weekly geekery
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Weekly Geekery
Portrait of a lady serial killer. Can Silicon Valley save our schools? Talking to women on the Internet is hard work. The Apple of Prisons? And that isn’t even the weird part. NPR is becoming Pandora. Battling extremism on the…
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Weekly Geekery
Are you a science dummy? Do you need to be happy? There is an app for that. The science of your face. Algorithms don’t know best. The history of Silicon Valley.
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Weekly Geekery
Examining continuity on screen and in our minds. How to constantly work without actually working. Buzzfeed is not so special after all. (So says the Atlantic.) Algorithms are to creativity in the 21st century as Gutenberg’s press was to creativity in…
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Weekly Geekery
Space sex! The science of being twitterpated. iPads can’t fix everything. The religion of technology. Need to police the police? There’s an app for that.
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Weekly Geekery
Should writers blog? A unified theory of email. TLDR version: There isn’t one. They aren’t bots. They are people. And they have access to your private information. It is necessary for some scientists to abandon the passive voice. Is Internet culture…
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Shame. The Internet. Monica Lewinsky. You spend hours killing people, but you don’t feel guilty. So much data. So few uses. All your stories in one little app. Reimagining incarceration. Your annoying Facebook friends have something to tell you.
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The Apple watch says you aren’t good enough. The tension between sex and science. Are rage clicks a thing of the past? What the Internet needs is a vigilante. Schools still have an equal access problem. When it comes to…
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Weekly Geekery
Google wants to rank searches on fact. But who decides what is a fact? Marissa Mayer is winning. Your dog ruined everything. You did too. For the last time, take those baby pictures down. It is time to log off…
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Weekly Geekery
How one troll came to repent for his sins. Speaking of trolls, they probably all have bad hearts. There is real symbiosis between science and fiction. There is also symbiosis between medicine and literature. Why we shouldn’t fetishize “makers.” Awkward online?…
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Weekly Geekery
Is this where digital media is headed? When your body is tracked. Gender, power, privilege, and technology. What did you talk about on social media in 2014? Publish or perish: Amazon edition.
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Weekly Geekery
Building an academic audience. The technology of your childhood. Academic innovation and the blame game. Pain and your brain and gain. When Reddit and journalism collide.
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Weekly Geekery
What do machines take from us? Hacking the police. Saving Egyptians. Do headlines change the way we read? The Internet is real.