, the FDA yesterday afternoon asked Pfizer to send over a rolling submission to amend its Covid-19 vaccine EUA to include children 6 months to under 5 years ... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | The Conspirators: The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on Jan. 6 | A week before the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the Proud Boys, issued an unusual message to his crew. Originally launched in 2016, the Proud Boys are a violent, far-right group whose members describe themselv... |
| Nov 14, 2021 | Нужен ли шум для продуктивной работы мозга — обсуждаем мнения и исследования | На первый взгляд кажется, что посторонние звуки и интеллектуальная работа — вещи несовместимые. Однако умеренный шум все-таки может повышать продуктивность, а полная же тишина — это что-то вроде испытания, способного свести с ума. Под катом... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | New Research Shows Social Media Doesn't Turn People Into Assholes (They Already Were), And Everyone's Wrong About Echo Chambers | We recently wrote about Joe Bernstein's excellent Harper's cover story, which argues that we're all looking at disinformation/misinformation the wrong way, and that the evidence of disinformation on social media really influencing people is... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | New Research Shows Social Media Doesn't Turn People Into Assholes (They Already Were), And Everyone's Wrong About Echo Chambers | We recently wrote about Joe Bernstein’s excellent Harper’s cover story, which argues that we’re all looking at disinformation/misinformation the wrong way, and that the evidence of disinformation on social media really influencing people is... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Streamers are boycotting Twitch today to protest the platform’s lack of action on ‘hate raids’ | Over the last month, Twitch users have become increasingly concerned and frustrated with bot-driven hate raids. To protest Twitch’s lack of immediate action to prevent targeted harassment of marginalized creators, some streamers are going d... |
| Jun 21, 2021 | With a new mayor on the way, Pittsburgh faces up to inequity in tech | Pennsylvania State Rep. Ed Gainey has witnessed Pittsburgh’s tech boom firsthand, including those it has lifted, and those who remain left behind.
Gainey, a Democrat, in May became the first challenger to unseat an incumbent mayor in a City... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | This Startup Is Using NFTs to Give Black Dance Artists Credit for Their Creations | Three Black creators are offering NFTs tied to holograms of themselves performing the iconic dance moves they pioneered that spread through social media and sparked discussion over how to compensate digital performers.
The "Renegade&qu... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | US narrows in on organized extremists in Capitol siege probe | As members of the Oath Keepers paramilitary group shouldered their way through the mob and up the steps to the U.S. Capitol, their plans for Jan. 6 were clear, authorities say. “Arrest this assembly, we have probable cause for acts of treas... |
| Mar 1, 2021 | Utah's Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Terrible, Censorial 'Free Speech' Bill Is A Disaster In The Making | A month ago, we noted that a bunch of state legislatures were pushing blatantly unconstitutional bills to try to argue that social media websites can’t moderate “conservative” views any more. All of these bills are unconstitutional, and mos... |
| Mar 1, 2021 | Utah's Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Terrible, Censorial 'Free Speech' Bill Is A Disaster In The Making | A month ago, we noted that a bunch of state legislatures were pushing blatantly unconstitutional bills to try to argue that social media websites can't moderate "conservative" views any more. All of these bills are unconstitutiona... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | 7 Podcasts To Keep News And Media Junkies Informed In 2021 | Competition is heating up among the major audio streamers to offer original, exclusive podcasts for ... [+] listeners. getty |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Mental Health Startup Talkiatry Raises $5 Million As Demand For Telepsychiatry Skyrockets | Talkiatry's cofounders: Robert Krayn (CEO), and Dr. Georgia Gaveras (Chief Psychiatrist)Talkiatry |
| Dec 31, 2020 | Food Books To Feed The Soul | Take five: Books that explore food and food cultureCourtesy of publishers; collage: LBortolot |
| Dec 4, 2020 | US health chief Dr Fauci shared a day in his life - it's exhausting just reading it | Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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In an interview with HuffPost Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US's leading infectious disease expert, laid out a schedule of one o... |
| Nov 18, 2020 | Brain hacks to boost productivity with music. Should you be listening to more ABBA? | Image: iStock/kerkez
The manipulated audible sheets of airwaves we call music can have profound impacts on human behavior. Studies have shown that the tempo of the music played in stores can affect the amount of time shoppers spend inside. ... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | Researchers create dataset to advance U.S. Supreme Court gender bias analysis | Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream.
