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How White People Got Made

How White People Got Made

Whiteness is one of the biggest and most long-running scams ever perpetrated.
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Quinn Norton
The White Problem

The White Problem

I don’t think I was born white. I think white children are manufactured.
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Quinn Norton
Let’s talk about margins

Let’s talk about margins

We’re making a book. The margins are important. Do you know how important?
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Craig Mod
The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing

The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing

Or: Networks without networks
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Paul Ford
Mad Men and the Coke Jingle Theory

Mad Men and the Coke Jingle Theory

On Billy Davis, the black advertising legend who made the hit song that plays the series out
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Tim Carmody
An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media

An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media

We must all be careful of over-reading individual stories. Teens’ use of social media is significantly shaped by race, class, etc.
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danah boyd
TV Channel Guide from the Future

TV Channel Guide from the Future

What Television Will Look Like in Five Years
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Rex Sorgatz
God Tier: Facebook moms run the meme game

God Tier: Facebook moms run the meme game

The advice meme as we knew it (original characters captioned in Impact) is dead. But while the internet cultural vanguard moved on, a newer…
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Nick Douglas
Diary of a Corporate Sellout

Diary of a Corporate Sellout

The rise and fall and rise of Upcoming.org
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Andy Baio
The Cost of Contemporary Policing

The Cost of Contemporary Policing

A Review of Alice Goffman’s ‘On the Run’
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danah boyd
It’s Kind of Cheesy Being Green

It’s Kind of Cheesy Being Green

Small product decisions have big effects (and Apple can be petty, sometimes)
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Paul Ford
A Great Injustice

A Great Injustice

Exploring American Incarceration
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Quinn Norton
Put Down the Pink Dumbbell

Put Down the Pink Dumbbell

I was exercised by wolves. Here are all the secrets I learned along the way about the fitness industry’s lies.
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Zeynep Tufekci
A “No to” Poem

A “No to” Poem

On an unusual literary event
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Paul Ford
Who invented the fake Ayn Rand film review?

Who invented the fake Ayn Rand film review?

Twitter, plagiarism, and multiple discovery
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Andy Baio
The American Room

The American Room

Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.
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Paul Ford
Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind

Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind

That’s how it looked back in 1859, according to Scientific American.
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Clive Thompson
While you are all briefly worried about black men getting shot by police

While you are all briefly worried about black men getting shot by police

Here’s a few other things to worry about.
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Quinn Norton
Life Without Symbols

Life Without Symbols

Can science describe the peace that passes all understanding?
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Virginia Heffernan
Everything Is Broken

Everything Is Broken

Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and…
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Quinn Norton
Meet the woman who deleted Marissa Mayer’s five children

Meet the woman who deleted Marissa Mayer’s five children

Or, how a piece of misinformation winks in and out of existence on Wikipedia.
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Clive Thompson
Net Neutrality is sooo much more than access to the “tubes”…

Net Neutrality is sooo much more than access to the “tubes”…

Like many other geeks in my world, I reacted to Obama’s push for net neutrality with a succinct “it’s about time.” Net neutrality isn’t…
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danah boyd
An interview with a Google Street View driver

An interview with a Google Street View driver

“As long as the data gets collected, that’s all that matters.”
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Joanne McNeil
A White Poet By Any Other Name

A White Poet By Any Other Name

Multiplicity And The Minority
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Vikram
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