Illustration by Kendra. As our moms, teachers, and even CERTAIN WEBSITES repeatedly stress, nothing on the internet ever truly disappears. The internet has held a record of some very painful and embarrassing stages of my life. My online identity remains a fixed being, even while my in-person…

The day before my friend Tayler Smith and I found out our photo series was appropriated into the New Yorker, I woke up to a text message from another friend. We’re psychic sisters; she has a nightmare

Facebook today is rolling out “instant articles,” quick-loading stories from publishers including The New York Times and BuzzFeed that load on Facebook’s flagship app 10 times faster than before. The articles, which are hosted on Facebook’s servers, are well designed and create a genuinely better…

I almost got fired once. My friend, and CTO at the time, Dustin Moskovitz pulled me into a room one morning. He told me I would no longer be working on News Feed, which was surprising because at the time I was the only engineer keeping it running. Instead they were going to hand it off to someone…

Columns Critic Meaghan Garvey looks at how Internet fatigue is showing up in music. May 26, 2015 I’ll always associate the year 2011 with Glass Swords, the debut album from Rustie, the Glaswegian producer of the Hudson Mohawke school of aesthetics. It’s kind of lazy to hold up cover artwork as a…

We all have those annoying friends on Facebook. They’ll tag you in unflattering pictures, they send too many messages, and they get touchy when you unfriend or unfollow them for doing so. But the new teen-horror flick Unfriended proves that the worst kind of Facebook friend, beyond the new moms and…

What the hell is everyone doing? And more importantly, why is everyone doing what they’re doing? It’s Wednesday evening and through the lens of the people I follow on Twitter–a collection of people I know well, kind of know, don’t know but what to know, and absolutely can’t stand–I’m convinced I’ve…

Books February 9, 2015 It’s hard to envision the Nordic model ever finding a home on these shores.Illustration by Script & Seal Some say that the American Dream is not what it once was: wages are low, retirement is not a parachute glide but a plunge, and those chosen to fix such problems labor at…

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Hanging from scaffolding on an in-progress luxury condo near Sufjan Stevens ’ office studio in Brooklyn, a huge sign promises to “preserve the history but change the meaning.” The phrase is a euphemis

What is a piece of writing if no one reads it, if no one can attribute it to your name? The work is for you, and only you, meaning that, among other things, the cesspool of internet comments is easily avoided. You become your own worst critic, and best champion, and criticism — helpful or otherwise…

Culture Desk November 21, 2013 Anybody who reports on the arts will eventually feel the fear of crying wolf: If I tell people that I just saw the greatest thing ever, will it undo the last time I said it? How many times can you say something like that before all the claims coalesce into a weak mist…

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Photo: Bobby Doherty Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who had recently published a column in a school newspaper about his perspective as a minority on campus. The students, who were recorded on a…

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Whether it’s cucumbers splashing into water or models sitting smugly next to a pile of vegetables, it’s tough not to be sucked in by the detox industry. The idea that you can wash away your calorific sins is the perfect antidote to our fast-food lifestyles and alcohol-lubricated social lives. But…

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Do the Math: How much of your time is spent online consuming things made by other people versus time spent making something of your own? Using Wikipedia’s “Wikipedians” as a general compass, only .01 — .02 % of their audience creates (contributes) to their community. Everyone else, statistically…

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Taylor has called 1989 her “first documented, official pop album,” but her sharp pop instincts have been fully fledged since the beginning of her country crossover career. Swift’s new album is named both for the year of her birth and to signify an era in music, and she has cited Annie Lennox and…

It’s impossible to review Lena Dunham’s book without reviewing Lena Dunham. Or at least, “Lena Dunham”, the strange, confected, caricatured, endlessly examined carapace inside which, presumably, the real woman resides. Dunham’s first appearance in print came in 1998, when a Vogue story on New York…

Annals of Enterprise The Disruption Machine June 16, 2014 Disruption is a theory of change founded on panic, anxiety, and shaky evidence.Illustration by Brian Stauffer In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that…

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News Analysis Credit...Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection - From Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits (PowerHouse Books, 2013) RECENTLY, I came across a great find in a Vermont antiques store: an old black-and-white photograph of a female pilot on a mountaintop, her aviator glasses pushed up on her forehead,…

I am in a band that was born on the internet. Although Chvrches formed and began writing in October 2011, we made our first wobbly steps into the public realm by posting a song on Neon Gold music blog in May last year. Since then, the blogosphere and social networks have arguably been the key…

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Photo of Trayvon Martin taken in August 2011. (AP Photo/Martin Family) One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions. After a nearly all-white jury

Comedy Central Todd Sattersten 5 min read· May 14, 2013 -- Stephen Colbert opened his October 25th, 2011 show with his normal exuberance. He bragged about his special early access to the iPhone, the iPad, and the iV (a product that feeds the Internet directly into your veins; he assured us a short…

Warner Bros. Pictures Alex Leo 5 min read· May 14, 2013 -- It’s too much. The movie has been out less than a week, and you already feel like it’s consumed as much air as three seasons of Girls combined. But try to relax — I won’t yell. I love Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and thought the movie was fine. The…

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While predictions of the future can never be absolutely certain, present scientific understanding in various fields has enabled the course of the far future to be plotted if only in the broadest outlines. These fields include astrophysics, which has revealed how planets and stars form, interact and…

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