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A Pandaemonium Revolver Collection. Season 2 stars @anildash @alanalevinson @ftrain @hipstercrite @itsthebrandi @jamielaurenkeiles @vijithassar @yungrama @zeynep. Season 1 available on DVD shortly.

How to Stop Worrying about ISIS and Love Twitter

How to Stop Worrying about ISIS and Love Twitter

A speculative tour inside the coming social media crackdown on ISIS
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Zeynep Tufekci
Dec 29, 2015
Ebola: The Real Reason Everyone Should Panic

Ebola: The Real Reason Everyone Should Panic

Our Global Institutions are Broken
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Zeynep Tufekci
Oct 23, 2014
Meet the game that shows us the future of storytelling

Meet the game that shows us the future of storytelling

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Robin Sloan
Jul 7, 2014
Star Wars Script Leaked!!!

Star Wars Script Leaked!!!

Forget the Ancient Weapons. The Real Deal.
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Zeynep Tufekci
Dec 14, 2015

The Kindle wink

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Robin Sloan
Apr 23, 2014
Breaking Bad was a UI Problem

Breaking Bad was a UI Problem

Prestige Television as Technical Detritus
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Vijith Assar
Nov 19, 2015
Truth over Facts

Truth over Facts

When Vicarious Trauma Reveals Truths Closer to Home on Censorship and on Excuse-Making
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Zeynep Tufekci
Oct 27, 2015
The Politics of Empathy and the Politics of Technology

The Politics of Empathy and the Politics of Technology

Thorny (and Inevitable) Questions on Empathy from Facebook’s Safety Check to Google’s People Finder
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Zeynep Tufekci
Nov 24, 2015
Brandi Reads: The Berenstain Bears Lost In Cyberspace

Brandi Reads: The Berenstain Bears Lost In Cyberspace

This is the third installment of a three part story. Read Part I, II.
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Brandi Brown
Jan 5, 2016
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
Oct 17, 2014
The steel man of #GamerGate

The steel man of #GamerGate

In a toxic internet argument, I found a glimmer of hope for public deliberation.
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Robin Sloan
Sep 5, 2014
Rebooting Star Wars

Rebooting Star Wars

a new hope may already be fully operational
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Vijith Assar
Dec 28, 2015
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
May 20, 2014
The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

1: Opening Salvo
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Robin Sloan
Nov 30, 2015
A Bitcoin for Digital Art

A Bitcoin for Digital Art

Currency is boring. Let’s make GIFs!
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Anil Dash
May 9, 2014
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
Feb 27, 2015
The Moons of Jupiter

The Moons of Jupiter

What sort of evidence does it take to get you to change your mind?
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Clive Thompson
May 6, 2014
Seeing Like a Network

Seeing Like a Network

Don’t Call It Threat Modeling
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Quinn Norton
Aug 8, 2014
Surfing, Drowning, Diving

Surfing, Drowning, Diving

A Brief History of Inventing New Media
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Rex Sorgatz
Nov 12, 2014
How The Daily Show Triumphed

How The Daily Show Triumphed

(By Enabling Disruptive Technology and Embracing Media Inventions, But Only When It Made Sense, Which Was Less Often Than One Might Think)
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Rex Sorgatz
Mar 12, 2015
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
Aug 18, 2014
The Moby-Dick variations

The Moby-Dick variations

Adventures in the Branch Library of Babel
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Robin Sloan
May 22, 2014
Sound and Memory

Sound and Memory

We need an Instagram for field recordings
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Joanne McNeil
May 30, 2014
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