Sunday Reading: October 15, 2023
...When sharing information online, please keep in mind that both Instagram and Facebook have policies suppressing information regarding the occupation of Palestine. For more on that suppression, please...
Light a Fire Under the DNC
...spent $1 million ensuring online critics, including those within the Democratic Party, were met with a centrist backlash online. But while the DNC was convincing the media it had a...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
...Eve Plumb, Lisa Hammer, and Lisa Ferber, and written by Ferber (whom you've met plenty of times on The Beheld before)—qualifies as madcap comedy. The second season is now online....
Sunday Reading
...Age: Keynes, Malthus, Marx and the Post-Scarcity Vision Reclaim UC: The FBI is seeking information from UCI activists The Governor, the UC budget, and online education UC student code of...
Naming Nameless
...was underwritten by the hours I clocked for research: Five hours a day online — at least — every day of the week. I tuned into seven to ten IRC...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...with likeminded people. That is the only thing that makes it worth it to me. But online fame is also a cesspool of resentful souls who really have way too...
The Secret Shopper
...online bulletin board (often after a brief training and vetting period). Jobs are posted and claimed constantly, meaning the shopper has to spend a good deal of time online, especially...
Presumed conspicuous
...less upsetting than hunger?" Social media are premised on the answer to that question being self-evidently "no." The structure of online social networks ensure that nobody is leaving anybody alone...
Neither Fish Nor Flesh
...mermaid tails online — you can buy inexpensive fabric ones, medium-priced latex ones, or elaborate, true-to-life silicone ones that will put you out a few thousand dollars — and the...
Living is Easy
...bars in Snowpiercer. And what about Snowpiercer? Is this the thinking viewer’s exception to the rule? A popular hit with brains too? For all the hard work underpaid online writers...
There Are No Accidents
...that the conditions of artistic production online tends to instigate, where the circulation of an image begins to trump its content, and serial production militates against patiently crafted masterworks? Can...
Discipline and Pleasure
...free. FOR those blissfully unaware, Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), which is a strategy-game subgenre somewhere between MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games like World...
TNI Rex (3)
...the Belgian filmmaker ever produced. You'll have trouble finding it online, so you're best bet is to rent Criterion's deluxe edition of Slacker, a two-DVD set that includes It's Impossible...
The Ladies Vanish
...denied pay and receives a lower online rating, making it harder to obtain future work on the site. But the legal structure of Mechanical Turk is such that Amazon can...
Vol. 25 Editors' Note: H8
...comes at a cost. It is particularly expensive for women, who are guaranteed misogynist hate mail upon achieving any online prominence. As trolls and cyberbullies emerge as society’s new bêtes...
Place Matters
...we do not truly engage in online content, preferring to “power browse.” We scan the headlines for information or search for items of temporary entertainment value. Our minds are working...