University of Washington language researchers and legal professionals recently created a labeled dataset for detectio... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | Researchers create dataset to advance U.S. Supreme Court gender bias analysis | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
University of Washington language researchers and... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Covid-19 roundup: FDA commissioners call for more ‘concerted effort’ on convalescent plasma R&D; Regeneron boosts case for antibody cocktail with new animal data | Four former FDA commissioners have coalesced around a century-old treatment they believe can give the best weapon against Covid-19: Convalescent plasma.
Writing in The Washington Post, former FDA commissioners Mark McC... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | Post No Evil: Content Moderation Decisions Are Always Trickier Than You Think | Two years ago, we told anyone who wanted to understand the impossibility of content moderation to listen to an episode of the podcast/radio show Radiolab. Obviously, content moderation questions are back in the news again, and Radiolab rece... |
| May 20, 2020 | Emergency Room Doctor: Getting Best COVID-19 Treatment Ideas Via WhatsApp | The excellent podcast Radiolab has been running some shorter (from its normal fare) “dispatches” from the pandemic that have been quite interesting, but I wanted to take a quick look at one recent such episode that is mostly a discussion be... |
| May 20, 2020 | Emergency Room Doctor: Getting Best COVID-19 Treatment Ideas Via WhatsApp | The excellent podcast Radiolab has been running some shorter (from its normal fare) "dispatches" from the pandemic that have been quite interesting, but I wanted to take a quick look at one recent such episode that is mostly a dis... |
| Apr 28, 2020 | How YouTube Star John Green Thinks About His Educational Videos | In this time of pandemic, when schools and colleges have shifted teaching online, more teachers find themselves making videos for their students, who in turn are seeking out such resources on their own.
For this week’s podcast, we reached o... |
| Dec 18, 2019 | How To Keep Your Culture Strong During Growth | Manager creating a positive employee experience by building rapport with team membersGetty |
| Dec 10, 2019 | The Afghanistan Papers v. The Pentagon Papers: How A Whistleblower Worked Much Better Than Endless FOIA Litigation | On Monday morning, the Washington Post released The Afghanistan Papers, an incredible (though, tragically, not surprising) collection of unpublished notes and interview transcripts revealing that the past three administrations — Trump, Obam... |
| Dec 10, 2019 | The Afghanistan Papers v. The Pentagon Papers: How A Whistleblower Worked Much Better Than Endless FOIA Litigation | On Monday morning, the Washington Post released The Afghanistan Papers, an incredible (though, tragically, not surprising) collection of unpublished notes and interview transcripts revealing that the past three administrations -- Trump, Oba... |
| Sep 20, 2019 | Should The Media Voluntarily Embrace A 'Right To Be Forgotten'? | It should be no secret that I’m not at all a fan of the right to be forgotten, which is a European concept, as currently employed, that allows people to get old news stories about them removed from search engines (there’s more to it than th... |
| Sep 20, 2019 | Should The Media Voluntarily Embrace A 'Right To Be Forgotten'? | It should be no secret that I'm not at all a fan of the right to be forgotten, which is a European concept, as currently employed, that allows people to get old news stories about them removed from search engines (there's more to it than th... |
| Aug 5, 2019 | Using Restorative Justice To Deal With Internet Trolls And Jackasses | One of the things that I've tried to highlight over the years, when it comes to questions of content moderation on internet platforms, is that there is a much wider spectrum of options than just "take it down" or "leave it up... |
| Aug 5, 2019 | Using Restorative Justice To Deal With Internet Trolls And Jackasses | One of the things that I’ve tried to highlight over the years, when it comes to questions of content moderation on internet platforms, is that there is a much wider spectrum of options than just “take it down” or “leave it up.” Many people ... |
| May 6, 2019 | Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Facebook Still Can't Figure Out How To Deal With Naked Breasts | Like a teenaged heterosexual boy, it appears that Facebook has no clue how to deal with naked female breasts. Going back over a decade, the quintessential example used to show the impossibility of coming up with clear, reasonable rules for ... |
| Apr 12, 2019 | What Will Happen When Governments Disagree Over Who Is A Terrorist Organization… And Who Needs To Be Blocked Online? | You may have heard the recent news that President Trump has decided to label the the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) a “foreign terrorist organization.” The IRGC is Iran’s powerful military/security/law enforcement apparatus — tha... |
| Dec 19, 2018 | The Best Podcasts of 2018 | If you don't have that insufferable friend who is constantly talking about what mind-expanding insight they've received from a podcast recently, then that friend is probably you. In which case, you're in the right place.
