Google’s methods are opaque enough that I’d hesitate to draw any particularly strong conclusions, but opening a Private Browsing window and searching for “Can my husband …” and “Can my wife …” certainly produces some striking contrasts in the autocompletes.

One thing I appreciate about Apple product videos is they way that, when they focus on the usefulness of their laptops for research, they really get the details of my life as an academic researcher just right. Like when I am writing my jellyfish paper in the lab filled with jellyfish, and other random fish, and test tubes, and mood lighting, and am looking for just the right jellyfish and/or blue whale illustration to drop in my paper.

When a billionaire owner’s effort to avoid negative attention about fascist appeasement by directing his editorial board to not endorse a candidate inadvertently draws far more attention than simply letting the newspaper follow its normal process would have, this is known as the Reichstand Effect.

In a funny way, Chotiner has the same superpower as Trump, which is that for some reason he can make everyone he deals with think that they’re gonna be the one to finally handle this guy, get what they want from the interaction, and come out of it looking pretty good, unlike all those other chumps.