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Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media

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On June 22nd, visitors to Slate Star Codex, a long-standing blog of considerable influence, discovered that the site’s cerulean banner and graying WordPress design scheme had been superseded by a barren white layout. In the place of its usual catalogue of several million words of fiction, book reviews, essays, and miscellanea, as well as at least as voluminous an archive of reader commentary, was a single post of atypical brevity. “So,” it began, “I kind of deleted the blog. Sorry. Here’s my explanation.” The farewell post was attributed, like virtually all of the blog’s entries since its...

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Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Previously, he was a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine, a contributing writer at Wired, and a contributing editor at Harper’s. He grew up in New Jersey, attended Stanford University, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin. He is the author of the memoir “A Sense of Direction” and the Kindle Single “No Exit,” and has edited collections by Richard Rorty and Philip Rieff. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, n+1, and elsewhere. He teaches reporting in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University.

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