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Mozart’s Ghost
As more people leave the arts, NFTs and web3 may bring new life to arts philanthropy.
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Louisiana’s Anti-Online Porn Law Goes Into Effect
Louisiana is requiring id to access online porn, but it raises some tricky questions.
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Swarm Governance Is the Endgame
The West is replacing constitutions with codes of conduct
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Thirst Traps
Twitter’s Yoel Roth and the one meme that splits every tribe.
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Eyeball Vampires
Anyone can ignore distractions and provocations online. Fighting off eyeball vampires takes more skill.
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Uncurated Pleasures
Sorting treasure from trash in the digital dumpster.
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Seeing Stars
Online rating is a way to feel powerful when nothing else seems changeable.
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The Internet Taught Me to Drive
Get in.
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Confidence, Man
How Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX implosion exposes crypto’s spiritual crisis.
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Open House
On Zillow you can go home again, but you can’t stay.
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Para-Bonding
What we as online consumers get attached to is the blend of human traits and non-living objects.
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Elon’s Basilisk
How much does humanity’s fate really depend on Twitter’s?
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Roll Your Own Community
The Algorithm is not your friend, but there is no shortage of tools to find real ones.
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The Displaced
Delusion runs rampant in an information void filled with cheap, fast, unverified trash.
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New and Improved
There, amongst the partially digested processed chicken and stomach bile, were glistening blue, physically manifested digital ones and zeros.
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Reality Bytes
Loneliness is the real horror of the cult hit We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.
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Disappear Here
If ghosting is the sign that a person lacks the will or the ability to hold their end of the social contract, muting implies a fear of abandonment and an absence of emotional hygiene.
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Designs for Mercy
Against the synthetic industriousness of modern building, Christopher Alexander advocated for slow and patient attention, for stillness and care.
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Screen Test
Putin’s Russia uses postmodern methods to uphold pre-modern myths.
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Spirals of Vulnerability
Gazing into the pale blue abyss of online intimacy.
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