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I’ve long been afraid of toilets in Japan, beginning with the one in the temple we visited every summer starting in 1975, when my mother and I began to regularly go to her homeland in a bid to make sure I was familiar with her culture.

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Journalism and the Content Farm

For The Awl, Sam Stecklow writes a detailed history of the Chicago Sun-Times‘s recent structural and cultural shift from a “gritty, urban, crime and fire and investigation daily newspaper” to…

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The Last Book I Loved: Station Eleven

In the distance between me and the story, I can see all the ways I would have to change without technology, because of all the ways technology has already changed me.

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Unlocking the eBook

Craig Mod writes for Aeon on ebooks’ technological stagnation: …it was a stark reminder that pliancy of media invites experimentation. When media is too locked down, too rigid, when it’s…

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Weekly Geekery

Misandrist snake is a hero. Connecting all life. How do humans innovate? The science and fiction of H.G. Wells.

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Go, to bed. Now. Facebook begrudgingly cedes that they might not have a PhD in You. Literary non-fiction on the edge of technology… old technology that is. No technology can replace reading out…

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Handwriting is Dead; Long Live Handwriting

Type is the same, instance after instance, and the font you choose today will look the same when you type in it again tomorrow. The same is not true for…

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Diagramming the viral sentence. Technology just ruined fun and your childhood. Bury me with my iPhone. Selfies for president. Black Twitter matters.

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Twitter isn’t always toxic. The technology of the dinosaur epic. Score one for lady gamers. Can math solve questions of authorship? Toys are as creepy as you think.

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The Rumpus Interview with Andrew Ervin

Andrew Ervin discusses his debut novel, Burning Down George Orwell’s House, social media and writing, and how video games can serve as a way to understand the post-human world.

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L-IT-erature

Cohen is the perfect age to write such a book, having lived approximately an even number of years on either side of the pre-Web/post-Web divide. He gets “kids these days”…

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Weekly Geekery

Is the Hulk going to own Gawker? What’s actually happening with Twitter? Don’t freak out, but cities lose art all the time. Does power corrupt? Or do institutions corrupt? Technology is…

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The Japanese Toilet Takes a Bow: A Personal History

Journalism and the Content Farm

The Last Book I Loved: Station Eleven

Unlocking the eBook

Weekly Geekery

Weekly Geekery

Handwriting is Dead; Long Live Handwriting

Weekly Geekery

L-IT-erature

Weekly Geekery

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