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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 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.
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Tim Carmody
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
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
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
The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing

The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing

Or: Networks without networks
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Paul Ford
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.
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Andy Baio
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
Diary of a Corporate Sellout

Diary of a Corporate Sellout

The rise and fall and rise of Upcoming.org
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Andy Baio
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
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
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
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
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
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
Life Without Symbols

Life Without Symbols

Can science describe the peace that passes all understanding?
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Virginia Heffernan
Mad Men and the Coke Jingle Theory

Mad Men and the Coke Jingle Theory

On Billy Davis, the black advertising legend who made the hit song that plays the series out
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Tim Carmody
The Internet of Things Will Ruin Birthdays

The Internet of Things Will Ruin Birthdays

Birthday harassment from brands and data tracking disguised as warm wishes
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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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