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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Buttons feel magical. You press here, and invisible connections make something happen elsewhere. But “magical” is probably not how I’d describe most public
Most days, this column looks at controversies unfolding on other tech platforms. Today, let’s take a look at the one that hosts this publication: Substack. On Tuesday, I told subscribers that we are c
Regular readers of this blog know that i have in the past pointed out repeatedly and with strong emphasis that map design is a vital component in the cross cultural communication within the OpenStreet
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There are only a few opportunities to make a living by getting good at creating tables to facilitate high-frequency math that end-users will find entertaining but will have predictable statistical pro
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Alle reden über die Kontakte der Jungen SVP-Strategiechefin Sarah Regez zur Jungen Tat. Doch sie ist nicht die einzige Politikerin, die mit den Mitgliedern der rechtsextremen Gruppierung die Hände sch
Last update on March 1, 2024 Published on January 5, 2024 With Microsoft’s rollout of the new Outlook for Windows(new window), it appears the company has transformed its email app into a surveillance(
Between 2010 and 2020, iO Tillett Wright photographed 10,000 queer and trans people in all 50 states for a series titled “Self Evident Truths.” This is a selection of people on the trans spectrum from
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Maggie Slepian | Longreads | April 2, 2024 | 5,423 words Spring in Montana is a season of waiting, trapped in
It shouldn’t be hard to empathize with the pain of the Israeli victims, or the pain of the Palestinian ones. But paradoxically, it seems almost impossible to empathize with both sides at the same time
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I was getting an MRI the other day (much to the surprise of my fiancée I do in fact have a brain — and a remarkably uninteresting one at that) and I started thinking about the headphones that I was we
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When you’re using an online map as a consumer, one of the things you will undoubtedly do is search for places — or as the mapping industry likes to call them ‘places of interest’, ‘points of interest’
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In a minivan with the rear seats ripped out, John is chasing one of his 250 electric scooters down a California highway. He finds it 10 miles away, hiding in a bush—a run-and-dump tactic that he says
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kmaasrud OPML is underrated As a response to the general enshittification of major platforms, I would say we are seeing a resurgence of the old web’s ethos, with personal blogs gaining traction and th
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February 8, 2024 I joined GitLab in October 2015, and left in December 2021 after working there for a little more than six years. While I previously wrote about leaving GitLab to work on Inko, I never
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