Optimistically, the web is like 1970s NYC Which is to say, it’s a place where creativity flourishes amidst disorder. But pessimistically, it’s a failed state, where no central government means crime goes unpunished and key services (trash, spam) aren’t attended to. Here are five futures for the
The force inside the force San Francisco’s police union is the sole reactionary conservative political voice in a city where the political spectrum ranges from progressive to liberal. ↩︎ posted Dec. 1, 2016 When Terrence M. Cunningham, the chief of police in Wellesley, Mass., and president of America’s largest
Journalist Barrett Brown is free, but will continue to pay Journalist Barrett Brown was released from a Texas federal prison yesterday after serving over four years behind bars. Brown was convicted after taking a plea bargain that admitted a role in the alleged hack of Stratfor—which he had nothing
What is the difference between excess and waste? Approximately 204 million pounds of turkey were expected to be discarded this Thanksgiving, which could cost the country’s sanitation departments up to $293 million. It costs even more money to cultivate turkeys in the first place—the carbon equivalent of driving
So Long, Diners of New York New York has half as many old school diners today as it did 20 years ago—the kind with affordable menus and international staff, not a slew of early a.m. DJ’s featured in a restaurant called Diner in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district.
We have absolutely no control over how many people are charged, request an attorney, or are found eligible. The mass amounts of #NoDAPL protesters being arrested has put further strain on North Dakota’s public defense system, forcing it to drop longstanding ethics guidelines so everyone can have their Constitutionally
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
A supercut of Thanksgiving dinners from movies, all of them hopefully much worse than yours this year. ↩︎ posted Nov. 23, 2016 My children have never sat down to a proper Thanksgiving dinner in my household, but we have an annual tradition of restaurant leftovers—capon, mash, gravy and pie—at
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
