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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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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…
Quinn Norton
May 20, 2014
A Bitcoin for Digital Art
A Bitcoin for Digital Art
Currency is boring. Let’s make GIFs!
Anil Dash
May 9, 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
The Moons of Jupiter
The Moons of Jupiter
What sort of evidence does it take to get you to change your mind?
Clive Thompson
May 6, 2014
Seeing Like a Network
Seeing Like a Network
Don’t Call It Threat Modeling
Quinn Norton
Aug 8, 2014
Surfing, Drowning, Diving
Surfing, Drowning, Diving
A Brief History of Inventing New Media
Rex Sorgatz
Nov 12, 2014
How The Daily Show Triumphed
How The Daily Show Triumphed
(By Enabling Disruptive Technology and Embracing Media Inventions, But Only When It Made Sense, Which Was Less Often Than One Might Think)
Rex Sorgatz
Mar 12, 2015
Let’s talk about margins
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 Moby-Dick variations
The Moby-Dick variations
Adventures in the Branch Library of Babel
Robin Sloan
May 22, 2014
Sound and Memory
Sound and Memory
We need an Instagram for field recordings
Joanne McNeil
May 30, 2014
Why SpaceX’s photos are now public domain
Why SpaceX’s photos are now public domain
It takes a village to change a license
Jessamyn West
Mar 31, 2015
Failing the Third Machine Age: When Robots Come for Grandma
Failing the Third Machine Age: When Robots Come for Grandma
Why “caregiver robots” are both inhuman and economically destructive
Zeynep Tufekci
Jul 22, 2014
The Painted Desert
The Painted Desert
Love and Deep Time
Quinn Norton
Jun 4, 2015
Amazing Military Infographics
Amazing Military Infographics
An appreciation
Paul Ford
May 14, 2014
What Bits Want
What Bits Want
Digital bits have lives. They work for us, but we totally ignore them. What do bits really want? Here are the life stories of four…
Kevin Kelly
Aug 4, 2014
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…
Nick Douglas
Jul 7, 2015
The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books
The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books
2: Blank Slates!
Craig Mod
Dec 7, 2015
The Feral Netflix Child
The Feral Netflix Child
After escaping a media laboratory, a tween raised only on Netflix emerges from her woman cave.
Rex Sorgatz
Oct 21, 2014
I Shoot Therefore I Am?
I Shoot Therefore I Am?
The two-ness of being black while American permeates my life in ways big and small.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Jun 26, 2015
Who Sexts Thumbprints?
Who Sexts Thumbprints?
Jamie and Eliza’s quantified love is too physical for the network.
Joanne McNeil
Mar 20, 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
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
Text by Virginia Heffernan, Illustration by Gemma Correll
Jul 3, 2014
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…
danah boyd
Nov 11, 2014
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