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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 20, 2015
The crazy world of adult content. What poison teaches us about life. Why does hate live online? Medicine and art meet in Stendahl syndrome.
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Trolls Are “Sadists and Psychopaths”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • February 13, 2014
Common wisdom has it that the Internet has disconnected people from their sense of empathy—but maybe it’s just exposed society at large to greater numbers of people who were already…
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Taking a Break from the Internet

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • December 5, 2013
We at the Rumpus love the Internet. We are, after all, a place to read, on the Internet (just check our Twitter bio). But sometimes it’s good to contemplate how…
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New Kind of Art: A @horse_ebooks Roundup

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 26, 2013
For the past few years, the Twitter account @horse_ebooks has delighted hundreds of thousands of followers with algorithmically generated excerpts of found text like “Everything happens so much,” “Crying is…
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“Ooh! A Pencil App!”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • April 1, 2013
“I’m bored. New window!” Treasured Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak illustrates the secret lives of web journalists over on the Paris Review‘s blog. Bloggers, you might want to shield your eyes. It…
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Too Many Choices

  • Seth Fischer
  • March 14, 2010
“I feel like an alcoholic pushed into a permanently stocked bar, and I can’t even taste the merlot because I’m trying to down a tequila and sip a martini at…
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The Rumpus Review of We Live in Public

  • Larry Fahey
  • September 11, 2009
Sizing up history is a tricky business: You can generally recognize that something is significant long before you can really say why or how. So it is with the Internet…
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