Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyNovember 25, 2012

nathan jurgenson:

“A simple piece of software got us through the dark ages of computing”
"The Decelerator Helmet is an experimental approach for dealing with our fast moving society...a perception of the world in slow motion"
"War existed before social media, but not like this. This is a new thing"
"he's the one who was violated. But he knows that won't stop anyone from clicking "play" over and over again"
"A book is basically thousands of tweets printed out and stapled together between pieces of cardboard"
"ideally, real human users will leave social networking altogether"
“Do we buy iPads b/c they change & improve our lives? Or because we need something we can believe improves our lives?”
"We've got enough stuff going on inside a race car. We don't need to have cell phones in there, distracting us"
"biological storage would allow us to record anything and everything without reservation"
"Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at web services"
"terms ‘digital media’ & ‘new media’ do not capture very well the uniqueness of the ‘digital revolution’" [pdf]

How much will it cost us to restore California public higher education in 2012-2013? $55 per person.
"On Friday November 16, 2012, the University of California razed all of the publicly planted crops on the Gill Tract."
Why Proposition 30 won't be a windfall for UC
Pomp and exceptional circumstance: How students are forced to prop up the education bubble
An open letter to Portland's high school rebels
Against chairs: "As chairs became prevalent in schoolrooms, they became a tool for teachers to control the movement of children, whose healthy tendency toward activity made them difficult to teach."
"The MOOC is a dialectic. It invites us in with a curled finger, as sinister as it is salient."
Modern-day Robin Hoods: Stealing construction supplies from the rich to give to the Sandy-hit poor
The cancer of police violence
Eyal Weizman and Adam Shatz on Israel's war in Gaza

Frank Pasquale:

Will Hirst be the Zimbabwe of art-as-currency?
Bias toward billing in digital medical records.
Brain drain, which we can't explain.
WaPo asks the tough questions.
80% of Indian children anemic; corruption rampant.
Economist says many Indians eat less because they need fewer calories nowadays.
Trader spends $60,000 at bar to impress star.
Industry wants a boozier America.
Race in America.
WalMart as "mass sweatshop," human rights violator: police respond.
Lamification and creditism.
No enemies - no hatred, but: "In China, the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as official elements have become criminalized" (at 44:34).
Gang-prison alliance.

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