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May 5, 2019
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Blockchain Hype Missed the Mark, and Not by a Little
“Bitcoin’s glory has been a bit tarnished by the bursting of its price bubble since late 2017. But enthusiasm for blockchain technology is still going strong,…”
May 4, 2019
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You Know What? Go Ahead and Use the Hotel Wi-Fi
“As you travel this holiday season, bouncing from airport to airplane to hotel, you’ll likely find yourself facing a familiar quandary: Do I really trust this…”
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A Regulatory Framework for the Internet
“This week, when the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Secretary of State for the Home Department released a white paper…”
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Advice on starting a microgrant program
“I ran a personal microgrant program called Helium Grants for two years. After reading ~4,000 applications and awarding nearly $40,000 in grants to 26 people,…”
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Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden
“By Melanie Hamlett May 2, 2019 Kylie-Anne Kelly can’t remember the exact moment she became her boyfriend’s one and only, his what would I do without you , but…”
May 3, 2019
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Meet the Guy Tasked With Archiving Prince’s Entire Vault
“Prince. Photo: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images Tucked away deep inside a maximum-security storage facility in Hollywood, the contents of Prince’s storied vault…”
April 29, 2019
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“But unseen barriers do. Devon Price Mar 23, 2018 Photo by Scott Webb, courtesy of Unsplash I’ve been a psychology professor since 2012. In the past six years,…”
April 27, 2019
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A Tiny House Overflowing With Ideas in Toronto’s West End | Designlines
“A Mini Bloorcourt Home Overflowing with Big Ideas This teeny house is a fixture of the Bloor and Dufferin neighbourhood. The previous tenant, an artist, painted…”
April 24, 2019
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The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
“okawa somchai / Shutterstock As Instagram has grown to more than 1 billion monthly users , it has ushered in a very particular look: bright walls , artfully…”
April 20, 2019
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A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF | PDF Association
“What can we learn about the Mueller Report from the PDF file released by the Department of Justice on April 18, 2019? This article offers two things: a brief,…”
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A Sunny Saturday at Brooklyn’s Most Instagrammable Intersection
“At Dumbo’s most photogenic street corner. Photo: itzellemed/Instagram The Empire State Building peeks through the Manhattan Bridge’s arches at the corner of…”
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Why Joy Division? Henry Rollins examines Jon Savage’s oral history of the post-punk band
“Jon Savage’s “This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else” documents the formation, brief life and sudden end of the phenomenal Manchester, England, band…”
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Unmasked: An Analysis of 10 Million Passwords
“10 Million Tiny Windows Who is the first superhero that comes to mind? What about a number between one and 10? And finally, a vibrant color? Quickly think of…”
April 17, 2019
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‘Big and tall’ could be bigger — and better
“Our civilization encourages a dude to be a bigger man, but doesn’t deign to dress him very well. The situation in apparel for what the industry calls “big and…”
April 7, 2019
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“Felicity Huffman leaves a federal courthouse on April 3. Gretchen Ertl / Reuters Sweet Christ, vindication! How long has it been? Years? No, decades. If hope is…”
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We Know Very Little About How Old Age And The Internet Intersect, And What We Do Know Is Troubling
“Older people play an outsized role in civic life. They also are more likely to be online targets for misinformation and hyperpartisan rhetoric. FORT WASHINGTON,…”
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I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead.
“Tweet this Product teams have been repeating the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) mantra for a decade now, without re-evaluating whether it’s the right way to…”
April 6, 2019
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What Toronto Learned By Giving Streetcar Its Own Lane
“In crowded urban areas, cars aren’t the most efficient way to move people. That’s the lesson from Toronto’s one year King Street “pilot,” which prohibited…”
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Lil Nas X’s Havoc-Wreaking Meme Is a Hit. He’s as Surprised as You Are
“It took Montero Hill a few tries to perfect the art of going viral. “I was doing Facebook comedy videos, then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on…”
March 3, 2019
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“Editor’s Note 1 : I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2 : I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as…”
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A Journey Into the Animal Mind
“Getty / Life on White Ami d the human crush of Old Delhi, on the edge of a medieval bazaar, a red structure with cages on its roof rises three stories above the…”
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“Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images Transportation is now the biggest single source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, having recently passed electricity generation.…”
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Annoyed by Restaurant Playlists, a Master Musician Made His Own
“How Ryuichi Sakamoto assembled the soundtrack for Kajitsu, in Murray Hill, and what it says about the sounds we hear (or should) while we eat. The prolific…”
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Mark Hollis, Leader of ’80s Band Talk Talk, Is Dead
“Mark Hollis of Talk Talk in 1986. The success of the group’s first album, “It’s My Life,” gave Mr. Hollis and the rest of the band free rein to experiment. Mark…”
March 2, 2019
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When YouTube Red-Pills the Love of Your Life – MEL Magazine
“Sarah clearly remembers the moment she lost the love of her life to the “Red Pill.” She was sitting inside a dark closet next to the bedroom where she and her…”
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How to Stop Hating Your Least Favorite Food
“mikroman6 / Getty Cucumbers are my nemesis. I want to fight every food in the melon family and many melon-adjacent foods, but melons avoid my primary disdain…”
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The magical thinking of guys who love logic
“Ian Danskin, who makes videos under the moniker Innuendo Studios, has made a name for himself on the internet for his YouTube series on the techniques and…”
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The problem with Silicon Valley’s obsession with blitzscaling growth
“The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Both…”
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How Millennial Parents Are Reinventing the Cherished Family Photo Album
“rubberball / Getty On the top shelf of closets, in dusty basements, and tucked away in chests across the country sit shoeboxes and stacks of albums filled with…”
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When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online
“Shutterstock For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Not long ago, the 11-year-old—who,…”