Interesting perspective and worth the read. I'm squarely on the sidelines in this fight but I find myself nodding along with Sullivan as I usually do. I know he makes a living stirring things up on the Internet but I appreciate his generally pragmatic/grounded/centrist point of view.

I don't know much about Kyrsten Sinema but I like what she has to say in this piece.

This article is a travesty. Virginia Sole-Smith is making a career out of advocating for child neglect. Promoting her in an uncritical piece like this is downright shameful.

I hope this article is right! The supposed national security risks are not "self-evident" to me at all. The threats of misinformation and manipulation go far beyond TikTok or any other single platform or information channel. It's something we need to learn to live with and navigate. Pretending it can be banned is foolish and only makes us more susceptible.

Extremely important research and findings! Also, I learned a new word today.

A growing body of quantitative research indicates that some school-based mental health interventions can cause iatrogenic harm (adverse effects from the treatment approach itself).

It's a good thing that researchers are studying this since on the surface level the idea of promoting mental health initiatives in schools probably sounds like wholly good idea to many people.

I also appreciated that the researches highlighted the opportunity cost of programs that are merely ineffective. Mental health care is a big topic but as with all aspects of health it seems to me that investing in prevention should at the very least always be part of the conversation.

Time is taken away from other activities that could potentially be more enjoyable or more conducive to better mental health for adolescents, such as physical exercise, extra time to sleep in the morning or free time to socialise. We should be very cautious about the idea that providing any mental health intervention in a school is always better than not providing one at all.

Great read! This was published last year and provides a lot of important context and recent history leading up to the invasion.

Another incredibly immersive masterpiece from Miranda July. I had finally read Roy Spivey the other day and enjoyed it so much that I had to look up the author. Can’t recommend that one enough either!

Hands down one of the best things I've ever read. There's so much depth and so many layers to this story that I feel like a proper response would have to be an entire article in itself. That said, I think I'm generally pro Remem but I'm not sure exactly how I'd use it.

We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers, and the consequences of that were profound.

Really great article and interview! Rushdie's backstory is super interesting. Plenty of great quotes from him as well.

Many years ago, he recalled, there were people who seemed to grow tired of his persistent existence. “People didn’t like it. Because I should have died. Now that I’ve almost died, everybody loves me. . . . That was my mistake, back then. Not only did I live but I tried to live well. Bad mistake. Get fifteen stab wounds, much better.”

Super interesting article! It's nice to read such a nuanced take from the French point of view.

Many of the debates here take place as if in a parallel universe, eerily familiar but with several illuminating differences. They are a useful prism for contemplating the excesses and limitations, as well as the merits, of the social-justice fervor that has gripped the United States.

Beautifully honest writing. Really great piece.

“The medication doesn’t really do anything about the things I know, I know,” Zack would say. “It makes me slow and sad. I can’t really think.”

A tragic story. Trading one form of torture for another.

Such a crazy story! Like a real life Wes Anderson movie.

Heartbreaking but also very inspiring. It’s unbelievable what people can persevere through.

Not great news for software engineers! The numbers for job openings was worse than I was expecting but I thought the layoff percentages would be higher. It seems like this could point to a faster recovery when some of the big companies lift their hiring freezes, but who knows when that will happen.

I have mixed feelings about this. Definitely a worthwhile read and something that is good to at least be peripherally informed about. I think it's generally good to apply public pressure to governments to treat their citizens (or in this case migrant workers) better but certainly no country has anything even close to absolute moral authority.

An incredible story and a totally gripping read!

An incredible story about a truly remarkable individual.

According to other mathematicians, Zhang is working on his incomplete result for the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture. “If he succeeds, it would be much more dramatic,” Peter Sarnak said.

This article was written in 2015 and Zhang just published a mysterious paper on the topic a few weeks ago: Number theorist may have proposed a solution to the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture

A hilarious, informative, and captivating look into the life of a public defender. Love this guy's writing style.

Great reporting! This is some scary stuff.

I can't stand the QR code menus. Really hope they become a forgotten relic of the pandemic sooner rather than later.

So much stranger than fiction. I am kind of curious what the pillows feel like.

Dark is an understatement!

A disturbing glimpse into the insane internal politics of the documentary film industry. The levels of ignorance and cowardice on display by industry professionals is sickening, as is the complete lack of respect that the filmmakers who are protesting the documentary have for the viewer.

This might sound like an overreaction but I'd encourage everyone to listen to Sam Harris's interview with Meg Smacker for more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rec9wVWa1IA

Horrifying stuff. Excellent journalism.

Super interesting read!

Seems like pretty solid advice in this context!

One of the most horrifying diseases on the planet.

The description of the surgery is even more brutal than I had imagined. It's amazing what people will put themselves through to gain a few inches.

A wild story!

A corner of the internet that I was thankfully unaware of.

Interesting article about an industry and part of the country I knew nothing about.

I read this as a sort of act of intellectual masochism. I think that transhumanists like Kurzweil are largely totally off-base but many of them are smart, accomplished people and there are parts of the conversation that are interesting.

This piece is also interesting for its alarmist nature and age (published in 2000). Molecular electronics did not take over the world but we did just experience a pandemic that might have originated from a lab. Still, I don't think the fear-mongering is warranted and it seems to me that many people who excel at computer science fail to appreciate the extent to which our brains are distinct from computers.

One of the best articles I've ever read. Delightfully paradoxical in the sense that the author so convincingly portrays himself as a total fraud with such exceptional writing that obviously proves otherwise. But perhaps I've just been duped as well. Can't recommend this one enough!

I've got mixed feelings about this but it's an important conversation and a very worthwhile read.

Great writeup, though I wish there were some details about how they actually stole the Bitcoin. Wild story either way. Just watched a Razzlekhan music video and it was somehow even worse than I had imagined.

This will be a super interesting case to watch. I'm a big fan of the First Amendment but it seems conceivable that Fox News might have crossed the line with this one.

Vegas’s regional transportation agency recently rejected a popular light-rail proposal, citing the ever-distant promise of autonomous vehicles to relieve congestion...

Incredibly disappointing and frustrating to read. It goes to show that marketing BS can have real-world negative consequences far beyond investors' wallets.

I've got a crossover which is probably the most boring vehicle there is but having a six speed manual makes it a blast to drive. I'll definitely be mourning the loss of the stick shift. Electric cars at least have the snappy throttle response that you get with a manual transmission, but it's still not anywhere near as fun with only two pedals.

I've got mixed feelings about this. It's good to read that the SEC has acknowledged that Bitcoin is a commodity. I'd like to see continued innovation in the crypto space but at the same time I fail to see how many (maybe most?) other tokens aren't clearly securities.