Reads: Anthropocene, Chillwave & More

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...

1. How the Media Contributed to the Migrant Crisis - The Guardian
2. Will Deplatforming 8Chan Really Work? - OneZero
3. Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech - Wired
4. Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking - Wired
5. A Decades-Old Computer Science Puzzle Was Solved in Two Pages - Wired
6. The Anthropocene Is a Joke - The Atlantic
7. WeWork Isn't a Tech Company; It's a Soap Opera - The Verge
8. Silicon Valley's Crisis of Conscience - The New Yorker
9. American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation - The New York Times
10. I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me - The New York Times
11. Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder - Scientific American
12. Chillwave Was the First Great Genre of the Internet Era - VICE
13. Why I Printed My Facebook - Slate
14. The Truth About Wanting to Die - Walrus
15. Woodstock: My Queer Love Story - Longreads
16. Towards Chinatown - Longreads
17. I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets - Bloomberg