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All My Friends Live In My Phone and So Do I Part III: Two Houses
The establishment of the new role, the consumer of computers for the home, was only made possible by the proliferation of new form factors and roles for computers.
MoreNotified Off The Wagon
by The Collective This article appears in Volume 1, Issue 1 of Protean Magazine. The on-demand delivery technology boom, the latest spawn of the gestational revolutions of the app-driven gig-economy, is in full swing. News outlets and commentators large and small, broad-based and technology-focused, began speculating as early as 2015 that “Uber for everything” was […]
MoreApril 15, 2017
by Wendy Trevino 25,000 in San Francisco. Twenty five thousand people marching with A “Trump chicken” down Market Street toward The Ferry Building because “Trump’s a big Chicken for not releasing his taxes.” I can’t stop thinking about it. I mean Not 30 minutes away in Berkeley There were Nazis sieg heiling in the streets […]
MoreAll My Friends Live In My Phone and So Do I Part II: A Genealogy of Silicon
Computers were fun once. They were fun in the way that rally cars are fun: for the people who got deeply into them, the real joy derived from learning how they worked.
MoreThe Rules for Black Women Dating White Men in 2019
by Ajah Hales If you decide to date a white boy,You are no longer pro black.It does not matter that you were on the ground in East St. Louis,That you stood vigil for Troy and Trayvon long before Black Lives Matter? was even a questionIt does not matterThatBlack Lives Matter! was always your answerIt doesn’t […]
MoreAll My Friends Live in My Phone and So Do I Part I: Irresistible Impulse
Very recently I found myself adrift, a ghost untethered from the world.
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WE COULD GET DRUNK IN THIS FIELD BECAUSE WE’RE IN A FIELD & WE’RE IN LOVE & WHAT ELSE WOULD WE DO?
by Nicholas Bon I want to find the way through every tunnel— us not ever stopping for gas, tires always at proper pressure, this all awash in new light. I want to shut this machine down so we can grow tomatoes in its ugly chambers. Nicholas Bon is the author of My Circus Mouth (Ghost […]
MoreA List of All Suspicious Deaths of Ferguson Activists
A string of deaths of prominent Ferguson activists and their relatives, as well as others who were murdered in a similar fashion, has left lingering questions about the circumstances. Given the recent detainment (with no justification given) of Iranian state TV journalist Marzieh Hashemi, who was working on a documentary about the murders, it’s worth […]
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