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How White People Got Made

How White People Got Made

Whiteness is one of the biggest and most long-running scams ever perpetrated.
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Quinn Norton
Let’s talk about margins
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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
The White Problem
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The White Problem

I don’t think I was born white. I think white children are manufactured.
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Quinn Norton
How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled Kim Kardashian’s back-end (SFW)
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How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled Kim Kardashian’s back-end (SFW)

PAPER Magazine “broke the Internet” when it put a naked Kim Kardashian on the web. This is how their web team made it happen.
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Paul Ford
Everything Is Broken
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Everything Is Broken

Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and…
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Quinn Norton
37 up-and-coming creative job titles.
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37 up-and-coming creative job titles.

Does your job title need a shot of creativity? Do you feel like all the social media ninjas and tech futurists and marketing rockstars are…
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Lauren Modery
The steel man of #GamerGate
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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
Depressiongrams

Depressiongrams

A Photo Essay
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Jamie Lauren Keiles
The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
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The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing

Or: Networks without networks
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Paul Ford
The Penis on Page 602 of the 1975 Fall/Winter Sears Catalog
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The Penis on Page 602 of the 1975 Fall/Winter Sears Catalog

What do viral phenomena even mean?
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Jamie Lauren Keiles
The Iceman List
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The Iceman List

Classic movie antagonists who were actually pretty much right all along
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Tim Carmody
How to be Polite… for Geeks

How to be Polite… for Geeks

They say don’t be a dick, but they never tell you how.
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Quinn Norton
That Catcalling Video and Why “Research Methods” is such an Exciting Topic (Really!)

That Catcalling Video and Why “Research Methods” is such an Exciting Topic (Really!)

And Why All Data Needs Theory
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Zeynep Tufekci
Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind

Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind

That’s how it looked back in 1859, according to Scientific American.
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Clive Thompson
Nobody Famous

Nobody Famous

I’m a regular computer nerd guy who has ended up with a social network that looks like what you’d expect from a celebrity. It gets weird.
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Anil Dash
That Way We’re All Writing Now

That Way We’re All Writing Now

First we LOLed. Now we’re changing the way a sentence works
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Clive Thompson
Mad Men and the Coke Jingle Theory

Mad Men and the Coke Jingle Theory

On Billy Davis, the black advertising legend who made the hit song that plays the series out
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Tim Carmody
The Hypocrisy of the Internet Journalist

The Hypocrisy of the Internet Journalist

I’m selling you out as hard as I can, and I’m sorry.
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Quinn Norton
The Cost of Fame

The Cost of Fame

We were in Juarez Mexico. We had gone there as a group of activists to stage a protest over the government’s refusal to investigate the…
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danah boyd
It’s Kind of Cheesy Being Green

It’s Kind of Cheesy Being Green

Small product decisions have big effects (and Apple can be petty, sometimes)
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Paul Ford
Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s

Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s

Each epoch dreams the one to follow. — Jules Michelet
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Tim Carmody
The Good Girl Doesn’t Mind

The Good Girl Doesn’t Mind

Sex, Entitlement, and Online Abuse
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Joanne McNeil
An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media

An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media

We must all be careful of over-reading individual stories. Teens’ use of social media is significantly shaped by race, class, etc.
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danah boyd
What is “fairness”?

What is “fairness”?

What happens when technology decides?
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danah boyd
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