🚨 @ozm has teamed up with @StonesongNYC to release a print-on-demand edition of @doctorow’s “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism,” with an exclusive new chapter. 📖. Out now. 👇👇👇.

This homeless community outside of Apple’s campus, a loose-knit group of 15 to 20 individuals, sprang up in late February 2020, just weeks before the pandemic hit. (📸: @herman_talia)

RT @EvanSelinger: In the course of a week, with the unwavering help and support of @dlberes & @meganmorrone, the Open Dialog series launche….

"Apple is a $2 trillion enterprise, but the sums lavished on the company’s landscaping — total cost: $85 million — casts a harsh light on the living conditions of the neighbors just a stone’s throw away."

“I am the depressing 70-year-old woman at the slot machine dumping her SSI checks," one gambler joked. ("Joked.").

Phone phreaks were the original Clubhousers.

“Society doesn’t see me and I’m not sure I see me anymore, because I don’t see a reflection of me anywhere.” . But on TikTok, she’s acknowledged. These are her people.

"Community, like everyone else, has had to figure out what their community should look like at a time when every relationship we have is mediated through a screen."

Here are a variety of specific ways that you — as a normal person — can protect yourself, your family, and society at large from abusive uses of facial recognition.

A boat blocking a canal was easy to understand, as that one viral tweet pointed out. But now the global economy is back to its previous state: a gigantic mess of interlocking mechanisms and networks so complex that no one can comprehend it.

With NFTs, the risk of oversupply is especially acute, because there is no one in charge, and the barriers to issuance are so extraordinarily low. (via @MRKR)

After 23 years, Winamp is still the G.O.A.T. music player.

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You ever feel the sudden urge to use the restroom shortly before or during a Zoom call?. You're not alone, writes @lemonsand.

RT @lemonsand: If you frequently have to poop before a Zoom, you're not alone:

Hours after a baby is born, its internet presence begins — no matter what we try to do to stop it.

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Corn production isn’t very sustainable. It drains nutrients from soil, and growing it uses a lot of water and fertilizer. Gene editing could make corn a more sustainable crop.

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Racial trauma can lead to hypervigilance, hopelessness, or depression. "When combined with therapy, psychedelic drugs show promise in their capacity to reduce symptoms of PTSD."

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