Wage theft is a lot like body cams. The far left thought bodycams would catch police killing unarmed suspects and cut down on use of force. Sure sometimes the footage does catch misbehavior, but it mostly shows endless hours of fully justified use of force. Wage theft claims

The Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi's story about eating honey in a Circassian village is the most insane thing you'll read today

If you know who the person on the left is, but not the person on the right, then you have been utterly failed by the media that you consume

17-year old fashion design high school student randomly reads a bunch of math textbooks for fun and gets 12th place in an international math contest, scoring higher than a bunch of math majors at top universities

London used to be like that, then a few things changed.

The waste problem is fake

"So many centuries after the Creation it is unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value." - Royal Committee reviewing Christopher Columbus’ proposed voyage. (1486) "Printed books will never be the equivalent of handwritten codices, especially since

For those who think that Just Stop Oil were treated too harshly, read the excellent sentencing summary by the judge. judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…

Tamer Kahveci - تامر قهوجي Boğaziçi Üni. Tamer Kahveci - تامر قهوجي * Laf attiginiz Lale Akarun'un da Cem Ersoy'un da, sizden daha cok atifi var, ikisinin de h-index'i sizden daha yuksek. Yanlisim varsa lutfen duzeltin. * Siz Berkeley'i ornek vermissiniz, ben de madem ondan daha iyi bir universiteninkine bakayim dedim: MIT'de de

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

Ah, an excuse to share my favorite review ever published

ngl, going from game dev to Nobel prize in Chemistry is a goated career trajectory

We got these phone booths (a K6 from the 1930s, and a KX100 from the 1990s) for the Stripe lobby, as a reminder that there are always two paths in everything we make: something that elevates and makes you smile, or, well, whatever the thing on the right is.

This quote from Lee Kuan Yew seems more relevant than ever.

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

This is insanely hardcore

It can all be so much more beautiful. Even the simple things... the soaps, the sinks, the lamps, and even the door knobs. All of it could delight us, if only we cared a little more. The problem isn't a lack of money. The problem is apathy. Making something beautiful begins with

My sleep scores during recent travel were in the 90s. Now back in SF I am consistently back down to 70s, 80s. I am increasingly convinced that this is due to traffic noise from a nearby road/intersection where I live - every ~10min, a car, truck, bus, or motorcycle with a very

English town names tell a lot of history. Anything ending in -caster, -cester or -chester was a Roman fort. -bury and -borough are Saxon forts. If it ends in -by it was settled by vikings (by is still the Swedish and Norwegian word for village.) -ford is a river crossing.

Celtic words in the Turkish language, ultimately sourced from the Galatians who settled in Anatolia in the 3rd century BC.