Sunday Reading

Frank Pasquale:

• Apple's forbidden knowledge. 
• Ugly oppression.
• Digital labor CFP.
• Algo accountability.
• Crushing dissent.
• 120,000 have more than $25 million, 10,000 have over $100 million, about 1,000 have a billion each.
  
• Tea picked for $1.43 a day.
  
• Middle class is gone.
• The glory of the terrycloth Rapture.
  
• Profiles in persistence.
• Area woman sues Equifax to prove she's alive.
• Big biz is trolling you.
• Finance wins again.

Mark Healey:

• De Ceuta a Lampedusa, la frontera militarizada de europa 
• "Es un final macabramente entrelazado con una ética personal y artística de una notable radicalidad": Alan Pauls sobre el documentalista brasileño Eduardo Coutinho
• Los hijos de represores en la Argentina democrática
• El fin de la política, o por lo menos de la mediación, en Venezuela, por Boris Muñoz
• Llevando un libro a una cárcel colombiana

Bint Battuta:

• Ottoman hats
• Ottoman tents
• Ottoman prostitutes
• Iranian opium
• Bengali babus
• Karachi’s enclaves
• Bombay's street temples
• Russia's mosques
• Bangalore's Cooke Town
• India's Islamic poster art
• Sudan's Jewish community
• Portugal's Indian communities
• Istanbul's Armenian communities
• Judeo-Persian Bibles
• Urdu Bible
• Maps of paradise
• Maps with sea monsters
• Map of religious belief (1854)
• Protestant literalism in British India
• Talal Asad on secular criticism
• How drama students challenged Khartoum's population census
• How the Portuguese influenced Bengali cuisine
• 18th-century recipe for pilau
• 1940s US Army guide to Calcutta
• 1940s UK propaganda posters in Arabic
• The history of the chemistry set

 

ReclaimUC:

Karen Gregory:

• “Jordan Davis had a mother and a father.”
• On Sadness
• “Maybe don’t mention that you’re using an app to remind you to express your affection.”
• “Women, even when they are not silenced, still have to pay a very high price for being heard…”
• “The empowerment elite”
• “What is at stake, then, is the relationship between ‘algorithms and ‘capital’”
• The Future of Risk (video)
• How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine
• “I’ve found myself haunted by these visualizations”
• “7 Habits of Highly Effective People to become part of the core curriculum”
• “You’re short-changing both the faculty and the students.”
• “Search for Sam”

Jacob Remes:

• What happened in Chattanooga?
• Cisgender and gender-nonconforming
• Even Democrats pick the wrong judges.
• Even Democrats pick terrible ambassadors.
• The practical, political, and moral toll of Obama's secrecy fetish
• Is Bosnia turning away from nationalism?
• Canadian Zionism
• "It’s hard to overstate the importance of local journalistic vigilance."
• What will we do without Doonesbury?
• The sheep of Central Park

Kerim Friedman:

• Review of 'Zizek's Jokes'
• Inventing languages
• Wendy Doniger's book is a tribute to Hinduism's complexity, not an insult
• Shirley Temple: An Influential Republican—From the Age of 5
• India: The War Over History by William Dalrymple
• Inside baseball with Tim Elfenbein, managing editor of Cultural Anthropology
• Best Taiwanese food
• A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Doge. Wow.
• White air bnb?
• What the critics wrote about the Beatles in 1964
• Sex workers’ rights are just workers’ rights
• Is Cantonese a language, or a personification of the devil?
• The academic ethics of strikebreaking

 

Kitabet:

Nathan Deuel:

• The World's Best Snow Shovel Is an Old-Fashioned Steel Coal Shovel
• "I wrote that the president is castrated, politically castrated, and I wrote the minister of interior is stupid"
• “Where are you going, Hajj? Your hands are in your pocket? It’s better that you don’t come with us.”
• "I can’t imagine she appreciated it, but she didn’t object strenuously"
• A runaway camel injured a man and damaged a car yesterday in the city of Palmdale in northern Los Angeles County.
• California Man Shoots Himself, Blames It On Black Man 
• "I just want to be a citizen like everyone else," Brutsche said. "I don't like jail. I've had enough."
• “Another person, sober or not, can notice when someone nods off, or just say, ‘Hey man, slow down.’ ”
• Wilkins said she started using heroin when it became "cheaper than going to the doctor."
• "Couple guys had 10 gallons and I said, 'Man, I'd like to hit 10 gallons,'" he said. "Took me 20 years to get 10."
• "For a full month afterward, his dealer continued to text and call his cell phone, three to five times a day."
• "The dark truth is that to be a loving, sentimental, ecstatic observer of the world is to be a little bit insane."