Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. This ruling allows states to enact onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize their data security and privacy.
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At Austin’s Alpha School, students spend just two hours a day on academics, led by artificial intelligence tools. New Alpha schools are set to open in about a dozen cities this fall.
The kids are cooked
Thanks to women like Kit Keenan and Serena Kerrigan, NYC’s West Village neighborhood has been transformed into a fabulous theme park for a new generation to live out their Sex and the City fantasies.
Neighbors say the in-your-face design of the building made it a target for criticism, leading someone to tag it with a museum-style plaque that commented on New York City’s affordable housing crisis.
Regarding the Israel-Hamas war, New Yorkers are conspicuously at one another’s throats. The ideological combat broke out in especially acute fashion at 92NY.
John Seabrook on crowd studies, human crushes, and the effort to prevent stampedes and deaths in places where large groups gather, such as stadiums and festival grounds.
Or how, exactly, platforms die.
Celebrities and civilians alike are “fixing” their natural teeth. Now everybody has the same smile … and it’s kind of creepy.
Perfect piece
The fact that Letterboxd still bills itself as “GoodReads for movies” on their about page is hilarious to me, and not just because they’ve inexplicably styled “Goodreads” with a capital “R”. Letterboxd surpasses Goodreads in almost every way: user experience, functionality, aesthetics, not being owned by Amazon… and while Goodreads members outnumber Letterboxd users ten-to-one,…
I like the framing of discovery as an author/publisher problem and tracking as a reader problem. For articles, I think both discovery and tracking are reader problems. Tracking your interests, your reading about current events, and your random rabbit hole forays is the most fun part, imo. Some discovery assistance is nice to have due to the Internet's scale and consolidation. Hoping to enable people's ability to curate on Ourticles and the ability for others to keep up with those curations with some *light* social features in the future. Suggest what you want to see: ourticles.com/feedback
DHS agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card-holding Palestinian activist who took part in the Gaza protests at Columbia University last year.