Submissions by laurex

How Many Candidates Can You Rank in Portland's Ranked-Choice Voting?

Your plastic is here: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour

"The Real World" Created Modern Reality TV

Metal Machine Music

Could Technological Change Solve the Problem of Inequality?

Meta's Ad Algorithm Directs Black Users to For-Profit Colleges

Self-(De)Termination: The Fatal Ambiguity of Digital Identity

A War on the Nile Pushes Sudan Toward the Abyss

Counterfeit Ozempic Is a Global-Growth Industry

Medium's decade-long journey to find its own identity

Abridged Too Far

The Biggest Ponzi Scheme in Hollywood History

Competition to Do Nothing: Why Is Korea's Space-Out Contest Popular?

Study explains why the brain can robustly recognize images, even without color

Almost 6k dead in 6 years: How Baltimore became the U.S. overdose capital

Five ways criminals are using AI

Oracle's Deadly Gamble

Eight Pro-Social Platforms That Didn't Work

The 90s Favorite Media Player 'Winamp' Is Opening Its Source

New 'Siren' mailing list to share threat intelligence for open source projects

States Push Back Against Guaranteed Income with New Bans

How the tech industry soured on employee activism