The Addicts Next Door
Devastating look at a town hard hit by the opioid crisis
Letting neural networks be weird • The neural network will name your next band
A lot of potential here, especially if you want a shark-themed band – and why wouldn’t you?
How to Talk to Your Kid About Ja Rule
There is a day in every parent-child relationship that all mommies and daddies worry about, and that is the day their child starts asking about Ja Rule. Here’s how to deal with it.
Notes From An Emergency
Speaking of Maciej Cegłowski, here is the text of a recent talk. Lots here on the rise of the nationalist right and its use of tech, the “feudal internet” of huge tech companies that dominate our online lives, and what can be done about it.
Pinboard Acquires Delicious
No way! One bookmarking service To Rule Them All. Nice work, Maciej!
The Brexit no-one wanted
Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis
How Congress dismantled federal Internet privacy rules
After lobbying from nice organizations like the major telecoms, advertisers, Facebook and Google, while everyone else was distracted by the Trump shitshow, Republicans gutted Obama-era laws preventing ISPs from selling your browsing history. Because clearly what the world needs is more creepy microtargeted psychometric manipulation