They Made Him a Moron

The strange career of Alec Ross. By Evgeny Morozov.
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Bubble Tea Is Back — With A Vengeance

Boba is the Taiwanese beverage that allows you to chew your drink. In its latest incarnations (think horchata and cocktail bobas), it's playing ambassador to a whole host of other foods and trends.
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Despite A Decade Of Trying To Kill It, Verizon Insists It Loves Net Neutrality

You'd be hard pressed to find a company that's been more involved in trying to kill net neutrality than Verizon. The company successfully sued to overturn the FCC's original, flimsy 2010 neutrality rules, which most ISPs actually liked because they contained enough loopholes to drive several vehicle convoys through. Responding to Verizon's legal assault, the FCC responded last year by taking things further, passing new, (supposedly) more legally sound neutrality rules and...
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Starbucks Will Donate All of Its Unsold Food to America's Needy

Starbucks has a new plan to minimize food waste at its U.S. locations. The company says it’s teaming up with the Food Donation Connection and Feeding America in a program known as FoodShare that will allow the company to donate all of its leftover prepared meals to food banks. With this program the FDC will pick up the food each day at 7,600 Starbucks-operated U.S. locations, and Feeding America will redistribute it.
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How Corporations Will Use Artificial Empathy to Sell Us More Shit

Facial tics will help streamline marketing in our future consumerist dystopia. By Daniel Oberhaus.
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By rejecting $1bn for a pipeline, a First Nation has put Trudeau’s climate plan on trial

Canada’s Lax Kw’alaams show us how we can be saved: by loving the natural world and local living economies more than mere money and profit. By Martin Lukacs.
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The Hidden Price of Mindfulness Inc.

As the practice of mindfulness is packaged and peddled, it’s hard not to wonder if something essential is being lost. By David Gelles.
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