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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
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
Against Productivity

Against Productivity

This Essay Took Four Years to Write
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Quinn Norton
How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled Kim Kardashian’s back-end (SFW)

How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled Kim Kardashian’s back-end...

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
A need to walk

A need to walk

How and why we walk and how to walk better
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Craig Mod
How to Be Polite

How to Be Polite

Most people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big and droopy and need a haircut. No soul would…
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Paul Ford
You Are Not Late

You Are Not Late

Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 1985 when almost any dot com name you wanted was available? All…
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Kevin Kelly
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
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The Millennial Who’s Disrupting Disruption

The Millennial Who’s Disrupting Disruption

Alexander Heffner and the case for keeping traditional media EXACTLY THE SAME.
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Virginia Heffernan
My Way or the Information Superhighway

My Way or the Information Superhighway

Zuckerberg tries and fails to bring Free Basics to India
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Vikram
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
Brandi Reads: The Berenstain Bears Lost In Cyberspace

Brandi Reads: The Berenstain Bears Lost In Cyberspace

This is the second installment of a three part story. Read Part I.
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Brandi Brown
Brandi Reads: The Berenstain Bears Lost In Cyberspace

Brandi Reads: The Berenstain Bears Lost In Cyberspace

The following is a recap of the book The Berenstain Bears: Lost in Cyberspace, published in 1999. It’s allegedly for children 8–10 years…
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Brandi Brown
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
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Annalee Newitz
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
Rebooting Star Wars

Rebooting Star Wars

a new hope may already be fully operational
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Vijith Assar
Star Wars Script Leaked!!!

Star Wars Script Leaked!!!

Forget the Ancient Weapons. The Real Deal.
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Zeynep Tufekci
The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

10: Benevolent Leaders of the Frothy Kingdom
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Craig Mod
The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

5: Self Selection & The Jaws of Venture Valley
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Craig Mod
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
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