Sep 28
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Show me someone who looks cool in a VR headset, and I’ll show you a dork with no aesthetic sense. Largely, this has…
Sep 21
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Mark Zuckerberg fucking loves Facebook. He thinks it’s great. Were someone to tell him it sucked—using phrases like…
Sep 14
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Sep 7
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Subconsciously, on some level, we’re all waiting for it: the leak that wrecks society and confirms what we all know…
Aug 31
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How many sentences, since March, have started with the words “when all this is over”? Billions, probably, but fewer…
Aug 24
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For the most part, fictional characters rarely recognize when they’re trapped in a dystopia. Watching their…
Aug 17
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Picture bogs swarming with plant-life, oceans teeming with life, dinosaurs roaming the Earth. Picture those plants…
Aug 10
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There are some things that belong in a computer. Wires, chips, whirring mechanical doodads—what most of us would…
Aug 3
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Thousands are currently engaged in solving the problem of death. Maybe they’ll succeed, and out of sheer boredom…
Jul 27
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Remember offices? Assuming that you do, and that you at some point worked in one, you’ve likely spent at least some…
Jul 20
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The year is 1997. You’re wearing whatever people wore back then—some kind of jean jacket, I’m guessing—and talking…
Jul 13
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Let’s say you’re a zombie. You’re lumbering around, doing your zombie-mumble, and just ten feet ahead you see a…
Jul 6
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Are you spending your sleeping hours getting chased down endless hallways by men with enormous claws for hands?…
Jun 29
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Have the major airlines spent decades suppressing teleportation research? Have a number of renowned scientists in…
Jun 22
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Jun 15
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Show me a museum of important historical inventors and I will show you a gallery of deluded mass murderers. I’m not…
Jun 8
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Most workers have no ownership stake in the companies to which they give their labor. This is, if you ask me, not…
Jun 1
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It’s a fraught thing, selfie-taking. One moment you’re thinking of yourself as more or less human-looking, and…
May 25
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According to multiple ads I’ve seen, we are in this thing together. “Together we will prevail,” the ads say. You lay…
May 18
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Reality has plenty of exit-hatches: strong drugs, streamed television, certain corners of social media. But the most…