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“GamerGate with stocks.”

There’s nothing really to be learned from this because [no] one really knows what’s happening. It’s not fun or funny. It’s stupid and it’s troublingly stupid. I’m happy for anyone who made the trades,...

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BT/AT

A short primer on charging things as “before tax.” As someone whose parents, while comfortably middle-class, were largely wage-and-salary earners, marrying into a business-owning family and learning...

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And then there were four.

I would have added: “You know Random House was built on right-wing politics, no? Ayn Rand […] was a staple of our list in our glory years, and she’s still a significant contributor under Signet, one of...

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Quickpad.

From this article, if you’ve ever wanted to make a quick-and-dirty scratchpad for notes? Try pasting this into your browser address bar: data:text/html,<body contenteditable...

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Isolated individuals.

In the U.S., most of us aren’t taught to use our sociological imaginations. We’re not taught to think about social problems as structural problems. We’re not taught to see the forces that operate...

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