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Elon’s Basilisk
How much does humanity’s fate really depend on Twitter’s?
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The Extreme Art of the Hoax
A skillful impostor can impress us like a tightrope walker without a net.
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An Ear Towards Community
The convenience of the audiobook comes at a cost of intimacy.
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Work and Pray
For Bitcoin to be sustainable, miners must embrace institutions and the centralization and discipline they entail.
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Desire Crisis
Many in our digitized world are in mourning for the illusion of difference and separateness that an earlier existence allowed us to experience.
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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 Strange and Unusual Society
A goth state is unthinkable in the same way that civil war and nuclear annihilation are unthinkable. But neither is it entirely out of the realm of possibility.
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All Surface and No Feeling
What’s lost when the concrete sensibility of buttons gives way to the flatness of the touchscreen and the kiosk.
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Tunnel Vision
Zach Cregger’s horror debut Barbarian is a carefully crafted reminder to never go into basement.
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Self-Adoption and the Communal Computer
Shrinking a computer to fit into everyone’s pocket was the first step toward ending the world.
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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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Border Conflict
Borderline personality disorder is both a media construct and a diagnostic No Man’s Land.
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Culture for Pigs
When hating clout and mediocrity betrays an obsession with clout and mediocrity.
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The Selecting Hand
As we gain the freedom to diversify the forms of value we enact, we may yet discover thousands more.
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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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What is Old is New at Home
Homeschooling bridges generations in the virtues of giving and receiving, and of sharing the load together.
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Digital Calories
Software developers keep dishing out apps rife with salts and sugars. Who will serve us wine instead?
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Photocopy the Web
How to create a digital stockpile in a time of disappearing data.
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Screen Test
Putin’s Russia uses postmodern methods to uphold pre-modern myths.
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Drawn to the Deep
Of places of passage between this world and another, between the beginning and the end.
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