www.newyorker.com > Adam Curtis and Sam Knight
Adam Curtis Explains It All
28 jan. 2021 - The British filmmaker’s new series argues that we have given up on the future.
 · adam-curtis · china · complexity · conspiracy-thinking · futurism · gentrification · individualism · journalism · liberalism · russia · tiktok

www.newyorker.com > Alexis Okeowo
How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life
19 oct. 2020 - The scholar’s provocative writing illuminates stories that have long gone untold.
 · black-struggle · colonialism · critical-fabulation · feminism · ghana · history · inequality · queerness · slavery · united-states

www.newyorker.com > Anna Wiener
Taking Back Our Privacy
19 oct. 2020 - Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, is “trying to bring normality to the Internet.”
 · activism · anarchism · donald-trump · edward-snowden · encryption · liberalism · obfuscation · privacy · sailing · signal · silicon-valley · snowden-disclosures · surveillance · technology · time · twitter

www.newyorker.com > Andrew Marantz
Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself
12 oct. 2020 - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem?
 · advertising · attention · brazil · censorship · content-moderation · donald-trump · facebook · freedom-of-speech · hate-speech · islamophobia · mark-zuckerberg · peter-thiel · politics · qanon · racist-technology · social-media · surveillance-capitalism · tech-worker-movement · technology · unions

www.newyorker.com > Lauren Collins
Stop Doomscrolling and Play a Board Game About Class Warfare
14 sep. 2020 - The creators of Kapital!, a hit French board game about social class, attribute its success to “being perfectly in tune with the political moment.”
 · boardgames · to-buy

www.newyorker.com > Atul Gawande
We Can Solve the Coronavirus-Test Mess Now—if We Want To
2 sep. 2020 - The key to taming the pandemic will be both a new commitment to “assurance testing” and a new vision of what public health really means.
 · covid-19 · false-positives · healthcare · public-health · south-korea · united-states

www.newyorker.com > Nick Romeo
What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech?
18 aug. 2020 - When the Dutch politician Marietje Schaake arrived in Silicon Valley, she realized just how bizarre American thinking about the industry had become.
 · antitrust · apple · artificial-intelligence · democracy · ethics · eu · facebook · google · regulation · silicon-valley · united-states

www.newyorker.com > Masha Gessen
Why America Feels Like a Post-Soviet State
29 jul. 2020 - The callous nihilism of contemporary Russian society is everywhere in the Trump Administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 · covid-19 · inequality · russia · soviet-union · united-states

www.newyorker.com > Ed Caesar
The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire
27 jul. 2020 - An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.
 · bullet-proof-hosting · cybercrime · dark-web · encryption · germany · libertarianism · porn · tor · wikileaks

www.newyorker.com > William Finnegan
How Police Unions Fight Reform
27 jul. 2020 - Activists insist that police departments must change. For half a century, New York City’s P.B.A. has successfully resisted such demands.
 · black-struggle · not-read · police · police-violence · unions · united-states

www.newyorker.com > Masha Gessen
Barcelona’s Experiment in Radical Democracy
6 aug. 2018 - The municipal government of Barcelona, led by Mayor Ada Colau, is the heart of a new global political phenomenon known as municipalism, which aims to break the bounds of traditional party politics and challenge institutional politics as they currently exist, Masha Gessen writes.
 · barcelona · commons · democracy · feminism · housing · municipalism · politics · public-space · sex-work · spain · tourism