Sunday Reading

Trillion dollar coin: accounting trick, post-democratic emergency, or Biebgiorage?
"Coax people to describe their lifestyles and health conditions" so you can predict when they'll die.
Are high cell phone costs preserving marriage in the US? Related: slow internet ==> less churn on dating sites, the high frequency traders of romance.
Translating law into info systems; the inevitable glitches.
"A tough slog identifying those truly irreplaceable human roles," like being one of the 100 richest people on earth.
Google beats the feds, Borks antitrust, and leaves a shaken FTC in its wake.

Kerim Friedman:

Reclaim UC:

The FBI is seeking information from UCI activists
The Governor, the UC budget, and online education
UC student code of conduct conflates "physical abuse" with sexual assault and rape
A failure of interaction: A report from the UCLA forum on high-tech higher education. Here's the $5 million on one student link and here's a full rush transcript of the event ("MOOCfest").
Quebec student movement in solidarity with Idle No More
Greece, the attack on occupations: "Along with the attacks on occupied buildings, we have seen the beginning of an attack on University buildings..."
Likely Treasury secretary nominee led effort to break NYU grad student union
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto (RIP Aaron Swartz)

T. F. Charlton:

Girl Geeks and Boy Kings - on women's emotional labor and self-surveillance as key to Facebook's success
Janet Mock tackles media silences and selective outrage in the Azealia Banks - Perez Hilton Twitter spat
On Azealia Banks and White Gay Cis Male Privilege
Walking While Female
The Secret Sex Lives of Conservative Christian Women
Gender perception and pronunciation of ‘s’ sounds
Michael Walzer on rethinking Spheres of Justice in light of feminist criticism
Virginia Woolf and Music
The gap between trans experiences and media representation

Two perspectives on femme privilege:

On gender and online bullying:

16 year old Temitayo Fagbenle reports on shame and cyberbullying of girls
Kony Chatterjee on the The Internet Acid Attack

Kitabet:

Christmas in Prison: "They're here because they refused to answer questions for a federal prosecutor, in front of a grand jury, about people they may (or may not) know: who those people are, who those people hang out with, and what political opinions those people hold."
"What walking in America has become: An act dwelling in the margins, an almost hidden narrative running beneath the main vehicular text.
"Whatever else they did or didn’t do that night last August, these young men in Steubenville were performing for each other."
"He was standing on that ledge, looking down at all those people yelling 'Jump! Jump!' and I think he felt like he was backed into a corner, felt like he had no choice but to jump."
Tamerlane in Damascus: "Al-Ghuzuli’s elegy was not simply an abject cry of longing for his beloved Damascus. It was a demand for protection."
The Hidden History of Bengali Harlem
"What does it mean to be privileged? It means not having to think about any of this, ever."
"Atlas approaches Hong Kong from the perspective of future archeologists who reconstruct the city using the fragments, relics, and maps of a forgotten past."
'"One night she asked him: I know you love him. But is that normal love, son?”' (on Turkey's LGBT family support group, LISTAG)
Haiti: Cartography After the Quake
Haiti By the Numbers, Three Years Later
On Suicide: "My love for others wants them to remain anchored in a shared world-building project. Even as my love for them must compel me to let go when that shared world-building becomes impossible."