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2023

climate fixes and disney's unexpected solarpunk (20230530) 30-May

digital surveillance, unix colors, and twitter's right turn (20230530) 30-May

digital panopticon: a decade after snowden's revelations (20230528) 28-May

translation errors and toxic green: star wars canon and lawn culture (20230527) 27-May

litter boxes for cat-identifying students (20230526) 26-May

pedal politics: how cyclists actually subsidize our roads (20230523) 23-May

poverty, empty skyscrapers, and musk's censorship (20230522) 22-May

ride-share realities: minnesota's driver wage reform (20230521) 21-May

elegant simplicity: the internet's underspecified genius (20230521) 21-May

cisco's paper millionaires and worthless options (20230515) 15-May

crypto cultism: when financial prophecies fail (20230513) 13-May

pizza pioneers: new york's innovative pop-up scene (20230512) 12-May

wheels of change: buses as climate heroes and atwood unleashed (20230508) 08-May

ai moat erosion: google's leaked memo and llama's ripple effects (20230507) 07-May

pen nostalgia: when writing tools lose their magic (20230430) 30-Apr

thirsty cattle: how livestock feed drains the colorado river (20230423) 23-Apr

housing hypocrisy: affordable homes vs million-dollar sales (20230422) 22-Apr

packets through time: 25 years of internet evolution (20230422) 22-Apr

minnesota's changing climate: local effects of global warming (20230419) 19-Apr

last squeak tonight: chuck e. cheese's surprising hoa drama (20230411) 11-Apr

global power bills: comparing electricity costs across borders (20230410) 10-Apr

digital vulnerabilities: intelligence leaks and car hacking concerns (20230409) 09-Apr

virtual shards: how gaming history might have coined a database term (20230408) 08-Apr

perennial promise: rice's revolutionary second harvest (20230408) 08-Apr

road rage reimagined: snl's brilliant traffic altercation sketch (20230404) 04-Apr

ai whispers, ssh puzzles, and vc dilemmas: tech's troublesome trinity (20230325) 25-Mar

corporate charity or market strategy: lilly's insulin price cuts (20230319) 19-Mar

sisyphean smiles: finding joy in life's absurd boulder-pushing (20230313) 13-Mar

from routers to returns: cisco's financial pivot (20230305) 05-Mar

dark sides: pink floyd at 50, deepfakes, and ai's language illusions (20230304) 04-Mar

lost in the maze: google's mouse problem (20230302) 02-Mar

vanishing stars: the rapid decline of night sky visibility (20230121) 21-Jan

pedal resistance and fediverse privacy: cycling tech and mastodon search (20230112) 12-Jan

crypto griftapalooza and bean science: odd pairings (20230105) 05-Jan

urban cycling survival: reading the language of cars (20230104) 04-Jan

2022

mastodon ethics and book banners: digital and literary migrations (20221222) 22-Dec

ticket master, profit monster: the monopoly everyone loves to hate (20221222) 22-Dec

labor's decline: the direct line to economic inequality (20221220) 20-Dec

public land barricades and internet decay: digital and physical commons (20221211) 11-Dec

hidden treasures: git's forgotten notes feature (20221127) 27-Nov

cursive extinction and mental hygiene: digital age challenges (20221125) 25-Nov

putin's rightward push and early puberty concerns (20221031) 31-Oct

when hobbies become nightmares: plant obsession spirals (20221023) 23-Oct

uruguay's sustainable path and covid's recurring reality (20221008) 08-Oct

exhausting explanations: why 'white lives matter' shirts are racist (20221005) 05-Oct

atomic close calls: america's nuclear arsenal safety crisis (20221004) 04-Oct

the onion's supreme brief: satire meets jurisprudence (20221003) 03-Oct

cultural battlegrounds: black hobbits and russian trolls (20220925) 25-Sep

iphone repairability: the hidden marketing feature (20220919) 19-Sep

democratic surveillance: when governments spy on their citizens (20220918) 18-Sep

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