From the Washington Post today: “The United States is weaponizing interdependence.” We live in an interdependent world, where global networks span across countries, creating enormous benefits, but also great disparities of power. As networks grow, they tend to concentrate both influence and vulnerability in a few key locations, creating enormous opportunities for states, regulators and […]
More: Race and politics of place
Monday’s work on The Game That Shall Not Be Named, colonialism, augmented reality tech, and lineages of state violence went further afield than I expected. As sites like the Holocaust Museum and Arlington National Cemetery begin to push back against the game’s boundaries, there are plenty of thoughtful, worth-reading articles about the broader connections and the […]
Reader Review 8
Long and short reads for your next weekend review. May 2014 edition. Social Web Demographics Shift, and Bells Toll [Prematurely?] for Email, Facebook, and Twitter Buzzfeed: What I Learned After Quitting Email For A Week (Charlie Warzel) < A whole week! Deadspin: Facebook Is Dead (Drew Magary) The Atlantic: A Eulogy for Twitter (Adrienne LaFrance, Robinson Meyer) Core quotes: “Email […]
Coding for the Community: A Conversation with Teagan Widmer
I met Teagan about three years ago. She had just graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a compelling thesis on the representation of transgender women in film. After moving back to the Left Coast, she started learning computer programming languages on her own and in Bay Area coding collectives. Teagan recently hit the news with […]
Reader Review #02
Posts tagged “Reader Review” include a few top articles from my weekly reading. Their topics may vary, but their quality and provocation quotient won’t. Enjoy. Kenyan Author Binyavanga Wainaina Tells Us All: “We Must Free Our Imaginations.” Africa is a Country: #Watch Binyavanga’s brilliant YouTube documentary calling out the BS behind “African” homophobia (Elliot Ross) In a […]
Technology and Hope
This week I met with three engineers based at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration‘s Goddard Center. I’m always made more hopeful by young professionals who love their work, care about the neighborhood beyond their office gate, and are open to sharing with local children the kind of inspiration that motivated each of them to […]
