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Here's what's making us happy this week.

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Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives

Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives

Noah Giansiracusa on the Processes That Quantify Our Existence and the Steps We Can Take to Reclaim Our Humanity

By Noah Giansiracusa | August 12, 2025

On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

Tim Queeney Explores Ropemaking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Jeremiah N. Reynolds’s Wild Tale

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Here's everything that made us happy this week.

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What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

Piers Gelly on a Semester-Long Dive into the AI Discourse

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Truth Optional: How Digital Platforms Replaced the Press and Democracy Took the Hit

Truth Optional: How Digital Platforms Replaced the Press and Democracy Took the Hit

Aron Solomon Unpacks the Unexpected—and Ongoing—Consequences of Section 230

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Algorithm On Fleek: How TikTok is Transforming the English Language

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Adam Aleksic Explores the Evolution of Popular Vernacular, From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era

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Why architecture is like literature: On the Shanghai city block that went for a walk.

Why architecture is like literature: On the Shanghai city block that went for a walk.

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The case against Substack. (ICYMI)

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If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole

If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About (Very) Bad Literary Behavior

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How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age

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Will Potter Considers the Psychological and Social Impact of the (Over) Saturation of Cruelty in the Contemporary Era

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Here's everything that made us happy this week.

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Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response

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Leigh Claire La Berge Looks Back at the Digital Apocalypse That Wasn’t

By Leigh Claire La Berge | July 1, 2025

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