Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...it must be noted that the major theme of Friedman’s version, in both content and form, is that no single person deserves credit for either the story or the pencil.)...
"It Continues Not To End": Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project
...World Cafe at the Hague, on the eve of a trial hearing, and a version was performed at the Storymoja festival in Nairobi; some of the poets, I know, are...
The Deep Resentment of Having to Think About It: Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke
...and stupidity" This, after all, is why "privilege" is so importantly different from power or bigotry: privilege must remain ignorant of itself, because it's the right to enjoy benefits which...
The Science and Spectacle of the Swarm
How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social
A Conspiracy Between the Far-Right and the #J20 Prosecutions
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
Sunday Reading
...power of the police power to arrest, and to the power of the courts to sentence Zimmerman, we also make heard a message that we might otherwise hesitate to send:...
Sunday Reading
...behaviors that extend from the cherry-picking of data to fit a chosen hypothesis—which many researchers admit is commonplace—to outright fabrication." The human capital strategy (pdf) The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de...
The Secret Shopper
...prerequisite for this particular shop,) which automatically processes the data and turns it into a “Buzz Score” for Eric. After a round of shops is compiled in a market he’s...
Contortions of self-consciousness
...in how well my data pegs me and in how much of me escapes Amazon’s understanding. Stendhal, Elster notes, didn’t try to “make an impression on others by faking qualities...
Novel News
...The change in temperature here is not a “modest” shift: it is a right angle. Stephens’ description of the data that even he calls “indisputable” is so aggressively indifferent to...
Agents Without Agency
...it easier to disseminate information and by the entangled complexity that dispersed relevant data across a broader populace. In Epitaph for a Spy, the protagonist’s mere possession of a camera...
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
...Denial weaves together a tale of two publics whose memberships are contested and gendered masculine. First, do you get the game? Do you understand the power of combat, the beauty...
Running on Empty
...— and, specifically, Facebook and Google — understanding every nuance of our daily movements has already proven a lucrative business. But data collection takes away from one of the biggest...
Safe in Our Archives
...extends the ephemeral into the future, offering people the fantasy of rediscovery, or favorable reinterpretation. (My version of this is that the self is actually deferred to the future; it's...
Dominate
...how close he was to all his Facebook friends. Some version of that algorithm is likely powering Facebook's mechanism for choreographing users' News Feed, deciding for them what sorts of...
