Your future sex robot
...than half of all states have permitted betting on sports, with 21 making it legal to wager online. [...] New revenue streams are nice. But the dark truth that states...
Sunday Reading
...Nadu, devotees throng to get darshan The history of Cairo's Sinan Pasha Mosque Learning Chinese in Zambia South African History Online: Towards a People's History The history of Egypt's Greek...
The Dandelion and the Lucky Peach
...of influences falls to food bloggers nowadays, and the fact that the online dialogue doesn’t require purchasing $20 appetizers has broadened the audience of high-minded dining in an odd and,...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 93
Robert Bresson, Au hasard Balthazar, 1966 The key way that economists model behavior is by assuming that people have preferences about things. Often, but not always, these...
The Ektorp Sofa and the New Normal
...Even though the Ektorp really is less expensive this year (online the base model is listed for $399, it’s an extra $200 for the pictured gray cover), Ikea doesn’t bother...
An Interview with TNI's Creative Director Imp Kerr in The Huffington Post
...went viral. Now Ms. Kerr is employed by The New Inquiry, and regularly blogs for the online magazine in the column, "Shines Like Gold." Since Imp Kerr's identity remains something...
Sunday Reading
...and Joy of a Native American Poet in Brooklyn A history of online SF prozines Floella Benjamin on Coming to England and its impact 20 years on Personal (Cyber) Space...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 112
...it’s safer to be naked) Hairline Design with Lasers 8 Irresistible Food Blogs From Sub-Saharan Africa Online Color Challenge Anyone wont there ass eaten in my Jeep m4w (LA)...
Faked in China
...media attention it receives. Reports on shanzhaiji, both in print and online, have played no small role in the cultural production of the “brand.” The multinationals who contract Shenzhen factories...
Triple-Decker Weekly
...the estates can sometimes result. [NY Post] The secret online weapons store that’ll sell anyone anything. Australian bottlenose dolphins that use marine sponges to forage for food have been found...
Social media and sensibility
...emotional pleasure. The novel (as is claimed about smartphones and other modes of online engagement today) pre-empts the need for co-presence. But the pleasures of exercising sensibility — an 18th...
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
On Neuronationalism: Autism, Immunity, Security
...cases textured by images, objects, and texts, many of which cite the self-articulated interests of school shooters as posted on online forums. Crespo’s punny invocation of “case” within her title...
Called to Account
...Society, especially those that are both necessary and a hindrance to building a socially respectable life. You talk about them in your own life—reading sort-of-work-related online news, buying a house,...
African Poetry: Kayombo Chingonyi
.... These days I can’t watch a music video online without you trolling in the comments dressed to kill in your new age binary clothes. The (n)epithet (as Christina Sharpe...
Vol. 70 Editors' Note: Service
Who do you serve? Who do you protect?