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Collection by Charles Baldwin
Guardian US
'They wanted me gone': Edward Snowden tells of whistleblowing, his AI fears and six years in Russia
9 min read · From 2019 · The man whose state surveillance revelations rocked the world speaks exclusively to the Guardian about his new life and concerns for the future
The Guardian
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno elites
6 min read · From 2019 · The MIT-Epstein debacle shows ‘the prostitution of intellectual activity’. Time for a radical agenda: close the Media Lab, disband Ted Talks and refuse tech billionaires money
Harvard Business Review
A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel
7 min read · From 2017 · Online social interactions are no substitute for the real thing.
The New Yorker
How An Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
10 min read · From 2019 · New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly…
Longreads
In the Age of the Psychonauts
20+ min read · From 2019 · Three psycho-spiritual “events” of the 1970s — involving Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, and Terence and Dennis McKenna — had a strange synchronicity.
TechCrunch
A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
2 min read · From 2019 · Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies,…
The Atlantic
The Amazon Is Not Earth’s Lungs
2 min read · From 2019 · Humans could burn every living thing on the planet and still not dent its oxygen supply.
The New York Times
How an Online Mob Created a Playbook for a Culture War
3 min read · From 2019 · The powerful lesson of a 5-year-old harassment campaign: How to wage a post-truth information war.
Inc.
Welcome to the No-Code Software Revolution
4 min read · From 2019 · The future of software is about "no-code" platforms
Phys.org
Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
2 min read · From 2019 · Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time. High-dimensional teleportation could play an important role in future quantum…
The Atlantic
Meritocracy’s Miserable Winners
10 min read · From 2019 · The system that’s widened the gap between the rich and everyone else has also turned elite life into an endless, terrible competition. Maybe there’s a way out.
getwaves.io
Get Waves – Generate SVG waves for your designs
From 2019 · Join over 300,000 others who enjoy Muzli for Chrome & Safari. Muzli is a goldmine of inspiring, beautiful & fresh content, stunningly delivered every time you open up a new tab. Learn more Stay…
The New Yorker
Denmark Offers to Buy U.S.
1 min read · From 2019 · “We believe that by giving the U.S. an educational system and national health care, it could be transformed from a vast land mass into a great nation,” a spokesperson for Denmark said.
The Verge
WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
10 min read · From 2019 · I dedicate this to the energy of We.
The Atlantic
Trump’s El Paso Photo Is Obscene
2 min read · From 2019 · The president’s callousness has reached a new low: smiling, flashing a thumbs-up next to an orphaned infant.
The New York Times
A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women
7 min read · From 2019 · Misogyny and mass shootings in the United States are closely intertwined.
