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Thinking Too Hard About Starting
Lex Friedman: How to Prioritize Important Tasks
Of course you can and should weigh what’s truly the most important thing, if there’s any advantage to specific sequencing, if one thing is truly more important than another. But the cold hard reality is that sometimes there are multiple things of equal importance, and they
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Owning Your Favorite Media Forever
Torie Bosch: My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along
I like to rewatch my favorite shows and movies, often as background noise while I do something else. And the idea that platforms are now removing even their original programming—which I had assumed was sacred—makes me worry about the future of other digital
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In Elon's Twitter, the Cruelty is the Point
Ben Schoon: Twitter Officially Bans Third-Party Clients in New Developer Agreement
This comes a week after Twitter clients unexpectedly shut down across Android, iOS, and other platforms without notice. Twitter and its new owner, Elon Musk, were silent on the issue for several days until reports came out to show that the company had
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On Today's New Macs
Apple announced two new Macs today; huzzah!
MacBook Pro
My prediction for this lineup was:
Those 2021 models are due for processor upgrades, but don't expect any form factor changes, this is a pure spec bump.
And this is just what happened, which I think is more than fine. The 2021 refresh to
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Not Exactly Role Models
Charles McGrath: Good Art, Bad People
Can bad people create good art? If that question pops up on an exam or at a dinner party, you might want to be wary. The obvious answer — so obvious that it practically goes without saying, and ought to make the examinee suspicious — is that bad people, or at
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A Real Bunch of Jokers
Parker Molloy: This Fox News Segment Perfectly Illustrates How Off-the-Rails the Right-Wing Anti-Trans Attacks Have Become
TODD PIRO, Co-Host: Joe, I wanna get your thoughts on this. There is a bizarre new Batman storyline that has the Joker becoming pregnant and giving birth. This is a statement you literally could
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The Crypto House Is a Time Capsule of the Worst Aesthetic in Decades
Luke Plunkett: Nobody Wants to Buy the Ugly Crypto House
Originally listed in October 2022 for $1.2 million, a complete lack of interest in the property has seen its asking price plummet to just $949,000 in just a matter of weeks. It’s not just buyers who are shunning the house, either; it’
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I'll Stop Talking About Twitter When it Stops Sucking
Iconfactory Blog: State of the Twitterverse
Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started reporting problems accessing Twitter via the iOS app.
As of writing, it's now almost 48 hours since most of the popular Twitter apps stopped working and there has been no communication at all from Twitter on what&
