Nitish Pahwa

Brooklyn

Staff Writer at Slate

Associate business and tech writer at Slate. He/him. [email protected]. nitishpahwa @ https://t.co/4pkPPrQyDt. Please feel free to send me tips, but not pitches

Articles

This Platform Was Supposed to Replace Twitter. It’s Not Going So Well.

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Alex Kirshner |Nitish Pahwa

Users Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For a different perspective on what’s happening with Bluesky, check out our colleague Luke Winkie’s piece here. Bluesky’s big breakthrough as an alternative to the Elon Muskified Twitter was seven months ago. It hasn’t lasted. Or, at least, its enormous growth right after Donald Trump’s reelection has not kept up.
Why shocking and violent “wrench attacks” are going to get worse

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Nitish Pahwa

The Industry By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Late last month, a shoeless and injured cryptocurrency investor fled from a posh Manhattan townhouse and approached the NYPD with a mortifying story: He’d just escaped 17 straight days of torture, having been held in SoHo and peed upon, forced to smoke crack, pistol-whipped, shocked with a Taser, cut with a saw, and dangled over a ledge.
The World’s Greatest Chess Player Suffered a Stunning Defeat. But There’s More to the Story.

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Nitish Pahwa

Sports By Back in February, the all-time chess great Magnus Carlsen appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to talk about his love of the game—as well as the high-pitched moments of chess-world drama, like his infamous beef with American grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann, that have come to be associated with the 34-year-old grandmaster.
The Stunning Victory-and Fist Slam-That’s Rocking the Chess World, Explained

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Nitish Pahwa

Back in February, the all-time chess great Magnus Carlsen appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to talk about his love of the game—as well as the high-pitched moments of chess-world drama, like his infamous beef with American grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann, that have come to be associated with the 34-year-old grandmaster.
Texas Is About to Pass the Most Ridiculous Marijuana Ban in the Country

1 month ago | slate.com | Nitish Pahwa

Politics By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott may end up signing into law one of the most ridiculous bills to have ever made it through the Lone Star State’s lawmaking process, which is really saying something.
Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts might leave you stranded after a disaster.

1 month ago | slate.com | Nitish Pahwa

Science By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The weather has been just horrific lately throughout the United States. Last week, Chicago and El Paso were hit with the worst dust storms they’ve seen since the literal Dust Bowl. Over the weekend, states across the Midwest and the South were slammed byat least 100 tornadoes, all followed by baseball-size hail and pummeling rainstorms.
A Tornado Might Destroy Your Town. The Federal Government Might Never Show Up.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Nitish Pahwa

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The weather has been just horrific lately throughout the United States. Last week, Chicago and El Paso were hit with the worst dust storms they’ve seen since the literal Dust Bowl. Over the weekend, states across the Midwest and the South were slammed by at least 100 tornadoes, all followed by baseball-size hail and pummeling rainstorms.
Trump’s TAKE IT DOWN Act for revenge porn is actually a threat to free speech.

1 month ago | slate.com | Nitish Pahwa

Users By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Had you scanned any of the latest headlines around the TAKE IT DOWN Act, legislation that President Donald Trump signed into law Monday, you would have come away with a deeply mistaken impression of the bill and its true purpose.
Trump Just Gained Frightening New Powers to Muzzle Your Free Speech

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Nitish Pahwa

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Had you scanned any of the latest headlines around the TAKE IT DOWN Act, legislation that President Donald Trump signed into law Monday, you would have come away with a deeply mistaken impression of the bill and its true purpose. The surface-level pitch is that this is a necessary law for addressing nonconsensual intimate images—known more widely as revenge porn.
Sesame Street signs Netflix deal after HBO exit. It still might not be enough to save them.

1 month ago | slate.com | Nitish Pahwa

The Industry By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Sunny days may be back for Sesame Street. On Monday, production house Sesame Workshop announced that it had signed a new deal with Netflix, which will begin streaming new episodes of Sesame Street worldwide as Season 56 debuts later this year—and do so simultaneously with PBS and the PBS Kids app, instead of claiming first-run rights like HBO had.