A handy list of things that you’re going to need to catch up on. Buck up, because it won’t be easy. Read more
Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed
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Inside The Christian Academy With A History Of Alleged Abuse
At a therapeutic farm in Georgia, troubled teens are possessed by demons, depressed because of technology—and allegedly mistreated by their caretakers. Read more
White People, You Have A Lying Problem
If there is one thing white people have taught me, it’s that you cannot stand the truth in any of its forms. Read more
The Tweets Of A Whore: Persona And Privacy In The Age Of Social Media
Digital communication has always seemed like the opposite of sex to me. Read more
bell hooks And The Extraordinary Power Of Names
Sensitivity to language is responsibility to language, and respect for its power to call forth whatever is summoned by its use. Read more
Why Punching Nazis Is Not Only Ethical, But Imperative
Dispassionate discourse with Nazis is not only pointless, but actively dangerous. Read more
When I Said All Trump Supporters Are White Supremacists, I Meant It
Yes. All of them. Read more
Why #Metoo Matters In The Delivery Room
For a body that had returned to episodes of violence over and over and over again, it was the first time in my adult life that I was producing something — anything — that might be restorative, and I could feel the change. Read more
Into The Gap: What Machine Learning Reveals About Gender And Writing
The technologies we are using to generate text—from auto-replies to articles—are learning the patterns in the set of texts we give them. And these technologies, in turn, are not only writing for all of us, but imposing the patterns they’ve learned. Read more