Thinking of kicking this back off as a regular (semi-regular) feature, because reasons. Buzzfeed on what happens to stolen passports in Turkey Rula Jebrael takes on Bill Maher and Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Salon EFF on Facebook’s Internet.org project: “not neutral, not secure … not the Internet” aeon against generational thinking CPJ on cartoonists under threat […]
After a long week+ of partying, I treated myself to some birthday long reads. The Huffington Post on “cliteracy” The New York Times on the horrifying working conditions of nail salons The Guardian on psychosomatic illness The Guardian again on porn data Mada Masr on meticulously structured chaos Wired on the math behind Starbucks drinks
When I was young, there were things I thought only adults could do right: The way my mother could perfectly braid my hair, the way my father knew how to bargain with a car salesperson…these were “adult” things that I would someday, somehow learn. A friend recently said to me that he doesn’t reflect much […]