Month: January 2022
January 29, 2022
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Favorite Movies of 2021 | Priscilla Page on Patreon
“Just a few disclaimers out of the way: first and foremost, I never intend for this list to be an objective, declarative statement on film for the year. I just…”
January 25, 2022
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Game Theory Explains Why Popular Baby Names Come and Go
“It’s time to choose a name for your baby girl. You’ve always liked the name Ava, but your best friend’s one-year-old has the same name and you don’t want to…”
January 24, 2022
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‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel
“Books of The Times Amazon Apple Books Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Bookshop IndieBound When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we…”
January 21, 2022
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Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are
“by Molly White on Sunday, January 9, 2022 ← Back to the collection If you go out seeking to learn from their proponents why blockchains and the systems built…”
January 20, 2022
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Are Children the Future? In This Novel, the Answer Is Complicated.
“Fiction Credit… Philip Lindeman Amazon Apple Books Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Bookshop IndieBound When you purchase an independently reviewed book…”
January 14, 2022
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A conversation with Josh Wardle, creator of viral hit Wordle – TechCrunch
“The internet loves an unlikely success story, and as we approached the new year, one came around the corner to delight us with a simple idea, and a short game…”
January 13, 2022
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A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff
“Years ago, I asked a friend what kind of case she planned to buy for her shiny new flip phone. She paused, a little offended. “I don’t like to buy stuff for my…”
January 12, 2022
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Horror and Hormones, Grief and Gore, in “Yellowjackets”
““Yellowjackets,” an arch survival drama on Showtime, is ostensibly centered on a mystery that’s planted in the pilot: Who was the girl running for her life as…”
January 9, 2022
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Perspective | Democracy is on the brink of disaster. For voters, it’s politics as usual.
“It was the scariest of times, it was the stablest of times. Contemporary American politics offers an unsettling study in contrasts. On the one hand, Donald…”
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Portia’s Season 5 Apartment on Search Party — Charlene Wang de Chen
“Dory surprises the gang in Portia’s Season 5 apartment As fans of Search Party know, Portia’s apartment gets a design transformation each season. Portia’s…”
January 8, 2022
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“Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my…”
January 7, 2022
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“If you enjoy Mothers Under the Influence, I invite you to subscribe for $5/month. Subscribers will get occasional extra editions with weirder, more personal…”
January 5, 2022
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The next US civil war is already here – we just refuse to see it
“Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming. On the eve of the first civil war, the most intelligent, the most informed, the most dedicated…”
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Analysis | Some say the U.S. is headed toward civil war. History suggests something else.
“A year has passed since supporters of Donald Trump launched a physical assault on the Capitol as Congress was formally counting the electoral college ballots. A…”
January 3, 2022
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Tech questions for 2022 — Benedict Evans
“Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear – everything is about PCs, or the web, or smartphones. But at other times, there are lots of things going…”
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Opinion | Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now
“The Editorial Board Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now Jan. 1, 2022, 11:00 a.m. ET Credit… Nina Berman/Redux Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift…”
January 2, 2022
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Is Bluetooth holding back Apple’s AirPods? We asked the man who made them
“First, a qualification: Gary Geaves isn’t quite “the man who made the AirPods”, and I’m sure he’d never describe himself as such. He is, though, the fabulously…”
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Presentations — Benedict Evans
“What mattered in tech this week? Once a week, I send an email newsletter to over 150,000 people – what happened in tech that actually mattered, and what it…”
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Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club
“A pair of non-fungible token projects are testing the boundary between plagiarism and parody. Digital marketplace OpenSea has banned the PHAYC and Phunky Ape…”
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“These days so much of my free time is booked with calls to explain to people outside the software industry why crypto assets are such a destructive force and…”
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We Surveyed Experts on Democracy. They’re Worried About the U.S. Turning Even More Authoritarian.
“As Trump’s Big Lie festers among the Republican Party and political norms continue to erode, we at The New Republic are pretty concerned about the future of…”