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by mgunes 13y ago
It doesn't take an overtly political article to upset ideological sensibilities. Since technology is inherently intertwined with ideology, it's not possible to have a fruitful discussion on any topic concerning technology (perhaps
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No, the only alternative isn't Detroit.
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by mgunes 13y ago
I'm one of those people: I submit that throwing a brick through the back of a bus window is ethically superior to voting or circulating a petition. Please skim my comment history.
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And you'll probably be sitting in your armchair nitpicking on the title of another article you didn't read that steps on your ideological toe.
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It doesn't take a vast conspiracy to rid prospering metropolitan areas of working class non-white people; it's the business-as-usual of capitalist growth.
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Ted Nelson's Passionate Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart (news.slashdot.org)
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Online course by Bruno Latour: A Primer in Scientific Humanities(france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr)
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On PRISM, or Listening Neoliberally (its-her-factory.blogspot.co.uk)
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Captives of the Cloud, Part III: All Tomorrow’s Clouds(e-flux.com)
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Surveillance Spaulder(booktwo.org)
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by mgunes 13y ago
In "Pandora's Hope", Bruno Latour goes to great length to attack the artificial subject-object and nature-culture separations that are the legacy of the Cartesian paradigm. It's a highly intriguing book. Here's the
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Why We Can’t Let American Tech Take Over the World(wired.com)
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On Balance, or Why Privacy Is A Red Herring (its-her-factory.blogspot.co.uk)
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> WTF does that have to do with anything? The author has been writing / working on the implications of drone technologies regularly in various contexts for the past few years. He didn't dedicate a separate piece to the Amazon
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Anatomy of a failed rendition(booktwo.org)
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In Conversation with Adam Curtis(e-flux.com)
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Cory Doctorow: How To Live In A World Made Of Computers(youtube.com)
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The Web As A Preservation Medium(inkdroid.org)
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The Myth of Virtual Currency(thesocietypages.org)
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Gaming the Plumbing: High-Frequency Trading and the Spaces of Capital(metamute.org)
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Iron Cagebook: The Rational Ends of Facebook’s Patents(darwinbondgraham.wordpress.com)
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The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday (thenation.com)
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by mgunes 13y ago
I was commenting in a general sense, on the notion I quoted, of which the current discussion is a mere symptom; not specifically about Amazon or package delivery. Yet the point is: when a technology giant talks about delivering packages in
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> Aren't we supposed to be the champions of the future? If you mean as "hackers", to pick a word from the name of this website, who were for a long time, rightly or wrongly, supposed to be conscientious watchdogs of pres
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Technomasochism(cabinetmagazine.org)
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An Anti-Hayekian Manifesto(utopia.uzh.ch)
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I don't imply an ideal of neutrality; no online community is ideologically neutral, and neutrality isn't a merit to strive for. It's just that most participants seem to have internalized a supposedly meritocratic "whatev
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How HN page rankings really work: you vote stuff up, and then the flag mob and hidden moderators axe right off the front page whatever irritates the pro-capitalist internet-libertarian techno-optimist idelogical sensibilities of the white
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Creative Collaboration: Rules of Thumb(openendedgroup.com)
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Objects of Intense Feeling: The Case of the Twitter API (computationalculture.net)
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