Amniotechnics
...that fetuses (themselves full of parasites and symbionts) distinguish themselves. They do so brutally. Whereas in most species the mother’s safety comes first by default, in humans it is very...
The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World
Staging disability in an apocalyptic future, the film A Quiet Place insists that we think beyond a logic of functionality if we want to survive environmental crisis
Enigma Deviations
...answer would probably depend on whether or not such reflexive activity is common among humans. Duplicitous or part-hidden subjects, such as spies or queers, have long had to know a...
Snake Plissken's Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
...the ones that you inform me I bear locked around my neck like a stock. Moreover, I have long been aware that “our new online one-click payment program makes it...
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
Feasts Under the Bridge
...about the antifanatics just the other day. http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/06/anti-id_philoso060381.html What a coincidence.. NOT! Who's Online? Read more: Science20.com Other methods innovated by trolls include: 2. Doxxing. A troll will essentially...
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...
Escape From Minus World
...money in the form of a new credit-card account. There was $50 toward a Buy.com purchase, and $25 off from Amazon, each of which seduced me into stupid purchases that...
No, You're Already Pretty
...buy it. • Find your "uniform," the combination of pieces that makes you feel most comfortable and attractive. Mine involves cardigans, tights, boots, and dresses/skirts. On Color • Wear color,...
A Predictive Policing Syllabus
How the past becomes the future
A Conspiracy Between the Far-Right and the #J20 Prosecutions
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
Beauty Blogosphere 2.17.12
...browser: Baby boomers buy more cosmetics online than other age groups, which makes total sense to me. I wouldn't buy makeup online unless I knew it was exactly what I...
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...the poems not attributed to individual poets? When the project went online for public view (as opposed to being created and shared on listserves) the general consensus was that the...
Serf Boards
...money online using a service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, or “MTurk” as it’s colloquially known. MTurk was started in 2005 by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and director of Amazon Web...
Sunday Reading
...City Council meeting A plan for a safer Oakland: Critical Resistance Depression and Money, Some Real Talk 16-year-old Temitayo Fagbenle reports on sexual bullying online (audio) Facial weaponization: Fag Face...
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...