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Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet | WIRED

wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/

People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.

• wikipedia, tag
• internet, tag
• longreads, tag
• culture, tag
• ·4 years ago

David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/

• family, tag
• demographics, tag
• community, tag
• article, tag
• culture, tag
• ·4 years ago

Processed World

processedworld.com/home.html

• magazine, tag
• history, tag
• politics, tag
• culture, tag
• socialism, tag
• processing, tag
• computing, tag
• ·4 years ago

OnlyFans: a day in the life of a top(less) creator | 1843

1843magazine.com/people/onlyfans-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-topless-creator

• culture, tag
• sex_work, tag
• ideas, tag
• business, tag
• internet, tag
• monetisation, tag
• ·4 years ago

How Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2019/11/27/t-magazine/spices.html

• globalisation, tag
• culture, tag
• food, tag
• farming, tag
• spices, tag
• ·4 years ago

href.cool: Links of the 2010s

href.cool/2010s/

• culture, tag
• internet, tag
• art, tag
• humour, tag
• history, tag
• netart, tag
• links, tag
• ·4 years ago

The People Who Eat the Same Lunch Every Day - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/03/eating-the-same-thing-lunch-meal/584347/

• food, tag
• culture, tag
• habits, tag
• ·4 years ago

Digital media use and mental health - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media_use_and_mental_health

• internet, tag
• culture, tag
• mental_health, tag
• addiction, tag
• ·4 years ago

Being Busy Is Eliminating the Joys of Shared Free Time - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/why-dont-i-see-you-anymore/598336/

Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.

• culture, tag
• friendship, tag
• home, tag
• life, tag
• schedule, tag
• union, tag
• ·4 years ago

Cash/Consent | Issue 35 | n+1

nplusonemag.com/issue-35/essays/cashconsent/

• feminism, tag
• sex_work, tag
• consent, tag
• culture, tag
• porn, tag
• law, tag
• ·4 years ago

Why Are Rich People So Mean? | WIRED

wired.com/story/why-are-rich-people-so-mean/

• money, tag
• economics, tag
• psychology, tag
• society, tag
• culture, tag
• ·4 years ago

Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On - danah boyd - Medium

medium.com/@zephoria/facing-the-great-reckoning-head-on-8fe434e10630

• technology, tag
• culture, tag
• harassment, tag
• speech, tag
• award, tag
• ·4 years ago

3 tribes of programming

josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/

• essay, tag
• programming, tag
• software, tag
• psychology, tag
• culture, tag
• ·4 years ago

The Real Dark Web

sonniesedge.net/posts/real-dark-web/

• technology, tag
• programming, tag
• culture, tag
• javascript, tag
• article, tag
• development, tag
• ·4 years ago

The best tourist secret attraction is the grocery store.

nymag.com/urbanist/article/the-best-tourist-secret-attraction-is-the-grocery-store.html

• groceries, tag
• culture, tag
• travel, tag
• food, tag
• ·4 years ago

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet – OneZero

onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1

In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we’re struck by its silence. It seems…

• culture, tag
• privacy, tag
• internet, tag
• social_media, tag
• ·4 years ago

[1904.09954] Why Software Projects need Heroes (Lessons Learned from 1100+ Projects)

arxiv.org/abs/1904.09954

• software, tag
• engineering, tag
• management, tag
• culture, tag
• collaboration, tag
• ·5 years ago

Adactio: Journal—Split

adactio.com/journal/15050

Materials and tools; client and server; declarative and imperative; inclusion and privilege.

• development, tag
• culture, tag
• css, tag
• html, tag
• gatekeeping, tag
• ·5 years ago

Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2019/03/23/sunday-review/human-contact-luxury-screens.html

• culture, tag
• technology, tag
• class, tag
• screens, tag
• luxury, tag
• contact, tag
• ·5 years ago

Death of the calorie | 1843

1843magazine.com/features/death-of-the-calorie

For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure

• health, tag
• nutrition, tag
• science, tag
• diet, tag
• food, tag
• culture, tag
• ·5 years ago