2016: The Year the Internet Became Real
Imagine being rid of the internet. Doesn’t some part of you knot up with rash, intimate desire?
By Leigh AlexanderThe Internet
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Sandy Hook Parent Lenny Pozner Is Fighting an ‘Emboldened’ Conspiracy Culture
“My hatred for Google and YouTube and Facebook has increased 1,000 percent,” says Sandy Hook parent Lenny Pozner.
By Reeves WiedemanThe Coen Brothers Are Writing a Movie About the Dark Web, Too Bad They Already Named One No Country for Old Men
About the Silk Road (the online one, not the medieval one).
By Jackson McHenryWhy Do All My Instagram Cats Keep Dying?
When real life encroaches on the virtual.
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The First Compelling Reason Not to Move to North Korea: They Only Have 28 Websites
The country’s internet was suddenly made public on Tuesday evening.
By Madison Malone KircherAllow Katy Perry to Take You on a Wild Philosophical Journey Through the Internet
“I’m riding it like a f–king cowboy at a rodeo now.”
By Gabriella PaiellaKeira Knightley Was Surprised to Learn the Internet Thought She Was Going Bald
“I have received a big box of things for female baldness, and I had no idea what that was about.”
By Katie Van SyckleDan Aykroyd Weighs In on Leslie Jones’s ‘Loser’ Twitter Trolls, Establishing Once Again Who Ya Gonna Call
“They're insignificant gnats, they're losers, they have no lives of their own …”
By Halle KieferTwitter Has ‘Taken Action’ Over Leslie Jones’s Account Becoming a Target for Racist Abuse
"We realize we still have a lot of work in front of us before Twitter is where it should be on how we handle these issues."
By Devon Ivie and Tolly WrightThe FCC Wants to Let Us Choose What the Internet Knows About Us
Ever wonder why you get travel ads after you visit Expedia.com?
By Samuel LiebermanThe Internet’s New Celebrity Cat Is a Coconut-Oil Addict Called ‘Goal Kitty’
You may have seen the tragic pictures floating around the internet: a black cat with a white splotch on her front, her paws awkwardly splayed up and out.
By Sam StecklowThe New Search Engine for Kids Has Questionable Filters
Banned words on Kiddle include: uterus, menstruation, and wet willy.
By Eve PeyserThe 10 Best Lists of 2015
What parade of year-end lists would be complete without a list of lists?
By Max ReadThe Nine Canonical Responses to ‘U Mad,’ the Internet’s Most Grievous Insult
Actually, I'm laughing.
By Felix Biederman and Virgil TexasGood Morning, User! Welcome to the New Intimacy Economy
We often imagine the inevitable future tech dystopia will be cold, populations marching under the eye of sterile robot overlords, our speech monitored and scrubbed of sentiment and intonation. Increasingly, though, it seems like we’re hurtling toward the opposite.
By Leigh AlexanderThere’s an Amazon Bookstore Now
The tech company extends its empire into the real world.
By Jaime FullerThe Internet of Parents Is Miserable and I Love It
Why it's so hard to look away.
By Meaghan O'ConnellThe Key Lesson of the Ashley Madison Hack — Even for Non-Adulterers
How to know when to hand over sensitive data — and when not to.
By James PoulosIf These Girls Knew That Slender Man Was a Fantasy, Why Did They Want to Kill Their Friend for Him?
The problem wasn’t that they didn’t know they were living in a fantasy world. The problem was that they couldn’t — or didn’t — extricate themselves.
By Lisa MillerHackers Claim They’ve Posted the Stolen Ashley Madison User Data
It hasn’t been verified, so don’t start searching for married dudes just yet. (And maybe just hold off forever.)
By Margaret Hartmann