Sunday Reading
...r>g: NBA Owner Sterling from 2005 $500 million net worth to $1900 million today. Watch the big internet companies further consolidate dominance. Search engines as invisible power. Robot Bartleby's as...
The Sigil Begins
...This is a sigil. I'll be plain about that from the outset. I am carving out a space in the data sphere for something special to take place....
Black Friday, Or the Circulation of Commodities
...Alibaba.com, sometimes known as "the Chinese eBay," connects shoppers looking to purchase commodities in bulk directly with manufacturers from across the world. The site encompasses more or less every...
Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control
...collars; when a fawn is born, researchers are alerted to the time and place of the birth. The device is expelled with the fawn. VITs enable rich data collection while...
Sunday Reading
...white student suing to overthrow affirmative action was too dumb to get into her chosen college. Some useful higher ed data... plus graphs US-style school "reform" hits Mexico Stories of...
Sunday Reading: October 1, 2023
...intelligence committee and had access to data confirming the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. She would nonetheless vote for––and be a vocal proponent of––the invasion that would...
Not for Prophet
...power surge, followed by the local forecast playing on continuous loop. With fondness, they recall the late-’90s commercials featuring a fictional bar called The Front—where face-painted diehards watched TWC as...
The Cost of Disclosure: On Being a Woman with a Disability in Geophysics
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Sunday Reading
...The US government starves science. Martin O'Malley, data technocrat. German sociologists boycott academic rankings. "The scene reads a bit differently if the choice was dictated by a CIA propaganda officer."...
Get real
...capture it. Egan doesn't anticipate the Web 2.0 wave of capturing immaterial labor with seductive "sharing" peer-to-peer platforms, or the Big Data approach of capturing everything and sorting out the...
Who Can You Trust?
...world, the Named garment achieves something our social networks cannot. We may never meet the three-dimensional version of our complete online cohort. But Minnie has a name. Order her. She’ll...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.3.12
...to know how a synthesized version of my personal scent would smell, and 2) The company is counting on this exact mix of curiosity and narcissism to pull a profit....
“I do wish mother had a boudoir:” Hertha Ayrton’s Home Laboratory
...candidate in Art History at the University of Toronto. Her current research explores the visual culture of technology throughout the 19th century. *Correction: A previous version incorrectly stated IEEE as...
Spook'd
...art and criticism online. I have yet to figure out how to translate Spook to the web in a creative way. Although, a digital version of the magazine will be...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.22.12
...I don't remember. But I like it! Control patrol: Two nice posts on bodies and control this week. Sally writes a sort of Serenity Prayer version of body acceptance, about...
Personal Ads
...“C2." Because Coke used the name, July later got a check in the mail for $25,000. An earlier version of this story suggested this happened in the 80s. Miranda July...