Sunday Reading
...Love Letter to The Moth This Twitter feed Things to do in Brooklyn this weekend Me: what a honeybee looks like as it loses its stinger "The cargo cult of...
You are totally unreliable Twitter
...the personal power to regulate (and thus, are semi-private). We often expect to have control over what information enters our feed, and then it turns out that we don’t (and...
The Sisterhood, If It Ever Existed and It Probably Didn't, Shattered While I Wasn't Looking and All I Got Was This Dumb Safety Pin
...“considered myself” is meaningless. I have done jack shit to actually show up for people of color. I read the thinkpieces and make my Twitter feed diverse and try to...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty
...The maqlouba isn't ready yet and though my stomach is growling, I feed on dialogue instead. I talk at length to a friend's wife about the Muslim ban, and why...
Wearing Stigma
...What would we lose by dropping the fashion guidelines that police the stigma of womanhood? And what would we gain? * In looking at my blog feed the...
Athletic Aesthetics
...and allow information to passively wash over you through your feed, you ultimately arrive at the same place: recognizing patterns amid flow rather than shutting the floodgates. As Marshall McLuhan...
Room for Improvement
...humbugged humanity find a decent place to feed? Echo answered, "In the eating-houses." We resolved to try it, and the result is glorious. We have achieved a victory, sir, an...
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
...on. And their training sets reveal the historical, geographical, racial, and socio-economic positions of their trainers. Feed an image of Manet’s “Olympia” painting to a CNN trained on the industry-standard...
Technicolor Tehran
...feed item and broadcast want you to forget about the life and activity teeming there. Euro-America largely knows Iran through the prism of repression, embargoes, war, isolation. No surprise in...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 13, 2019)
...Piggin' out. New law empowers Maine schools to feed uneaten school-lunch fare to farm hogs Fast-food fulfillment centers? Familiar chains have begun opening "ghost kitchens" dedicated exclusively to deliveries ordered...
Against Extinction
...hide, protect, and feed those risking detention and/or deportation. Meet with people in the flesh and write things down on paper. Organize solidarity hours and organize trainings for bystander intervention/de-escalation...
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Yids
...The year is 1909 and in the teeming dirt streets of New York’s Lower East Side, twin sisters Esther and Fanya Feinberg run errands for their mother, feed fish heads...
Die progressive Paralyse
...resemblences. Conclusion: ? While its arrangement was undoubtably an emanation of pre-existing texts, as, as it would be shown later, were these texts themselves combo effects of precursory texts which...
Ranked Amateurs
...to keep making less than the football coach, but not so enamored with the idea of a Tennessee running back being able to feed himself. Maybe he’ll buy the next...
Who's That Girl?
...Hello Giggles, and a Twitter feed set to constant quirky-hiccup mode—works as a convenient storefront for broadcasting a logo of her own. Despite the fact that Deschanel has said she...