Podcast fans know t... |
| Nov 8, 2018 | Phoebe Robinson Shares Her Favorite Books And Why You Should Totally Read Hers | The cover of Everything's Trash But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson |
| Sep 27, 2018 | Tech employees can make up for executives | Jared Moore Contributor
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| Aug 21, 2018 | Before You Talk About How Easy Content Moderation Is, You Should Listen To This | For quite some time now, we’ve been trying to demonstrate just how impossible it is to expect internet platforms to do a consistent or error-free job of moderating content. Especially at the scale they’re at, it’s an impossible request, not... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | YC’s 2018 Summer Reading List | A post about summer reading on Hacker News inspired us to put a list together for 2018. Here’s what we’ve been reading.
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
“As in many of the best books of history I’ve read, the author (Caro) makes an argument la... |
| Jul 3, 2018 | NY Times, Winner Of A Key 1st Amendment Case, Suddenly Seems Upset That 1st Amendment Protects Conservatives Too | Over the weekend, the NY Times’ Adam Liptak, who usually does quite an excellent job covering the Supreme Court for the NY Times, published an absolutely bizarre long feature piece, claiming that conservatives had “weaponized” free speech, ... |
| Apr 25, 2018 | Time to Pivot? Thoughts on Jesner v. Arab Bank | Now that liability for corporations (foreign ones, at least) under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) is off the table, the recriminations can begin.
Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank was genuinely shocking. The case involve... |
| Apr 24, 2018 | European Leaders Make Case for Iran Deal in Meetings with Trump | France and Germany Apply Diplomatic Pressure ahead of Trump’s Iran Deal Decision
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are meeting with President Trump this week to deliver a one-two diplomatic punch to persua... |
| Feb 14, 2018 | Overcoming Her Stalker Helped Rebecca O'Neal Thrive as a Comedian | In 2016, I walked into the back room of Cole’s, a dive bar in Chicago’s Logan Square, ready to be disappointed by a bunch of white male comedians. So it was a pleasant surprise when a black woman in a tight red dress with leopard print hopp... |
| As a TEFL-certified teacher, here are the 12 online courses and apps I recommend for learning English as a new language | Alyssa Powell/Business Insider
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English is the world's most common second language, and learning it can open up new career opportunities.
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| Rational Security 2.0: The ‘Live Action Rational Security’ Edition | This week, Quinta and Scott were joined by RatSec 1.0 host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's big national security news stories, including:
“Sharing is Caring.” Earlier this week, an unnamed senior U.S. official indicated ... |
| Как за три года поднять английский до С1 и получить сертификат IELTS с баллом 8.0 | Отдел новостей Инглиш 7 февраля 2022, 17:49 2022-02-07 Как за три года поднять английский до С1 и получить сертификат IELTS с баллом 8.0
И ещё +1 история про то, как поднять английский (другие можно почитать здесь и здесь). Девушка-гуманита... |
| Trump was 'extremely disciplined in grifting' and trying to use the presidency to make money, expert on fascism says | Donald Trump waving to supporters on January 20, 2021, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Michael Reaves/Getty Images
The Jan. 6 committee recently drew attention to Donald Trump's postelection fundraising efforts.
Analyzing Trump's presidency, a... |
| What is Anonymous? How the infamous ‘hacktivist’ group went from 4chan trolling to launching cyberattacks on Russia | For nearly two decades, one of the world’s most infamous hacker groups has operated under the name “Anonymous.” And the mysterious online community is making headlines once again.
After Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, a Twitt... |