Mirror Binge
...don't write about this much on here for a variety of reasons, but I have a history of disordered eating. (If you're interested, you can read my ladymag version of...
Mexican Is Not a Race
Poet Wendy Trevino argues that a radical new Chicanx politics means forging an identity based on shared political struggle, not myths of racial homogeneity--an idea rooted in anarchist struggles along the Texas-Mexican border a century ago
Will the Real Amelia Peabody Please Stand Up?
...a modernized version of the lady Egyptologist. Like all good historical fiction, and part of the reason fans love Peabody, the series prompts readers to learn more about the little-known...
Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!
...Johnny Rotten’s adenoidal snarl. Discharge’s revamped version of punk bore little resemblance to anything that had come before. It was faster, harsher, and often almost entirely lacking in melody. The...
The Streets of Spain
...a buck by dressing up as Spongebob, Chewbacca, and the Shrek version of Puss in Boots. Capital remains the zombie that just won’t go down: “no consumismo” lasted for a...
Growing Up TV
...but the pair also enjoyed a relatively gentle version of cultural misplacement as black kids who didn’t exactly act like anyone’s conception of black kids: too smart, too funny, too...
Feedbags
...responsibility for what the News Feed serves them, but the apparatus still functions in the same way. Users generate data for Facebook's algorithm, which the company uses to categorize them....
Sunday Reading
...Black People Anguish of jailed lawyers' families Perspective on Elie Wiesel's Legacy Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualizations Undermining the Monarchy The Counter-Revolution of 1776 Fear of Slave Revolts Reclaim UC:...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...the value of users’ data trails and shared content to social media companies and their clients. Yet such a defense is hard to envision, because most users would have trouble...
Sunday Reading
...sometimes surprise even historians. Frank Pasquale: Steve Jobs, criminal mastermind. Will digital planning replace capitalism? Machine learning competitions. When did feudalism replace capitalism? To bone up on big data, read...
Just the Facts
...and cherry-pick pieces of ambiguous evidence that confirm their beliefs. They can thus present themselves as enlightened empiricists who, through sustained diligent analysis and research, have come to understand the...
Sunday Reading
...lives & stop corruption? "Arbitrary & capricious." Kerim Friedman: Air pollution leading cause of cancer The Insidious Power of Not-Quite-Harassment Computing Power Used to Be Measured in 'Kilo-Girls' Arresting the...
Sunday Reading
...of Steven Salaita Queer Black Studies Now Big Data and the‘Physics’ of Social Harmony ReclaimUC: Video: tear gas attack at UC Berkeley (1969) The hunger crisis in America's universities L.A....
Sunday Reading
...are Falling Down on Digital Workers Uber, or: The Technics of Socially Corrosive Mobility Uber's Convenient Racial Politics 2016 Presidential Race Emerging as First Uber Election Uber: When Big Data...
Best American Poetry Pseudonyms
...incompatible with poetic beauty. Only will truly high-powered computing be able to sort through such noise, I think. So bring on the algorithms. Big Data will save poetry. ...
Distracted by Attention
..."like" button compresses so many responses (love, friendship, support) into an easily quantifiable data point. But do such extraction strategies amount to a form of labor exploitation? Citton considers 19th...