"The story of the Cypherpunks Mailing List, an obscure ‘90s email server that developed decentralized technology as a path to new forms of human organization."

>"What the digital worlds of Japan’s imageboards and America’s alt-right reveal about real-life precarity."

"On Vilém Flusser‘s philosophy of what a camera wants, and what such a perspective misses"

>"Interrogated, tortured, and held for decades without charges, Gitmo prisoners held onto their humanity by creating art."

>"Ancient Romans bought mementos to commemorate their travels. These speak eloquently of their world, if we care to listen"

>"Lenin envisioned Soviet unity. Stalin called Russia ‘first among equals’. Yet Russian nationalism never went away"

"We asked 'Internet for the People' author Ben Tarnoff about why antitrust isn't enough, and whether profit motive is the root of all of Big Tech's problems."

>"In an attempt to win votes, Denmark’s major parties have mainstreamed far-right ideas and stoked a reactionary political climate in the country. The result: right-wing extremists have been emboldened to terrorize minorities and attack _...Read More_

"We can’t say Laurie Penny didn’t warn us. Last week, the journalist complained that she’d “been trying to warn ‘Gender Critical’ feminists for years that their…"

"Literary journalists rely on tired tropes to hold together the points they make as the themes of essays about one or another of the subjects they decide to write about . They need to have points because their high school English teachers _...Read More_

"2020 Go (online)! Design Society // An International Design Festival initiated in collaboration with the V&A and Ars Electronica // May 18–December 31, 2020"

>"A monument to the Tiananmen Square massacre faces the threat of removal, part of a broader effort in Hong Kong to erase the public memory."

<< To achieve a more fair and sensible human geography will require arguments based on both rights and obligations — especially since politically, neither is _...Read More_