I don’t know if you’re used to ordering stuff internationally from AliExpress or similar, but it’s very normal for tracking information to dump a package into a void for about a month until the thing shows up at your door. This site actually connects the Chinese shipper’s tracking information with t…

All is in flux. …

The internet is clever, but it’s not always smart. It’s personalized, but not personal. It lures you in with a timeline, then fucks with your concept of time. It doesn’t know or care whether you actually had a miscarriage, got married, moved out, or bought the sneakers. It takes those sneakers and…

I like the rewindy-aspect of having to pick up a few cards when you get it wrong. My partner and I were both new so it’s possible it’s more monotonous if you’re better at the strategy. …

In short, [in the anti-professionalist view] the actor enmeshed in a system is doing things for the wrong reasons, not for the reasons that would recommend themselves to him if he were not thus “constricted,” but for…

The thing that’s novel here, to me, is not that they were pushing engagement at all costs; that was evident from Zuck’s whole…shtick. The key is that they were aware what those costs were, in more detail than anyone could divine from the outside. …

If you began this article with the hope and expectation that you would get to see us spit on our hands, put on our dictionary pants, and tell the people who use supposably that we are very disappointed in them….that’s not going to happen. …

Kennedy’s is good in a boring way. I scorn beige and all those who freely choose it. Truman also gets points…

I have spread wrong info about this before so this is a bit embarrassing to learn. Feel free to round up to the nearest dollar - no one is Getting One Over on you…

Work has made me speak (write, think) like a new dictionary. I remember when my ratio of experienced language in old books to that experienced in life was so high I spoke like a tiny 19th century weirdo. …

First, a disclaimer: I work somewhere that is relevant to this topic¹ so I want to be extra clear that I am only communicating my personal views. …

My god. Maria Grazia Chiuri really came in here and said “we are going to destroy Dolce & Gabbana at their own game. Bottega Veneta? Bottega who?” …

The context: a Canadian woman makes up stuff on the internet trying to damage people she thinks have harmed her and to damage family and associates of those people. She has mental health problems (according to her family and court filings) and has been brought into court over her posting. The stuff …

But sometimes, just sometimes, someone can give you an answer. …

This is not a ‘publisher’, in the sense that a newspaper or radio station are publishers - or if it is, then we’ve stretched the word ‘publisher’ so far as to become meaningless. A human editor chooses ten stories for the front page of a newspaper, and ten stories for the 9 o’clock news, but there…

This is intensely cool and I am slightly sad I do not have the right kinds of friends to do it with. Well, maybe I do? But I don’t feel like I can ask that much time of people. So many episodes! And reading!! …

Requires a good deal of trust in your sandal-wearer, but nothing a bit of crypto couldn’t fix. …

He made me in his image. He claims that it was only because his perfectly hemispherical skull was a convenient shape for manufacture, but that doesn’t explain the thousands of man-hours developing my skin analogue. …

This has been open in a browser tab for ages while I stew over it. …

Isn’t the whole idea behind the technology that it allows people to do more with less so that you just don’t have to throw people at problems? Are Silicon Valley engineers, or those in China’s tech industry, nothing more than glorified bricklayers who instead of getting calluses simply get repetit…