To this day, only Elizabeth Pierce knows why she defrauded partners and investors by forging contract signatures.
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Finding a Path in a Broken System
Thailand is a top destination for gender confirmation surgery. Its success is a symptom of Western failure.
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Something About the Present
“And so I remember that it’s this moment I want, before it becomes the next, where anything could happen and anything could not.”
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For the Love of Wordle: A Reading List on Puzzles and Games
Seven longreads on the communal pastime of puzzles, games, and crosswords.
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The Buddy System
There is nothing quite like it. Surfing is a way of being connected to a deeper deep, an older old.
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The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell
Why it’s important to give things a sniff.
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‘I’m Incredulous That People Do This Repeatedly. The Second Book Thing Is So Real.’
Mary H.K. Choi discusses her latest novel, which examines how “holograms and digital envoys” represent us online, and why it feels like her “second book signals the death of my first.”
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How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
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Secret Museums
Struggling with the world’s, and his own, homophobia, one queer young man searches for intimacy in the world of internet porn.
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The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong?
“Last year, tech companies reported over 45 million online photos and videos of children being sexually abused — more than double what they found the previous year… Online predators create and share the illegal material, which is increasingly cloaked by technology. Tech companies, the government, and the authorities are no match.” Content Note: “Articles in this […]
