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Vibes in the Machine February 13, 2023
Blink. Wednesday afternoon, shortly after Twitter increased character limits on tweets for verified users, a major bug took down most of the site. For a few, harrowing hours, with direct messages nuked, tens of millions of users who attempted to post...
Waking Up From Wokeness May 26, 2021
I cannot identify who exactly popularized the term “woke.”But I have had cause to wheel it out here and elsewhere on off for the last few years, generally when describing some absurd piece of academic or corporate or government obeisance to political...
Is It Time to Abolish Museums? May 26, 2021
It’s been a tumultuous few years for the art world. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump served as a moment of political awakening for many: Well-intentioned artists began to make explicitly political art—some of it quite moving, more o...
Kendi's Premature Memoir May 26, 2021
Ibram Kendi has written a coming-of-age memoir somewhat prematurely. The opening of How to Be an Antiracist highlights Kendi’s epiphany at age seven upon seeing the world through the prism of race. The occasion was his introduction to a new school an...
