On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council made history. After hearing more than two hours of public comment, a majority of the council voted in favor of a law that makes Seattle the first city in the country to ban a type of discrimination that affects South Asian…

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This is a crisis.

Clarkesworld is the fastest/most efficient publisher for responding to story submissions (also one of the best-paying).

They have been overwhelmed by AI-generated…

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I think folks are sleeping on one of the biggest and most obvious "zero interest rate phenomena" that's going to get vaporized slowly and then all at once: Andreessen Horowitz

Here's my thesis:

Microsoft has been working on this new Teams app for years.

Traders surveyed by Bloomberg expect their savings to rise this year.

Serving a metric buttload of WebSockets using no more than a consumer grade laptop and a bit of Wifi

In Every Layout, we wrote about The Stack. It’s a marriage of Heydon’s Lobotomised Owl selector and my method of managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom Properties.

Nature Human Behaviour - Yeo et al. use digital data on student behaviour (Wi-Fi connections and Learning Management System logins) to examine associations between sleep and academic outcomes.

Efforts to increase productivity hold lessons for sceptics, too

In which you probably wonder, but ...why?

Maya thought she left caste-based discrimination behind when she came to the U.S. from India to pursue her studies. She was shocked to discover she was wrong, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

One expert says most Americans likely don't realize how many additives they're eating that European regulators shun — and it's "almost certainly" making them sick.

OpenAI's Status Page - Outage on all models.

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In 17th-century Germany, a "schandmaske" was the prescribed punishment for social transgression.

Technical excellence begins in wonder but is honed by disgust

You can program a smart mirror to show you pretty much anything you want. Our Maker in Residence has created a tutorial to help you make one.

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I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason never caught on elsewhere.…