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The Website at the End of the Internet July 23, 2025
t doesn’t really matter who you are, how you spend your time online, or what you imagine your relationship with the internet to be. However you scroll, wherever you browse, and whatever you want to see on your screens, it has probably happened to you...
Tech’s #MeToo Architect: The Legacy of Ellen Pao May 01, 2024
A recent retrospective in First Things about former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, ousted a decade ago from the company he co-founded over outcry about his opposition to gay marriage, sparked a chain of mea culpas from bystanders to the industry’s years-l...
Chuck Norris Will Live Forever August 24, 2023
ON A BORING FRIDAY night in 2005, Ian Spector was sitting at his computer, unable to get ahold of any of his real-life friends. So, the high school senior eventually got antsy and decided to connect with his virtual friends instead.What happened next...
Who Does Saudi Better: Google or Reddit? May 24, 2023
My pre-trip research before arriving in Riyadh was the usual Reddit-Google-TikTok expedition. What’s Saudi Arabia like? and safe + Saudi Arabia + Jewish woman.The results were mixed. Google suggested that anything and everything is fair game for gove...
The Strange and Fascinating World of r/meth April 24, 2023
This is r/meth — a shadow-people-haunted forest of madness and intrigue. Everything is chaotic and fascinating, from the moderation panel (stable as an Italian government), to my source, a bright and empathetic drug addict who uses a high-art pet pho...
My Wild Weekend at the Philip Roth Festival April 05, 2023
You can’t get a good bagel in Philip Roth’s hometown. At least not in the radius of The Robert Treat Hotel, Newark, where I am staying. I try two days in a row. Google Maps directs me to a bagel shop in Harrison, New Jersey, thirty minutes away. Some...
The Doomsday Prophets of Reddit March 06, 2023
Kevin was 23 when he realized the world was ending. “I called my mom and was like, we gotta sell our property and move to Alaska, we need to get to a haven where, even if things got really warm — like super warm — we can still survive.” At the time h...
