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A North Korean hacker silhouetted against the North Korean flag
Posted inQuotes

How a Hacker Named P4x Took Down North Korea’s Internet

by Krista Stevens February 9, 2022October 18, 2022

North Korea hacked him. Things got personal.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Culture, Nonfiction, Reading List, Story, Technology

Death of Writing, Writing of Death: A Reading List on Artificial Intelligence and Language

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 21, 2021October 19, 2022

Five longreads on artificial intelligence and a future filled with machine-written prose.

Posted inQuotes

Zoom Towns — Where Tourists Never Leave

by Carolyn Wells June 4, 2021October 18, 2022

“There’s another population of people who came and never left: those freed by COVID from cubicles and work commutes.”

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

Congratulations, You Now Own a Newspaper

by Krista Stevens March 1, 2021October 19, 2022

“’I think if the town survives, the newspaper will survive. I think we’re so intertwined. It’s not going to be one without the other. Our fates are going to be the same.'”

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes, Technology

‘No Single Machine Should Be Able to Control So Many People’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 4, 2021October 19, 2022

Can we survive the social web?

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Boom and Bust Cycles of Rock Springs, Wyoming

by Krista Stevens December 30, 2020October 19, 2022

“The day I turned 18, the Astro Lounge called and asked me to come strip for them. I have no idea how they knew I’d turned 18.”

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, profile, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Writing

The Alarmist: Is One of the Pandemic’s Loudest Scientific Voices Helping or Hurting Public Health?

by Seyward Darby December 8, 2020October 19, 2022

Meet Eric Feigl-Ding, the town crier of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Posted inStory

Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 8, 2020October 13, 2022

Our top story picks in business writing this year.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes, Technology

The Digital Security Threat Inside Jameson Rich’s Body

by Krista Stevens November 26, 2020October 19, 2022

“It’s a feeling instead of living as a guinea pig for an opaque set of private interests, and a feeling that I can’t trust an industry that would ever put unsecure devices inside patients in the first place.”

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes, Technology

‘Social Media Managers Are First Responders’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 11, 2020October 19, 2022

“They’re on the front lines of a relentless and overwhelming news cycle that is pushing them to the edge.”

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