Adam Curtis’s Theory of Everything Adam Curtis’s Theory of Everything Adam Curtis’s latest film paints a picture of the world that is so complex, so dense, and so theoretical that the prospect of real change appears nearly impossible. ▪ Summer 2021 Civil rights activist and Black Power leader…

For almost all her life, Heather Graham says, she was a “people pleaser”. It was encouraged in childhood, she says, this obligation to put others’ needs above her own, and it endured even after the 1997 film Boogie Nights had made her a star and she had severed all contact with her “judgmental,…

May 2, 2025 Product A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we’re making. Loading… On April 25th, we rolled out an update to GPT‑4o in ChatGPT that made the model noticeably more sycophantic. It aimed to please the user, not just as flattery, but also as validating doubts,…

Yes, I'm fully aware those are two separate things, but hear me out here for a moment. Back in 2018 I was hearing a lot of stuff from all angles and all sorts of friends and influences about Kubernetes, and from what I heard it seemed like a pretty promising piece of kit to use. At the time, I…

Productivity Puzzle Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers. Benj Edwards – May 1, 2025 5:32 pm | 143 Credit: Malte Mueller via Getty Images Credit: Malte Mueller via Getty Images Story text Size…

Image Credits:Leon Neal / Getty Images AI ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot Kyle Wiggers Cody Corrall Alyssa Stringer Kate Park 8:32 AM PDT · May 1, 2025 ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What…

Sometimes I think back to how I got started writing html. I open HomeSite, ready to write some html by hand like a madman: Screenshot of HomeSite, credit homesite.neocities.org Or, if it’s more relatable, pretend it’s 2005 and I’m opening Dreamweaver: Screenshot of Dreamweaver, credit Leon Marsden,…

520If you've started using Flatpak apps on your Linux system, you might have noticed that they seem to take up a surprising amount of room on your hard drive. Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space and are larger in size compared to traditional packages? You might download a small app, but the…

Silicon Valley has always glorified hustle culture. Some startups, like AI education company Arrowster, recruitment unicorn Mercor and Y Combinator-backed Corgi, are taking it to another level with 6 and 7 day work weeks. The job listing doesn’t mince words: “This role isn’t for everyone. It’s…

Two weeks into the Trump administration, I’m still being asked by foreigners about the new president’s “political vision”. Some of them, especially the French and the British, might be excused for excessive politeness toward a country that in many respects they still envy and admire. But on most of…

According to a May 2021 survey, Americans report having fewer close friendships than they did 30 years ago. When we consider how much of our time is accounted for by our career, family, health (e.g., exercise), and romantic partner, it’s not shocking that friendship might find itself on the back…

By Ian Rosenzweig I’ve grown up in a divided America. My eighth grade classroom was a battlezone during the 2020 election cycle, when it became normal for peers to cut each other off because their opinions differed. Motivated by both ideology and a desire to preserve my friendships, I began to…

Intro from Jon Haidt: When I was nearly finished writing The Anxious Generation in the summer of 2023, I realized that I had left a gap. The book focused on the collapse of mental health, attention, and socialization of Gen Z—but again and again, older readers and friends would tell me: “this is…

Let’s get this out of the way first: yes, mastering the entire software stack is technically hard. You can read why in my previous post: Few build Hypervisors. We’re one of them. Everyone uses virtualization. Few truly understand what they’re building on. That’s why calling hypervisors a commodity…

Last summer, in Greensboro, North Carolina, at a retrospective exhibition of my work, a photographer introduced himself and asked a question no one had ever asked me. I assumed he was a photographer because he carried a camera bag, its pockets bulging with lenses. I thought he might ask if I…

Reading Time: 6 minutes We’re watching Wisconsin. Get our free Wednesday Report newsletter and never miss a story. Click here to read highlights from the storyWisconsin has seen a handful of new data center proposals, including projects in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Rapids, Port Washington and Kenosha.…

0:00 /0:27 Most infrastructure is held together by five commands someone remembers when shit breaks. Docs are out of date, if they exist. The real answers? Buried in Slack threads, rotting in Notion, or trapped in someone's shell history. Atuin CLI fixed part of this, with synced, searchable shell…

(Credits: YouTube Still / HBO Max) Ayo Edebiri and Will Sharpe to star in new romantic comedy for Apple TV+ Rachael Pimblett Wed 23 April 2025 13:29, UK Apple TV+ have announced Ayo Edebiri will star in a new seven-episode romantic comedy, Prodigies, opposite The White Lotus star Will Sharpe.…

Paul Copplestone didn’t think things like this actually happened. Then one day Accel’s Gonzalo Mocorrea asked for his New Zealand address—more than 7,000 miles from Silicon Valley. Mocorrea “literally showed up on my doorstep in Wānaka, which is really not easy to get to,” said Copplestone, the CEO…

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. I want to tell you straight off what this story is about: Sometime in the next 40 years, robots are going to take your job. I don’t care what your job is. If you dig ditches, a robot…

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Revelation 20:14 (ESV) The world is ending. In the periphery enlightened Fukuyama acolytes readily worship the superstition that we've arrived at the fabled end of history—that immortal Zeitgeist, an eternal stasis.…

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By Published Apr 19, 2025 Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard For far too long, I've been navigating the ever-growing mountain of research notes and documents in a somewhat disorganized and inefficient way. I did hear about AI note-taking tools, but for one reason or another, I hesitated. That…

Anthropic expects AI-powered virtual employees to begin roaming corporate networks in the next year, the company's top security leader told Axios in an interview this week. Why it matters: Managing those AI identities will require companies to reassess their cybersecurity strategies or risk exposing…

Jason Howell/ZDNet The Google Pixel 9a might be the best-value phone of 2025, especially now that it brings flagship-level AI tools, a bright 120Hz display, and a massive battery into a more affordable price tier. But, just like any Pixel phone, the best features often aren't enabled by default.…

“Email has largely stayed the same,” wrote Gmail product manager Aakash Shaney in 2019, while the web rapidly evolved around it. No more. Google’s AMP for email meant “your emails can stay up to date” and “you can easily take action directly from the message itself.” Four years earlier, the search…

Art Deco City From Time and Jerry Today, I bring you an interview with Ryan Allen. Ryan Allen is a professor of international education at Soka University of America in Southern California and the author of the newsletter "College Towns," which explores the intersection of higher education and…

I went to East London last week to visit my wife's alma mater, Queen Mary University. As I stopped to grab a cup of coffee, I received a message saying that Bram Moolenaar, the creator of Vim, had passed. To be honest, with a new family member keeping me busy at home, and a new course on MIPS…

A little while back I wrote something wildly unpopular and an acquaintance noted that I didn’t seem to mind. “Why would I?” I asked, genuinely interested. We drilled down to what seemed to me a rather important truth, one that I suspect many, if not most, writers share. Which is that it bothers me…

Fools and Philosophers: On Michael Schur’s “How to Be Perfect” Steven A. Miller tries to untangle an impossible knot of humor and philosophic thought in reviewing Michael Schur’s funny and lucid book of ethics. June 26, 2022 Philosophy & Religion How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral…

Reflections of a Moral Realist: On Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress” Kieran Setiya reviews Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress.” October 24, 2023 Philosophy & Religion Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress by Thomas Nagel.…

Unikernels are single-purpose appliances where an application is linked with everything that it needs, including kernel drivers, into a single binary which can be run in the cloud. Our 2013 paper ("Unikernels: Library Operating Systems for the Cloud") won one of the Influential Paper Awards at the…