Against TED
...events, focusing mostly but not exclusively on technology. TED has posted more than 1,100 videos of the talks online. By my count, 89 of them have achieved more than one...
Serf Boards
...money online using a service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, or “MTurk” as it’s colloquially known. MTurk was started in 2005 by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and director of Amazon Web...
A moment of dreaming about higher education
...actually credit a course completion certificate from an online course, but we’re not in that world. In the world we actually live in, the difference between “real” and “online” courses...
Sunday Reading
...MOOC any more than I oppose online classes, or three-hundred-person-lectures, or Wikipedia" "the way that the Harlem Shake meme seems perfectly designed for the workplace" "Everybody in the industry wants...
Sunday Reading
...average of more than 7000. With rapidly developing innovation in online course delivery models, the internet's public institutions have a unique opportunity to meet critical demands by providing students with...
Incalculable Loss
...primary value of this online activity, from the point of view of security operations, is that it provides the norm for the data set probed by algorithms, testing and manipulating...
Picture Pluperfect
...It is easy to mistake what we do online as centrally about exposure and transparent exhibitionism. The explosive popularity of Pinterest — a social network based around collecting and...
Choose Your Own Adventure
...sexuality “demands racism as a particular form of exogamy.” Theirs was a hidden subculture, but today online dating profiles advertise racial preferences like favorite ice cream flavors. Light-hearted references to...
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...
A Predictive Policing Syllabus
How the past becomes the future
Catastrophe Capitalism: An Interview with Peer Illner
The response to state austerity must go beyond absorbing its outsourced labor
Gentle Protests: An Interview with Andreas Malm
It might be necessary to consider escalating
In the Wake of An Erosion
...stake, here, is the notion that blackness is a general force of fugitivity that racialization in general, and the more specific instantiation of the color line, exacerbate and focus without...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Fragments on microcelebrity
...once reserved for artists and aesthetes has been democratized -- now we can all treat our friends like characters in our online roman à clef! Only most artists don't seem...
Living is Easy
...bars in Snowpiercer. And what about Snowpiercer? Is this the thinking viewer’s exception to the rule? A popular hit with brains too? For all the hard work underpaid online writers...