Rigging Rules, Rejecting Outcomes, and Stealing the Future*

The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed until the afternoon.

An open-source photo library and raw developer that runs on your machine.

Across the city’s major art museums, directors including Astrup Fearnley’s Solveig Øvstebø describe reworking permanent collections and curatorial frameworks to reflect a more diverse, …

Running Local AI as a Design Sparring Partner

On manufactured outrage, and whose dignity counts

Order costs energy. Judge a money by how often it must be re-created: the dollar every day, bitcoin every ten minutes, gold never.

Boots Riley returns to the BFI London Film Festival with his new colourful, dreamlike satire.

The Hollywood studio will emerge from the WBD acquisition with net debt of about $80bn

You're about to mint something. You click confirm. Your crypto wallet pops up with a number you didn't expect, in a unit you've never heard of, and a countdown that makes you feel like you have to dec...

Treasury Secretary Bessent calls more than $11 billion of Venezuela’s money a U.S. asset. It isn’t ours, and the trail runs to a Pentagon oil deal, Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox and a pardon that followed $...

When someone else’s gaze became my own.

Because expansive brand strategy is the best brand strategy

The artist’s Balloon Dog watches have the bow-wow factor

Because expansive brand strategy is the best brand strategy

Paris in 3 Designs

Entering Web3 as a creator or artist can feel overwhelming, to say the least. Between confusing technical jargon, pop-up warnings you can't read, and a streak of new tools people want you to try out, ...

A must read on the working class

I’m reposting this until people understand: Trump covers up crime with scandal. Don’t fall for it! https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/covering-crime-with-scandal

First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.

Public domain, invite your reuse, rework, republish.

Rest in Power Dr. Jason Arday

The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do.

Every crypto transaction leaves behind a long string of letters and numbers. Most people never learn what it actually says. A block explorer is the tool that turns that string into a readable receipt....

Police said Aaron F. Farinacci, 37, was found with matches and a lighter after being spotted near the start of the Old Trails Fire, one of three blazes that have spread to thousands of acres.

Plan your business exit around the retirement you want, not just the sale price. Learn how taxes, timing, and the wealth gap affect long-term financial security.

When I think back to my childhood, a few instances stand out. One of them was building a PC tower from scratch together with my dad after literally burning through my old Atari. You'd think I meant "b...

A Public Indictment of the Bank That Served as Epstein's Financial Shield.

An Investigative Series in Five Parts

Seven articles, six months, and the structural pivots I'm making for the rest of 2026. A quick catch-up and a survey as we hit the heat of July. We are half a year into 2026, and I have managed one ar...

Did you ever run into this situation where you just needed a quick PBR texture to finish your scene? A background mosaic, a piece of simple concrete, but not super 'normal?' Well, I have encountered t...

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

In a leaked call Monday, Trump confessed in front of his own staff that he is the personal bodyguard of an ICC-wanted war criminal. The only crime he punishes is ingratitude.

Imagine you and a group of creators, like designers, filmmakers, and musicians, decide to fund something together. No boss, no bank, no middleman taking a cut (nice, right?). You pool your money into ...

I vibe coded a website, it all started with the recent dog I adopted here in Lima, Neptuna. When I went through the adoption process with her, I got closer than I ever had to how animal rescue actuall...