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

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Texas Is About to Pass the Most Ridiculous Marijuana Ban in the Country

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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

2 weeks 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.

2 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. 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.
The Bargain of Working Hard and Getting a Job Just Doesn’t Hold Anymore

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Nitish Pahwa

Skip to the content An Overabundance of Sauce The Industry By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In 2021, Zia graduated from the University of Michigan–Dearborn with a degree in software engineering. With an internship under his belt, he had no shortage of job opportunities, and he landed a contract coding gig in January of 2022.
The Bargain of Working Hard and Getting a Job Just Doesn’t Hold Anymore

2 weeks 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. In 2021, Zia graduated from the University of Michigan–Dearborn with a degree in software engineering. With an internship under his belt, he had no shortage of job opportunities, and he landed a contract coding gig in January of 2022. It was good work, for a year and a half, until he got laid off in mid-2023.
What The Rehearsal Gets Right and Wrong About Autism, According to the Writer Who Inspired the Latest Episode

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Nitish Pahwa

Skip to the content An Awful Lot of Menacing Snapping Television By Somehow, Season 2 of HBO’s The Rehearsal is even zanier than the first one.
What The Rehearsal Gets Right and Wrong About Autism, According to the Writer Who Inspired the Latest Episode

2 weeks ago | autism.einnews.com | Nitish Pahwa

Somehow, Season 2 of HBO’s The Rehearsal is even zanier than the first one. This time, the life-size practice sessions that Nathan Fielder stages for everyday people to prepare for major life events (confronting a partner, raising a kid, making a TV series about social experiments) scale far beyond Hollywood studio lots and New York bars, delving into the all-too-timely issue of air safety and the uncomfortable interpersonal dynamics that go into co-piloting a successful flight.