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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Chris duMond / … Trump Versus the Coconut-Pilled
Kamala Harris and the Democrats finally have a chance to attract positive attention.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Fore More Years
Two presidential candidates argue about who’s better at hitting a ball. Nobody wins.
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Notes on a Weird Week
Dead-tree media: good. VC business model: bad.
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Musk, SBF, and the Myth of Smug, Castle-Building Nerds
It’s a trap.
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Welcome to Geriatric Social Media
Social media isn’t dying; it’s changing.
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The Negative Appeal of the Metaverse
An era of brute-forcing innovation (or why AI art is different than Web3)
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I Watched the Coinbase Documentary So You Don’t Have To
‘Coin’ is the latest frontier in corporate propaganda
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TikTok Politics and the Era of Embodied Memes
Welcome to the vibes-based political culture
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Trombone Champ Is a Perfect Game
How I fell in love with the “big metal fart-maker”
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The Dark Side of Frictionless Technology
Living in an exhausting world of obsolescence.
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What’s Really Behind Those AI Art Images?
What feels like magic is actually incredibly complicated and ethically fraught.
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Business Dudes Need to Stop Talking Like This
The scourge of business-dude lorem ipsum
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The Joy of ‘Calm Technology’
A theory for resisting information overload
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I Went Viral in the Bad Way
A few lessons from my mistake
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Where Does Alex Jones Go From Here?
Watching the Alex Jones trial with an ex-Infowars staffer.
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Tech’s New Frontier Raises a “Buffet of Unwanted Questions”
If tools like DALL-E 2 really are the next great leap, it’s worth thinking about who owns that future, and what we want it to look like.
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How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Kate Lindsay on TikTok, the influencer trickle-down, and what social media breaks in our brains
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Elon Musk Is Not Playing Four-Dimensional Chess
He’s just bored, mad, and posting like a Facebook Boomer.
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The Thin Red Lines
My unexpected obsession with rapid testing
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The Petty Pleasures of Watching Crypto Profiteers Flounder
Behind all the Web3 bluster is just “hollow abstraction.”
