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Beauty In My Backyard - Works in Progress Magazine

Ugly architecture stops homes getting built – but not in the way you think.
Saved on: 2026-08-04

The Cost of Safetyism

What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard.
Saved on: 2026-05-26

You misunderstand what it means to be poor

The more I speak about being poor, the more I realize how fundamentally other folks misunderstand what it means to be poor versus being broke.
Saved on: 2025-11-14

Skibidi Boppy: McDonald’s e la nostra vita digitale

Ovvero: il costo sociale della tecnologia sta in quello che sostituisce
Saved on: 2025-07-25

The naked billboard that shocked the establishment – and blazed a trail in the art world

It's been 40 years since the controversial activist group Guerrilla Girls formed. Their most powerful campaign, the "naked poster", broke new ground – and has had a lasting influence.
Saved on: 2025-06-03

This is a teenager

Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out
Saved on: 2024-04-16

Privacy Isn't Dead. Far From It. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Welcome! The fact that you’re reading this means that you probably care deeply about the issue of privacy, which warms our hearts. Unfortunately, even though you care about privacy, or perhaps because you care so much about it, you may feel that there's not much you (or anyone) can really do to...
Saved on: 2024-02-23

You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard | Here & Now

Forming new friendships as an adult can seem like an impossible feat. Psychologist Marisa G. Franco shares her top tips for making genuine connections.
Saved on: 2023-04-18

My Top 10 Tips for Doing Time In ‘the Hole’ | The Marshall Project

In prison, going to “the hole” can mean spending 23 hours a day alone in a tiny cell. Here, incarcerated author Michael J. Nichols shares his top 10 tips for enduring long stretches of “administrative segregation.”
Saved on: 2022-10-31

Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing

Alan Kay — “father of personal computers" — is best known for his work on personal computing and for leading the team that developed Smalltalk.
Saved on: 2021-10-17

WaterBear - Watch. Connect. Take Action

Welcome to WaterBear, the home of imperfect activists. Discover stories that make you feel good and tools to help you do good.
Saved on: 2021-09-05

Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions

At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site, operated by Cognizant in Tampa, FL one contractor has died, others have developed PTSD and fear for their lives.
Saved on: 2019-06-19

More games should be truly honest about death

I never intended to make videogames about my brother. But creating videogames became the way in which I tried to make sense of his death.
Saved on: 2018-12-29

Ask A Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo | Y Combinator

I’m the moderator for our Ask A Female Engineer series, and a female engineer on the software team at YC. This is the sixth installment in a series where we ask female engineers questions and share their candid, anonymous responses. In this post, we did something a bit different: we asked engineers to answer questions about the recent memo by former Google engineer James Damore. The engineers responding to these questions were given pseudonyms, and those pseudonyms are consistent through the se
Saved on: 2017-08-16

The Quiet Crisis unfolding in Software Development – Medium

I’ve been working in software development for twenty-eight years. My current position is Senior Development Director at a software consulting company in Austin, Texas, a position I’ve held for just…
Saved on: 2016-09-23

The Lack of Gentle Platonic Touch in Men's Lives is a Killer -

Mark Greene explores how in American culture, men avoid all contact rather than risk even the hint of causing unwanted sexual touch.
Saved on: 2016-09-12

The Arctic Suicides: It's Not The Dark That Kills You

Greenland has the world's highest suicide rate. And teen boys are at the highest risk.
Saved on: 2016-04-22

7 Ways My Modern Country Turned Into a Dystopia Overnight | Cracked.com

We sat down with Dimitra Nikolaou, a Greek journalist, who told us what to expect if our economy ever goes tits up.
Saved on: 2015-06-30

Fixing Italy, a little bit at a time | The Real Italy

Italy has so many wonderful, beautiful amazing places and things, and all if it in an area about the size of California.  And yet, it’s got a lot of problems too.   What drives me crazy in pa…
Saved on: 2015-04-17

Felons, addicts, immigrants: This bakery will hire anyone

A socially conscious Yonkers bakery founded by a Buddhist teacher pioneers a novel "see no evil" approach to human resources -- and it works.
Saved on: 2015-03-07

The End of Gangs

Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang. Groups like the Crips and MS-13 have spread from coast to coast, and even abroad. But on Southern California's streets they have been vanishing. Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?
Saved on: 2015-01-01
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