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Instagram Reels and the New Era of Desocialized Media

Platforms built to connect people, for better or for worse, are now for doing the opposite, writes technology columnist John Herrman.

How Private Equity Buried Payless

Finance-driven capitalism was supposed to make the economy more dynamic. A failed shoe chain shows why it hasn’t happened.

The battery invented 120 years before its time

At the turn of the 20th Century, Thomas Edison invented a battery with the unusual quirk of producing hydrogen. Now, 120 years later, the battery is …

An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter

Rachel Bitecofer’s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who’s going to win 2020?

What We Lose by Hiring Someone to Pick Up Our Avocados for Us

Will the proliferation of mobile ordering destroy civic life?

Cool It, Krugman

Inside WallStreetBets, the Reddit army that's rocking Wall Street - CNN

Seth’s Top 100

‘How to Live in this World’ | J. Krishnamurti

Mitt Romney’s checks plan: up to $350 per month, per kid for parents

How design factored into "the mother of all tech demos"

Russia Has Massed 500 Tanks For An Attack On Kupyansk. Thousands Of Ukrainian Drones Await Them.

The New Kinship Engineering - The New Atlantis

Jennifer Rudolph Walsh on Breaking the Busy Stigma, Finding Essentialness, and Transcending Bullshit | Goop

Why do we need to be right?

Pokémon Legends: Arceus Review

The future of electric cars isn’t Tesla. It’s golf carts.

9 Questions Interesting People Ask to Cut Through the Small Talk

¡A´hooo!, el grito de resistencia de Los cogelones, desde Neza

Forget the Iowa Fiasco. Trump Is the Democrats’ Real Problem.

Choosing Love: Scarlett Lewis on Overcoming Tragedy

The Translator’s Funeral, a new short story by Rónán Hession

American torture

On writing better documents

Katy: a short story by Bryan Washington

An Astronaut's Guide to Mental Models

| J. Krishnamurti

Is the "Death Drive" Real?

Upskilling, not ISAs

Diamonds Aren’t Special and Neither Is Your Love

Better logging with Emoji

The Untold History of Facebook’s Most Controversial Growth Tool

The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S.

Deliberate Anti-Productivity

Spotify Invents A New Way To Recommend Music—By Monitoring Your Speech

Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light

Apple Privacy Chief: North Dakota Bill 'Threatens to Destroy the iPhone as You Know It'

How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)

5 ways to support parents right now

11 Habits that changed my life (and will yours too)

Media that matters: Peter Walker talks Digital Media Art