Dossier
Plain English
Coverage of Plain English in the Nexus archive.
- Why everything on the internet feels so bad
University of Chicago philosophy professor Agnes Callard discusses how technology has created a 'uni-context' where people are forced into a shared global conversation, leading to exhaustion, divisiveness, and increased comparison. The theory suggests this shift reshapes human experiences of time, attention, and morality.
- Shade lands $14M to let creative teams search their video libraries in plain English
Shade secured $14 million in funding to develop a video library search tool that allows creative teams to query content using plain English. The company also introduced a proprietary filesystem enabling direct file streaming to local drives.