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Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.
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Faces of Histories
The "Deep Nostalgia" face animator conflates the desire to honor the past with an impulse to appropriate it
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On Techno-Orientalism
New,technologizedforms of anti-Asian appropriation betray both old prejudices and new desires
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Source Material
A new field of study aims to reveal the complexity and devastation of global supply networks
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TikTok Face
Emoji once stood in for facial expressions; now we are movingin the other direction
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Wrong Road
The phone is a car: a symbol of freedom and convenience that transforms into an inescapable burden
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Back to the Land
Despite the feudal labor arrangements it enables, the internet has never been a "digital commons"
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Potemkin AI
Many instances of "artificial intelligence" are artificial displays ofits power and potential
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