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The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews

by Will McCarthy January 3, 2023December 15, 2022

Glimpses of humanity in an unlikely corner of the internet.

Woman hiding under the blanket, chatting and surfing the internet with smart phone at late night on bed.
Posted inNonfiction

Becoming Human Again: A Reading List for the Extremely Offline

by Lisa Bubert March 9, 2022October 19, 2022

Think it’s time to get off social media? Then this is the reading list for you.

The traces of a car's taillights driving into a surreal digital landscape
Posted inReading List

Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games

by Peter Rubin October 7, 2021October 19, 2022

Five longreads on the culture and creativity that games have spawned.

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 inNonfiction

Bringing Species Back … From the Brink

by Carolyn Wells August 19, 2021October 18, 2022

“You could actually restore a species to be even more diverse and healthier than it was before, Church says. “You can include diversity from multiple points in the globe and multiple points in time.””

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 inNonfiction

Graded by an Algorithm

by Carolyn Wells February 24, 2021October 14, 2022

“Algorithms…don’t go on mutant rampages, they only sometimes reveal and amplify the cruddy human biases that underpin them.”

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, profile, Quote Posts, Quotes, Technology

A Young Cartographer’s Mission to Map the Catholic Church — and Fight Climate Change

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 9, 2021October 19, 2022

“The role of the cartographer isn’t just data analytics,” says Molly Burhans, an activist mapping the land assets of the Catholic Church. “It’s also storytelling.”

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, 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.”

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