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New York Magazine
America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny
New York Magazine
20+ min · · That’s what’s scariest about Donald Trump. · Shared by 220, including Mark Kaigwa, Klaus Eck, 🎆 🌸 Samuel Hulick 🌸 🌄, Maureen, Andrew Sullivan, Graham Marshall, Stowe Boyd, Brad Brooks, Nir Eyal, Martina Bürge, Thomas Euler, Barnaby Skinner, aubrey blanche-sarellano (she/her)
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The New Yorker
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
The New Yorker
20+ min · · Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization. · Shared by 328, including M.G. Siegler, Mark Little, Nils Hitze, Howard Getson, Manos Hatzimalonas, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Michael Carroll, Fern, Katja Evertz, Jane, Diogo Mónica, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Michelle Tandler, Kris Fannin, Esther Schindler, Brad Brooks, Chris Messina, Pete Skomoroch, Tristan Harris
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Inverse
Insomnia: Sleeplessness Traced Back to Five Different Personality Types
Inverse
4 min · · Sleepless folks tend to fall into one of these categories. · Shared by 333, including Neil Hart 💙, Brad Brooks, Travis Raml, CPA
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The Atlantic
History Will Judge the Complicit
The Atlantic
20+ min · · Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president? · Shared by 542, including Klaus Eck, Simon Kuper, Brian Stelter, Benedict Evans, Craig Spencer MD MPH, Jay Rosen, Andy Budd, Bill Hanage, Richard Dawkins, John Koetsier, Paul Graham, Anne Applebaum, Matt Zoller Seitz, Jeff Atwood, Brent Toderian, Alfie Kohn, Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🗽🌹, Anne Thompson, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Kai Kupferschmidt
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The Pudding
You Know Karen
The Pudding
6 min · · She's been having a moment — and that's not a good thing. Using baby name data, we found other names that are equally as “Karen” as Karen. · Shared by 71, including Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Philippe, Walter Hickey, Tim Holman, Yana O, Gabrielle Mendoza, Esther Schindler, Brad Brooks, Amber Thomas, Matt Daniels
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Fast Company
Simple design is dead. Welcome to Apple’s era of customization
Fast Company
5 min · · Apple just gave up on creating the perfect design. · Shared by 132, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Brad Brooks, Stef Walter, Stu Collett
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Judd Legum
The dirty secret behind Ben Shapiro's extraordinary success on Facebook
Judd Legum
6 min · · The success of The Daily Wire, the website run by right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro, on Facebook is mind-boggling. The site has a small staff and primarily aggregates content from Twitter and other news… · Shared by 132, including Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Paolo Pedercini 🥶, luis antónio santos, Casey Newton, Christopher Mims 🤌, Rand Fishkin, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Neeraj K Agrawal, Mathew Ingram, Brad Brooks, Mathias Möller, Nicolas Granatino🌻, Chris O'Brien
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The New Yorker
Milton Glaser Made You Look Once, Think Twice
The New Yorker
5 min · · The polymathic artist, who died last week, at the age of ninety-one, recognized that the job of graphic design is to communicate. · Shared by 75, including Rick Powell, Christian Surchi, Carolina A. Miranda, Brad Brooks, Kyle Chayka
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Elemental
Why You Can’t Stop Looking at Your Face on Zoom
Elemental
6 min · · Why it’s odd to see your own face during conversations — and hard to look away · Shared by 82, including Neeraj K Agrawal, Alexandra Sifferlin, Michael Eisenberg, Brad Brooks
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DesignObserver
Typography Meets Sci-Fi
DesignObserver
6 min · · How does Rian Hughes accomplish the feats of impossible creative power as easily as chewing gum? · Shared by 60, including rudolph regter, felix salmon, Brad Brooks, The Daily Heller
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medium.com
Design Better Buttons
medium.com
6 min · · The do’s and don’ts of button design in UI development · Shared by 89, including David Hellmann, David Teodorescu, Brad Brooks, Mark Kaigwa
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XKCD Comic
Space Basketball
XKCD Comic
· This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details. · Shared by 28, including Brad Brooks
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Goodreads
The 100 Most Popular Sci-Fi Books on Goodreads
Goodreads
· Dystopias, alien invasions, regenerated dinosaurs, space operas, multiverses, and more, the realm of science fiction takes readers out of this world ... · Shared by 136, including Bilal Aslam, Brad Brooks, Tim Bray, Christian Surchi
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Print magazine
The Black Experience in Graphic Design: 1968 and 2020
Print magazine
20+ min · · In 1968, PRINT interviewed black designers about their experiences in the field. Five decades later, 15 contemporary designers weigh in. · Shared by 32, including Neil Lee, Brad Brooks
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The Guardian
Anne Applebaum: how my old friends paved the way for Trump and Brexit
The Guardian
10 min · · In a powerful new book, the journalist and historian reveals how her former friends and colleagues became agents of populism · Shared by 38, including Simon Hix, Barry C Smith, Jason Norwood-Young, Brad Brooks, Jason Stanley
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The Guardian
How Nespresso's coffee revolution got ground down
The Guardian
20+ min · · The long read: Nestlé’s sleek, chic capsule system changed the way we drink coffee. But in an age when everyone’s a coffee snob and waste is wickedness, can it survive? · Shared by 71, including Brad Brooks, Christian Surchi, Patrick Sanwikarja, Esther Schindler, Pascal Sulser, Howard Getson, Metropolis, David Nagel, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao
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DEV Community
Backdrop Filter effect with CSS
DEV Community
1 min · · Yesterday i came upon a really cool looking effect on a website and tried to reproduce the effect for... · Shared by 32, including Marius Bleuer, Stef Walter, bouiboui, Brad Brooks, henrik