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(She) was enthusiastically heterosexual.
—Eccentric Lives, The Daily Telegraph Book of 21st Century Obituaries.
So when their chosen heroes — the freedom fighters in whom they invested so much moral cachet — showed up at a concert and started beheading raver kids and Asian workers and abducting grandmas and God knows what else, what were Western leftists supposed to do? In situations like that there are really only two things you can do, without switching... See more
Noah Smith • Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot
My latest column at The New Yorker is about the revenge of homepages: Why we're turning toward individual websites as the platform era of the internet continues to disintegrate.
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a... See more
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a... See more
The reason the death of Google Reader matters, here, is that it marks a pivotal moment in the deliberate and engineered shrinking of the internet. When Google Reader died, article discovery shifted. People were no longer reading RSS feeds, finding new sites, following them, and being updated when those sites posted. Instead, they were scrolling on
... See moreKelsey McKinney • The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small | Defector
Talk about a redemption arc
Andy Ngo is one of those people who I had to constantly justify my friendship with because people would claim he was a racist or that his work was politically biased (as if corporate journos were free of bias).
For years his peers in journalism never gave him... See more
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