"Fractals" by Joanna Walsh: Short Story and Giveaway
...of basics, black and grey. One can commit too early of course. A key piece bought nearly in style will merely foreshadow the version available when the style is at...
Queens Live @ The Kitchen
...The New Inquiry presents a live version of issue no. 29, Queens. The evening includes presentations and performances by Alexis Blair Penney, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Derica Shields, and Hannah...
Yes We Keynes!
...found for a peddler of an idea like the efficient-markets hypothesis? The hypothesis holds that when it comes to valuing economic assets, the market knows best. Indeed, in extreme versions,...
Serf Boards
...services Peter Cohen as a way to solve problems with Amazon’s ever-expanding data set. The premise was that a distributed crowd of humans could easily complete tasks that computers found...
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives
...access to ever more data, technology isn’t merely overwhelming our moral or neurological capabilities to resist. Instead, its chief ideological accomplishment is to complement preexisting assumptions about our shared values...
Champagne Wishes and Crypto Dreams
Of course there are crypto memoirs. But how do they theorize history?
The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
Get the Balance Right
...prose. Long passages on Benjamin’s networks of friends and acquaintances alternate with instructive excursions on his major works. Following the austere convention of presenting all biographical data in chronological order,...
Social-media redlining and "social enforcement"
...the sort of contacts I should make there to improve my creditworthiness. As this Economist article reports, banks are beginning to gather online social-media data to perform risk assessment for...
Preemptive personalization
...reach potentially vast audiences. But this seeming expansion of our capacity to express ourselves in in the service of data-capture and surveillance; we embed ourselves in communication platforms that allow...
Lucky Number Seven
...worst social mobility in the developed world. The Guardian completed its own analysis of the data, which shows that mobility has changed very little since the 1970s. And one study...
Surveillance notes
...that build our reputation and establish our economic viability. But the attention we experience as support and opportunity is also the data that sustains surveillance systems. We become complicit in...
The Search for Posthumanism
...Harvard in the 1940s under the direction of the U.S. Navy. During a malfunction one of the researchers found a moth trapped in one of the computer’s relays. The story...
The overload
...to the many. We’re supposed to believe that users posting less constitutes some sort of threat to Facebook: If we stop posting, they won’t have as much data about users...
Objects and Clarity
...at all times. Certain T-shirt messages may appear to be supportive, but individuals (parents, students) may see a different meaning in that message.” According to schooldigger's objective data, PS 220...
Google's Macchia
...might come of it. I’m watching to see what other photographers and artists can create using this latest manifestation of Big Data. As usual, they will have to navigate between...