“the surprisingly broad overlap between prison & museum design”
“with Glass, the contents of your screen are a mystery to others“ more...
“A link that disappears after a certain number of people have seen it”
“as managing editor of CNN.com, I want our readers to know this: All you are to us are eyeballs”
“a place where CEOs, venture capitalists and startuppers can network”
“re: sonic/musical trolling, I would put forth Cage’s 4’33″ as the seminal example”
“PornHub has just released a big, ol’ sticky mess of data about the country’s porn habits“ more...
technology and society quotes from the past week.
“a religion based around getting Facebook Likes”
“Facebook has a ways to go before it catches up to coffee”
“I am now watching Twitter become morally depopulated”
“you provide such a neat explanation of technological determinism that I can’t wait to share it with my undergrads“ more...
technology and society quotes from the past week
“Facebook is useless without friends. My only friend is, like, my grandma”
“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”
“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”
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“There simply isn’t much of a market for tech-savvy haute couture”
“In this paper, we investigate if widely used influence scores are vulnerable and easy to manipulate”
“The TSA’s Instagram feed shows the artistic side of confiscated material”
““cyber” has, in a way, returned to its dark science-fiction roots”
“What the NSA needs to do, clearly, is start giving away Jay-Z albums”
“Power moves through drones; so we can write and talk and think through drones. So we have to“ more...
“we are prohibiting “seduction guides,” or anything similar, effective immediately”
“from whistle-blowing outlet to a full-service travel agency”
“I need a new arsenal of swear words that punch up and tear down destructive stereotypes”
“The drone will go down in history as the crucial invention that made war a managerial decision”
“Radical self-exposure and classically manicured discretion can both be powerful, both be elegant”
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“The chilling disciplinary effect taking place in the digital age affects everyone”
“The term “cyberutopian” tends to be used only in the context of critique”
“#Standingman is good activism for the same reasons it makes for a good meme”
“drone fiction denies the presence of human operators; it renders drones autonomous”
“Uber meets AirBnB for Helicopter Transport”
“In the nineties, tapping the Web, if not impossible, was certainly a pain”
“we are open-source-extremists, the feminist virus infecting your thoughts“ more...
“In social media, alienation appears as its opposite”
“A LinkedIn Body is made of the ways in which you’ve made money”
“it’s no surprise to see an app tracking your ability to disconnect”
“It’s no accident that both Manning and Snowden are former soldiers who served in Iraq”
“Should the government know less than Google?”
““Oh, don’t be such a digital dualist, Raymond,” Isobel quipped”
“Every wave of positivism eventually comes undone, when its central contradiction emerges”
“the digital beatdown he’d help deliver over Steubenville came back to haunt him”
“replacing cops and soldiers with PRISM and predator drones: Massively Open Online Police State (MOOPS)“ more...
“The animated GIF is a Brechtian medium”
“Microphones + Crooning + Nazis + Radio + Bing Crosby + $50,000 = Silicon Valley”
“MOOC’s only make sense if you don’t think about it too much”
“Jane Austen’s internet success isn’t so surprising”
“a handful of people wearing Google Glass, now standing next to me at their own urinals”
“Cars didn’t end up awarding us freedom, nor did they serve to better connect us to our friends and communities“ more...
“paying in Bitcoin could be more convenient than converting to local currency while traveling abroad”
“Paul Miller was never more aware of the internet than when he made himself live without it”
“Airbnb indulges the fantasy that we might temporarily inhabit another life”
“after about a year of usefulness, Yelp very quickly became a terrible source of information”
“Apparently no one has ever sent Nicholas Carr or Sherry Turkle a tastefully brief Snapchat”