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Maggie Harrison Dupré, in a Guardian article about Meta Glasses: […] Smartglasses bring the functionality of smartphones, cameras included, into every moment. Several people I spoke to said that even when the LED is functioning as...
In some ways, I am a really terrible person to myself. I am doing very well, which means I want to do more than I should, without even thinking about it! I was doing so well, I was able to do a walkabout yesterday evening… with my...
There is a little genocide in some Africa village. Kids mine some toxic materials by hands for food. Kids die. The new phone is assembled by slaves. People die. You have some opinion about some app icon change or the latest social media...
Wally and Linda are back in Central City (the Absolute Universe version). Linda is trying to convince Wally to go public as the Flash, but something tragic gets in the way. Everything is going sideways, but how? Why? Wanna know more?...
The place where I currently work is on camera all the time. It's not a great feeling. Reading this article by Ava about a shop surveilling its customers in the hopes of reposting the video as social media content made me think about how...
I’m trying a new thing. Making a post once a day. I’ve been running around nonstop for a work conference, so I guess today’s post is a selfie.
Recently it's relatively easy to find out hundreds or even thousands of personal websites online. It was not like that few years ago. The internet was strictly dominated by corporations directly. Now magically "personal" opinions and...
A slightly awful way of doing things that’s more novelty than practical. Please don’t kill me
The only recording today is a repeat of The Simpsons – Lisa’s Pony. Media Centre Description: Homer lets Lisa down badly and buys her a pony to make amends. Recorded from Channel 4 on Tuesday 11th May 2010 17:58 After this the recording...
Thirty years of this book. Reminded today that it’s circa 700 rupees from Bloomsbury India if you like that sort of thing (real life copies I mean): The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation
I’ve got no idea how Second Circle found this track, but I’m so glad they did. Gus Till’s “Rainsong” was originally released in 2006, on a CD only compilation, titled “Tribal Matrix”, on the tiny Tokyo-based independent imprint Dakini...
The last time I enjoyed the internet was probably a decade ago. Rushing from a grocery store to turn on my computer and join my online brothers in arms. Load Battlefield 3 and run with a sniper rifle like it's a shotgun. "Agressive...
Black Box (1979, Beth B & Scott B) Kidnapper/torturer Lydia Lunch wants “to cure you, to free you from error.” Man leaves his hot girl and crappy apartment for a sec, gets kidnapped off the sidewalk. Lydia keeps threatening him with the...
We can agree that all oppression is irrational, right? At least it is to me. Because of the irrationality of oppression, people in oppressed groups find trouble making sense of their situation. I have observed this in queer spaces, and...