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   (2021.09.06)

It was particularly risible to read that Apple’s surveillance mechanisms might be reused by some kind of authoritarian or repressive régime. Apple already is one of those. Its authoritarianism merely pleases the political biases of the far-left Apple press

   (2021.07.21)

The great Jason Fried of Basecamp, author of so many bestsellers on usability and the futility of meetings at the office, charges you a hundred bucks for the worst E‑mail software in three decades. Hey.com is the IBM PCjr of electronic mail

   (2021.07.19)

Shawn “The T Is for Toxic” Smith is indeed toxic, hurtful, and destructive, and he is a danger to any man seeking his help

   (2021.07.01)

Lydia Perović (no relation) interviews Russell Smith, and gets everything wrong that could be gotten wrong, from facts to copy to mondegreens to ‘apostrophes and ‘quotation marks’

   (2021.06.20)

Helen Andrews’ Boomers shows the futility of the publishing oligopoly, which takes most of your money and still lets you get obvious facts wrong. But the alternate option – self-publishing without expert help – is also doomed to failure

   (2021.03.10)

Vizmin and/or transgender malcontents paying good money to learn how to rat out their bosses, i.e., RyeHigh journalism students, have published an 8,100-word manifesto denouncing their own faculty. Since they signed their names, the manifesto provides a convenient career-long blacklist. Do not hire these persons

   (2021.01.24)

David Shields has a more galactic-sized talent even than I had apprehended if he can produce Reality Hunger and a dozen other books from a trash heap like this

   (2021.01.24)

Fran Lebowitz: Some people aren’t better than others. Wrong

   (2020.12.24)

2020 hiatus (read the Best articles). 2023: I quit

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