Sunday Reading

Kerim Friedman: 

• "Egypt’s revolutionaries mistook their belief in the revolution for the existence of a revolution."
• Internal NSA audit contradicts official claims about lack of abuse
• Prostitution Law and the Death of Whores
• Three recent theories of “kibosh”
• How Dr. Seuss Beat Writer’s Block
• Alexander Calder Presents a “Circus” Filled With Amazing Kinetic Wire Sculptures
• Stop Thinking That Tech Hacks Are the Solution to Our Surveillance Woes
• Observations From A Tipless Restaurant, Part 1
• The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture
• Adam Curtis on the incompetence of MI5
• Scotland has the most inequitable land ownership in the west. Why?
• “Everyone But an Idiot Knows That The Lower Classes Must Be Kept Poor, or They Will Never Be Industrious”

ReclaimUC:

• UC Berkeley researcher who questioned herbicide's safety loses lab funding
• Reflections on the occupation movement at UC Santa Cruz in 2009-2010
• On the abandoned UC presidential mansion
• Quiet no longer, rape survivors put pressure on colleges
• Higher education and racial inequality
• Corporate education reform goes to college: San Francisco is the "Chicago of higher education"
• Tables turned: DOE finds SF City College's accreditors out of compliance
• The good, the bad, and the ugly in the student loan deal
• The college-loan scandal
• Where is all that extra tuition revenue going?
• The emergent academic proletariat and its shortchanged students
• Humanities! Science is not your enemy, it's a friend who owes you money
• Zombies in the academy
• How to block a capital project, luxury dorm edition
• Lessons in autonomous education: Zapatista "escuelita" is now in session
• The problem with "privilege"
• Portrait of a Cairo liberal as a military backer
• Everything was possible

Shailja Patel:

• Marikana one year on: spears, machetes and blankets against global capital
• slut-shaming on the playground
• Mattery, enactery, perfumery: the guerilla theatre of plant growery
• Africa’s giant tax suck
• entire families organized around supporting daddy's work
•  war zone on the southern US border
• permission to passionately muddle: BK Fischer’s ‘my poets’
• “burka avenger”: Pakistan’s middle class gets a feminist cartoon
• US domestic terrorism and Oak Creek
•  the profound limits of black politics that have not grappled with black male sexism
• the great Adichie brouhaha: hurt, legitimacy, responsibility

Nathan Jurgenson:

• "Facebook is useless without friends. My only friend is, like, my grandma"
• "research about the Internet done by white ppl that rarely acknowledges the salience of race but clings to a fantasy of a color-blind web"
• "when Google finally launches a search engine for women, we will be capable of locating the websites targeted at us"
• "Social media seem like a new way to buy the bulk of us off with affect"
• "The discourse of the comment section invites readers to round the essay up to scandalous"
• "a person close enough to the toilet to connect to it via Bluetooth with their phone could take control of it"
• "Aha, I am a Cultured person in a Cultured space and I am Experiencing Books"
• "Cop Selfies are illegitimate selfies complicit in the fetishism of violence"
• "Anyone who thinks that texting lacks nuance has failed to mine the vast emotional potential of the Emoji keyboard"
• "Her present feels suspiciously like last year’s Instagram"
• "Mila Kunis doesn’t need an epidermis to turn heads"
• "You can be the gentlest, sweetest man in the world yet still benefit from sexism. That’s how oppression works"
• "The continued existence of John Mayer is unthinkable"
  "Public toilets are therefore sites of gender and sexual privilege"

Frank Pasquale:

• What does absolute executive power look like?
• Forever 21 owners lean in, get $3.5 billion, then strip benefits from workers; helps answer this.
• List o' poetry lists.
• Transhumanists in love; socialbots <3 you.
• Consultants to benchmark CEO pay to DJ Pauly D.
• The struggle of memory against forgetting.
• OMG I'm homeless; at least I won't get frisked.
• Mirowski on the Schmitt-Hayek (Schmayek?) synthesis.
• Airline deregulation a massive failure.
• I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
• Tell the IRS my computer is broken? Worked for insurers.
• Enron Summers: Larry on Larry on Larry.
• "Why spend your jail sentence at county” when u could enjoy Seal Beach?