...provided free labor for the entry-level low-paid jobs that we were training them for, which they might not even be lucky enough to land once they’re done with the program...
...computation, incalculable data are simply qualia of data, groundless remainders, taking up server space. They’re not useful for intelligence or profit. Take the simple example of a curated Amazon product...
...handful of social scientists and policy makers insisted that the liberal mission was not complete, because although citizens in the west were free, they were not happy. They seized on...
...called LambdaMOO. The virtual worlds in which we escape the bug-filled “real one” can’t be so simply made separate. “Certain virulent patterns are deeply ingrained in virtual communities,” Greenfield writes,...
Until 1969, there were several attacks on the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno during the student riots in Germany. This story takes place 30 years later, when the roots and conflicts that fueled the incidents are still being felt in a daughter who is reassembling fact and fiction dating back to 250 AD in an attempt
...come at all. … [O]ur will to dilettantism develops momentum.” By giving pretend shortcuts to a skill that, in the real world, brings benefits that go beyond simply being able...
...States and Indian Country, the space in which vagabond roaming bands of picturesque native peoples were allowed to run free. But the iron laws of economics demanded that they be...
...cinematic frame — our view onto events — is free to move more wildly in Gravity than it typically does in a narrative film. Take, for instance, the scene in...
...training material doc: "Some cell companies allow free calls among members of a "buddy" plan. What a great way to find out quickly who all your target's close associates are!...
...Schulz has called “playbor,” or else they wouldn’t spend free time doing it. But a number of new platforms promise alternatives that allow digital workers to receive compensation, and not...
...herself. The script is uneven, idiosyncratic as all handwriting is, and jagged. The bones of drama jut in Antigonick. The language is breathtakingly direct. Carson has taken a free hand...
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.
...Wrote gender. Shuttered its slate. Took out ads. Now it was hard, plain and simple. No hands helped. The house was dying. That much was sure. Its spidery center whirred...
...recognized? HH: Well, the free drinks have been abundant. Obviously. FW: That makes sense. HH: I got a package from troops in Afghanistan, I can’t say who they are because...