Healthy Boundaries
...bloggers at Computerworld discussed the act of watch-wearing in terms of performativity, another online community took to social media to describe a more visceral response to the sleek piece of...
Out of Sight
...of the calls was worth paying. Blind people from around the world have access to many technologies that get us online. Windows screen readers speak what’s on the screen, and...
The Disconnectionists
...always had been. Despite his great ascetic effort, he could not reach escape velocity from the Internet. Instead he found an “inextricable link” between life online and off, between flesh...
Very Serious Populists
...Ben Shahn Voting Booths (1950) The point of online voting systems like Reddit is not to highlight the best content, but to build and maintain hegemony There is...
Fear of Screens
...when she discusses a “world of screens,” or when she laments “the pull of the online world” away from the real world of humans. “We turn to our phones instead...
Anti-5G necklaces
...are engaged in illicit activity. […] Laundering the cryptocurrency through exchanges is the final step, and also the most vulnerable, because criminals must exit the anonymous online world to appear...
The Acquisitive Gaze
...shopping mentality govern everything we do online. 8. Consumerism once limited this sort of self-expression to what one can afford. But with Pinterest, users can simulate the acquisition of things...
How to Destroy a Community
...Mittani, he is the former spymaster and current CEO of the Goonswarm Federation, one of the largest player alliances in the hypercapitalist space opera Eve Online. Eve Online is a...
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...them has been published online yet. It’s 130+ pages of original, unseen critical work on drones, illustrated and designed by Imp Kerr. As far as we can tell, it’s the...
SEO & The Disappearing Self
...(via) “On Facebook, our communication is assessed like online advertising — how many click-throughs did it inspire? This prompts us to make what we say on Facebook sound...
Sunday Reading
...the NSA’s sins Massively Open Online Police State Doktorgeschwister A history of liberal anti-unionism The baby in “Salt of the Earth” ended up working at Walmart. “Nuclear power is fine,...
‘I don’t want to be 20 cent’ –50 cent
...blankets. In 2020 in the U.S., 59% of online recruitment of sex trafficking victims took place on Facebook. […] 65% of identified child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media...
Natural’s Not In It
...shampoo; others complain about the “unnaturalness” of antibiotics, hormonal birth control, or monogamy. Judging from various Paleo forums online, homeschooling is fairly popular, as are hairy men, eating with one’s...
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...
TNI Vol. 13 Editorial Note: Bartlebea the Dater
...Love in the Time of Algorithms, which poses the economization of love as inevitable, along with the end of monogamy. But are people really so helplessly altered by online romance?...
From Mega-Machines to Mega-Algorithms
...Google. Coursera, a for-profit online education startup, also needs translators’ labor, so it can sell its MOOCs (massive open online courses) in other languages. So in April 2014, it created...