History Lessons
The PowerPoint slide that killed seven people (Mefi).
How Janet Sobel was written out of art history.
Dismayed to learn that the late William Hurt was another wrong ’un? Philosophy might help.
Eighteenth-century paintings of mushroom clouds.
What David Graeber left behind.
Why commercials are coming to the biggest streamers. We’ve reached peak subscription.
Charlie Brooker’s How TV Ruined Your Life, episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
How to become remarkably successful. Worth a shot.
Why America became numb to Covid deaths.
Drug-discovery AI can be retooled to create new bioweapons. No problems there, then.
Three worrying changes to the UK’s Online Safety Bill.
The power of open-source investigations.
Russia is risking the creation of a “splinternet”, and it could be irreversible.
Russia is about to show us what happens when a major economy can’t pay its debts in dollars.
Kamil Galeev: Military casualties and the end of Russia as we know it. Z aesthetics. Following the proper procedure.
The team that documented Mariupol’s agony. A walk around Mariupol a month before the war.