A Cute Idea
...against normative conceptions of gender and the profiling of activists and people of color, a computer voice advocates “weaponizing the face through masks” generated by the biometric data correlating to...
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...
The Untrustworthy Reader
...eagerly. (Lee was ultimately charged not with spying but with one count of improper handling of restricted data.) Adler objects specifically to the paper’s reliance on “anonymous sources”—indeed she objects...
Athletic Aesthetics
...competitive, and if you want to be competitive you must be connected, receive and process continuously an immense and growing amount of data. This provokes a constant attentive stress, a...
Wordly Treasures
...mathematics, and biology exist in the first instance through data robustly encoded in human signifying systems. Motion verbs can describe topology and river systems, names for birds or seasons describe...
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...
You Probably Think This Bot Is About You
When it comes to machines, paranoid assumptions about the world are mutually reinforcing: The New Inquiry’s Conspiracy Bot condenses this recursive symbiosis.
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...
Reading the ICC Witness Project: About Witness #26 and #47
...to say, unless it becomes part of a story—“I was eating oatmeal when I saw the flying saucer”—it won’t even become a memory. It will just be data that was...
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
...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...
Mask Off
...an overly broad definition of who “deserves” protection, which results in giving the vulnerable a little more power than he thinks necessary: For chronically ill people, political power derives in...
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
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...
Sunday Reading
...in ... if you haven't gotmoney, you vote out' Uber Data And Leaked Docs Provide A Look At How Much Uber Drivers Make Big Data: A Report on AlgorithmicSystems, Opportunity,...
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...