Archive - June 6th, 2016

Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World – The New Yorker

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lol: “I couldn’t bear being chained to my desk in a stuffy office any longer. So I decided to quit and travel the world, bringing only my passport, a small backpack, and my enormous trust fund.” I needed to see more. My wanderlust had turned me into a wanderslut. via Facebook http://ift.tt/1TSaHy0 through IFTTT

Panama Papers Show How Rich United States Clients Hid Millions Abroad

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Another peak into the duel standards of law, you get a whole other set of options when you have enough money. Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm at the center of the trove of revealing documents, offered a menu of services to conceal the true owners. via Facebook http://ift.tt/1TWBi2d through IFTTT

Covens Versus Coders: How Witchcraft Apps Are Pissing Off Real Witches | Broadly

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I find this look at the strained intersection of technology and religion super interesting. Can divination be done through algorithm? via Facebook http://ift.tt/1UuwHhL through IFTTT

What We’ll Do When Ad Tech Dies

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“Publishers are economically motivated to use any means to maximize page views. This has spawned a plague of traffic brokers who specialize in traffic laundering at an almost unbelievable scale. It has also caused publishers to devolve user interfaces into the emotionally unsatisfying experiences they are today, motivating users to deploy content blockers, motivating publishers […]