How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist
“The problem is, maximizing interruptions in the name of business creates a tragedy of the commons, ruining global attention spans […]
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Help me keep the SF Bay clean.
I’m doing a swim on Sunday, May 22, as part of the annual Bay Parade. I’m part of a relay team,
When a clickbait headline leads to national outrage.
So Gizmodo publishes a story whose headline reads “Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News,” and the Internet goes predictably apeshit. There’s just one problem: The story doesn’t deliver what the headline promises.
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Master class on prosody.
Vox just dropped a 12-minute master class on prosody featuring some amazing rap lyrics. Rhyme, beats, metrical motives … this
Breaststroke.
The breaststroke has a faint sense of femininity attached to it these days. There’s the name, of course: Anything beginning
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As a horse when he has run
As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has
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Wild geese
Few men have souls so dead that they will not bother to look up when they hear the barking of
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Blind auditions for comedy writers
Comedian Samantha Bee has a late-night talk show that starts this week. From a recent New York Times story on
7 thoughts on the tech media in 2016
The media is in a state of upheaval. 2015 was a stormy year, and signs indicate that 2016 will be
Wired gets tough on ad-blockers
Sometimes we get just what we deserve. This week the news hit that Wired is about to start offering an