Taxes are annoying and confusing, arenât they? Turns out they were also confusing way back when they were first introduced, too. Letâs talk about the 1040.
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Itâs pretty clear that apps and services are all going to have to go headless: that is, they will have to provide access and tools for personal AI agents without any of the visual UI that us humans us
Today's links Georgia's voting technology blunder: It's possible for Dominion machines to suck, but not in the way that Tucker Carlson says they do. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object per
Scientists have uncovered a âblind spotâ in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation.
Gabriel Rockhillâs polemic against Western Marxism seeks to condemn a set of postwar left-wing intellectuals such as Herbert Marcuse. Heavy on innuendo but light on evidence, the result is more like a
In New York City, a tax on superexpensive second homes is a victory for Zohran Mamdani and the socialist movement and should mark the beginning of a larger project of redistribution.
Gov. Kathy Hochul
Jonah Hillâs new Apple TV Hollywood satire, Outcome, wants to skewer celebrity culture. But even with the likable Keanu Reeves, its muddled script and selfâpitying subtext reveal more about the indust
Sam Altman may be the reigning king of the AI boom, but the story that matters isnât his rise or fall. The sector will still demand scale, speed, and the right to run roughshod over the pesky public i
In Hungaryâs election, PĂŠter Magyar rallied urban white-collar workers, business figures excluded from state patronage networks, intellectuals, and youth. Itâs much less clear that his new government
This essay is adapted from Traversal. Sitting in the packed playhouse of the Bowery Theater on Manhattanâs Lower East Side one balmy evening in the summer of 1833 is a teenage boy who can barely affor
From the techne pessimists of Ancient Greece to the computer firebombers of the Information Age, here's a look at the longâand fruitfulâlegacy of refusing the machine.