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The New Yorker
The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire
The New Yorker
10 min · · An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals. · Shared by 126, including William Gibson, Christian Surchi, Kiki, Peter Steinberger, hakan
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MEL Magazine
The Anarchic History of OPEC SID, New York’s Legendary Punk Hotline
MEL Magazine
10 min · · Three decades ago, the punk rockers, hardcore kids and metalheads of New York City relied on the operators of one answering machine to find out where bands were playing. This is the story of 212-OPEC… · Shared by 8, including Christian Surchi
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The New York Times
This Pickle Is a Cake
The New York Times
4 min · · Welcome to the viral world of hyper-realistic cake slicing videos. · Shared by 51, including Mark Little, Christian Surchi, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, emily bell, Bri Kimmel, Alexia Bonatsos, Michelle Garrett, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Felix M, Tara Parker-Pope
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Rolling Stone
Who Loses Big in the Great Streaming Wars? The User
Rolling Stone
9 min · · In an ever-expanding world of TV services, it’s only getting harder to find what you want · Shared by 62, including Alan Sepinwall, Diane Gordon, Christian Surchi
05
Current Affairs
The Fake Nerd Boys of Silicon Valley ❧ Current Affairs
Current Affairs
20+ min · · Managing Editor Lyta Gold on Star Trek, Silicon Valley’s lack of imagination, and the arrival of an unexpected future. · Shared by 18, including your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Thomas Fuchs , tante, Christian Surchi
06
behance.net
Silence of Munich
behance.net
1 min · · Pictures of Munich during the Covid-19 lockdown, Spring 2020 · Shared by 3, including Christian Surchi
07
The Atlantic
So Much for the Decentralized Internet
The Atlantic
Summary · 8 min · · A recent Twitter hack probably didn't scare you. Here's why it should. · Shared by 340, including l. ones, Carl Morris, getAbstract, Pip Morris, rogerverhoeven, Jane, Ste Davies, Katja Evertz, Christian Surchi, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, luis antónio santos
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HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
No-Code is Eating the World
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
3 min · · Recently, Amazon released a new tool, called Honeycode, which lets customers quickly build mobile and web applications — with no coding required. This came a few months after Google’s acquisition of… · Shared by 128, including Andreas Spiegler, Christian Surchi, Jessel Sookha, Katja Evertz, Carl Morris, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, jorge-ferrer, David Smooke
09
ProPublica
We’re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades
ProPublica
4 min · · ProPublica obtained these police records from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. NYPD unions are suing to halt the city from making the data public. · Shared by 111, including Kainaz Amaria, Matt Zoller Seitz, Shaun King, ExApologist, Michael Barbaro, Data Science Renee, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, OM, Noah Toly, Gothamist, Esther Schindler, Mathew Ingram, Christian Surchi, Trey Tweets Into the Void
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Longreads
Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
Longreads
16+ min · · Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts want to know why. · Shared by 170, including Christian Surchi
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Vox
The “free speech debate” isn’t really about free speech
Vox
14+ min · · The debate over "cancel culture" is about something real. But it’s not about free speech. · Shared by 188, including luis antónio santos, LARRY ELKAN, Kevin Roberts, blinch, Akilah Hughes, Kara Swisher, Jennifer Ouellette, thelousylinguist, Christian Surchi, David V. Johnson, Barry C Smith
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Il Tascabile
L'età del capitalismo della sorveglianza
Il Tascabile
18+ min · · Tra storia, tecnologia, scienze cognitive e utopia negativa: un’analisi del pensiero di Shoshana Zuboff nel suo "Il capitalismo della sorveglianza". · Shared by 4, including Christian Surchi
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jacobinitalia.it
Autostrade, il Venezuela e la retorica della Guerra fredda
jacobinitalia.it
10 min · · È bastato mettere appena in discussione l'assetto proprietario di un'infrastruttura per scatenare il riflesso pavloviano dei commentatori: Conte come Chávez. Con tanto di classici dell'anticomunismo · Shared by 3, including Christian Surchi
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rivistacontrasti.it
Il gioco delle bocce grida: viva l’Italia!
rivistacontrasti.it
5 min · · Ma il mondo non gli concede il prestigio che meriterebbe. · Shared by 3, including Christian Surchi