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Listen to Let X=X (Live) by Laurie Anderson on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and Deezer. One link, opened wherever you already listen.

Real-time meetings by Google. Using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with teammates and customers.

For thousands of years—maybe for as long as we've been human—we've offloaded our thinking. We've counted on our fingers. We've carved tallies into bone. We've invented a long series of tools to help u...

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Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.

For good UX, watch what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims and speculations about future behavior are unreliable. Users do not know what they want.

Chilly, drenching rains inaugurated autumn over the weekend, just ahead of today’s equinox but I still don’t quite feel like letting go of summer yet. Music The Baja Sessions (1996), by Chris Isaak...

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There are other ways of thinking about AI

Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work

Fill your digital shelves with this collection of 50 fantastic Fantagraphics titles! Pay what you want and support the Freedom of the Press Foundation!

A collaboration with Princeton explores how Governance Cards can help communities explain how they organise, make decisions, and care for their shared spaces.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project shows that the New Orleans ICE office's area of responsibility has the second-highest arrest rate in the ...

Respect the laptop policy, bro.

Punk took music back from the labels. Here’s how we take intelligence back from Silicon Valley.

To remain effective, organizations need to master new media and legitimacy markers to make a once-in-a-century shift.

The database you already have.

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Join us for an interactive workshop on zines as a form of creative self-expression and a tool for community organizing and mobilization.

Liberalism's problem isn't structural. Liberalism's problem is that we got out-hustled.

A nostalgic night of horror and hilarity! David Rees started his Get Your War On comic strip shortly after the 9/11 attacks. The strip satirized the War on Terror, the Iraq War, and a lot of other stu...

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...