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Software may be the defining cultural artifact of our time. So why isn’t there a culture of critical analysis around it?

A handful of companies control the web. It doesn’t have to be that way.

A selection of recently published books.

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Back in 1998, Ellen Ullman wrote in Salon about The dumbing-down of programming: "My programming tools were full of wizards. Little dialog boxes waiting for me to click "Next" and "Next" and "Finish." Click and drag and shazzam! — thousands of lines of...

The star of Netflix's dark comedy steps into the showrunner role in Season 2 — and rethinks how place, time and family history can help tell a person's story.

Privacy should be a material fact instead of a false choice on cookies, and decentralization can provide a solution for it.

The endless cookie settings that pop up for every website feels a bit like the internet's stubborn, unchanging hoax compliance. This is annoying. It feels a

Patient readers, more soon. –lambert UPDATE All done! Bird Song of the Day A shore-bird. I can’t hear the sea, though I wish I could. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. Look at the South go! • Early in February, I said a simple way to compare Biden’s performance to Trump’s on vaccination would be to compare the curves. If Biden acc...

Alison Lewis Alison Lewis ’14 talks to intern Rachel Horowitz-Benoit ’21 about her career, Middlebury, and new books she’s excited about. Rachel Horowitz-Benoit: When were you an intern at NER and what was a highlight (or anything you remember doing) of your experience? Alison Lewis: The highlight was always discussing fiction submissions—trying out my own very nascent editorial opinions, and hearing Carolyn Kuebler’s shockingly wise and perceptive insights. There were two stories w...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. A little over a year ago, as the Covid-19 lockdowns were beginning to fan out across the globe, most folks grasped for toilet paper and canned food. The thing I reached for: A search function. The purpose of the search function was somewhat irrelevant. I simply needed to code. Code soothes because it can provide control in moments when the world seems to spiral. Reductively, programming consists of little puzzles to be solved. ...