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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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Screaming Match
Making sense of a moment where noise is televised, digitized, and auto-tuned, and silence is an oppressive luxury.
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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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Sliding into Pavlov’s DMs
Learning models can help explain why people are replacing face-to-face interactions with screens.
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Bad Brains
A scandal involving years of fabricated Alzheimer’s research and millions in grant money has placed academic practice under a microscope.
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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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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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