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Everything Is Broken
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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
Let’s talk about margins
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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
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
Watching football after a traumatic brain injury

Watching football after a traumatic brain injury

What if our favorite sport goes the way of boxing and cigarettes?
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Tim Carmody
How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled Kim Kardashian’s back-end (SFW)
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How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled Kim Kardashian’s back-end (SFW)

PAPER Magazine “broke the Internet” when it put a naked Kim Kardashian on the web. This is how their web team made it happen.
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Paul Ford
Seeing Like a Network

Seeing Like a Network

Don’t Call It Threat Modeling
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Quinn Norton
The White Problem
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The White Problem

I don’t think I was born white. I think white children are manufactured.
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Quinn Norton
The American Room

The American Room

Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.
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Paul Ford
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
That Way We’re All Writing Now

That Way We’re All Writing Now

First we LOLed. Now we’re changing the way a sentence works
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Clive Thompson
How I Explained Heartbleed To My Therapist

How I Explained Heartbleed To My Therapist

Riding Open Source’s Race to the Bottom
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Meredith L. Patterson
Make the Most of Your Day

Make the Most of Your Day

On Lisa Adams, and learning the lessons of life and death.
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Zeynep Tufekci
My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure

My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure

I went back through 450,000 emails and here’s what I learned (WARNING I LEARNED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL)
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Paul Ford
Stop Erasing Women From Tech History
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Stop Erasing Women From Tech History

Whitney Wolfe and the invisible women in tech
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Joanne McNeil
The politics of personal drones, perfectly predicted in a YA novel from 1974

The politics of personal drones, perfectly predicted in a YA novel from 1974

I’ve always argued that if you want to grasp the stakes of a new technology, the best place to look isn’t in newspapers, intellectual…
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Clive Thompson
An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media
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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
The Gadget and the Burn

The Gadget and the Burn

An excerpt from The Man Who Sold the Moon
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Cory Doctorow
Starbucks Wants To Talk To You About Race. But Does It Want to Talk To You About Racism?

Starbucks Wants To Talk To You About Race. But Does It Want to Talk To You About Racism?

According to Fortune magazine, Starbucks will “encourage baristas to discuss race relations with customers”. Starbucks’ media page says…
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Tressie McMillan Cottom

Bad comments are a system failure

Why can’t you fix them like any other bug?
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Jessamyn West
37 up-and-coming creative job titles.
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37 up-and-coming creative job titles.

Does your job title need a shot of creativity? Do you feel like all the social media ninjas and tech futurists and marketing rockstars are…
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Lauren Modery
The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
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The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing

Or: Networks without networks
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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
The Web of Relationships We Have to Save

The Web of Relationships We Have to Save

A link is not just a link, it’s a relationship
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Zeynep Tufekci
Iceberg Tweeting

Iceberg Tweeting

Twitter below the ’berg.
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Craig Mod
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