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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
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

The Kindle wink

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Robin Sloan
Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s

Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s

Each epoch dreams the one to follow. — Jules Michelet
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Tim Carmody
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
The American Room

The American Room

Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.
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Paul Ford
The Hypocrisy of the Internet Journalist

The Hypocrisy of the Internet Journalist

I’m selling you out as hard as I can, and I’m sorry.
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Quinn Norton
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
Bad comments are a system failure

Bad comments are a system failure

Why can’t you fix them like any other bug?
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Jessamyn West
Why SpaceX’s photos are now public domain

Why SpaceX’s photos are now public domain

It takes a village to change a license
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Jessamyn West
Failing the Third Machine Age: When Robots Come for Grandma

Failing the Third Machine Age: When Robots Come for Grandma

Why “caregiver robots” are both inhuman and economically destructive
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Zeynep Tufekci
The Painted Desert

The Painted Desert

Love and Deep Time
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Quinn Norton
Amazing Military Infographics

Amazing Military Infographics

An appreciation
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Paul Ford
What Bits Want

What Bits Want

Digital bits have lives. They work for us, but we totally ignore them. What do bits really want? Here are the life stories of four…
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Kevin Kelly
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
The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

2: Blank Slates!
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Craig Mod
The Feral Netflix Child

The Feral Netflix Child

After escaping a media laboratory, a tween raised only on Netflix emerges from her woman cave.
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Rex Sorgatz
I Shoot Therefore I Am?

I Shoot Therefore I Am?

The two-ness of being black while American permeates my life in ways big and small.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
Who Sexts Thumbprints?

Who Sexts Thumbprints?

Jamie and Eliza’s quantified love is too physical for the network.
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Joanne McNeil
Data Profiles and All The Princes Undercover

Data Profiles and All The Princes Undercover

Once an absurd TV trope, this experience is now relatable.
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Joanne McNeil
Death of an Unpublished Tweet

Death of an Unpublished Tweet

A flowchart helps you decide which of your bright ideas to post, and which to compost
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Text by Virginia Heffernan, Illustration by Gemma Correll
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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