Love Craft
...My Colors,” and whether our dial-up romance, which had blossomed so beautifully in an AOL chat room, would wither despite his gift of one perfectly sequenced bit of sonic sentiment....
The Data Sublime
...moves into pharmaceutical research and bodily monitoring, it had outgrown its original mission statement to “organize the world's information.” "We're in a bit of uncharted territory,” he said. "We're trying...
Turn Down for What?
...In imagining a homogenized future labor force, accelerationism ignores how capital opportunistically sustains difference to survive Communists are not supposed to like capitalism. If there’s one thing everyone knows...
The Fame Game
...interested in comedy, I’m interested in truth, I’m interested in relaxation and people letting themselves go and letting their hair down a little bit because it’s a safe place to...
Wifey Status
...of two things: that violence is inseparable from domesticity, and that domesticity is glamorous. The lyric “get a little bit suburban and go crazy” has a much different meaning for...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...of hate. It bears an enormous amount in common with Farocki’s films, albeit shot through with a bitter jag of melancholy. There’s a moment in it where Anders recounts a...
A Deluxe Apartment in the Sky
...time, facing scenarios every bit as complex as their white counterparts. The end of some long-running white sitcoms like Seinfeld made way for new post-Friends millennium favorites such as How...
Dissecting the Frog
...jokes, who laughs, and who is expected to remain silent). It also calls attention to community tensions — information that is every bit as revealing as uncontested group norms. While...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.6.12
...wash my hair about once a week and it doesn't get nearly as greasy as it did before I did the extended no-shampoo bit. So even though I'm happily washing...
Interview: Leah Smith, Public Policy Ph.D. Student, Lubbock, TX
...of confidence to it. Dressing well has been huge in my life. The comments and the stares could have been really easy for me to internalize if I weren’t careful....
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...from some mines in South America. This red top up here, this eraser, a bit of rubber, probably comes from Malaya, where the rubber tree isn’t even native! It was...
Play Fair, Run Fast, and Smile for the Camera
...its spectators that for a few hours, they leave their houses, sharpen their concentration, and put in a little bit of effort too. Randolph Bourne, speaking of the Anglo-Saxon “sporting...
The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform
...first thing I want to do, then, is slow us down a bit, and go through the last year with a bit more care than we’re usually able to do,...
Socializing the Dark Web
...media, so that’s what the common population think it is all about. Usually when I mention Tor to people, they almost physically back away from me, expecting me to be...
Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
Boy 2 Man
...conflict that splits Mason and Olivia, but when he reenters his children’s lives, Mason is a kind, empathetic, and -- if a bit flighty -- overall nurturing presence. A vastly...