They call her The Savant, and between school drop-offs and dinner times and mowing the lawn, she’s down the internet’s darkest holes, finding the next misogynist who’s primed to turn violent.
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China’s Communist Government Has a Strong Hold on Chinese Corporations
China’s largest e-commerce company is not only changing the way people in China shop, but how they think about commerce and each other in a Communist country.
Is It Okay to Laugh at Florida Man?
“What it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along.”
“Welcome to the House of Horrors”: When IP Address Mapping Goes Wrong
John and his mother Ann, who live in a house in Pretoria, South Africa, were two victims of faulty IP address mapping — and the U.S. government played a big role in the mess.
There’s a global movement of Facebook vigilantes who hunt pedophiles
“Pedophile hunting” or “creep catching” via Facebook is a contemporary version of a phenomenon as old as time: the humiliating act of public punishment. Criminologists even view it as a new expression of the town-square execution. But it’s also clearly a product of its era, a messy amalgam of influences such as reality TV and […]
The Gilded Age of (Unpaid) Internet Writing
How ’90s webzines heralded the best — and worst — of today’s online media landscape.
‘We Live in an Atmosphere of General Inexorability’: An Interview with Jia Tolentino
Jia Tolentino talks about what kinds of personalities thrive online, why she is suspicious of her own self-narrative, and the pervading sense that everything’s spiraling out of control.
How Do We Read in a Digital World?
Digitization has changed the way readers experience literature — and examine themselves.
Queens of Infamy: Boudicca
If you underestimate a woman determined to avenge violence against her daughters, prepare yourself to get sacked. On repeat.
