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Bullet Points: Oh-just-shut-up edition
A.I. is a bullshit generator. Conservatives aren't being barred from APSA. and pronatalism is still a pretend-crisis.
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How 9/11 affected the Digital Future
One of the most striking things I’ve found while reading the early WIRED back catalog is how quaint the discussions of governmental surveillance were…
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We should all be Luddites now
A review of Brian Merchant's "Blood in the Machine"
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Does anyone think Twitter gets *better* from here?
I'm done.
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Bullet Points: Big money ruins everything+pronatalism's fake apocalypse
I’m vacationing in California this week. (Take the family to L.A., they said… the weather is always perfect in L.A., they said…). I’ve read a couple of…
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On the declining relevance of digital petitions
Part 3 in "The MoveOn Effect at 10" series
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90's tech culture was a jumbled mess
A tour through WIRED's old "Fetish" product review section
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The Future, Now and Then
A newsletter that mixes insights from the history of the digital future (#WIREDarchive) with observations and rants about the state of politics today. Basically a blog for your inbox.
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