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Apple parts, tools, and manuals — starting with iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 — available to individual consumers.

Some writing about probability, programming, economics and life.

A multi-media smart canvas for your mind.

Why is it that when a place is [pick one: walkable, bikeable, beautiful, lovable, inviting, human-scale], it so often gets coded as being “gentrified” or “upscale”?

All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view.

Twenty-somethings rolling their eyes at the habits of their elders is a longstanding trend, but many employers said there’s a new boldness in the way Gen Z dictates taste.

Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it.

An article describing my experience and tips after rowing 15 million meters over 8 years.

An open-source guide for anyone interested in becoming an ally.

For this year's Project Horseshoe, an annual game designer think tank, our workgroup dug deep into how to design cozy games. What a productive, happy group of people! You can read the other reports here: https://www.projecthorseshoe.com/reports/ Our group consisted of: Tanya X Short Anthony Ordon Dan Hurd Chelsea Howe Jake Forbes Squirrel Eiserloh Joshua Diaz Daniel Cook…

Meet the Curation Board is a series that introduces the Art Blocks community to the board members and their backgrounds.

Before there was Big Tech, there were car companies that prioritized profits over safety—and a memo that showed they knew the damage they were doing.

How Doist’s brand designers collaborated asynchronously across time zones (and many months) to bring a bold vision to life.

The online giant gives a leg up to hundreds of house brand and exclusive products that most people don’t know are connected to Amazon

While browsing a website on a mobile device has come a long, long way, a new trend in business priorities is leading us all down the wrong path. Try viewing a website for a large commercial service or digital brand, and you’re likely to hit an “appwall,” a pop-up that promotes the availability of a native app experience. Some companies—Reddit, for example—require the use of a native app just to view content on their popular channels.

Leakers at the controversial firm described “horrible working conditions” and error-riddled reports.

Or just another Big Oil boondoggle?

Facebook’s behavior isn’t just anti-competitive; it’s anti-consumer.

Also SOFR spreads and UnicornCoins.

How far can framework-free, zero-build codebases take you in 2021?

Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z

Build stuff from scratch.

Probable Futures offers interactive maps, science, historical context, and stories to help us all envision a range of climate futures.

“This is not normal. This is not healthy.”

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.

Movies used to “just end” once the lot was over, now they keep going and going, and we wanted to find out why.

The artists of Telidon, Canada's doomed pre-internet web.