Nothing matters more than what you pay attention to.
Brief reflections on the year ahead.
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The best of the web, in 13 categories you won't see anywhere else.
How do you do, fellow verbs?
Alternate realities. Wonderful personal gifts. And great things that happened in 2025. (#556)
If you're overwhelmed, this is for you
Plus: Solarpunk, the toxic pull of the manosphere, and why we must teach AI to forget. (#555)
Is one human enough?
Plus: self-driving cars, a time machine and an impossible decision. (#554)
Of cowards and monsters
Plus: a mystery box! (#553)
How to write a joke
Plus: Meet the heroes keeping global progress alive and learn in what specific way you are annoying. (#552)
Fuck hope. What's the strategy?
Also, the world is turned upside down. (#551)
A breath of fresh air
Plus: World maps, screen time, organ donations. (#550)
Different Language, Different AI?
Plus: the story of arguably one of the most recognisable sound designs of our time (#549)
Games are the real thing
Plus: What to do with your hard-won, useless knowledge (#548)
Read this before you die
Plus: How one snail inspired two novels on two continents. (#547)
Economics, but fun
Plus: a once in a lifetime experience. (#546)
Reasons for Hope
You're here for a reason. Find the reason. And do your bit. (#545)
Why we need more death rays
Plus: It's my lucky week! (#544)
Free* Speech
Plus the electrotech revolution and the process of making good decisions by eliminating bad ones (#543)
Gotta love them facts
And why geopolitics now drives climate action. (#542)
8 billion victims
Why Murphy's Law actually helps you prevent bad things from happening. (#541)
Looking ahead to the year 20202025
Plus: Which matters more, a first or last impression? (#540)
Small change, big impact
Plus: the horse farm turned global vaccine supplier. (#539)
Where the end is real
Plus: How AI ruins decision making and why you should talk to former friends. (#538)
The Enshittification of American Power
Plus: Alien life and the last words of a dying glacier (#537)
The fire of human aspiration
Plus: Feminist exhaustion, the invention of the wheel and behind the scenes with an intimacy coördinator (#536)
See the dark world
+ Fun new laws to create chaos, and how we'll lose control of AI (#535)