Wired has gotten more negative, and that’s a positive. I was working there when the vibe started shifting from “wow, look what tech can do!” to, “oh shit, look what tech companies are doing.”
Less cheerleading and more watchdogging is precisely the right call.
Kinda what Keynes was getting at, right?
If a couple of Tickle Me Elmos had told kids to kill themselves they would have been off the market by the weekend
But I thought that Americans were going to get those amazing jobs -- most of which were off book, anyway -- resulting in fantastic growth?? I might need this explained to me again.
(Please do not try to explain to me)
What a joyful American performance that was
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Howard Cosell lost his job for less (and rightly so).
CBS saw how Nike decimated its business by appointing an ecomm executive with no brand or sneaker experience as CEO and said “we’ll have some of that.”
The U.S. is exactly the sort of country the U.S. advises American travelers to avoid.
It is equally easy & possible to write, "Trump weighs violating US treaty commitments under the UN and NATO by seizing the sovereign territory of one of our closest allies" You don't have to normalize & sanewash reality. Other purely factually accurate, more serious choices remain readily available.
A truly scrumptious response
FYI: A heatpump is a reverse McDLT: instead of keeping hot and cold separate and then combining them, it takes combined hot and cold and makes them separate.
Quote from a New York Times profile of John Tesh
This graf in the @nytimes.com profile of John Tesh is an eight-episode tv show.
Trump Gives Himself an Enormous Out on the Epstein Files talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
I don't know. Maybe someone who lets their words run that far ahead of their knowledge shouldn't work in think tanks? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Necklace ad that looks like a group of bicycle rim profiles.
When it's a jewelry add but all you see are rim profiles. Or maybe they're trying to sell diamonds to cyclists?
That would be silly, though. Who's going to spend Enve money on necklaces?
If you support the Electoral College on the grounds that it prevents the tyranny of the majority, how can you also support the end of Section 2 of the VRA?
Don't answer. I know. It's because you care only about conservative minorities, not racial ones.
I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon
This idea that scientists just go along with each other in some grand conspiracy is so incorrect. So many of them are incredibly petty and contrarian. Proving others wrong is part of the motivation.
You understand that if anyone could prove a causal link between anything and autism, they would win a Nobel, right?
The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
Peacock shouldn’t have changed their women’s Tour de France commentators for the weekend. Weekday team was great. Yesterday and today have been so awkward.
This announcer pairing for the Club World Cup is highlighting why I prefer British soccer/football announcers to American ones.
The Brits sound like brand marketers; it’s business, but there’s art in there. American announcers sound like CFOs. It’s all stats and soulless analysis.
I fully appreciate both sentiments
The world, pre-Covid: “Americans need to travel more and see other countries.”
The world, post-Covid: “Woah! Not that much.”
We celebrate this 4th of July with competitive eating and announcing that the White House will host a UFC fight, and also by taking food and healthcare away from children who didn’t chose rich parents.
In a parallel universe, instead of becoming the first President to own a car, William Taft instituted a punitive tax in 1909 on new auto production while subsidizing the horseshoe and saddle industries. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/c...
