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The Last Place Where No One Is Looking: Embracing the End Times of Snapchat
As once-popular Snapchat becomes an increasingly irrelevant platform, Helena Fitzgerald finds beauty in its uselessness.
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The Decline of Snapchat and the Secret Joy of Internet Ghost Towns
As once-popular Snapchat becomes an increasingly irrelevant platform, Helena Fitzgerald finds beauty in its uselessness.
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Great News Everyone, We’ll Never Have Shared Food Experiences Ever Again
To every man and woman their own Dorito.
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Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook
If we want to liberate ourselves from the tech monopolies, we have to figure out what to do with our data.
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The Internet Isn’t Forever
When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.
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Blockchain Just Isn’t As Radical As You Want It To Be
On how a new administrative technology is being conflated with radical politics.
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The Placeless and the Privileged
On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another “lifestyle choice.”
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When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office
On life at a Miami digital-nomad compound, which one resident describes as “a hybrid between a summer camp for adults and a reality-TV show without the cameras.”
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Translation is Messy, Which is Why Google Translate Will Never Be Very Good at It
The popular online tool is great at rapid decoding. Extracting meaning? Not so much.