Hello reader! This week Nathan continues his epic journey across the country, and I continue babysitting In Their Words.
“BuzzFeed, in all its listicle glory, reimagined and repurposed for a black audience ”
“The hive has become a swarm. It’s diffuse, powerful, and all around you ”
“This particular dark corner of the web was never merely content to stay in its corner; its members ventured out ”
“Strong opinions were prevalent and as a result more people hit the unfriend and block buttons in any day in Facebook’s history ”
“Legally, this was self-defense. The law is a racist technology ”
“If there’s any silver lining to this story it’s the fact that I encountered many more people deriding the meme than participating in it ”
“Yeah! Shouldn’t you be FROM America!? Like, sorry, New York City just doesn’t cut it ”
“The Internet, she explains, is for getting to the next level on Candy Crush Saga, not for getting information “
“From profile pics and bios, blog posts and tweets, simple HR reconnaissance can glean tons of off-limits information ”
“But one doesn’t need the content to reveal the full extent of what sort of communication is taking place ”
“the key final step that will allow the agency to collect and store massive amounts of data on United States citizens ”
“Being able to record and analyze what’s not done in addition to what’s done makes it possible to explore and exploit human behavior in ways that approach the level of quantum mechanics ”
“we should think twice before making a one-to-one comparison between cookies and cameras ”
“The high-risk teams shift the burden of being surveilled from the victim to the abuser ”
“Photography is very simple, it’s very basic. It brings us back to the cave ”
“when does our software quietly choose not to help us? ”
“If noise is so sickening to privileged constitutions, I wonder what this means for the political possibilities of new types of industrial music ”
“You can’t obtain indulgences like getting a coffee from a vending machine ”
“Am I fetishizing the ephemeral, the present, the current moment? ”
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(image credit: nathan jurgenson )
