- A year after AWDU's victory, a report on left-wing public sector and education unionism
- How to Separate Jewishness from Zionism
- "Some Girls Rape Easy"
Sex as something that’s “given” — sex as a commodity — allows for sex to be constructed as something that can be taken.
- 10 Amazing Lady Explorers Who Aren't Columbus
- Devaluing Care Work -- And Women
- Haiti's Constitutional Horror Show
- “There is an essential lack of any heroic narrative in most films about the second Gulf War”
- “In twenty years universal television will be an everyday affair” (1927)
- “Romney campaign’s presence on Tumblr is more subdued”
- “the apocalypse of the coming Reputation Market, in which all humans will be searchable, sortable and assigned a value by a judge, jury and executioner of their peers across the Internet”
- “The pay-to-promote feature disrupts the interest-based algorithm”
- “social media encourages thinking of authenticity as moment of external confirmation; others decide if you have been true to yourself”
- “The symbiotic relationship between us and our apps will be seamless”
- “there are two different settings for the privacy of your phone number in two different places. Because that’s the way Facebook rolls”
- “ESC became a kind of “interrupt” button on the PC — a way to poke the computer and say, “Cut it out””
- “the concept of ‘internet addiction’ relies on a fundamental misunderstanding of what the internet is”
- “Will there ever be a laptop that needs to be broken in, and improves as you use it?”
- “With these gardens as crypto-water-computers, they were taking measurements of the universe”
- “A troll exploits social dynamics like computer hackers exploit security loopholes”
- “The point again is Internet is REAL & deciding that it’s unreal, virtual, trivial etc. is a function of the privilege it accords the denier”
- “the fighting of war is now augmented – war by physical and digital means are now inseparable”
- “there is no compelling evidence that any online dating matching algorithm actually works”
- “Ensconced in the home, the 3-D printer is a step toward the replicator: a machine that can instantly produce any object with no input of human labor”
- Brave New Bavli: Talmud in the Age of the iPad
- Background to the Foreground: Bahrain's Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale
- Chamber Tabla and Cognitive "Affordances"
- Weird and Wonderful Cairo - "a guide to local foods, charming museums, and secret kitsch in Egypt"
- Architectures of Unproductiveness
- Citizens Jain: Why India’s newspaper industry is thriving
- Eye-rate About Eye-ran
- Eyal Weizman on architecture as political intervention
- "Hi, my name is Natalia. My husband’s fangirls stalk me on the Internet"
- The Christian Case for Cities
- Modern Words that Survive from Ancient Egypt – What, How and Why
- The music of Los Angeles' Iraqi Jewish community
- Voices in Machinima as a Situationist Détournement of Video and Computer Games
- Shiite Mohr (Turbah)
- On the campaign for Malayalam to be given the status of a classical language
- The photography of Newsha Tavakolian
- This week's must read on higher ed: on university endowments, financial managers, and failing investment strategies. Colleges and universities currently have over $2 trillion invested in hedge funds, and overall their investment portfolios are underperforming even the traditional strategy of a mix of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds. In fact, "If all the money that’s ever been invested in hedge funds had been put in Treasury bills instead, the results would have been twice as good."
- Meanwhile, 800-year old Cambridge University sells its first bonds. "I like its rarity value, it will become a museum piece."
- The other victim of student debt: parents. As theDepartment of Education tightens restrictions on PLUS loans, parents are caught in the key contradiction of higher education today: increasing loans feeds the student debt bubble, but restricting them kills access.
- As college tuition skyrockets, 30 years of black middle class economic gains have been wiped out.
- On the disastrous, violent legacy of former UC Riverside Chancellor Tim White, recently named president of the CSU system.
- At UC Irvine, the administration is killing the bookstore.
- "On the sidelines, sniping": notes on academics and occupy. (Faculty "on the sidelines, sniping" was already a constant in the CA student occupation / anti-privatization movement starting as early as fall 2009.)
- Fisher v. Texas: On race, merit, and affirmative action in college admissions, some tough questions from the justices on affirmative action, and affirmative action vs. white privilege.
- In pilot program, student IDs track the students. Why? For money, of course.
- Attention disorder or not, pills to help in school... and everything else.
- Tracing minerals back to the mine.
- Protecting whistleblowers.
- Invisible economies: algo-bots, shadow banks, System D.
- Trust James Kwak over The Economist on rising health/education costs.
- Google and WalMart go into banking.
- Glaxo goes open science; Sanofi plots to raise a price, like KV.
- Brooklyn median income is $23,000; average rent for 1BR is $28,980.
- The wild west of compounding pharmacies.
- Bank complaint: "The Fed now is demanding they include the physical address of properties backing loans on their books."
- The Rehetorical (De)evolution of Affirmative Action.
- Angus Johnston on Fisher v. Texas.
- Soul-Searching for Diversity at UT Austin.
- Fisher v. Texas and the Problem of Proof.
- The CEO Who Built Himself America’s Largest House Threatens to Fire Employees if Obama Wins.
- It’s the Lack of Shared Governance, Stupid.
- Consistent Confusion
- When Animal Collective’s Deakin Went to Mali to Make an Album and End Slavery.
- E-mails Ignored, Meetings Denied: Bias at the Search Stage Limits Diversity.
- What Government Can Learn From Squirrels.
- One Doctor in Japan Faked 200 Articles in Medical Journals over Two Decades.
- Stateless and Stranded in American Samoa
- On California’s Decision to Deny Graduate Students the Right to Unionize.
- Texas School Uses Student IDs to Track Students.
- Is It Your Body or Not? Draw the Line, People.
- Laura Seay on Simon Fraser University’s Human Security Report.
- The Problem of the New York Police.
- From One Gilded Age to Another:
- There Will Be a Memoir: Achebe and Biafra.
- The Arithmetic of Tenure Standards.
- How One Dutch Neighborhood Helped People Everywhere Reclaim the Commons.
- Follow-ups to Adrian Chen’s great piece, Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web.