: In this week’s edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about why Australia’s ban on teen …
: In this week’s edition of my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I wrote about why Australia’s …
: New in my “When The Going Gets Weird” newsletter: How bicycles are changing what …
: Today in my newsletter “When The Going Gets Weird”: How the Great Cranberry Scare of …
: Description for a piece of luggage on Amazon says that “after multiple ratios, it reaches the …
: If you’re interested in whether Bluesky is truly a decentralized social network, I looked …
: I’ve been going through some old pieces of mine and this one was particularly memorable. It …
: New at The Torment Nexus: Is Bluesky decentralized? It’s complicated …
: In today’s version of my “When The Going Gets Weird” newsletter, a member of Blue …
: Just wanted to say that I know the headline item in this newsletter is a difficult read, and I …
: One thing this interview with Vincenzo Barney makes clear is that he knows he has won the literary …
: I also write a weekly newsletter about tech and culture called The Torment Nexus, which is published …
: If you’re looking for something to read on the weekend, try my newsletter of interesting links …
: Based on past DoJ antitrust cases like Microsoft, where the remedy came long after the technology …
: In my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I argue that — believe it or not — Elon Musk has made a good …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” previously unseen footage of the JFK shooting …
: I wrote about how Bluesky has a lot of potential as a Twitter replacement, but people like Cory …
: I’ve been going through some of my older columns and I came across this piece from 2017 in …
: Bankruptcy judge halts The Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’ InfoWars citing a lack of …
: Elon Musk’s X sued to block a California law aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election …
: Hi @manton – keep getting errors when crossposting to Bluesky, and it seems to have something …
: There’s been a lot of attention on Bluesky lately, so for this week’s edition of The …
: I encourage you to read the entire thing, but my favourite fact in my piece about Bluesky at The …
: Today in my “When The Going Gets Weird” newsletter, some heart transplant recipients …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” the untold story of the world’s biggest …
: I still don’t think Trump knows or cares about most of the things he was supposedly elected …
: A reminder that I write two newsletters – one daily collection of interesting links called …
: There’s been lots of commentary about how social media swung the election for Trump via …
: New at The Torment Nexus: “Social media is a symptom, not a cause” …
: Trump’s win is unlikely to affect me much personally, since I’m Canadian. But I have …
: I wrote about a project I ran for a number of years at the Columbia Journalism Review called Galley …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” a legendary gambler who won and lost a fortune …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” how trying to avoid peanut allergies actually made …
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: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” the Stanford Prison Experiment was faked, and no …
: Ahead of the election, social media platforms have given up www.wired.com/story/tec…
: The Economist magazine endorses Kamala Harris, saying “being independent and being …
: “In evaluating WordPress-as-risk, the flag has been raised. Regulatory, compliance, and …
: “It finally shows the world what WordPress really is, an abusive, predatory …
: Great interview with John Todd, founder of the free open DNS service Quad9: …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” they said she died in a fire as a baby but she was …
: I talked with Charlotte Henry on her podcast The Addition about the turmoil at the Washington Post …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” he’s still in prison for a crime that …
: Media elites are the last people to ask about the future of journalism: “The whole exercise is …
: New from me at The Torment Nexus: Some existential thoughts about the web in honour of …
: I’ve seen the best minds of my generation spend their days trying to invent new games so …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” the French government gave him a patent for ads on …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” a Kentucky man who was declared dead wakes up …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” someone died and left the US $7 billion in estate …
: Note to writers everywhere: Not everything is a “liminal moment” or a “liminal …
: New from me at The Torment Nexus: “Is AI going to save us or kill us? Even the experts …
: Great interview with Kevin Rose, about everything that Digg did right – and wrong. He even …
: I’ve updated my post on Matt Mullenweg and WordPress with information on a number of incidents …
: When Matt Mullenweg talks about contributing to open source, he says that he doesn’t own the …
: Got a good look at Comet A3 just after sunset tonight
: An update to my post on WordPress: Matt sent me a Google Doc with responses to some of the points I …
: I got a heart-warming DM from someone the other day who remembered something I wrote about their …
: Great interview with Caitlin Dewey, who writes one of my favourite newsletters, “Links I Would …
: “As usual, Elon Musk is trying to compete in the Tour de France on a tricycle.” Dan O’Dowd, …
: In this week’s edition of my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I look at why Google deserves to …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” how a former YouTube influencer wound up in prison …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” inside the Russian bot army that conquered online …
: The latest entry in The Torment Nexus, a newsletter featuring my analysis and perspective on …
: Using the social web as a distribution platform for news has become increasingly problematic. Is …
: So Israel didn’t just hijack some pagers already in the supply chain — they set up a front …
: Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” doctors saved her life but she didn’t want …