If you take off your glasses and cross your eyes, my resemblance to Nathan is truly uncanny.

“the Internet itself is based on a system of binaries. Dualism, mutual exclusion, and absolutes are inherent in its structure”

“Each space becomes its own Generalized Other, with normative expectations about who a person is and how that person should be in the world”

“You might start thinking that the enemy is the internet itself. Or, by extension, that the enemy is us”

“There were so many people standing behind the cause that it felt like you had an army at your disposal and you could just stick up for what’s right”

“DIS Images invites artists to create alternative scenarios and new stereotypes”

“Games are therefore a fantastic example of ways in which digital technology is profoundlyembodied and usually designed with the able-bodied default in mind“

“A suffocating deluge of violent misogyny is how American comedy fans react to a woman suggesting that comedy might have a misogyny problem”

“the selfie has come full circle, from sign of subject’s marginality to sign of his or her social-media importance”

“Now there’s an app that allows you to share the things you Hate” 

“it wasn’t enough to talk about the need for drone art; we wanted to instigate it”

“You can’t put a drone on a couch. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle does not need tissues”

“There is, to put it bluntly and inelegantly, an explosion of drone art around at the moment”

“a single game of DRONE provides more clarity of purpose than the thousands of words spoken by our President”

“We combined this geolocation data with information relating to his life as a politician”

“He feels like he’s being watched all the time”

“Google’s job, in many ways, will never be done because the city is one long emergent phenomenon, constantly being remade and reordered”

“This kind of technology, in addition to making shooting more fun for them, also allows shooting to be something that they can share with others”

“Could we make public consultion as easy to read & respond as the average [lost] cat poster?”

“Domino’s has managed to make waiting for your pizza feel like better entertainment than social networks or television, and just as tweetable”

“He handed me a semen sample, we hugged, and I went into my bedroom and inseminated myself”

“my brain is always blank / my brain is alive / my brain is a burger”

“Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed”

“the new Silicon Valley parable: dream big, privatize the previously public, pay no attention to the rules, build recklessly, enjoy shamelessly, invoke magic, and then pay everybody off”

“You can share your Wi-Fi. You can share a dog. You can even share a baby”

“as a provocation, I said, ‘OK, I want to try to make money with my own data’”

“each act of listening to music may be thought of as both recapitulating the past and predicting the future”

“who has the authority to determine what is ‘proper’ and ‘right’ music?”

“using Glass is sort of like having a superloud drum circle that you wear on your face”

“Perhaps taking Glass off …may just become my new tell, a sure sign of budding affection”

“It was like watching someone take Ecstasy, as the hologram materialized before his eye”

Special NSA Section:

“three main prongs of top secret government intelligence activity have come to light”

“we thought it would be useful to try and collect what we know so far in a single post”

“The NSA Files”

“under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk”

“Boundless Informant …details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks”

“Like the pious polygamists, they are focused on deciphering cryptic messages that only they have the power to understand”

“Greenwald’s storm will continue to rage because, I suspect, the story won’t be limited to just phone records or Web data”

“Can it really be that participating in life, the economy, and society require a forking over of one’s claim to a ‘reasonable’ expectation of privacy?”

“While handing over data in response to a legitimate FISA request is a legal requirement, making it easier for the government to get the information is not”

“No document like this has ever been leaked from the NSA”

“a lack of ‘direct access’ does not preclude the type of sweeping surveillance described in the leaks”

“As Google’s CEO and Chief Legal Officer, we wanted you to have the facts”

“So…much…false…indignation.”

“a long line of attempts to defend secret programs by making, at best, misleading claims that they were central to stopping terror plots”

“Welcome to the PRISM spin war”

“much of what is being discussed sounds very similar to the Star Chamber, an English court of the 14th to 17th centuries that met in secret”

“As the FBI sees it, the problem is that people are moving away from traditional communication systems like telephones onto computer systems like Skype”

“Everyone is always guilty, and you’re not allowed to know about it”

“a potentially aggressive cyber warfare doctrine will heighten fears over the increasing militarization of the internet”

“Want to buy a PRISM t-shirt?”

Whitney Erin Boesel generates LOTS AND LOTS OF DATA for the NSA to pour over. She does most of that on Twitter: She’s @phenatypical.