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purplekimchi

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing - Boing Boing - 0 views

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  • purplekimchi on 25 Mar 14
     
    Anticipating our Zittrain reading later in the semester..
norma martin

Afrofuturism as an Extension of the Black Arts Movement | - 0 views

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  • norma martin on 24 Mar 14
     
    I think I need to explore this term some more...
norma martin

Digital Soul: The Computer, Imagination and Social Change - The Root - 0 views

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  • norma martin on 24 Mar 14
     
    An awesome blend of digital and culture.
purplekimchi

If Google Was a Guy (Part 2) - YouTube - 0 views

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  • purplekimchi on 19 Mar 14
     
    What would happen if people submitted their google requests in person. (Can't let this go w/o noting that Google is a middle aged white guy). NSFW: language
norma martin

About Corvida - SheGeeks - 0 views

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  • norma martin on 12 Mar 14
     
    A very user friendly kind of place.
norma martin

17 Black Women in Science and Tech You Should Know - The Root - 0 views

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  • norma martin on 12 Mar 14
     
    African-American female trailblazers are leading the way
norma martin

Every Dog Has Its Data - 0 views

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  • norma martin on 12 Mar 14
     
    big data has gone to the dogs.
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Who Needs to Know How to Code - 0 views

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  • norma martin on 12 Mar 14
     
    To Build Websites and apps, adults (and kids) are flocking to coding classes
purplekimchi

Keurig: Your New Coffee Overlord » Cyborgology - 0 views

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  • Don’t mistake this as anything other than a test run for the future.
  • As a trial run, I’m not optimistic that it will work out well for them. But I think that this stands as yet more evidence that DRM-creep is something to watch for
  • purplekimchi on 07 Mar 14
     
    New Keurig coffee makers will have DRM and will not work with any other coffee pods. I use a pod that minimizes the plastic and the little plastic it does use is corn based and biodegradable. I inherited my keurig from my partner's office (they were going to throw it away for a very silly reason!) and it looks like i won't ever purchase one for myself.
norma martin

22 File-Sharing Tools for Easy Collaboration - 0 views

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  • norma martin on 06 Mar 14
     
    I will definitely need more than one of these before I finish grad school. LOL!
purplekimchi

Unintended - and Anti-Social - Consequences of Social Media Use - 0 views

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  • Simultaneously, though, we must understand that Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other profit-driven companies are not neutral platforms for these conversations.
  • tech industrialists are the Rockefellers of this century, with profit, not innovation or the social good, as their primary motive
  • The lobby group FWD.us, brought to us by founders and investors of Facebook, LinkedIn and Spotify, among others, famously supported the Keystone XL oil pipeline with millions in pro-pipeline advertising
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  • Peers.org, an initiative launched by "sharing economy" companies like the home-subletting site Airbnb, have resisted government regulation, even as disability advocates fear services like the "rideshare" service Uber are increasing inequality between people with and without disabilities
  • they're doing everything they can to avoid paying taxes
  • gentrification
  • San Francisco has lost at least 40 percent of its black population since 1990, more than any other major city
  • But the fact is tech companies continue the practices of devaluation of racialized and feminized labor on a global scale
  • There are no easy answers
  • Another answer is for tech workers to, in tech lingo, disrupt the industry's exploitation by developing alternative tools for connecting us all. Firefox, LibreOffice, PirateBay, Wikipedia and WordPress are all widely used technology-based tools created by organizations that don't count profit as their foremost objective.
  • More important, we can organize with and support the media and activists that already are doing this work, like the Bay Area's POOR Magazine
  • purplekimchi on 06 Mar 14
     
    A more nuanced approach to the social media is anti-social argument
purplekimchi

Is First Kiss the most successful fashion film ever? | Dazed - 0 views

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  • So far, Wren founder and creative director Melissa Coker has maintained that the cast in the film are actually her real-life friends and colleagues. They're just, you know, super good-looking. Obvs. 
    • purplekimchi
      purplekimchi on 15 Mar 14
       
      This gets to the question of authenticity.
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