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What’s a Good Hourly Wage for Developing PTSD?
Asking for a friend called Facebook.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Why the Moon Is Suddenly a Hot Commodity
The next space race is on.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Business & Tech, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Uncategorized
Not Quite Democracy: Lucie Greene on the Civic Aspirations of Tech Giants
Lucie Greene’s new book “Silicon States” is about the danger of concentrating so much power in so few hands.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Technology, Unapologetic Women
Repairman-man-man-(wo)man
Lauren Hough recounts a decade of misadventures as a female cable tech in the DC Metro Area.
Posted inBusiness, Commentary, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story, Uncategorized
What Should Universal Basic Income Look Like?
Andrew Yang made it news, but we need a better plan.
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In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash
Amid the mansions and new tech money, an entire economy has developed to gather discarded items and resell them for a few hundred dollars a week, if they’re lucky. “It’s a civic service as I see it,” said Nick Marzano, who publishes a magazine about San Francisco trash pickers. “Rather than this stuff going to […]
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How Google’s Bad Data Wiped a Neighborhood off the Map
The renaming of Buffalo, New York’s Fruit Belt neighborhood reveals as much about gentrification as it does the flawed ways tech companies add locations to their maps.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Investigative Reporting
Our top picks for investigative journalism this year.
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The Rich Man and the Sea
Laurie Penny spends four days on a boat confronting the archetypal story of “man vs. blockchain.”
