Webinar Jam – Ir de Compras Online

Here’s a secret the people who run social media networks don’t want you to know—the one thing you can do to mess up their entire plan. You can, if you want to, shut the fuck...

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Startup founders: hire me to be your CEO

An open letter. You should make me the CEO of your company. I promise to upset your investors in ways that are really, really, funny. It’s okay to upset investors because they’re not people, just...

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In 2020 what we need is utopia, but even Star Trek is jaded

I caught up on Star Trek: Picard. My main thought: What is the point of western civilization if even Star Trek can’t be hopeful? Star Trek was, at some point, about a future where humanity...

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Facebook moderators miss key directives because the news feed is terrible

Many current social problems—not all, but many—can be traced back to our collective decision to prioritize #engagement in the systems we use to communicate with each other. Facebook’s newsfeed is the most prominent example of...

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There are tiny hippos living in your house (and other thoughts)

All these years later I still think about house hippos once a month or so. Confused? So was I, as a kid, seeing this PSA for the first time. The footage looked so…real. I couldn’t...

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Does the decline of local journalism explain declining trust in government?

Calling the government useless only works if you take for granted all the many ways public employees make modern life possible. Officials doing their jobs are the reason we have fresh water and roads to...

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Facebook throws pocket change at local news outlets, expects gratitude

Facebook killed local newspapers by sucking up all the revenue that used to pay for the person who’d sit in on council meetings and spell your nephews’ name incorrectly. Now they’re starting to feel bad...

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Trump’s Border Wall Will Cost 54 Bridges To Nowhere

Let's continue this extremely scientific analysis by comparing the two projects.

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Learn from this, Canada.

Canada's the shining beacon on a hill now, the only Western power that believes in multiculturalism.

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The First Canadian President!

I bought into part of the birther narrative, and didn’t even realize it. You probably did too. We all knew the birthers were crazy, because Obama wasn’t born in Kenya. But not one of us...

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