A Love Story(pudding.cool)

43 points by simonebrunozzi 4 months ago | 5 comments

How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed(pudding.cool)

235 points by feross 3 years ago | 156 comments

How the words we teach English language learners changed(pudding.cool)

219 points by c-oreills 2 months ago | 168 comments

The Evolution of Baseball's Perfect Lineup(pudding.cool)

3 points by abe94 2 years ago | 2 comments

Twenty-four hours in an invisible epidemic(pudding.cool)

91 points by dan-g 3 years ago | 24 comments

30 minutes with a stranger(pudding.cool)

975 points by MaxLeiter 1 year ago | 355 comments

An interactive visual essay by Alvin Chang on The Pudding about what happens during 30-minute conversations between strangers.

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)

474 points by cwwc 1 year ago | 471 comments

An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve(technologyreview.com)

21 points by joozio 8 days ago | 28 comments

MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd arguing that age gates on social media backfire and closing loopholes kids use will worsen things.

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts(arstechnica.com)

335 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 524 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that teen drug use continued an unprecedented decline in 2024, with the pandemic-era cohort showing high rates of abstaining.

Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning(techcommunity.microsoft.com)

399 points by lappa 1 year ago | 136 comments

Microsoft AI Platform Blog post announcing Phi-4, a small language model specializing in complex reasoning.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.