Sunday Reading

Kerim Friedman:

Kerim did not break your kettle, and also, you never loaned it to him.

Jacob Remes :

Jacob totally broke your kettle. What kettle?

nathan jurgenson:

The fact that you think the kettle is real is the real problem.

"Which is why we have a president who talks like a law professor but acts like a cowboy"
“the actors’ hatred for Alf could never be fully actualized, cathartically, for Alf was, of course, not real”
"the Western world is too at ease with conventional weapons"
"punk was born in the toilet and now it’s at the Met"
"few people doubt reality besides sociologists and the socially disgruntled"
"how people use music when doing intellectual labour: people use it as a symbol to say 'keep away from me'"
"Ever buy a movie on iTunes instead of downloading it for free on The Pirate Bay? Yeah, keep not doing that"
"the surprisingly broad overlap between prison & museum design"
"If schools follow dualist specifications, education becomes less in tune with the way students actually consume texts"
"the Introversion Meme is the newest face on a many-headed hydra of conservative backlash against a changing society"
"they’re more than capable of fucking with minds. I’m looking forward to more games that fuck with mine"
"with Glass, the contents of your screen are a mystery to others"
"the self merely a set of techniques for self-documentation rather than a matter of what it is documented"
"Mark Zuckerberg reportedly helicoptered in to hand out grilled cheese"
"it is perfectly legitimate to describe Burning Man as the foundation of a secular religion"
"Digital dualism acts in concert with sexism by deflecting critical attention away from sexism in action"
"the cultural conventions that have helped to produce digital dualism and which help it persist"

Kitabet:

The kettle has hidden weaknesses; let us boil some water and expose them.

Bint Battuta:

As we all know, the Portuguese introduced the kettle to Goa, but--ironically--it was also the Goans who taught the Portuguese how to make kettles.

ReclaimUC:

Fuck the kettles. We will boil our own water.

Shailja Patel:

This is the kettle my mother gave me, when she observed that I didn't have a kettle.

Frank Pasquale:

With the introduction of the "smart-kettle," the surveillance state crossed a red line.

Progressive mask falls from neoliberal WaPo blog's face.
Welcome to the era of health data laundering, and Acxiom's "households with a diabetic focus.”
Prison industries hurt small businesses and assault incomes.
Action requires the veil of illusion.
Liquid modernity & apocalypse.
Mankiw's selective concern about debt.
Greed & indifference killed millions.
Some labor day thoughts (et al.)
Robust competition online: "Google has acquired an average of one company every week" since 2010.
National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) cries foul.
"Millions for me, starvation for you."
M(id)as Touch.