Having been doxxed by The New York Times, Scott Alexander has returned. The bad news is that he still attracts collectivists who believe that intelligence is a property of “races,” rather than individuals.

The Internet is supported by online advertising. Everyone knows it’s stupid and invasive. What happens when people figure out that it doesn’t work? [The Correspondent]

GrubHub/Yelp is stealing phone calls. [Vice] I assume Facebook is doing something similar, so when I post a link on Dreamwidth, I cut everything after the “?”out of the e-address (the stuff I cut usually begins with “fb”) and it still works. I encourage you to do likewise.

The Internet that wasn’t [Cybersalon]

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In a move that some say strikes at the very heart of the Internet, Rotten Tomatoes will no longer let people review movies they haven’t had a chance to see yet. [AV Club]

Can social media be fun again?

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The Internet magnifies meanness and stupidity. [Gizmodo]

Once again, the state is the lesser evil.

The year we wanted the internet to be smaller

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To the adolescent mind (I know because I have one) there is something diabolically tempting about forbidden words, whether they begin with F or N. So I can sort of understand the kids who lost their Harvard acceptances for playing at being Internet assholes. But irony has always been the last refuge of a scoundrel and Internet culture is making it more of a successful one, so we probably need a deterrent like that.

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