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  A User’s Guide to Building a Subculture

  Jeremiah Johnson

  First, you’re going to need something to care about.

• Community Organizing

  The Editors
• A Chinese Internet Phrasebook

  Molly Huang

  The latest slang on Weibo reveals a world of cynicism, ennui — and concrete pasta.

• Looking Back at the Future of Humanity Institute

  Tom Ough

  The rise and fall of the influential, embattled Oxford research center that brought us the concept of existential risk.

• Rat Traps

  Sheon Han

  Does the rationalist blogosphere need to update?

• The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google

  Dan Schwarz

  Over the past two decades, Google has hosted two different internal platforms for predictions. Why did the first one fail — and will the other endure?

• The Depths of Wikipedians

  Annie Rauwerda

  A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia function.

• The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic

  Claude S. Fischer

  Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment in American history? When it comes to friendship, this isn’t the first time that authorities have cried wolf.

Coming Soon

• Why We Have Prison Gangs

  David Skarbek

• The Making of Community Notes

  Jay Baxter Keith Coleman Lucas Neumann Emily Thai

• Chimes at Midnight

  Alec Nevala-Lee

• The Biggest Community Development Program You’ve Never Heard Of

  Clara Collier