The enduring, pernicious whiteness of true crime
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Inside Roblox's war on porn - The game platform is extremely popular with children, and the company is waging an endless fight against "condo games": explicit, often sex-themed user creations
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How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
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Loving the alien - How UFO culture took over America
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Eastshade postmortem - A look back at the five-year development of the open-world adventure where you play as a traveling artist
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How men’s rights groups helped rewrite regulations on campus rape
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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Speech acts
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Learning Rust can be frustrating because it's different enough from other languages that you may not even be able to easily describe the issues you're having
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Celebrations of Progress - A look at some major celebrations of historical achievements, and thoughts about why it seems like nothing similar has happened recently
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Redefining “racism”: Against activist lexicography
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National trends in grade inflation, American colleges and universities
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The graphing calculator story
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Seeing around corners
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The ethics of deep learning AI and the epistemic opacity dilemma
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In praise of idleness
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The appeal and desperation of GaryVee's hustle culture
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The endgame of the Olympics: What if the Olympic Games never come back?
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A neurophilosophy of autonomous weapons and warfare
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The philosophy of cricket
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Consensus decision-making: a short guide
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What is MasterClass actually selling?
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The Amish keep to themselves. And they’re hiding a horrifying secret: "A year of reporting by Cosmo and Type Investigations reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse."
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Sweatpants forever
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Bill Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice”
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Time travel in Avengers: Endgame
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Walk Monster
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The truth is paywalled but the lies are free
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Immunology is where intuition goes to die
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We quit our jobs to build a cabin—everything went wrong
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A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat - TikTok's algorithm is so good at organizing users into subcultures that it was able to skip the awkward early phases of new social media
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Safety lessons from the morgue
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Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds
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Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system
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How compulsory unionization makes us more free
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The science of user experience: How to use cognitive science in modern software development
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Mask off: Crisis and struggle in the pandemic
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Engineers of the soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China
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At a loss for words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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May we all be so brave as 19th century female husbands
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CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire
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An analysis of over 15,000 popular Google searches found that the first organic result is now usually almost halfway down the page, and requires scrolling multiple screen-lengths on mobile to reach
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On mob justice in Nigeria
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The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
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Bread, how did they make it? Part I: Farmers!
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The great climate migration has begun
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Hiroshima (1946)
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Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built
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