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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.
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on: 2026-08-04
The Cost of Safetyism
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard.
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on: 2026-05-26
If you've got nothing to hide... · Jacques Mattheij
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on: 2026-02-05
(1) Matteo G.P. Flora su X: "MOLTBOOK: dentro il Social Network delle AI, dove nascono sciami digitali e problemi reali" / X
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on: 2026-01-31
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.
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on: 2025-11-14
Skibidi Boppy: McDonald’s e la nostra vita digitale
Ovvero: il costo sociale della tecnologia sta in quello che sostituisce
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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.
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on: 2025-06-03
This is a teenager
Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out
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on: 2024-04-16
https://blog.ayjay.org/the-real-value-of-a-catholic-modernity/
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on: 2024-02-28
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...
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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.
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on: 2023-04-18
ongoing by Tim Bray · Protect Me From What I Want
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on: 2022-11-29
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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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?
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on: 2015-01-01