“Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled feeds. It’s their adult children’s job to save them.”
Internet
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You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished.
“Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not ‘notable’ enough. How do these poor souls take the news?”
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Still On Its Way to Cleveland
Nine months, 25,000 miles, one phone cord, and the kindness of strangers.
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Eating Alone
Soggy fries, ghost kitchens, and a $19 bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich: what we’ve actually gained on the path to convenience.
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Who Can Solve Gerhard Berger’s Quiz?
“The former Ferrari driver lent his name to the strangest F1 video game in history. Or did he?”
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How I Became the Villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
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What If It All Came Out?
“We’re each attached to years of texts, searches, and photos, an archive of humiliation that could detonate at any time.”
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Online Trolls Harassed Her Six-Year-Old. That Was Only the Beginning.
“How a group of sports fans at the University of Iowa sparked a clash involving a basketball star, a T-shirt company, and a reporter from halfway across the country.”
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Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space
“The internet has stopped being a place we visit—it’s now an environment we inhabit.”