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Laptop nonfiction

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Life and death at Balthazar

Boom and Echo

Boom and echo

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Songs Ojai

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Making babies

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What’s the point?

on gamification as a tool for data production. This is part one of a two-part series.

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State of Gamification Pt. 1

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Pro book sales 

reviews the book that is sold out everywhere.

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Antimemetics

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Dispatch from a burning warehouse. 

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Attention is what makes us human

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The "eco-compassionate" earplug.

Francis Zierer and Daisy Alioto in conversation with Lauryn Menard, the CEO and co-founder of Gob. 

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Mycelium ears

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Goo-on-goo action.

on Infinite Backrooms’ Goatse hagiography and the proliferation of agentic AI.

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Everything Is Flubber

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On the modern diary. 

Dirt contributors and friends share epiphanies, to do lists, and nonsense from their notes app.

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Notes App Epiphanies

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Anu Atluru’s technology aphorisms

in correspondence with Anu Atluru on taste in tech. 

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Who is Neom for, really?

on the influencers putting it all on The Line.

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