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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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A Server of One’s Own
A step-by-step guide to running your own personal server.
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Nonsense, Nontent, and Nontroversy
Nonsense is serious business for social media.
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Minutes and Generations
A watch does more than tell time; it tells you who you are.
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Countries Without Borders
With the support of Balaji Srinivasan, Afropolitan wants to put a new, more hopeful kind of nation-building into action.
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A New Golden Age of Piracy
The greatest anti-piracy measure was Netflix being an easy one-stop-shop for almost any movie. But as Netflix declines, the pirates return.
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The Republic of Open Source
Open source is not anarchistic, but self-governance at its best.
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Fortifying the Beacon
Ten ways to defend your network against intrusion.
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