Literary Hub
The Landlord’s Game: Eula Biss on the Anticapitalist Origins of Monopoly
Literary Hub
5 min read · 2020-09-02 · I’ve been playing Monopoly with J every evening for a week and I haven’t won a single game. J plays with abandon, buys indiscriminately, and wins repeatedly. Tonight he’s thrown a suspicious number…
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TIME
How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election—and Shaking the Foundation of American Democracy
TIME
7 min read · 2020-09-10 · Democracy relies on an informed public responding to real-life facts. But a growing number of Americans are untethered from reality.
Reader View · Shared by 210, including Marshall Shepherd, Mark Little, Jennifer Ouellette, Berrak "Sparkling Consequences" Sarıkaya, Howard Getson, Justin Tiehen, Akilah Hughes, Dr. Tara C. Smith, Robin Wigglesworth, Kelsey D. Atherton, David Weigel, Taylor Lorenz, Jason Stanley, Carl Zimmer, Alexandra Sifferlin, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Eli Pariser 🏞📲, Mike Rundle, Mike Davidson, Rasu Shrestha MD MBA
Ars Technica
The Golden Age of computer user groups
Ars Technica
~11 min read · 2020-08-19 · Long before subreddits, computer enthusiasts used to get together—in-person!
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The Atlantic
Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover
The Atlantic
7 min read · 2020-09-03 · The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices
Reader View · Shared by 139, including John O'Farrell, American Psychological Association, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Christian Surchi, Johannes Lenz, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Katja Evertz
The Verge
How Google Maps uses DeepMind’s AI tools to predict your arrival time
The Verge
2 min read · 2020-09-03 · Machine learning to keep your wheels turning
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Il Tascabile
L’uomo invisibile
Il Tascabile
9 min read · 2020-09-10 · Dal romanzo di H.G. Wells del 1897, la storia cinematografica del freak più sfuggente e malleabile.
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Il Tascabile
Trent’anni di Epica Etica Etnica Pathos
Il Tascabile
8 min read · 2020-09-14 · Viaggio al termine dell'utopia socialista e della musica filosovietica: l’album-testamento dei CCCP.
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Quartz
Supermarkets — Quartz Weekly Obsession
Quartz
2020-08-28 · Supermarkets: Our pandemic paradise
Shared by 3, including Christian Surchi
typographyhandbook.com
Typography Handbook – A concise, referential guide on best web typographic practices
typographyhandbook.com
4 min read · From 2020 · Typography is more than just what fonts you use. Typography is everything that has to do with how text looks – such as font size, line length, color, and even more subtle things like the whitespace around a text.
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Colossal
A 400-Year-Old 'Friendship Book' Contains Hundreds of Signatures of Historical Figures
Colossal
2 min read · 2020-09-02 · Between 1596 and 1647, art dealer and diplomat Philipp Hainhofer traveled around Europe amassing an incredibly rich collection of signatures in the “Große Stammbuch,” or “Album Amicorum." Akin to an…
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Protocol
Everybody hates digital calendars, so everybody’s trying to build a better one
Protocol
6 min read · 2020-08-26 · Too many people feel like they're always late, always behind, and never have time to do real work. A bunch of startups are betting that better calendars are a key part of the future of work.
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jacobinitalia.it
Oltre la periferia
jacobinitalia.it
7 min read · 2020-09-13 · La tragedia di Colleferro impone la necessità di trovare chiavi di lettura di pezzi del paese, oltre la tenaglia retorica che contrappone la metropoli infernale alla provincia bucolica
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New York Magazine
How Fantasy Triumphed Over Reality in American Politics
New York Magazine
10 min read · 2020-09-09 · That doesn’t mean that the nation is on the verge of collapse, or even in decline. A new phase of history might be just beginning.
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Il Tascabile
Sotto il vulcano
Il Tascabile
8 min read · 2020-08-25 · Tra fascino e terrore, storie di esseri umani e vulcani, di spiriti e di algoritmi per prevedere le eruzioni.
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medium.com
The History of the Ampersand
medium.com
4 min read · From 2017 · These days everybody knows about the ampersand. It’s one of typography’s most unique and interesting characters.
Reader View · Shared by 132, including Mayhem, Just Mayhem., Brad Brooks, Inkbot Design, Dominik Grolimund, Esther Schindler, Rezha Julio, Victor Tolosa, Christian Surchi
