The Plague Years
...brief foray online suggests that there are productive ways to take advantage of the virality of social networks. In his concluding chapter, he goes on to suggest that there are...
The Luck of the Listserve
...art by Adam Simpson The Listserve brings online strangers together in an era oversaturated with friends “Like all the men of Babylon,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges in The...
Power Loss
...tanks like the Heritage Foundation, which published two online articles on the subject in March alone. “Chaos From the Sky: Why the EMP Threat is Real” and “The EMP Threat:...
kburd: Caliban Responds
...it? Why are they closing ranks? Who is rendered vulnerable? 13. Little of how these senior scholars have conducted themselves online convinces me that they would have been willing to...
Mapping the Sneakernet
...the offline population as those who haven’t gone online in the past 12 months. Following the implicit logic of such statistics, it can be easy to assume that being unconnected...
Follow The Leader
...six languages. And there is a Catholic presence online outside of Vatican-sponsored activities. You can visit a Catholic Church on Second Life–the most popular 3D virtual community which boasts over...
Security Culture Is Good
...If your friend sends you a link that looks weird, call or text them to make sure they actually sent it. The most common way people get owned online is...
Triple-Decker Weekly
...in personal problems, no? [Slavoj Žižek] A couple of online articles have discussed whether you would be conscious of being shot in the head with the general conclusion that it...
On Heteropessimism
Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem.
Data Transgression
...enthusiastic, worshipful comments like “This is why I love the Internet!” The recent defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) produced many examples of this phenomenon: Lawrence Lessig summarized...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...ended in December. After I stopped it, I started writing in different modes, much less online, then writing more what felt like what essays are sometimes supposed to feel like,...
Vol. 19 Editors’ Note: “Art”
...art is primarily viewed onscreen and online, new strategies are both possible and necessary. The alleged democratization effect afforded by networked technologies is often posited as the most significant recent...
Sunday Reading
...are not the next housing bubble Exposé of the ACCJC, the accrediting agency that’s threatening to shut down CCSF Online class on how to teach online classes goes laughably awry...
Triple-Decker Weekly
...and weapons, nearly anything can be purchased online with a few clicks of the mouse. The online black market not only can be accessed by anyone with an Internet connection,...
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...
Ramadan Diaries: Dissimulation
...to evangelize. I communicate what I need to happen and when, and we are an efficient team finding answers together. The nature of being online as you plan for an...