Lately there’s been a barrage of articles about how Apple is destroying the open web (because “app store, lol”) and it is Time Something Was Done About This : Apple’s paranoid approach to developer relations, and, I assume, relations with other browser vendors (and, in fact, relations to anything…

Private Lives: Personal essays on the news of the world and the news of our lives. I had just turned 22 and I had the self-esteem of a squashed toad. This may explain why I was having an affair with a married 36-year-old sound mixer whom I’d met on a film shoot a couple of months earlier. I’d had…

Like any masterpiece, Carl Barks' 1949 comic book story "Lost in the Andes" means many things to many critics, each one finding something new with every reading. From 1942 to his retirement in 1966, Carl Barks drew Donald Duck comic books (7th greatest comic of the 20th Century according to The…

Neal Cassady's letter that launched the Beat Generation randomly found after 60 years missing http://t.co/4cBO2z7uXL http://t.co/CnHHpXXHL3

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British sitcom predicted rise of the loud, confident, uninformed Youtube star a decade ago. http://t.co/6nOYaO6iJd http://t.co/1EWlxieKOy

Feminist author @lynne_segal on how we can kick-start a sexual revolution: http://t.co/3lgMhXYSzZ http://t.co/oF8SOQlmQj

I've shared this before but I'm sharing it again, because it's a great article. "I need terrible female engineers": http://t.co/i90Q53aGHf

Fifty Shades of Socialist Feminism is exactly what this evening needed. Thank you @pennyred http://t.co/yoPqKbJwPD

“So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.” Credit Photograph by Pari Dukovic I. Launch Day In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play…

Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job. This. Forever. Literally, hopefully. https://t.co/LO4CtAWKty

Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann In 2004, when Danny Meyer opened a burger stand named Shake Shack in Madison Square Park, it didn’t look like the foundation of a global empire. There was just one location, and Meyer was known for high-end venues like Gramercy Tavern. But the lines became…

«The move has been extremely controversial with the government, because it makes data too safe.» Oh really? http://t.co/GQU7z9nhM5

It’s Not Just Björk: Women Are Tired of Not Getting Credit for Their Own Music http://t.co/lqjQDeQh00 cc: @Grimezsz http://t.co/60Cz5pz6Pe

Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email. It was encrypted, and sent from the sort of anonymous email service that smart people use when they want to hide their identity. Sitting at the kitchen table in the small cottage where I lived in Berkeley with my wife and…

Science fiction author Isaac Asimov once wrote the "Three Laws of Robotics" into his Robot series of stories. These laws were permanently hard-coded into every robot as a final failsafe to prevent catastrophe and protect humanity. I got to wondering, what are our final failsafes? What would our…

Deer are invading New York City, and we don't know how to stop them Just before Christmas of last year, John Caminiti, who lives in Staten Island, New York City’s least populated borough, watched traffic come to a standstill outside the Staten Island Mall. "It got quiet all of a sudden," Caminiti…

A few people have forwarded me MIT professor Scott Aaronson’s post about nerd trauma and male privilege ( link here , it's comment #171) It's part of a larger discussion about sexism in STEM subjects, and its essence is simple. Aaronson's position on feminism is supportive, but he can’t get entirely…

Howard Lutnick, the chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the world’s largest financial-services firms, still cries when he talks about it. Not long after the planes struck the twin towers, killing 658 of his co-workers and friends, including his brother, one of the first things on Lutnick’s…

My castle is not your castle … the keep of Loches castle, shown here in a detail from Emmanuel Lansyer’s 1891 painting, was built in the 11th century.Photograph: World History Archive/Alamy 11th century: Castles Most people think of castles as representative of conflict. However, they should be seen…

Fairtrade Porn, Chickpeas and MuesliPhotograph: liz mcburney/Guardian T hey mainly call it ethical porn, though some people call it “fair trade”. The term “free range” was essayed, but its agricultural connotations have proved too strong. “It’s the kind of porn you would buy in Waitrose,” is how D,…

[ Glenn Fleishman writes regularly for the Economist, Boing Boing, and Macworld, and tweets incessantly—oh why won’t he stop?—at @glennf .] A recent spate of articles caused yet another dustup about the future of the Web (an open publishing medium based on standards that ostensibly works anywhere)…

If I, a journalist, want to learn more about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s views on the black-white college gap, or the National Rifle Association’s on “concealed carry” laws, a straightforward path lies before me: I can call or email these organizations, or…

‘This reaction, mostly from male gamers, is to protect the status quo,’ Anita Sarkeesian tells the Guardian. But online harassment doesn’t exist in a vacuum.Photograph: Alex Lazara/AP A s the cultural relevance of angry white men on the internet withers away and ends, their last words – muttered…

Share Share When a society is organized around the idea that one group of people is inherently better than another, it goes without saying that injustice and unnecessary suffering will be the main result, with patriarchy and male privilege being the oldest living example. Gender inequality is…

Drafts is one of my all-time favorite apps on iOS, not only for its amazing utility, but also because it was the app that got me started writing about technology, so it has a special place in my heart. However, surveying what the app has looked like since its last big update over a year ago, it’s…

Our ambitious fourth issue featuring Grammy-nominated musician, Leon Bridges, and many more artists, makers, and risk-takers is available now in our shop  Tina: What has been your path to what you’re doing now? I grew up on a farm in South Louisiana in a noncreative household. My parents met in New…

Why nerd culture must die - http://t.co/V5SoSiSjgF

Until recently, you might have lived a life blissfully unaware of the online #Gamergate movement. But last week, computing giant Intel pulled its ads from an independent game-development site thanks to the gaming lobby. Now that major companies are taking sides, it's time to figure it out. Let us be…

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This weekend at the amazing Basilica Soundscape festival in Hudson, New York, Perfect Pussy singer Meredith Graves gave a spoken word piece that just might have become a manifesto. People wept, people laughed, people cheered, the New York Times enthused and one of Soundscape’s organizers suggested…

Here's my piece on #gamergate and the ongoing anti-feminist culture war: http://t.co/WzaRt6P21I