Things I read in June.

What Oxford taught me about posh people

Why We Need to Rethink the Computer ‘Desktop’ as a Concept

Chimanda Ngozi Adichie: It Is Obscene

Adiche talks about two writers who attended creative writing workshops ran by her and how their disagreements played out over social media.

And so we have a generation of young people on social media so terrified of having the wrong opinions that they have robbed themselves of the opportunity to think and to learn and to grow.

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Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity