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- Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule | The New Yorker
- We Don’t Need a New Twitter | The New Yorker
- The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time | The New Yorker
I’m very familiar with NTP , the Network Time Protocol. In fact, I remember setting up some Unix machines in the mid-90's before NTP was just installed automatically and going…
- Our Misguided Obsession with Twitter
Twitter is not "the town square". It may however be "the town boxing ring". 🥊
- A Moment of Excruciating Anticipation in Kyiv | The New Yorker
The buildup of Russian troops along the border of Ukraine has been all over the news. The one thing that everyone can agree on is that nobody knows what Russia is really doing, if…
- Moxie Marlinspike Has a Plan to Reclaim Our Privacy | The New Yorker
- Raya and the Promise of Private Social Media | The New Yorker
I had never heard of Raya before, which I guess means I’m not a celebrity or influencer or whatever this thing is targeted for. Interesting article to read just because it is like…
- The Dark, Democratizing Power of the Social-Media Stock Market | The New Yorker
I have been playing with BitClout for a bit, you can find me @jthingelstad . I was curious to read this article and get its take. Notably the ability to transfer BitClout $CLOUT…
- “Cocaine & Rhinestones” Returns, to Dazzle Again | The New Yorker
This sounds like a fabulous podcast.
- The Revolution in Classic Tetris | The New Yorker
Tetris is my favorite video game, still to this day. I liked it so much that Tammy and I had a shower tiled in Tetris . My favorite Tetris implementation these days is Tetris 99…
- Inside the Worst-Hit County in the Worst-Hit State in the Worst-Hit Country | The New Yorker
I have greatly enjoyed Atul Gawande 's writing ( Being Mortal and Checklist Manifesto are incredible reads) so when I saw that he wrote about my hometown, Minot, North Dakota , it…
- How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism | The New Yorker
If you are looking for one more long read on the débâcle of WeWork this one take a particular angle specifically from the perspective of the Venture Investors around it and the…
- The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking | The New Yorker
- Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? | The New Yorker
Nice writeup by Cal Newport about IndieWeb solutions. I like that he highlights my own microblogging platform of choice, micro.blog ! He's skeptical they can have the scale of the…
- Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy? | The New Yorker
In a recent dialog about privacy I was asked "Why do you care so much about privacy?" and I my argument kept going back to "because it’s my right", which wasn't doing it for the…
- The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons & Dragons | The New Yorker
I played D&D when I was a kid, the original version of the game. I was a bit young though and only knew a couple other kids who were into it again. I played again in college and…
- An American Tragedy - The New Yorker
- The New Yorker Endorses Hillary Clinton
- Donald Trump’s Exploitation of Orlando
In the rhetoric of Donald Trump, mendacity and cynicism compete for equal time. It is hard to say which prevailed today as the Republican Party standard-bearer, a man who pretends…
- A Papal Message That Spares No One - The New Yorker
- The Mind of Marc Andreessen - The New Yorker
But, whereas most V.C.s maintain a casual-Friday vibe, Andreessen seethes with beliefs. He’s an evangelist for the church of technology, afire to reorder life as we know it. He…
- Richard Stallman’s GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty - The New Yorker
- Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple - The New Yorker
- Getting Better at Getting Better
- The Electronic Holy War
Last March, sixteen years later, a computer program named Crazy Stone defeated Yoshio Ishida, a professional Go player and a five-time Japanese champion. The match took place…
- Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America
Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags.
- How the Internet Gets Inside Us
- The Limits of Human Rationality
Jonah Lehrer, writing for The New Yorker on Daniel Kahnemans new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow: Its impossible to overstate the influence of Kahneman and Tversky. Like Darwin,…
- Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better?
- The Transformation of Michele Bachmann
- Cowboys and Pit Crews
This afternoon, Atul Gawande delivered this years commencement address at Harvard Medical School.
- How Osama Bin Laden Changed America : The New Yorker
- Special Offer for Our Valued Readers
As you may be aware, GillespieFamily.com has recently made the difficult decision to erect a paywall for unlimited access to the Web site and all GillespieFamily.com apps that had…
- The Uprising in Egypt
Last week, it was not the gods but the people of Egypt who stood in judgment of Mubarak, and, from Suez to Islamiya, their verdict was deafening. “Irhal! Irhal!” the crowds on…
- Judgment Days
- The Toppling