N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 20
🔒🎮 "Child's Play" claims tech-savvy tots signal the apocalypse of intellect, while Harpers Magazine struggles with the Herculean task of updating a login page. 📚🔐 Because, as we all know, the real end of thinking is trying to remember your password. 🤔💻
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/ #ChildsPlay #HarpersMagazine #PasswordProblems #TechSavvy #TotsApocalypse #HackerNews #ngated
Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

Harper's Magazine
N-gated Hacker NewsSep 17, 2025
Bertrand Russell's 1932 homage to doing absolutely nothing is now buried under layers of *modern-day* capitalism 🤦‍♂️. But hey, at least Harpers Magazine has a *fancy* new login system to distract you from existential despair! 🙃🔐
https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/ #BertrandRussell #ModernCapitalism #ExistentialDespair #HarpersMagazine #DigitalDistractions #HackerNews #ngated
In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell

Harper's Magazine
VineturSep 5, 2025
Miguel Crunia, entre los mejores sumilleres del Reino Unido según Harpers Magazine https://www.vinetur.com/2025090590913/miguel-crunia-entre-los-mejores-sumilleres-del-reino-unido-segun-harpers-magazine.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MiguelCrunia #Sumilleres #Vino #ReinoUnido #HarpersMagazine
Paranoid FactoidDec 26, 2024

Longform by Liz Pelly at Harper's Magazine on SPOTIFY'S USE OF FAKE MUSICIANS to reduce royalty payouts to real artists. This is a long and indepth article the Spotify user and musician community should read in full.

Images of the intro in toot, full article 👇

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

#Music #MusicBusiness #Spotify #GhostArtists #Fraud #News #Economics #NetworkEffects #enshitification #Capitalism #ParasiticCapitalism #Longform #HarpersMagazine #LizPelly

The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly

Spotify’s plot against musicians

Harper's Magazine
Matt HodgkinsonDec 21, 2024

"Why pay full-price royalties if users were only half listening? It was likely from this reasoning that the Perfect Fit Content program was created."

Fake artists have flooded Spotify playlists.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

#Spotify #Royalties #MusicIndustry #FakeArtists #PerfectFitContent #HarpersMagazine

The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly

Spotify’s plot against musicians

Harper's Magazine
James StegallJun 16, 2024

Does this include the ice cube?

(From an ad in Harper’s magazine, which kind of encapsulates how I’ve been feeling about the magazine lately.) #latestagecapitilism, #peakskymall #harpersmagazine

LongreadsSep 18, 2023

"Together they would drive across Nepal collecting landraces and making weed-based viral content, like a Himalayan Cheech and Chong."

For #HarpersMagazine, Sean Williams tags along with Nepal's first "weed influencer": https://harpers.org/archive/2023/10/purple-haze/

#Longreads #Nepal #Cannabis #Marijuana #Drugs #Nonfiction

Purple Haze, by Sean Williams

Cannabis returns to Kathmandu

Harper's Magazine
Walter Scott PrizesApr 24, 2023

Have you read #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE SUN WALKS DOWN (Allen & Unwin) yet by #FionaMcFarlane? Enjoy this review by Claire Mossud in #HarpersMagazine https://harpers.org/archive/2023/02/new-books-february-2023/

#books @bookstodon #histfic #HistoricalFiction

New Books | Harper's Magazine

Outback Gathering, by Mel Brigg © The artist. Courtesy Wentworth Galleries, Sydney Anyone who has seen the Australian outback knows that it defies description. The country’s pioneer history is relatively recent: it wasn’t until the second half of the nineteenth century that settlers from Europe joined deported convicts and their descendants in establishing towns and […]

Harper’s Magazine 
Show threadkilombavitaFeb 6, 2021

https://archive.org/details/shitty-men-in-media

Shitty Men In Media by Moira Donegan; crowdsourced

Topics #shittymeninmedia, #shittymediamen, #abusers, #abuse, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #columbiauniversity, #theparisreview, #thenewrepublic, #newyorkmagazine, #londonreviewofbooks, #nymag, #lrb, #harpersmagazine, #harpers, #nplus1magazine, #nplus1, #riverheadbooks, #thebaffler, #thenation, #losangelestimes, #latimes, #thenewyorker, #powellsbooks, #tinhouse, #versobooks, #verso, #wendyssubway, #mcnallyjackson, #bleacherreport, #thetrumpscorecard, #gq, #condénast, #vocativ, #vicesports, #vicemedia, #fsg, #farrarstrausandgiroux, #kissingsuzykolber, #cnbc, #wallstreetjournal, #wsj, #breitbart, #valleywag, #wiredmagazine, #guernica, #brooklynpubliclibrary, #medium, #villagevoice, #fastcompany, #thebatsegundoshow, #batsegundo, #thehuffingtonpost, #huffpo, #politico, #deadspin, #newyorktimes, #nyt, #aeon, #simonandschuster, #harpercollins, #esquire, #gawker, #theintercept, #techcrunch, #buzzfeed, #grantland, #ratter, #quartz, #penguinyoungreaders, #philomel, #fivethirtyeight, #theguardian, #rollingstone, #dailydot, #thedailydot, #macmillan, #motherjones, #pitchfork, #chicagoreader, #nationalgeographic, #slate, #slatemagazine, #mic, #cbs, #cracked, #electronicbeats, #thedailyshow, #euromoney, #nomadcinema, #newyorkmedia

Shitty Men In Media : Moira Donegan : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Shitty Media Men list

Internet Archive
Deutsche Welle (inoffiziell)Jul 9, 2020
150 bekannte AutorInnen fordern mehr Meinungsfreiheit, darunter auch J.K. Rowling und Margaret Atwood. In den sozialen Medien sorgt dieser Brief derzeit für viel Aufruhr.
Offener Brief verschärft "Cancel Culture"-Debatte in USA | DW | 09.07.2020
#CancelCulture #HarpersMagazine #JKRowling #USA #MargaretAtwood
Offener Brief verschärft "Cancel Culture"-Debatte in USA | DW | 09.07.2020

150 bekannte AutorInnen fordern mehr Meinungsfreiheit, darunter auch J.K. Rowling und Margaret Atwood. In den sozialen Medien sorgt dieser Brief derzeit für viel Aufruhr.