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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.

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
Aug 18, 2014
The American Room

The American Room

Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.
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Paul Ford
Jul 30, 2014
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
Dec 10, 2014
The steel man of #GamerGate

The steel man of #GamerGate

In a toxic internet argument, I found a glimmer of hope for public deliberation.
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Robin Sloan
Sep 5, 2014
What Selma Got Right

What Selma Got Right

This is what social movements and social change look like.
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Janet Vertesi
Feb 21, 2015
The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

1: Opening Salvo
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Robin Sloan
Nov 30, 2015
A Bitcoin for Digital Art

A Bitcoin for Digital Art

Currency is boring. Let’s make GIFs!
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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.
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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?
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Clive Thompson
May 6, 2014
Seeing Like a Network

Seeing Like a Network

Don’t Call It Threat Modeling
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Quinn Norton
Aug 8, 2014
Surfing, Drowning, Diving

Surfing, Drowning, Diving

A Brief History of Inventing New Media
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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)
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Rex Sorgatz
Mar 12, 2015
The Moby-Dick variations

The Moby-Dick variations

Adventures in the Branch Library of Babel
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Robin Sloan
May 22, 2014
Sound and Memory

Sound and Memory

We need an Instagram for field recordings
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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
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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
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Zeynep Tufekci
Jul 22, 2014
The Painted Desert

The Painted Desert

Love and Deep Time
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Quinn Norton
Jun 4, 2015
Amazing Military Infographics

Amazing Military Infographics

An appreciation
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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…
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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…
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Nick Douglas
Jul 7, 2015
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
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.
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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.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
Jun 26, 2015
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