No Re-Turning Point, U.S.A.
When I look at TPUSA, I don’t see an organization looking for dialogue—I see an occupying force.
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Fresh Hell
January 26, 2018
Pass Go, Collect $2.8 billion.
This week, Amazon inched us further into our nightmarish future with the opening of Amazon Go: a grocery store without checkout lines or cashiers but chock full of cameras that sense, record, and charge you automatically for every impulse ...
Presidential Confusion
January 26, 2018
Imagine being a presidential scholar in this moment when the highest office in the land has been captured by a barely literate showman.
Your Faceprint Tomorrow
Facial recognition technology has marched unimpeded into the commercial sphere—the consequences are staggering.
No Filter
January 24, 2018
What is perhaps as consistent as the badness of Instapoetry is the general unwillingness to speak openly of its badness.
Engineered for Dystopia
January 24, 2018
Some of the first people to be called “engineers" operated siege engines.
The Peasants of Code
January 23, 2018
Big tech's cure for Appalachia's ills? Learn to code!
Who’s Afraid of the “Petextrian”?
January 23, 2018
The “petextrian” is a preemptive attempt by automakers and their allies to invent a menace that’s a worthy successor to the jaywalker.
The Public Interest and the Public Offering
Spielberg's The Post never goes beneath the surface of the media’s fraught relationship with power.
Frozen
January 22, 2018
The Trump junta has now reduced the bulk of the federal government to the activity level of the chief executive himself.
The Ovid of Loserdom
January 22, 2018
In his second and perhaps final story collection, the author of Jesus' Son glimpses an out-of-reach infinity.