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...
Sunday Reading
...Stopper. "This is South Florida. I'm not that surprised." Ludic pharma: play with data. The Jonah Lehrer take-down you've all been waiting for. Big Elsie: "us or the stone age."...
Against Quarantine
How responses to the new corona virus territorialize disease and capitalize on a virus
Sunday Reading
...firm McGraw-Hill Construction—even as schools are under pressure to contain costs. “You can go into any community and talk to somebody whose son or daughter either can’t get in or...
Search for a Method
...or al-Qaeda member. American intellectuals have expressed little interest in Behram’s work, except to dismiss it. Instead, the raw data for the most commonly cited civilian casualty estimates comes direct...
Call Volume
A review of Jamie Woodcock’s Working the Phones
Sunday Reading
...Kerim Friedman: “They Want to Prohibit Us From Dreaming” Cuomo Bares Fangs at CUNY Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely...
Editors' Note, Vol. 45: Cops 2
...charges against police officer’ morphs from reportage into eerie command,” Gharavi writes, laying bare the state’s monopoly on legitimate use of deadly force. The intersection of policing and data science...
Sunday Reading
...NYU Government loansharking: An update on the student debt crisis Your student loan isn't really a loan Schools and the New Jim Crow MOOCs and the masses: Big data and...
Free to Choose A or B
...express a preference that has already been translated into useful market data to benefit a company, which is, of course, the true meaning of "rational": profitable. You assume th erisks...
Sunday Reading
...Japan's Sex Drought CDC official: we've reached the 'end of antibiotics' The truth is that technology magnifies power in general, but rates of adoption are different. data are good, but...
Sunday Reading
...how tone policing protects male power poverty has same effect on brain as constant all-nighters on making feminist porn comics: Jess Fink don't leave home without your - Sexual Assault...
The City that Care Remembered
...John Arena [Video] Former Black Panther Malik Rahim speaks on Brandon Darby and the FBI infiltration of Common Ground Collective Black Flags and Windmills by scott crow Why Misogynists Make...
Sunday Reading
...Karen Gregory: Justice for "Data Janitors" The Cathedral of Computation "The Smart City" "With Big Data Invading Campus..." Can Worker Cooperatives Alleviate Income Inequality? The Right to Be...
Sunday Reading
...Algorithmic Architectures, Logistical Media, and the Rise of Black Box Politics Hapticality in the Undercommons The Rise of the Cryptopticon How Robots and Algorithms are Taking Over Dear Data Twitter...
Sunday Reading
...data means hiring "more personnel or personnel with new and more expensive skill sets" Obama's whack-a-mole approach to higher ed Why does college cost so much—and why do so many...