Getting closer to the truth about technology, climate and the world. Click to read Napkin Thoughts, by Viraj Shah, a Substack publication. Launched 3 years ago.

A soft disruption for the disoriented. Not quite journalism. Not quite philosophy. Tuning forks for the culturally lost, broadcast from inside the spectacle. Read slowly. Think sharply. Interfere generously. Click to read George, a Substack with hundreds of subscribers.

The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

Aviation safety experts worry about the prospect of drones stored so close to National Airport, while preservationists say a review process can't go forward now.

Any smartphone can be a folding phone if you're angry enough

The Associated Press’s guidance says President Donald Trump’s executive order affects only how the U.S. government refers to the lake, not Canada or other countries.

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The state of the American Dream looks very different from inside a role-playing event deep in the woods of Poland.

On June 24, 2025, the Trump administration redirected Climate.gov, NOAA's flagship public climate information website, to a government page where the data is technically present but, in the words of t...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

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White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.

Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation