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Videodrome is the best movie ever made about Facebook 27 Aug 2013 | 04:21 am
Cyborgologist Nathan Jurgenson on the 30th anniversary of Videodrome: Over the course of the film, Max comes to know a “media prophet” named Professor Brian O’Blivion—an obvious homage to Marshall Mc...
ds106: Not a Course, Not Like Any MOOC 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
ds106 is an online learning project from the University of Mary Washington that goes beyond the usual “online course” format: Looking for something different from the current hysteria of Massive Open...
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs 25 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
David Graeber writes: This is a profound psychological violence here. How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly feels one’s job should not exist? How can it not create a ...
Not Science Fiction: A Brain In A Box To Let People Live On After Death 24 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Fast Company on the latest in neurotech: While their roundtable discussion admittedly sounded like a master’s exercise in strange science, the kicker is that all three are engaged in preliminary effo...
Twitter ‘Joke Bots’ Shame Human Sense of Humor 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
My latest for Wired: One of the funniest people on Twitter isn’t a person at all. It’s a bot called @Horse_ebooks. It was originally built as a promotional vehicle for a series of digital books, but...
India anti-superstition campaigner Narendra Dabholkar shot dead 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
BBC reports: A high-profile Indian anti-superstition activist, who was campaigning for a law to ban black magic, has been shot dead in the city of Pune, police say. Narendra Dabholkar, 71, was attac...
Preview of New Spy Comic from Ales Kot 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Zero is a forthcoming spy-fi series by Ales Kot and a rotating cast of artists. The first issues drops next month, but Ales posted a five page preview on his Tumblr. Full Preview: Ales Kot: Zero Prev...
We shouldn’t be protecting ourselves. We should be protecting each other. 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Tim Maly on self-defense in the security state: “Protect yourself.” This may well be the defining motto of our times. No one is to be trusted; it’s a dangerous world out there and if you can’t be bo...
Contemplative Computing: Lessons From Monks About Designing The Technologies Of The Future 18 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
Photo by Beth Kanter I wrote about Alex Soojung-Kim Pang’s new book The Distraction Addiction for TechCrunch: “The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body,” William S...
The Problem with “Strong Female Characters” 17 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
Sophia McDougall writes: Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a poly...
