Sunday Reading

All things Beyoncé:

nathan jurgenson

"the Internet is laughing. And Applebee’s is losing a lot of customers"
"Let me break it down, Your Holiness: sentiment-wise, your entrance on Twitter has been saluted by a roaring “meh”"
"People need to worry less about the future of print and worry more about the future of sentences"
"cogito ergo sum is usurped by something with far more ominous implications: “I am documented, therefore I am.”"
"people click Like merely because humans have an irresistible desire to be counted"
"when DRM makes products less valuable, it also makes them less real"
"The “Global Suburbs” might be a better moniker for the United States’ cultural standing"
"‘sexualisation’ implicitly assumes that sex is only, and always, something done to women and girls rather than something we do ourselves"
"In Dodge's world, almost every farmer is a white Caucasian. And thats about as realistic as a Thomas Kincade painting"
"The message of this commercial is: if you are driving a nice car, you are entitled to having your sexual/romantic desires met, in public"
"The blackout lasted 34 minutes. During that time, CBS acted as if it possessed no news division"
"Better to be women behind bars than ladies in the streets"
“for those of us whose bodies seem like a burden or an ontological prison, the Internet functions as a utopia of sorts”
“These messages are intended specifically to shame and frighten women out of engaging online”
“I hear ‘clickclickclickclickclick’ all over the place…they are photographing me, and now I’m pissed. I felt like a zoo animal”
“Facebook is not *doing* anything to society”
“we don’t like seeing Apple bloggers imply Android’s success doesn’t count because what—poor people don’t count?”
“Why do we photograph the aftermath of misadventure?”
“by pretending that joining up all those disconnected dots is no big deal, Facebook is being dishonest and dumb”
“Teams of players are charged with taking out as many [surveillance] cameras as possible”
“make no mistake: Vine will be a big deal”
“poor people have little choice but to surrender their privacy in the name of social mobility”
“We’ll probably see a day when games aren’t defined by winstates”
“why not use a robot of Andy to dramatize his philosophy?”
“There is something about watching a missile vaporize a guy from the view of a close up camera”
“This is digital dualism, but it’s also determinism at work”
“It seems *normal* to them to walk into a bar with Google Glasses, even though everyone’s smirking at them”
“it appears no accident that expansion of personal debt occurred pari passu with technological development”
“MOOCs are an essentially authoritarian structure; a one-way process in which the student is a passive recipient”
"If you exposed film for a white kid, the black kid sitting next to him would be rendered invisible"
"We Must Build An Enormous McWorld In Times Square, A Xanadu Representing A McDonald's From Every Nation"
“My, they grow into little more than consumer goods so quickly"
"If we could just be honest, users might actually be able to find porn when they want it, & avoid it when they don’t"
"The appearance of inevitability is a trick played by our tendency to make a neat story out of the past"
"My Bloody Valentine's New Album 'mbv' Breaks the Internet"

ReclaimUC:

Frank Pasquale:

Why study the philosophy of social science?
Technology magnifies power of the powerful & powerless.
Focusing students on jobs of the future: drone pilot.
Pay bank fines from bonus pools.
Lend at 18%, borrow at 0.01%, buy second home at 3PM.
Medicalization and health care's trick coin.
Caregivers' Coalition; the caring sandwich seller.
Bill of Rights for the Precariat.
Are you ready for some predestination?

Kerim Friedman: