Organized Plunder
In the absence of the tax dollars city governments rely on, American are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.
Lonely Letters
A conversation between Ashon Crawley and Elleza Kelley
Redistribution and World Building
A conversation with K Agbebiyi, creator of the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund
What nudists do during a lockdown
Super-flexible woman can look at her own butt from behind
A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots
The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
'Anything can happen, but it usually doesn’t.' —Robert Benchley
Your face mask selfies could be training the next facial recognition tool
the effect of wind speed on social distancing
A single cough releases about 3,000 droplets and droplets travels at 50 miles per hour
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 19, 2020)
A deep dive into the causes of food shortages, food handling myths debunked, and 8 million pints of beer poured down the drain.
Twilight of the Mentors
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love my gatekeeper
Tear gas flavor ice cream
The two drivers of the spread of the disease are close contact and crowding in closed spaces
How this moment will be misremembered
It is unclear whether infected dogs can transmit the virus to other animals or back to humans.
messing with AI models
Herd immunity is the only realistic option. The question is how to get there safely.
Reimagining Networks
An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 10, 2020)
Dining on murder hornets, a Dali of Wheat Thins, and hard times ahead for food trucks.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 3, 2020)
Killer home-brew, disappearing cheese, and food banks on the brink of extinction.
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks