The piece above is part of a series called Pluralism by artist Deborah Roberts -- it's a collage of dozens of Black names marked as misspelled by Microsoft Word's built-in spell checker. I don't know about you, but thi

The retweet lived and Reader died, but the underlying pattern was the same; once it was handed over to the corporation, everyone lost control.

From Matt Baker of UsefulCharts, this chart traces the evolution of our familiar alphabet from its Proto-Sinaitic roots circa 1850-1550 BC. It's tough to see how the pictographic forms of the original script evolved in

“For a ‘book’ is just the endpoint of a latticework of complex infrastructure, made increasingly accessible. Even if the endpoint stays stubbornly the same—either as an unchanging Kindle edition or simple paperback—the universe that produces, breathes life into, and supports books is changing in positive, inclusive ways, year by year. The Future Book is here and continues to evolve. You’re holding it. It’s exciting. It’s boring. It’s more important than it has ever been.”

Last night, Twitter gave its users the option to switch back to a purely chronological timeline. Meanwhile, today we updated the "Show the best Tweets first" setting. When off, you'll only see Tweets from peop