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Excellent piece. "@sepinwall: New blog post: Review: 'Game of Thrones' presents its most amazing spectacle yet http://t.co/zIZEc5tPhh" — Andrew Bucholtz (@AndrewBucholtz) June 1, 2015 Tweeted by @AndrewBucholtz

Annals of Games World Without End May 11, 2015 No Man’s Sky will let virtual travellers explore eighteen quintillion full-featured planets.Hello Games The universe is being built in an old two-story building, in the town of Guildford, half an hour by train from London. About a dozen people are…

An introvert's explanation for why they don't want help when they start the dishes during a dinner party. http://t.co/hb1p1GrjNj — Steffani Cameron (@SnarkySteff) May 19, 2015 Tweeted by @SnarkySteff

Some thoughts on our present #GameofThrones difficulties: http://t.co/MvifQB7vGp pic.twitter.com/Sw4C4Bfs3x — Alyssa Rosenberg (@AlyssaRosenberg) May 19, 2015 Tweeted by @AlyssaRosenberg

Itching to build your very own robot army (in Slack)? Understandable. So here's simple guide to getting started! 🔧⚡️🚀 http://t.co/HrO9IFrtTV — Slack (@SlackHQ) May 20, 2015 Tweeted by @SlackHQ

Without a definitive judicial ruling or other galvanizing event, a perennial American argument is ending. Capital punishment is withering away . It is difficult to imagine moral reasoning that would support the conclusion that an injustice will be done when, years hence, the death penalty finally is…

For most of us, the sight of blue lights and yellow lines outside an airplane’s window is the cue to turn our phones back on. For pilots, it’s more like a secret language—a language that is vitally important to safety and, increasingly, embedded with emerging technology. I was very recently on a…

Several People are Helping (or: How Every Response You Get From @SlackHQ is written by about 150 people) 🌎💁🎉http://t.co/7tUKewrRBz — Slack (@SlackHQ) May 12, 2015 Tweeted by @SlackHQ

Welcome To Berlin, Now Go Home by Thomas Rogers The first in a pair of essays today on being an expat in Berlin. When I first moved to Berlin this summer, there was a big piece of graffiti in the courtyard next to my front door. “Tourists fuck off,” it said, in cheerful blue spray paint. It didn’t…

We have reached the negotiation table and now we argue: what does the internet mean? The technology has worked well enough for long enough that now the conversation has shifted away from wondering abo

In a fourth-floor conference room at Baltimore police headquarters, two training officers in blue T-shirts and blue pants lowered themselves onto the carpeted floor to demonstrate the leg hold officers used to restrain Freddie Gray the day he was arrested — and sustained a fatal spine injury. As one…

Can gaming work on an Apple Watch? Runeblade will try as an RPG for the smallest screen. http://t.co/p7lZvJCbUj — Denim & Steel (@DenimAndSteel) April 13, 2015 Tweeted by @DenimAndSteel

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Good first paragraph in this Apple Watch review by @mathowie: https://t.co/gxRIVsVfDd (via @todayintabs, @rustyk5) — how now (@brownpau) April 27, 2015 Tweeted by @brownpau

My labor of love the last two years has been The Magazine, first as its hired hand and then, in May 2013, as its owner. The sad truth has been that, while profitable from week one, the publication has had a declining subscription base since February 2013. It started at such a high level that we…

Mementos of past political battles poster his office walls, and evidence of his current fight sits in avalanche-prone piles as political activist Bill Tieleman savours the memory of a recent “down and dirty” debate. Tieleman was leader of the successful 2013 campaign to stop the HST. And now—as part…

Obsessing over ‘privilege’ “robs us of any meaningful oppositional politics [and] plays into conservatives’ hands”: https://t.co/Dg4EGGEAEO — Alex Payne (@al3x) April 15, 2015 Tweeted by @al3x

This day in #yvr history 102 years ago: Baseball stadium opens at 5th & Hemlock http://t.co/RzGD5abMmh cc @vancanadians — Vancouver Courier (@VanCourierNews) April 17, 2015 Tweeted by @VanCourierNews

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By the mid-nineteenth century, coffee was central to Iceland’s sense of itself. The thing that’s striking is the coffee. I am talking here about Iceland, the

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie fans: She has a new short story at @NewYorker http://t.co/YsDZKDPFNq http://t.co/P8j1MeFX3R — Vancouver Public Lib (@VPL) April 10, 2015 Tweeted by @VPL

CLUBS, OFFICE LARPING, SEXLESS CHATROOMS, SLACK, THE WORKPLACE, WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY DO ALL DAY http://t.co/NuAABtA54H — Awl Tags (@AwlTags) April 20, 2015 Tweeted by @AwlTags

@sillygwailo Hey Richard, what do you make of the Blue Jays this year? I wrote a nice little season preview. http://t.co/e7cAIst0uT Go Sox!! — Har Journalist (@HarJournalist) April 6, 2015 Tweeted by @HarJournalist

i read all six @24hourbookclub books and finally met @dianakimball in the process. The Good Internet at its best. https://t.co/2GvV74yKmk — Ed Cormany (@ecormany) April 7, 2015 Tweeted by @ecormany

The Baseball Stadium Montreal Never Built http://t.co/jYm5a3bHem — Cecily Walker (@skeskali) April 10, 2015 Tweeted by @skeskali

The excellent @BKennedyStar wrote about the Blue Jays and I’m in it looking goofy. http://t.co/ll4pklvnf6 — fleetwood windows (@ruhee_) April 10, 2015 Tweeted by @ruhee_

David Ortiz and others are using The Players’ Tribune as a platform. David Ortiz’s blustery rant about being unfairly branded a cheater for testing positive for a banned substance in 2003 made news Thursday, not only for its strident tone, but for where it appeared. Instead of being reported by a…

Photographs By Jed Jacobsohn/The Players' Tribune Share Steve Nash Senior Producer I’m retiring. I heard someone once say there comes a day when they tell us

Share Editor at Large I was ready to shoot somebody, man. Literally. I was sleeping at my house in the Dominican this winter when I heard a banging on my front

BoJack Horseman coming exclusively to all Netflix territories in mid-2014. Photo: PRNewsFoto/Netflix, Inc BoJack Horseman is a weird cartoon about a washed-up sitcom star (who’s a horse), a snappy social criticism of the entertainment industry, and the kind of in-jokey cartoon designed to tickle the…

Steven Pinker—the Harvard cognitive scientist who also chairs the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary—is not a fan of many of the “rules” one finds in modern guides to grammar and usage, not to mention finger-wagging language columns. That's part of the reason he wrote The Sense of…

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I'd like to welcome you to Thedas, a fantastical place lots of us have lived in since BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins launched in 2009. The borders of this lush fantasy world have sprawled ever outward through the release of Dragon Age II, and welcomed ever more players. With the most recent game,…

Adam Horovitz in Noah Baumbach’s film “While We’re Young.”Credit...Jon Pack/A24 Longtime fans of the Beastie Boys could be forgiven for imagining that the rappers would be perennially young, forever New York’s impish hometown heroes, ollieing past authority on their way to after-hours fun. In truth,…

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore: An astonishing record http://t.co/8rXYJsfQvX pic.twitter.com/seKhXiaX92 — The Economist (@EconBizTravel) March 23, 2015 Tweeted by @EconBizTravel