Tag: Internet

In an interview at GQ, Patricia Lockwood talks about the perils of being extremely online.

Can we survive the social web?

Alexandra Tanner spent this weird year following Mormon mommy bloggers on Instagram.

“There’s no Dropbox plan that will let us upload body and soul to the cloud. We are still here on the ground, with the same people and on the same planet we are being encouraged to leave behind.”

To this day, only Elizabeth Pierce knows why she defrauded partners and investors by forging contract signatures.

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.”

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

“Is Florida Man a hero, a villain or a victim? And is it still okay to laugh along?” (No, it’s not.)

A journalist who reported on the accusations long before they went viral wonders, “What kind of profession am I in, where stories have no logical reason for unfolding?”

Maybe it’s time for an internet break… after you read this.

In Mark Doten’s “Trump Sky Alpha,” a journalist who has survived Trump’s nuclear apocalypse gets an assignment from what’s left of the New York Times Magazine: find out what people were tweeting as the bombs fell.

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.

Two self-proclaimed “Amazon coaches” say they can train you in their business models so you can make thousands of dollars reselling cheap Chinese products on the world’s largest ecommerce store.

Thinking of Qandeel Baloch’s murder as an honor killing doesn’t capture the whole truth. She was silenced for revealing men’s hypocrisy.

After receiving a string of menacing emails, Amy Kurzweil wonders: Can she safely extend a writer’s empathy to men who harass her on the internet?

How ’90s webzines heralded the best — and worst — of today’s online media landscape.

Lucie Greene’s new book “Silicon States” is about the danger of concentrating so much power in so few hands.

Facebook’s botched war against propaganda campaigns.

A woman who doesn’t feel like going to work today stays in bed and looks at the internet instead. She finds a blog by a fed-up call center employee who complains about the customers.

Tim Berners-Lee: “For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it.”

The precarious future of messaging apps.

Is it possible to be queer, lefty, and a Latter-Day Saint? After leaving the church, Sarah Scoles sets out to understand liberal Mormons.

As once-popular Snapchat becomes an increasingly irrelevant platform, Helena Fitzgerald finds beauty in its uselessness.

They perform daring escapes from slaughterhouses, zoos, and laboratories. But animals on the run are only as free as we want them to be.

He’s not very good at his job.

The more work that journalists create for the internet, the more work is rendered obsolete.

Searching for a teen girl who was once internet famous for her coding skills, a former fan uncovers a story of harassment.

When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.

Online harassment is as serious as offline harassment, and it rarely stays “only” online.

I haven’t peeked at eBay in years, and apparently I’m not the only one who’s forgotten it exists.