quote [ ?Forcing millions of people into the same shared conversation is unnatural, requiring aggressive curation that in turn leads to the type of supercharged engagement that seems to leave everyone upset and exhausted,? I wrote. ?Aggregation as a goal in this context survives?for the simple reason that it?s lucrative.? ]

quote [ a tight character limit, discouraging link culture, preventing people from editing their own posts, steering people into sharing things they hate, incentivizing rage bait with trending feeds, subjecting people to decontextualized encounters ]

quote [ Fifty years after the fall of Saigon a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam?s legacy of transnational adoption ]

quote [ Auburn University?s help desk is still answering the public?s calls 70 years on ]

quote [ The long read: On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity became an obsession that would last 30 years ]

quote [ Cláudio Silva reflects on moving from Angola to the United States as a child, founding Angola's largest food and travel platform, and what the country?s current flourishing means not just for Angolans but for the world. ]

quote [ As we celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility in 2025, I want to take a moment to highlight a painful reality that often goes unnoticed?the horrific situation of transgender individuals who flee their home countries seeking safety, only to find themselves trapped in yet another cycle of persecution and neglect. ]

quote [ What happens to the self when surgery is embraced for the purpose of political conformity, consciously or otherwise? ]

quote [ The story of the guy who nearly drowned on his way to inventing a fundamental fastening device you?ve probably already used today. ]

quote [ I remember the first time I heard the phrase ?third place,? meaning a place humans go to be human at each other which is neither home nor work. The loss of such places has been a subject of great distress, handwringing, and much scapegoating for most of my adult life, even before such places were really lost at all.

I heard the phrase first in 2001, but it was only coined in 1989, by a sociologist named Ray Oldenburg. ]