Read Jesse McCarthy’s “Notes on Trap” at N+1: “TRAP IS INVESTED in a mode of dirty realism. It is likely the only literature that will capture the structure of feeling of the period in which it was produced, and it is certainly the only American Literature of any kind that can truly claim to have a popular following across all races and classes. Points of reference are recyclable but relatable, TITILLATING YET BORING, trivial and très chic . . . the fusion core of endless momentum that radiates out from an efficient capitalist order distributing itself across a crumbling and degraded social fabric, all the while REPRODUCING and even AMPLIFYING the underlying class, racial, and sexual tensions that are riven through it.”

“We are not talking to Facebook and Google about whether or not to introduce a complete change where all their business models are completely upended overnight. We are not asking their permission.” TIM BERNERS-LEE wants to decentralize the Internet, and give you back your data, via Fast Company.