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I remember when mail used to be mostly from people I knew, with occasional advertisement. Going to the mailbox was mostly nice. Eventually, the mail was just another place where bad things happened every day. I also remember when email was »never from an advertiser....

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Milton Bradley announced today their new version of the famous ‘Monopoly’ game called ‘Lockdown Monopoly’. It features board spaces where the player can go insane from being exposed to social media, cryptocurrency tokens, extreme unexpected...

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Rare word of the day: megalopropria Approximate meaning: To ‘collect’ many (often valuable) things, in part due to the motivation to display them to others.

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We share the earth, and our own minds, with other intelligences that our vernacular conventions defy almost entirely. So they get simulated. In our machines. Objects. Transactions. And thus we become entranced in the mysterious process whereby our interiority is...

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When we come here, first thing in the morning, we’re chasing something impossible together. And though we don’t precisely think or talk of it in this way, this is what we are doing. And we are rather literally risking our lives to do this. Right now. In...