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The True Costs of Being on YouTubewhat I spent, what I earned, and why I'm walking away 2025-2-13 7:29am Food Processing carla lalli music 4,000 words Rated 2025-2-22 9:37pm
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The Trials of Daniel PennyThe white student who killed a black homeless man on the subway last year is either a killer or Good Samaritan, depending on who you ask. Finally, a jury will decide. 2024-10-20 3:14pm The Free Press Olivia Reingold 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-22 6:04am
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The Toxic Threat in Thawing PermafrostRated 2023-3-19 4:11pm
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The torture of an unphilosophical life2024-12-25 4:03pm UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words Rated 2024-12-28 8:14am
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The Tight-Knit World of Kamala Harris’s College SororityHow are members of A.K.A.—which Harris joined at Howard University—responding to their most famous sister’s Presidential campaign against Donald Trump? Jazmine Hughes reports. 2024-10-21 3:00am The New Yorker Jazmine Hughes 6,000 words Rated 2024-11-3 7:57pm
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The Thin Purple Line, by Jasper CravenThe dubious rise of the private-security industry #9/11 #Crime #New York City #Surveillance 2024-7-23 12:22pm Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated 2024-9-15 5:06pm
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The Supreme Court rediscovers humility — in a case about pigsThe justices just did something very unusual: They didn’t try to make themselves even more powerful. #Politics #Supreme Court 2023-5-11 10:55am Vox Ian Millhiser 2,000 words Rated 2023-5-11 10:59pm
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The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshopClogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters #Culture 2025-7-25 11:00pm The Londoner Andrew Kersley 3,000 words Rated 2025-9-27 6:39pm
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal WorkersWIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices. #Donald Trump #Elon Musk #Politics 2025-9-25 3:00am WIRED Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, Vittoria Elliott, Makena Kelly, ... 2,000 words Rated 2025-9-25 7:11pm
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The Story of Art + WaterFor fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of years. Ag... 2026-4-11 4:16am McSweeney's Internet Tendency Dave Eggers 4,000 words Rated 2026-4-21 4:18pm
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The Anti-CaliforniaHow Montana performed a housing miracle #Individual People #Montana #San Francisco 2023-8-9 8:02am The Atlantic Annie Lowrey ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-8-17 5:17am
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The Solar Cell Discovery MachineRobotic analysis of perovskites may speed development of solar cells with better than 30% efficiency 2023-8-1 9:30am IEEE Spectrum Charles Q. Choi 1,000 words Rated 2023-8-2 9:58am
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The Smith v. Substack sagaA tale of lawsuits, impersonation and alter egos. 2025-1-12 5:30pm Ghost of Lomax 10,000 words Rated 2025-3-3 1:06pm
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The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesdaysrc={alwaysHasBeen.src} alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in campedersen.com 3,000 words Rated 2026-2-10 3:57pm
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The secret to perfectly calculate Rails database connection pool sizeisland94.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-2-27 1:21pm
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The Secret Gay History of Indie RockIs it truly possible to queer one of the straightest genres of music? From the closeted to the overexposed, this is a lineage of queer indie rock icons. #LGBTQ+ 2023-7-5 8:58am Pitchfork Emma Madden 4,000 words Rated 2023-7-6 5:59pm
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The sad, stupid rise of the sigma male: how toxic masculinity took over social mediaHis heroes are Patrick Bateman, John Wick, Tommy Shelby and Walter White. He follows Andrew Tate and idolises wolves. And he has quickly become a laughing stock. Welcome to the world of the sigma male 2024-6-12 2:00am The Guardian Steve Rose 3,000 words Rated 2026-2-23 1:07pm
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The room the economy can't see - Wilsons BlogRated 2026-7-28 5:59pm
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The Risky Gamble of Kevin McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling StrategyJonathan Blitzer writes about the House Republican’s budget proposal that was bundled with its vote to raise the debt ceiling, and about Kevin McCarthy’s weakened position as Speaker. 2023-4-28 1:22pm The New Yorker Jonathan Blitzer 2,000 words Rated 2023-5-1 7:49am
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The rise of the American oligarchyWhat targeting Russia’s wayward billionaires revealed about our own. 2024-1-22 11:26am Mother Jones Tim Murphy 7,000 words Rated 2024-2-10 12:02pm
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The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0Rated 2025-3-5 7:50am
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The Resilience of CostcoFor 40 years, Costco has succeeded with a simple formula: reinvest merchandising profits into lower prices and better products; be a disciplined operator; and treat customers and employees well. But with greater share of shopping moving online, it’s fair to wonder if the company's best da Mine Safety Disclosures 500 words Rated 2023-7-27 10:13pm
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The Regenerating Power of Big Basin’s RedwoodsThe Regenerating Power of Big Basin’s Redwoods By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Up in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the former homelands of the Cotoni and Quiroste tribes sits the oldest state park in California, Big Basin Redwoods State Park. It was formed in 1902 after long, exhausting efforts to preserve... 2023-4-21 12:52pm World Sensorium / Conservancy 1,000 words Rated 2023-5-17 11:15am
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The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law CenterBob Moser writes on the Southern Poverty Law Center firing its co-founder and longtime mastermind Morris Dees, after years of allegations of sexual harassment and racial discrimination against him. #Marketing #Sexual Harassment 2019-3-21 8:05am The New Yorker Bob Moser 2,000 words Rated 2026-6-18 5:02pm
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The reality of the Danish fairytaleDenmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the United States into. And for many good reasons. Education is state-funded, and students are even paid a stipend to go to university. Health care is equally free of individual charge, and there’s generally a robust social safety net for u... world.hey.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-1-6 11:17pm
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The Real Difference Between European and American ButterRated 2023-4-28 2:38pm
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The Pitchfork StoryA bit more than two years ago, as part of my work in Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team, I released a new Ruby HTTP server called Pitchfork. 2025-3-4 2:03am byroot’s blog 10,000 words Rated 2025-3-11 10:07am
