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...
David Graeber's Debt: My First 5,000 Words
...pig-feed because you went to school with the distributor – your economic activities will be simply a means of raising your status among your peers and community, or of marking...
Bad Subjects
...window and feed in simulacral form.) Repeatedly dreamed of rabbits in the months leading up to entering art school, and again each time I leaped into new artwork. It’s easy...
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...
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Dark Knight: Occupy Batman
...they apparently hope will by example (mediated through mass media) be replicated across the country. I think Batman even subpoenas Malcolm Harris’ twitter feed at one point. Via. This vacillation,...
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...
Looney Tunes
...metrics: I don't feed anyone to keep them there, I want them to always feel free to leave if they don't like it and go to a place where they...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.5.13
...swift for me—I've also taken a good look at my blog feed and have realized it could use a renewal. I love being able to direct you to so many...
Bleak House
...if father or son found work, he often couldn't wring enough earnings from that work to feed, clothe and shelter his family. "In some counties," a Select Committee on Labourer's...
The General Store of Yore
...molasses, old onions and potatoes, poultry feed, gun oil, rubber boots, calico, dried fish, coffee, and 'kept' eggs." (By "'kept' eggs" Carson means "eggs that should have been shipped off...
No Purchase Necessary
...eternal secret: no purchase necessary. That little begrudging bit of legal fine print on every mail-in rebate and contest was, in fact, the most basic truth of the whole commercial...
Frenemies
...and technological links between segregation, surveillance, and the construction of internet worlds. A feed is not so different from a gated community, operating under the rules of homophily and assuming...
Hollow Inside
..."creative" opportunity for consumers to feed into the customization of goods, which could be relied upon to confer ersatz uniqueness on the consumer. Deleuze's essay about the control society gives...
Alphabet of an Unknown City (A-M)
...feeds says that next year is the year of bitcoin. I don’t know. The fact that it’s now written in lowercase instead of uppercase— just like internet used to be...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.24.12
...and potato chips! Oh, criminy. Who doesn't eat weird post-breakup? I recall being unable to stomach anything other than buttered toast after finding a then-boyfriend's active profile on Match.com (some...
Avoid All Demonstrations as a Precaution
...has an odd sense of timing, geography, or dark humor. In lieu of alerts warning students from recently bombed or attacked sites in Baghdad and Kandahar or ongoing protests in...