Remembering Robert Gottlieb, editor extraordinaire(newyorker.com)

43 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 6 comments

The Startling Candor of Helen Garner(newyorker.com)

16 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 5 comments

Back to School, in Gaza(newyorker.com)

8 points by hebelehubele 11 days ago | 2 comments

New Yorker essay by Mosab Abu Toha describing children in Gaza returning to school in tents amid bombed-out buildings, without chairs or desks.

Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City(newyorker.com)

79 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 55 comments

The Twins Obsession(newyorker.com)

31 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 39 comments

The Magazine for Mercenaries Enters Polite Society(newyorker.com)

26 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 13 comments

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.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents(vice.com)

35 points by Alifatisk 8 days ago | 31 comments

Vice article reporting a neuroscientist's claim that Gen Z is the first generation to score lower cognitively than their parents.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition(routledge.com)

343 points by zzxcvb 3 years ago | 153 comments

Routledge product page for the 2nd edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook by Jones, Hosking, and Moss, a book on automatic memory management.

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else(washingtonpost.com)

359 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 months ago | 596 comments

Washington Post article on how the roughly $700 billion AI spending boom is causing shortages of electricians, components, and pricier smartphones elsewhere in the economy.