I’ve been using Opera for a little while, which has a built-in ad-blocker. I recently switched to Firefox because I discovered that Readwise doesn’t currently autosync with certain apps without the browser extension, which kind of defeats the point of having Readwise; so, I switched over to Firefox. And for…

I’m loathe to defend anti-vaxxers, and indeed, strictly speaking, I am not going to defend those assholes. But there seems to be some confusion about the I Am Legend meme going around, as evidenced by this Gizmodo article about the screenwriter’s follow-up clarification: none of the people cited in the…

The BBC has an account today of the Lazarus heist, the 2018 hack of the Bangladesh bank reserve by North Korea. …

I basically act as support staff so I periodically forget that I co-edit a literary magazine, but our most recent issue of Barzakh Magazine is now out and about on the interwebs. This year’s theme is invisibility, and there’s some great work in that section and in the magazine more broadly. Check it out, and consider submitting your work coming up!

And meantime, nobody is talking about how to tax this growing wealth, how to capture the value of these huge piles of assets. Nobody is talking about what the ProPublica article was talking about. That is, nobody until Elizabeth Warren in 2019. I mean look — this episode is good…

I don’t disagree that we’d be better off with kids (and college students, for that matter) back in the classroom this fall, but it bothers me that so much of the discourse surrounding COVID-19 public health measures and protocols seems to begin from where we’d like us to be before…

Comer goes on to somehow suggest that because Keefe wrote a deeply researched, rigorously documented book about the Sacklers, his testimony is biased […] The Sacklers are monsters and James Comer should, and probably does, know better and is simply pandering to his base. But I find this interesting because…

Sanders trumpeted Rogan’s endorsement, generating backlash from the marginalized groups that Rogan had unapologetically mocked over the years. This led to a debate about whether Rogan’s transphobia and casual racism was something Democrats should tolerate in exchange for winning over the “non-woke” electorate, those elusive voters who resented #MeToo and…