Laurie Penny | Longreads | October 2017 | 15 minutes (4,185 words) “Man fucks woman. Man: subject. Woman: object.” — The Fall , Episode 3, “Insolence and Wine” The first thing you need to understand a
Alan Diaz/AP Photo AT&T’s lust for Time Warner traces a business impulse we’ve seen in action a dozen times in the past half-century. Jack Shafer is Politico ’s senior media writer. The Department of
This estimate is conservative. The math only works out to 78 hours if you assume that you never incorrectly reject a trendy candidate and that you don't have to interview candidates that you “correctl
T a-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power , a book about Barack Obama’s presidency and the tenacity of white supremacy, has captured the attention of many of us. One crucial question is why now
Deliverance From 27,000 Feet Two mountain climbers died near the top of Mount Everest in 2016. Their bodies lay frozen there for a year. Then a journey began to bring them home. In 2016, three Indian
News Analysis Self-Correcting Beyond a Web Era Marked by Sensationalism Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, in a Florida courtroom before a jury awarded Hulk Hogan damages for Gawker’s posting of a se
Here’s the scenario. A company raises $2m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 3
Opinion How to Get Your Mind to Read Credit... Lilli Carré Americans are not good readers. Many blame the ubiquity of digital media. We’re too busy on Snapchat to read, or perhaps internet skimming ha
Suggested background reading music There's a War Going On Bonnie and Clyde cannot simply rob First National Block Chain. They can hack servers and unencrypted wallet files or scan low-entropy brain wa
21 min read · Nov 6, 2017 -- I’m James Bridle . I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want what I’m talking about here anyw
This story is part of OUTER LIMITS, a Motherboard series about people, technology, and going outside. Let us be your guide . The disappearance of Stacy Ann Arras has a cultish online following. On doz
Almost as long as I have been working to make the lives of software engineers better, people have been asking me how to measure developer productivity. How do we tell where there are productivity prob
The Future Sucked Jacob Silverman , October 5, 2017 Reinventing the Wheel Moguls and the media companies they love—right into the ground Chris Hughes, dashing off to a more profitable venture. / aisle
Illustration: Greg Mably Bitcoin “miners” are electromagnetic alchemists, effectively turning megawatt-hours of electricity into the world’s fastest-growing currency. Their intensive computational act
During this crazy and bizarre week—one in which we learned that Donald Trump was briefed by intelligence chiefs that the Russian government had kompromat on him (and then later what said kompromat mig
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Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app . Charles Chesnutt leads a double life. In one, he works as a costumed histor
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But guess what? There’s no place to put the pen. What the fuck are they thinking about? So, what that is is, marketing people reacting to something that a competitor is doing and ignoring the fact tha
He was one of cinema’s biggest stars, but Marlon Brando behaved like a “monster” and seemed “hell-bent on sabotaging” The Island of Dr Moreau , one of his last films, according to its screenwriter. Wh
“It’s been hard for me to share my story. I’m a pretty private person,” she said. “I felt like I wanted to help other people who might be going through something. I don’t want people to give up. It seems like people are taking away my integrity and changing the story in a way that it won’t help…
When the Museum of Ice Cream opened in New York in 2016, it was more a temporary curiosity than a rival to, say, the Whitney Museum of American Art, which stood just across the street. The walls were
Republican Mayor Richard Berry was driving around Albuquerque last year when he saw a man on a street corner holding a sign that read: “Want a Job. Anything Helps.” Throughout his administration, as p
I've long turned up my nose at sermons and related forms of mass moralizing. One reason, quite simply, is that they bore me. Honesty good. Violence bad. My eyes glaze over. Empathy, rah! Racism, boo!
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A few months ago, while dining at Veggie Grill (one of the new breed of Chipotle-class fast-casual restaurants), a phrase popped unbidden into my head: premium mediocre. The food, I opined to my wife,
“In battle, the commander is the first one to go over the top,” Joe McKinney, shirt unbuttoned, wearing a shower cap and one of those airplane neck pillows, exclaims over music swelling from every dir
Opinion Goodbye, Yosemite. Hello, What? The Ahwahnee Hotel in 1980. Because of a trademark dispute, it has been renamed the Majestic Yosemite Hotel. HOTELS generally don’t figure prominently in my ima
A man is begging on the side of a Tennessee mountain. He's crumpled on the ground, his clothes are soaking wet, and he's sucking air hard. His wife weeps as she huddles over him, her hands resting sof
O ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatte
Published in Greylock Perspectives · 2 min read · Aug 15, 2017 -- There was a ruling yesterday in a lawsuit about LinkedIn and the ability for LinkedIn to block another company from scraping public da
Facebook has acquired Ozlo, a Palo Alto-based artificial intelligence startup, to help Messenger build out a more elaborate virtual assistant for users. Ozlo specializes in understanding text-based co
Marlon Craft is posted at the 161 Street Yankee Stadium subway stop, spitting bars befitting the scene like, "If Flash woulda copied Herc that woulda been some lame shit." This is the setting his firs
Press enter or click to view image in full size Why website body text should be bigger, and ways to optimize it. Xtian Miller 14 min read· Sep 29, 2016 -- Body text is the key component in communicating the main bulk of a message or story, and it’s probably the most important element on a website,…
A few weeks ago, I was trying to call Cuba . I got an error message—which, okay, international telephone codes are long and my fingers are clumsy—but the phone oddly started dialing again before I cou
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