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The Philosophical And Moral Incoherence of “How Dare You Walk Out Of My Speech”“Cancel Culture” Has Victims, But You’re Probably Not One Of Them 2022-8-14 12:47pm The Popehat Report Ken White 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-20 8:40pm
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Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group"When an organization has, say, financed the overthrow of the government of Guatemala, you would think there might be a speaking fee." 2024-1-9 12:20pm The Paris Review Johannes Lichtman 3,000 words Rated 2024-1-10 7:12pm
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The Ofcom Files, Part 2: IP Blocking the UK is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety ActA follow up to The Ofcom Files. Some notes on Ofcom's strategy to date. As many of you know, I represent the U.S. website 4chan, pro bono, in its U.S. federal lawsuit against the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, together with my co-counsel Ron Coleman. The suit seeks to defend 4chan from the UK’s attempts to censor that… 2025-11-6 4:20pm Preston Byrne 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-8 4:38pm
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The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much WorseA bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to... 2025-6-23 12:39pm Electronic Frontier Foundation Katharine Trendacosta and Corynne McSherry 1,000 words Rated 2025-6-24 5:56pm
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The night train revolution has been hailed as an alternative to airplanes. Here’s how that’s goingNight trains have been making a resurgence across Europe after decades of decline, raising the prospect of more sustainable ways of criss-crossing the continent as travelers look to find alternatives to flying. 2023-11-11 10:00pm CNN Ben Jones 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-17 7:34am
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The national masculinity conversation continues to devolveRead to the end for a very annoying way to play "Dark Souls" #Politics #Technology 2025-10-24 11:10am Garbage Day Ryan Broderick ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 4:59pm
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The Mythical IO-Bound Rails AppWhen the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale. But how true is this in general? 2025-1-23 2:17am byroot’s blog 2,000 words Rated 2025-1-26 6:42am
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The most official water costs $120,000 a gallonWe all learned in science class that water freezes at 0 °C or 32 °F at atmospheric pressure. But what water, exactly? Even after you distill out all the dissolved salts and minerals to get pure H2O, not all H2O is created equal – and for the most precise temperature measurements, the differences really matter. Here’s… 2026-7-26 10:30am Signore Galilei 1,000 words Rated 2026-8-1 7:25am
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The Missing Bundler FeaturesOver the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about making Bundler faster, both by improving it directly, or by reimplementing it in another language, and while it may surprise some, that didn’t excite me much. 2026-4-19 5:03pm byroot’s blog 2,000 words Rated 2026-5-13 5:21pm
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The map that keeps Burning Man honestThe event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public. 2026-5-6 11:00pm Not-Ship Amanda Shendruk 1,000 words Rated 2026-5-7 7:29am
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The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier ReefInside a bold — and controversial — effort to cool the water around this beloved ecosystem. #Environment #Geoengineering 2025-7-25 2:01am The New York Times Ferris Jabr ($) 5,000 words Rated 2025-7-29 8:06pm
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The Man Who Killed Google SearchThis is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman, then the VP of Engineering, Search and Ads on Google properties, had called a “code yellow” for search revenue due to, and I quote, “steady weakness in the daily numbers” and a likeliness that it would end the quarter significa 2024-4-23 9:24am Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At Edward Zitron 4,000 words Rated 2024-4-24 1:01pm
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The Making of an American House of Lords: The U.S. Senate in the Constitutional Convention of 1787* | Studies in American Political DevelopmentThe Making of an American House of Lords: The U.S. Senate in the Constitutional Convention of 1787* - Volume 7 Issue 2 Cambridge Core 5,000 words Rated 2025-9-5 6:41pm
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The Magnificence of the Bluefin TunaRivka Galchen on “Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas,” by Karen Pinchin, and the importance of an ancient and threatened fish. #Fishing #Ocean 2023-7-24 3:00am The New Yorker Rivka Galchen 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-25 10:24pm
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The Lunacy of ArtemisFor the first time since the 1960's, it looks doubtful whether the US space agency is even capable of getting us to the Moon. idlewords.com 8,000 words Rated 2024-5-20 10:58am
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The Los Angeles Aqueduct is Wild[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On the northern edge of Los Angeles, fresh water spills down two stark concrete chutes perched on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, a place simply called The Cascades. It’s a deceptively simple-looking finish line: the Practical Engineering 3,000 words Rated 2026-3-23 10:03am
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The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California[X-posted from the Live Near Friends blog] 2025-1-10 10:48am Supernuclear Phil Levin 1,000 words Rated 2025-3-26 6:53pm
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The Last Days of Berlin's Gas StreetlampsLooking at the German city in a different light. #City #Climate Change #Design #History #Politics 2023-6-1 7:00am Atlas Obscura Alex Rennie 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-1 11:45pm
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The invention of busesWheeled vehicles existed for 5,000 years before someone thought of running a bus service. 2026-4-23 1:32pm Works in Progress wip-admin 2,000 words Rated 2026-5-20 1:52pm
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The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good ProductA one-hit wonder is never enough. #United States 2023-6-14 3:30pm The Atlantic Amanda Mull ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-16 10:21pm
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The Insidious Habit That Can Hurt Your RelationshipIgnoring a partner in favor of your phone, or “phubbing,” can lead to feelings of distrust and ostracism. Here’s how to stop. #Dating #Marriage 2023-7-27 2:00am The New York Times Catherine Pearson ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-28 4:38pm
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The Illusion of Miles Per Gallon2008-6-20 7:21am Wheels Blog Richard S. Chang 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-17 9:05pm
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The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a Texas CountyRated 2023-3-29 9:39pm
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