"Unpacking the ingenious simplicity of the Internet’s favorite new word game.”

“In contrast to seemingly everything else on the Internet, Wordle is not designed to be addictive, even if playing for five or ten minutes daily can feel like a compulsion.”

Dressing for a virtual world is going to be both enormously liberating and potentially very, very messy.

"N.F.T. clubs are all the rage among cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Are they a get-rich-quick scheme or the future of culture?"

"008. On identity, creation, and optimism.”

>"The humble image file was once everywhere, but it's increasingly falling out of favour among young internet users."

"The social-media platform’s status as a relic of the Internet has attracted prodigal users as well as new ones."

In web3, most relationships are financial/transactional. What does that mean for celebrities and their fans? In a new column for Slate, *ben_mckenzie and I examine this question the only way one can: through Yanni's NFT collection.

NFTs: A speculative fever dream of Monkey-Scientology themed collectables whose price is denominated in shares of Amway.

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"We live in a world where our explicit and theoretical knowledge is valued and compensated."