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This position paper is a development of a previous article I wrote for Model View Culture, titled: “The Politics of Trending.” Every time CNN points to “Trending” in order to discuss breaking news, we should laugh. That is, laugh at: CNN, journalists, experts, the simulacra. Smirking at the notion that privatized, opaque institutions of selective…
The New Republic, the venerable liberal magazine that many referred to during the Clinton presidency as the inflight magazine of Air Force One, is up for sale once again, Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who bought the magazine in 2012, said in a memo to staff. “I will be the first to admit that when…
This story has been updated. Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, warned Friday that a Saudi-led air coalition that is supported by the United States may have committed war crimes by using cluster munitions in heavily populated neighborhoods in Yemen. The U.N. chief has “received troubling reports of the use of cluster munitions” in several Jan….
The Home Ownership Meme Can Be Very Powerful Most of us are familiar with the concept of the “internet meme.” Someone does something, say “planking” on a fast-food counter, and uploads a video of him- or herself doing this to a public or social media site. Other people see the video, emulate the activity, and…
Photo Credit Esther Lui Economics remains a stubbornly male-dominated profession, a fact that members of the profession have struggled to understand. After all, if the marketplace of ideas is meant to ensure that the best ideas thrive, then this imbalance should arise only if men have better ideas than women. That implication infuriates many female…
Person of Interest – Samaritan UI – YouTube. Source: Person of Interest – Samaritan UI – YouTube
Andy Borowitz, a man who throws darts at major headlines and calls it satire, is a blight on his supposed genre. Which is to say, Andy Borowitz is great at his job. Rather than make any real point with his work, he churns out kooky, “reshuffled” (actual tagline) news stories that sound just real enough…
Twitter’s removal of journalist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’s verification badge for unspecified rules violations has pushed the company — in the midst of a crackdown on harassment — deeper into the politicized battle over online speech. Though Yiannopoulos is still on the platform, the self-described supervillain is widely impersonated and the loss of the verification…
A trendy New Command-line Chat Playground is a Honeypot for Meta Data and Gives Web the. Peach isn’t on the web. Your profile has no❌URL. % proprietary walled garden. Private but not privacy-positive. Free as in not . — This tweet is making the rounds today, so unpacking with obligatory thinkpiece on Medium. Peach New…
We think we know how TV cancellations work. A network realizes that a show’s ratings aren’t where they should be, and it pulls the plug. Often that happens right away — after a few episodes. Sometimes a show lasts a full season and then quietly disappears. And in very rare cases, a show runs for…