The popular online tool is great at rapid decoding. Extracting meaning? Not so much.
Business & Tech
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Distraction is the New Censorship
Ideas don’t need to be deleted or redacted to be silenced. They can just be drowned out.
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Silicon Valley’s Spin Master
After helping shape the public image of numerous tech companies, Margit Wennmachers is now helping shape the story of Silicon Valley itself.
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Art in the Age of Blockchain
Why a rare Pepe meme is now easier to authenticate than a Leonardo.
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White Privilege on Loop
Ann-Derrick Gaillot traces how Vine’s shuttering last year disproportionately affected the careers of Black Viners.
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Money For Nothing in the Bitcoin Bubble
The cryptocurrency gold rush has made millionaires out of those obsessed with changing the world order.
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How the American Meat Industry Exploits Undocumented Laborers
Meat processing is one of the most dangerous jobs in America, even more so if you’re one of the undocumented immigrants who sanitizes the facilities.
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The More We Disrupt, The More Things Are Exactly The Same
TL;DR: tech titans have a lot of sex and drug parties at which they disrupt conventional morality by… replicating conventional sexist, heteronormative behaviors.Â
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Longreads Best of 2017: Science, Technology, and Business Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business, tech, and science writing.
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Tearing the Heart from the Music Industry
Digitization has removed the humanity from the music business, from collaboration to mutual respect.