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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.
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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.
Quinn Norton
Oct 17, 2014
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?
Craig Mod
Aug 18, 2014
The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
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The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
Or: Networks without networks
Paul Ford
Nov 4, 2014
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.
Paul Ford
Jan 21, 2015
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…
Quinn Norton
May 20, 2014
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
Clive Thompson
Mar 6, 2015
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…
Lauren Modery
Oct 29, 2015
TV Channel Guide from the Future
TV Channel Guide from the Future
What Television Will Look Like in Five Years
Rex Sorgatz
Aug 20, 2015
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
Tim Carmody
Jan 13, 2015
Why James Cameron’s Aliens is the best movie about technology
Why James Cameron’s Aliens is the best movie about technology
My friend Patrick has a joke. Maybe you’ve heard it.
Tim Carmody
Dec 10, 2014
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.
danah boyd
Jan 12, 2015
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.
Quinn Norton
May 29, 2015
The Media Industry Prefers Penis (SFW!)
The Media Industry Prefers Penis (SFW!)
A not-totally serious look at how The Verge, BuzzFeed, and the New York Times use words like “penis” and “vagina” (and “cat” and “dog”)
Paul Ford
Apr 27, 2015
The White Problem
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The White Problem
I don’t think I was born white. I think white children are manufactured.
Quinn Norton
Oct 3, 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.
Zeynep Tufekci
Feb 27, 2015
OUTgoing: Mapping the Hidden History of New York’s Gay Nightlife
OUTgoing: Mapping the Hidden History of New York’s Gay Nightlife
It’s my nature to ask the queer survivors of 70s and 80s New York about the after-dark they experienced. Lesbian, gay or trans, they went…
Jeff Ferzoco
Aug 11, 2015
Pirating the 2015 Oscars: HD Edition
Pirating the 2015 Oscars: HD Edition
Pirates now release Oscar-nominated films at higher quality than the screeners sent to Academy voters.
Andy Baio
Jan 22, 2015
Data Profiles and All The Princes Undercover
Data Profiles and All The Princes Undercover
Once an absurd TV trope, this experience is now relatable.
Joanne McNeil
Apr 24, 2015
A “No to” Poem
A “No to” Poem
On an unusual literary event
Paul Ford
May 19, 2015
May Day
May Day
How America tries to tame its history
Quinn Norton
Apr 30, 2014
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.”
Joanne McNeil
May 28, 2015
Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind
Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind
That’s how it looked back in 1859, according to Scientific American.
Clive Thompson
May 22, 2014
The Weird Visa
The Weird Visa
As plague epidemics ravage the cities of the near future, a border-hopping medic gets tagged as a potential terror threat
Annalee Newitz
Dec 30, 2015
Nobody Famous
Nobody Famous
I’m a regular computer nerd guy who has ended up with a social network that looks like what you’d expect from a celebrity. It gets weird.
Anil Dash
Apr 24, 2015
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