MachineMachine /stream - tagged with online https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/

Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers, exposed bullies—and, sometimes, ruined the lives of the innocent.

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Sun, 26 Jul 2020 02:13:28 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/
<![CDATA[Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/

Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers, exposed bullies—and, sometimes, ruined the lives of the innocent.

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Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:13:28 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/
<![CDATA[The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019]]> https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind

Afew​ years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind. My interest was not academic.

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Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:34:09 -0800 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind
<![CDATA[Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life]]> https://reallifemag.com/apocalypse-whatever/

Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is a cryptic but popular saying: “Praise Kek.

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Mon, 18 Nov 2019 05:26:21 -0800 https://reallifemag.com/apocalypse-whatever/
<![CDATA[Opinion | Why We Should Stop Fetishizing Privacy - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/opinion/privacy-tech-companies.html

Big tech companies create jobs, encourage innovation and provide valuable services free. Why would we want to break them up? Ms. Messer is a technology investor and entrepreneur.

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Mon, 27 May 2019 17:28:02 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/opinion/privacy-tech-companies.html
<![CDATA[list: net-art]]> https://www.facebook.com/morehshin/posts/10155588735011867

Working on a project and am looking for good examples of net art/story telling works. Any suggestions?

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Tue, 01 May 2018 04:55:20 -0700 https://www.facebook.com/morehshin/posts/10155588735011867
<![CDATA[The Alt-Right and Antifa Are Waging a New Kind of Internet Warfare - VICE]]> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xxmad/the-alt-right-and-antifa-are-waging-a-new-kind-of-internet-warfare

Live long enough and you may hear future historians recall the war between 4chan and an art collective called LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner.

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Wed, 06 Sep 2017 03:24:14 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xxmad/the-alt-right-and-antifa-are-waging-a-new-kind-of-internet-warfare
<![CDATA[Print on demand in ring binder format?]]> http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/304523

Looking for print-on-demand services that offer a 'ring binder' option (a bit like this... A4 print bound with two or three of these). The book would be offered online, one click print, bound and shipped. Ideally with a cover and back cover of higher quality (hard back?) material. The user would simply be able to order a copy of the book, and it would arrive in a ring binder, each of the 360 sheets would be removable.

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Fri, 06 Jan 2017 05:29:24 -0800 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/304523
<![CDATA[Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life]]> http://reallifemag.com/apocalypse-whatever/

Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is a cryptic but popular saying: “Praise Kek.

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Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:56:20 -0800 http://reallifemag.com/apocalypse-whatever/
<![CDATA[The Perils of Peak Attention | New Republic]]> https://newrepublic.com/article/137107/perils-peak-attention

“I am alarmed,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in “Walking,” his 1862 essay, “when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.” The point of his saunter had been to “forget all my morning occupations, and my obligations to society.

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Fri, 04 Nov 2016 07:07:11 -0700 https://newrepublic.com/article/137107/perils-peak-attention
<![CDATA[How the Cyberfeminists Worked to Liberate Women through the Internet]]> https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-the-cyberfeminists-worked-to-liberate-women-through-the-internet

They wrote their own Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century (1991) in homage to Haraway, presented as an 18-foot-long billboard, which was exhibited at various galleries across Australia.

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Thu, 20 Oct 2016 03:05:20 -0700 https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-the-cyberfeminists-worked-to-liberate-women-through-the-internet
<![CDATA[The Dark Web Is Mostly Full of Garbage]]> http://gizmodo.com/the-deep-web-is-mostly-full-of-garbage-1786857267

The dark web—the portion of the deep web only accessible through specific software—exists to serve the needs of hackers-for-hire, hitmen, internet drug kingpins, child pornographers, and their inevitable customers. That’s the public consensus. Then there’s the counter-narrative.

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Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:15:13 -0700 http://gizmodo.com/the-deep-web-is-mostly-full-of-garbage-1786857267
<![CDATA[Move over, chatbots: meet the artbots | Technology | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/15/move-over-chatbots-meet-the-artbots

At Facebook’s F8 conference in Silicon Valley, David Marcus, the company’s head of messaging, proudly demonstrated its new suite of chatbots. Users can now get in a conversation with the likes of CNN, H&M, and HP, and ask for help shopping, or the latest headlines.

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Sun, 17 Apr 2016 06:02:37 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/15/move-over-chatbots-meet-the-artbots
<![CDATA[Addicted to Distraction]]> http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/opinion/sunday/addicted-to-distraction.html?_r=1

ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue. I simply couldn’t marshal the necessary focus. I was horrified.

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Thu, 03 Dec 2015 14:39:13 -0800 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/opinion/sunday/addicted-to-distraction.html?_r=1
<![CDATA[POSTmatter ::: fig-2 ::: ICA - Live Collaborative Writing]]> http://postmatter.com/#/currents/fig-2-daniel-rourke

POSTmatter x fig-2 Live Collaborative Writing

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Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:46:17 -0700 http://postmatter.com/#/currents/fig-2-daniel-rourke
<![CDATA[The Stars of YouTube and Vine | The New Yorker]]> http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/hollywood-vine

If you haven’t watched YouTube in a while—if you’ve joined the Amish, or you’re Edward Snowden—a lot has changed. Early on, the platform was a salmagundi of out-of-focus lifecasts.

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Wed, 10 Dec 2014 02:01:56 -0800 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/hollywood-vine
<![CDATA[I share everything. Or do I? | ideas.ted.com]]> http://ideas.ted.com/2014/07/01/i-share-everything-or-do-i/

After a misleading tip linked Hasan Elahi to terrorist activities - and an FBI investigation - the artist created a project that lets anyone monitor him. But how much is he really revealing? I share just about every moment of my life.

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Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:25:01 -0700 http://ideas.ted.com/2014/07/01/i-share-everything-or-do-i/
<![CDATA['Penis Brothers' Force You To Take Your Pants Off in Rust Or Die]]> http://kotaku.com/penis-brothers-force-you-to-take-your-pants-off-in-ru-1517402503

What the... Ok, so we all know that socializing is kind of hit or miss in games like Rust or DayZ, but I...what?

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Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:06:31 -0800 http://kotaku.com/penis-brothers-force-you-to-take-your-pants-off-in-ru-1517402503
<![CDATA[Eterni.me - Become Virtually Immortal]]> http://eterni.me/

Submitted w/out comment: "Simply Become Immortal" http://t.co/vT48jQ1KZT (via @therourke) http://t.co/sTbOFQHGfg – Chris Lindgren (lndgrn) http://twitter.com/lndgrn/status/431445405440569347

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Thu, 06 Feb 2014 07:34:48 -0800 http://eterni.me/
<![CDATA[Virtual afterlives will transform humanity – Michael Graziano – Aeon]]> http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/virtual-afterlives-will-transform-humanity/

In the late 1700s, machinists started making music boxes: intricate little mechanisms that could play harmonies and melodies by themselves. Some incorporated bells, drums, organs, even violins, all coordinated by a rotating cylinder.

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Sun, 22 Dec 2013 02:48:38 -0800 http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/virtual-afterlives-will-transform-humanity/