As a society we’ve been conditioned to be generally more tolerant of manipulative, egomaniacal behavior from white women. It’s good that television depicts complicated women, but white feminist characters are too often able to pawn off responsibilities. ↩︎ The Establishment, posted Nov. 28, 2016 John Singleton, director of Boyz
Magic Leap, the world’s biggest startup you’ve never heard of, is working to make augmented reality—customized information projected into the three-dimensional world as we move about it—possible in the next decade. And it’s going to drive us all nuts. ↩︎ posted Nov. 22, 2016 Reality
The entire structure of Facebook is not set up as a news-sharing platform, but as a headline and image-rating platform. Tracing a fake Breitbart story from inception to its all-but-guaranteed Facebook virality. ↩︎ Vice News, posted Nov. 24, 2016 The slippery slope of fake news is paved
You can love Dylan or hate Dylan, just as you can love Elvis or hate Elvis. But even if you love Elvis, it’s hard to argue that he was the King because he was somehow an exponentially more talented performer than Ike Turner, or LaVern Baker. Rather, he was
Trump voters didn’t lose out from globalization. They lost because of management. An economist repudiates the idea that job losses from globalization drove Trump support: “Those who view Trump favorably have not been disproportionately affected by foreign trade or immigration, compared with people with unfavorable views of the Republican
Interest grows in pushing for California’s secession from the United States They call it #Calexit. It will prove to be a flash in the pan. But still: 1/ If Trump wins I am announcing and funding a legitimate campaign for California to become its own nation. —Shervin (@shervin) Nov.
Facebook needs to embrace its status as a major media company and find ways to improve the average quality of the news stories it recommends to its users. Facebook is bad for politics and for readers. It provides journalists with perverse incentives and readers with an inferior product. It should
Zuma is on the outs South African President Robert Zuma is placed at the scene of the crime several times in a report on statewide corruption. His fate as President hangs with the opinion the African National Congress has of him, but their opinion may be forced: Pretoria shut down
Hyperemployment doesn’t come with better benefits Keynes thought we’d replace work with recreation; tech critic Ian Bogost says we’ve replaced recreation with work. He calls digital labor “hyperemployment,” and says even if it’s not strictly unpaid, we agree to it only because our contributions are recast
Republicans may spend a lot of money to lose races in the Senate The GOP could lose Senate races in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Missouri, which would end two brief years of Republican control of Congress. Senate aides say “the reason we don’t hold the
