“the collective value of all bitcoins has passed a billion dollars”

“Pa was a simple man, a techno-anarchist by trade, and long after the Bitcoin bust, he stayed on with the mining. “Don’t know nothin’ else, Ma said”

“Irene Serra chose the name -isq for her band deliberately to make it hard to find online”

“the public quickly accepts all the miracles that science provides (1948)”

“From paywalls to jargon to a tacit moratorium on social media, academics build careers through public disengagement”

“watching videos on the Internet & maybe writing a few very short essays that the professor never sees isn’t college”

“it is often difficult to distinguish between organized trolling and media linkbait“

“[Stanford] now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team”

“the latest billboard for advertising is your own cellphone’s home screen”

“almost nobody genuinely desired a Facebook Phone”

“They don’t call it ruin porn in Rome”

“we live “in media”, not “with media””

“Digital evidence led to convictions in Steubenville. Why cant it play the same role in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons?”

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