Urban Planting
...come to fruition, but it won’t be surprising if a version of Romer’s charter cities becomes a reality in the next decade. If there’s ever been a time for a...
Noshing with Nomads
...a few of us these days are getting a taste of a more modern and decidedly unromantic version of it, one which leaves us possessing nothing, yet serving someone....
Beauty Blogosphere 10.26.12
...salon is offering DNA tests designed to help users find a cosmetics regime that's compatible with their genetic makeup. Finally, a way to tell what makeup looks best on your...
Diseases Of Virgins And Spinsters: The Gynephobic History Of Chlorosis And Hysteria
...exacerbated by the torturous treatments and tests they were forced to undertake by a medical community eager to learn the parameters of their symptoms. The typical hysterical victim of this...
The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women
...brush with the radical—a safari of political rebellion—without the nuisance of actually addressing systems of power or challenging the status quo. All the trappings, none of the substance. II. Since...
Kid Stuff
...photo via squareamerica.com If childhood is supposed to be a time for play, why do today’s kids spend so much time working? In the past month, I’ve attended...
Sunday Reading
...out of tests only robs parents of that crucial data." "In reality, privatization forces the mission creep of multiplying activities, 'businesses,' funding streams, capital projects and other debt-funded investments, which...
“The Beyblade Strategy” or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Focused Protection
...analysis of 2020 National Health interview survey data, the figure is likely closer to 38 million people (or 11% of the population). Normalizing covid is built entirely on assumptions as...
Sunday Reading
...the Duquesne University administration Five years on Rikers before being acquitted EZPasses are tracking devices. "More data does not necessarily mean better information." US spying fractures the internet. “In the...
Psychic Refuge
...data from 2014 that there were 119,891 applications from people from Syria applying for asylum in EU states (28 countries), and 146,373 applications to wider Europe (38 countries).By comparison, there...
Buying the Future
...as the most power-hungry urban planner, but without any logic other than the belief that the future was under control. The same process is repeating itself in the rental market,...
Blood and Glory
After 9/11, the bodies at Ground Zero were made heroic; the immigrant bodies that cleaned them up, less so
Die progressive Paralyse
...resemblences. Conclusion: ? While its arrangement was undoubtably an emanation of pre-existing texts, as, as it would be shown later, were these texts themselves combo effects of precursory texts which...
Universal Basic Bullshit
By providing the working class with the absolute bare minimum, universal basic income becomes doomsday prep for the tech billionaire
Sunday Reading
...hissed. 33,900 UHNWI's have more than $100 million; two-thirds of adults in the world have under $10,000 of net wealth each. Big data discrimination; don't think you can hide. Undercover...
"Organic stories"
...notes) Facebook has decided to accompany the round of algorithm tweaks with a propaganda post about the company's benevolent intentions. It's as nauseating as you'd expect, full of cheerful insistence...