The Baffler

• “Why are the Cambridge equivalent of rock stars coming out for the retirement party of a Harvard clerk—the guy who books rooms as a scheduling assistant for Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies?” asks Cambridge Day, at the ...

• The last unicorn? Hardly likely in the startup world, where there are now more than 120 companies bearing the moniker for a firm valued (perhaps falsely) at over $1 billion. Since the field is getting crowded, the industry lingo has now expanded to include ponies, ...

• In the scary world of innovation and its discontents, one Harvard student is mourning a lost opportunity to join the evil empire after Facebook rescinded his summer internship offer. The company reneged on their offer after discovering “Marauder’s Map,” ...

• Over at the MIT Technology Review, Amanda Schaffer writes that outmoded “great man” versions of history have been dropped in most fields, but still abound in the tech industry. Our willingness to indulge the concept of the mountain-moving ...

• The Oath Keepers have shown up in Ferguson, again, to monitor the riots following the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown. How this squares with the organization’s stated intention to “NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of ...

• “Hopelessly insecure” and “inherently weak” are two of the cheerful ways experts describe the 1980s networking technology almost all cars use, which is now being connected to the web by Internet of Things pioneers. As we saw last month, attaching ...

• Jon Stewart’s run as host of The Daily Show came to an end last night, carried off on the wings of a thousand think pieces. As an op-ed from WBUR said this week, “His anger — righteous, moral, though rarely overt — has been the key to Stewart’s ...