Note to Self

with Manoush Zomorodi

Your guide to an accelerating world.

  • Meet the Humans Who Protect Your Eyes

    Jun 7, 2017
    People upload every kind of image (un)imaginable. Content moderators look at all the awful stuff, so you don’t have to. They toil in obscurity. Why aren’t they held up as heroes?
  • Wait, What IS Reality? We Investigate.

    May 16, 2017
    You know that feeling, in college, where you’re like, what if the blue YOU see isn’t even the same color as what I see? That’s what the world has been feeling like, except, not so chill.
  • Why Are So Many Bots Following Manoush?

    May 10, 2017
    Bot armies are taking aim at our democracies, from last November to Brexit to this weekend’s French election. But what do they want with Manoush?
  • Parents Just Don’t Understand, Tech Edition

    May 3, 2017
    Uh, mom, the eggplant emoji is not about food. And the crying-laughing emoji is not appropriate for funerals. It’s time for some family tech therapy. With a professional.
  • AI Learns from Us. So It Learns Bias.

    Apr 26, 2017
    We count on robots to do more and more stuff. Drive cars, water crops, diagnose disease. What happens when the robots are racist? 
  • Revealing Selfies. Not Like That.

    Apr 19, 2017
    Your selfies are sharing way more than your smiling face. They’re full of data. Which is being used by stores. And banks. And police. And, well, everyone.