Stories by fortran77

Unionization and the Amazon Effect

Scott Alexander, Philosopher King of the Weird People

The 65-Year-Old Helping to Un-Deplatform Parler

There Are Sinks Designed Just for Vomiting Into

Robert Altman, Video Game Mogul Who Survived Scandal, Dies at 73

Soviet Mainframes: The M188

DIP switches don't age well -- after years of nonuse, they fail open

A Solution to New York’s Bike-Parking Crisis

Life Without a Sense of Smell

The Strangeness of Our Animal Bonds

How much blame do the baby boomers deserve?

Stan Lee and the Dot-Com Disaster – how he was the victim of a con man

NY radically understated the number of Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes

Amazon Has Transformed the Geography of Wealth and Power

How the Boeing 747 Changed the Way Airplanes Are Designed

Angry customers show up at Robinhood’s headquarters in the wake of trading chaos

Cybernetics, Computer Design, and a Meeting of the Minds

Pandemic is causing a rising tide of abandoned boats in the San Francisco Bay

Starring the Computer

Prius crushes, kills man who was under it trying to steal catalytic converter