The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...services were never really a revolutionary tech product at all? What if the major labels really needed everybody to think that for a little bit because they owned equity in...
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...
#JustineHasLanded
...common (as one can get malaria by simply being in an area where infected mosquitoes are likely to bite you). Which is the mis-statement that the “Just kidding. I’m white!”...
You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree
...the digestion, and even if you just hang a tough fowl or a bit of goat in the tree among the leaves, it gets tender in no time, for there...
"Venice drowning! Venice drowning! Venice drowning!"
...bad name, we build a crap bell tower and splash on a bit of gilt and put it on list of the Top Sights You Have to See Before You...
#RhodesWar: Makunyiwe Macala
...how many ways and how swiftly an institution moves to protect a violent man from a bit of a reputation pickle. Later, you will be protesting with other students who...
Snake Plissken's Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
...up thing is the thought that someone probably did. My comments regarding the auto-betrayal of the human remain.) If you were my friend or even a stranger, who spotted me...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Loving the Alien
...the right word here—…want, in short, to liberate themselves.” Attalian composition seems like a mishmash of different philosophical concepts: there’s a little bit of Herbert Marcuse’s idea of “narcissistic” eros...
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...
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...
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...
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....