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...
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...
Your Friends and Neighbors
...her job at a Christian highschool after the photos went online. G., or someone purporting to be her, responded, swearing to sue. But it didn’t work out that way. G....
<3
...poses the economization of love as inevitable, along with the end of monogamy. But are people really so helplessly altered by online romance? After all, dating sites still generate actual...
Hungry for Love
...whether exchanging their young sex for the hazy cultural capital of performing at the New Museum was exploitive. Online, conversations flared over the sexually violent undertones of NY NY HP...
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?...
The Other Foot
...on authenticity in online communities, I began interviewing personal style bloggers, becoming more interested in girls and women who showed off clothes from Target or Goodwill than those who, like...
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...
Public Spaces
...of a diptych. Bewersdorf is no longer online. If he is, he has cloaked himself in total anonymity. He removed his texts and images from his old portfolio site—as though...
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,...