× Seth Wenig/AP Photo A sign marks a pick-up point for the Uber car service at LaGuardia Airport in New York. It's long been understood that ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft may pose a threat to public transit. Despite those companies' claim that they're complementary to buses and trains,…

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One spring afternoon, while visiting my parents in my hometown of State College, Pennsylvania, I was driving to the grocery store. As I usually do on the rare occasions I drive, I was listening to the local country station, called, for some reason, Froggy 98 (slogan: “The best and most country”). I…

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The intense political battles over Facebook and the other giant social media companies mark the end of the empire-building phase of those companies’ history. Now they’re a mid-20th-century European power, agonizing over the inevitable loss of the colonies and trying to stomp out insurgencies. No…

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Culture Desk My Buddy August 1, 2017 Sam Shepard and Patti Smith at the Hotel Chelsea in 1971.Photograph by David Gahr/Getty He would call me late in the night from somewhere on the road, a ghost town in Texas, a rest stop near Pittsburgh, or from Santa Fe, where he was parked in the desert,…

For most of my adult life, I have been maniacally focused on my work. I would answer emails instantly during the day, and even get up twice each night to ensure that all the emails were answered. Yes, I would spend time with my family members—but just so they didn’t complain, and not an hour more.…

Chris Dixon 9 min read· Jun 1, 2017 -- It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers, organizations — could access equally. Among other things, this allowed independent developers to build products that quickly gained…

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The cap does not look good on you, it's a duffer's cap, and when you come to the microphone, you look like the warm-up guy, the guy who announces the license number of the car left in the parking lot,

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Annals of Politics The spectacles in Cleveland and Philadelphia both came down to a question as old as the Republic: who are the people, and who speaks for them? August 1, 2016 A delegate stands during a D.N.C. address. Both Conventions were riven and ruled by invocations of “the people.”Photograph…

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Hell, yes, it was crazy. You rubbed your eyes at the sight of it, as in, “Did that really just happen?” It wasn’t what we expected. We thought Donald Trump‘s version of the Republican National Convention would be a brilliantly bawdy exercise in Nazistic excess. We expected thousand-foot light…

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Published in MIT MEDIA LAB · 5 min read · Feb 13, 2016 -- I never went looking for a mentor. In 1995, I was working as the lead tech guy for an internet startup, Tripod . I spent an inordinate amount

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