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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 (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
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
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
The American Room

The American Room

Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.
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Paul Ford
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
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…
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Jeff Ferzoco
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.
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Anil Dash
The White Problem

The White Problem

I don’t think I was born white. I think white children are manufactured.
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Quinn Norton
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
Spotify but for the Titanic: A Proposal for the Future of News and Publishing

Spotify but for the Titanic: A Proposal for the Future of News and Publishing

Lanuch Lifeboats Together or Sink Together
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Zeynep Tufekci
Sound and Memory

Sound and Memory

We need an Instagram for field recordings
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Joanne McNeil
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
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
The Iceman List

The Iceman List

Classic movie antagonists who were actually pretty much right all along
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Tim Carmody
The Cost of Fame

The Cost of Fame

We were in Juarez Mexico. We had gone there as a group of activists to stage a protest over the government’s refusal to investigate the…
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danah boyd
Every Celebrity Interview

Every Celebrity Interview

by Christine Friar and Caroline Moss
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Caroline Moss
It’s Kind of Cheesy Being Green

It’s Kind of Cheesy Being Green

Small product decisions have big effects (and Apple can be petty, sometimes)
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Paul Ford
No, Nate, brogrammers may not be macho, but that’s not all there is to it

No, Nate, brogrammers may not be macho, but that’s not all there is to it

How French High Theory and Dr. Seuss can help explain Silicon Valley’s Gender Blindspots
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Zeynep Tufekci
What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson:

What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson:

Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson
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Zeynep Tufekci
That Catcalling Video and Why “Research Methods” is such an Exciting Topic (Really!)

That Catcalling Video and Why “Research Methods” is such an Exciting Topic (Really!)

And Why All Data Needs Theory
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Zeynep Tufekci
How to tell when a robot has written you a letter

How to tell when a robot has written you a letter

Or a human! The next Turing Test is … handwriting.
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Clive Thompson
A Legal Update on Your Personal Brand

A Legal Update on Your Personal Brand

A French couple is suing Airbnb for creating a replica of their apartment inside the company’s San Francisco headquarters. Here is a list…
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Jamie Lauren Keiles
What Selma Got Right

What Selma Got Right

This is what social movements and social change look like.
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Janet Vertesi
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