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- Binance was sued by the SEC. It looks like FTX but worse.
Will be curious to see how this unfolds. Is the key to avoid crypto exchanges whose founders are known by initials? SBF. CZ.
- Hanging out: Americans report fewer friends. Could the cure be simple?
I found myself just vigorously nodding my head while reading this. In 1990, 63 percent of Americans reported having five or more close friends. In 2021, only 38 percent did. On an…
- Bike helmets: what the science really says about an American safety obsession.
We have a rule in our family: If there are wheels under your feet, there is a helmet on your head. I’m a strong advocate of bike helmets. I've personally avoided serious injury on…
- Venting doesn’t work
I think there is a big difference between talking through negative feelings and venting. I would agree with this article, that venting may feel good in the short term, but it…
- Facebook banned me for life because I created the tool Unfollow Everything
Tools that help people disengage on social platforms can be helpful. I guess they can also get you banned. If someone built a tool that made Facebook less addictive—a tool that…
- Queen’s Gambit Garry Kasparov interview: The former world chess champion on what the Netflix series gets right.
I enjoyed reading this background on the chess parts of The Queen's Gambit.
- Inside Kickstarter’s year of turmoil—and a union effort that could be a first for the tech industry.
The union drive at Kickstarter continues to move along, and get uglier. I never had read the origin story of this, why did a union push even start? What happened over the next…
- What it’s like to be on House Hunters and House Hunters International
House Hunters is one of our families guilty pleasures, particularly if we are all in a hotel and winding down for the night. I've always assumed it was embellished, but it's…
- Minneapolis ends single-family zoning, undoing a major component of housing segregation.
Caught my eye to see Minneapolis city matters in Slate. There has been a lot of debate and trepidation around the Minneapolis 2040 plan. I honestly haven't done the work to really…
- The 40 greatest family games, from Guess Who to Catan.
Just in time for the holiday shopping season! 🎁
- Google is losing users’ trust.
Fair and balanced article highlighting the good things that Google has done for privacy and security online, but also critical where they have not done well with privacy. I don’t…
- This Man Will Change the Way You Play Board Games
Seafall is a swashbuckling game of exploration that evolves over months of play. Rob Daviau In the lobby of a Sheraton Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York, one Wednesday afternoon…
- On the trail with Donald Trump’s “disgusting” press corps.
I also could not abide large, repeated doses of in-person Trump. It infuriated me when he’d pause between telling blatant whoppers to point at the media pen and say, “Those are…
- Facebook emoji: Status-update emoticons are bad for privacy, good for advertisers
In theory, Facebook could try to derive the same information from your plain-English status updates by running them through natural-language processing algorithms. But turning…
- Minneapolis: Research says you should move to the Twin Cities
All the great things about the Twin Cities. Of the 15 highest-income metropolitan areas in the United States, 14 are in high-cost coastal areas. The other one, clocking in at No.…
- Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and why: The disappearance of one of the worlds most beloved computer programmers.
Finally, late in my reporting, I got word back-channeled to me from another Salt Lake City programmer: Jonathan is _why, he is fine, and he just wants to be left alone.
- Tiger Woods, Rolex Spokesman: Why did the prestigious watch brand tap the disgraced golfer as its new spokesman?
- How network analysis can reveal details you would rather hide
Network analysis can uncover your personal details even if you choose to hide them.
- Introducing The Hive, in which Slate readers offer great new ideas for the world's trickiest problems. - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine
- Watson Jeopardy! computer: Ken Jennings describes what it's like to play against a machine.
When I was selected as one of the two human players to be pitted against IBM's "Watson" supercomputer in a special man-vs.-machine Jeopardy! exhibition match, I felt honored, even…
- Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
Don't put two spaces after a period. Seriously. Don't.
- Have women evolved to protect themselves from sexual assault?
Women, gather round, read carefully, because this gay manwho once, long ago, feigned sexual interest in your bodiesis about to shine a spotlight on some hidden truths about your…
- A natural-language analysis of Bush's speech