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America, Ex Post Facto | John Semley
America, Ex Post Facto | John Semley
The comfort offered by conspiracy is more visceral than that offered by political affiliation. Conspiracy is politics heightened.
·thebaffler.com·
America, Ex Post Facto | John Semley
Uprooted: Education In A Post-Covid World
Uprooted: Education In A Post-Covid World
Article originally published in Issue 4 of Rupture, Ireland’s eco-socialist quarterly, buy the print issue:
·rupture.ie·
Uprooted: Education In A Post-Covid World
Review of ‘Tiger Cruise’ (2004) ★
Review of ‘Tiger Cruise’ (2004) ★
Hindsight is the enemy of nostalgia. At 27, I'm probably at the absolutely lower limit of people who actually remember 9/11. To even say I "remember" it using the term loosely. I don't remember any…
·boxd.it·
Review of ‘Tiger Cruise’ (2004) ★
Inside the moral maze of friend-rental services
Inside the moral maze of friend-rental services
Platforms offering to connect people for paid friendship have been on the rise during the pandemic – but some worry the service is being used for the wrong reasons.
·huckmag.com·
Inside the moral maze of friend-rental services
A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III
A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III
Joy and pain, harmony and discord, organization and chaos—there’s no single way to define Black Twitter’s complex, ongoing legacy.
·wired.com·
A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III
eternal return of the same - ill
eternal return of the same - ill
The cynical side of my brain is convinced that Ireland is a country based on waves – be they of COVID, careerist coalition partners, or emigration. It sometimes feels as if we’re stuck having the same few conversations every five months or years, running into depressingly similar problems without any real conclusion. I guess this […]
·ill.neocities.org·
eternal return of the same - ill
The Secret Origins of Amazon’s Alexa
The Secret Origins of Amazon’s Alexa
In 2011, Jeff Bezos dreamt up a talking device. But making the virtual assistant sound intelligent proved far more difficult than anyone could have imagined.
·wired.com·
The Secret Origins of Amazon’s Alexa
The Pirate Bay – Darknet Diaries
The Pirate Bay – Darknet Diaries
The Pirate Bay is a website, a search engine, which has an index of torrent files. A lot of copyrighted material is listed on the site, but the site doesn't store any of the copyrighted material. I...
·darknetdiaries.com·
The Pirate Bay – Darknet Diaries
Between a Rock and a God Place | Theo Whitcomb
Between a Rock and a God Place | Theo Whitcomb
In rural Oregon, one small town’s crackdown on its homeless population gets a helping hand from good, clean Christian “charity.”
·thebaffler.com·
Between a Rock and a God Place | Theo Whitcomb