A brief review of Ngozi Onwurah's Welcome II the Terrordome
...Intouchables or The Legend of Bagger Vance or Get Hard or Hitch, it would consume all the data that makes them up and leave in its place Welcome II the...
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 4
...windshield had been subsumed into the form of yet another screen of data and how this was surely dangerous for commuter safety because, well, if you’ll drunkenly sext someone on...
You and Mark Aren't Friends
...an extremely laborious and time-consuming manner, meaning that for all intents and purposes your old data wouldn’t be accessible except by somebody who took an inordinate amount of interest in...
Sunday Reading
...Militarism Frank Pasquale: Sweatshop 2.0: the rise of crowdbilking. Big Oil's Big Men in private equity. Harvesting the sick (or shunning them). Questioning the worship of technology. Sharing data to...
Hunger as an Instrument of Social Control
...in 1980, the highest since 1927 when these data were first collected. The median duration of these stoppages also set a record at 18 days.” –From Analysis of Work Stoppages,...
Lost in the Supermarket
...story “The Feeling of Power,” Isaac Asimov imagined a future in which everyone has a pocket-sized computer, and humanity pays a great price. Specifically, we forget how to do basic...
Ghosts
To tell the stories of a blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia provoked by the Disney Channel is to draw energy from a ghosting of severed connections, an otherwise movement of unnamed but present intimacies
Comfortably Alone
...and ostentation, as Likes and updates and comments. The fleeting pleasures of sociality are objectified and rendered static, consumable, explicitly useful. They can be exchanged asynchronously or piled up in...
Tooth-to-tooth metal lock
...their reach forever. [Jared A. Brock] Scientists just turned plastic bottles into vanilla flavoring power move by Angela Davis Drinking straw device is instant cure for hiccups, say scientists Clusters...
The Disconnectionists
...a Fast Company columnist, undertook highly publicized breaks from the Web that they described in intimate detail (and ultimately posted on the Web). Videos like “I Forgot My Phone” that...
Hate on Me
...voices of young people, trans people, people of color, and poor people. Their members come from the communities already targeted by police violence and are thus best situated to understand...
Make Kin, Not Borders
Who lives and dies under the shadow of population control?
Escape Velocity
...image via Singapore Airlines When we're used to traveling at the speed of data, what do passenger jets have left to offer? Did you read the story and...
#NotAllPublic, Heartburn, Twitter
...the power to say which is which, and make it true; being an ethical person in the world, however, must recognize that calling anything “fair game” is inevitably a first...
Sunday Reading
...St. Louis erupts after another police murder Wall Street is making a killing off cities' debt The cultural ideology of big data "[F]or well over a decade the city-as-a-place has...
Vol. 17 Editors' Note: Rules of the Game
...and a beer fridge and a big open office without cubicles and no benefits and an 80-hour work week! Play with us! Or play around at home on special projects!...