Databodies in Codespace
All our bodies and environments are already data — both public and proprietary. So how can we marshal whatever remains of our public sphere to take up these critical issues? How can we respond individually and collectively to the regime of quantitative rationalization?

April 18, 2018 at 04:30PM
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We Don’t Have Elections
How tech companies merge with the nation-state.

April 18, 2018 at 03:24PM
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Of Course This Eerie Human Robot Was Built To Promote Season 2 Of ‘Westworld’
What better way to get people stoked for your TV show about a robot uprising than to have a robot chat up (and sort of threaten) a bunch of bar patrons?

April 18, 2018 at 03:02PM
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How One Man Convinced a Staggering Number of People That Mark Zuckerberg Was Deleting Facebook
“A World Without Facebook” is a fake video of Mark Zuckerberg discussing how fake news helped convince him to delete Facebook in its entirety, and it sparked collective outrage on Facebook, where users believe it’s a real announcement from the company’s founder.

April 18, 2018 at 12:22PM
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My Exes, My Echo, and Me
A brave writer reconnects with two past lovers in order to find out… what dating someone who has an Amazon Echo is like.

April 18, 2018 at 11:21AM
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It’s OK to Say if You Went Back in Time and Killed Baby Hitler
What better way to roll out the universe’s first linearity disruptor start-up than to kill Baby Hitler, baby?

April 18, 2018 at 10:26AM
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Have Algorithms Destroyed Personal Taste?
No one is original anymore, not even you.

April 17, 2018 at 05:04PM
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This Omnidirectional Treadmill Will Make Virtual Reality Gaming Freakin’ Incredible
Destin from SmarterEveryDay checks out the “Infinadeck,” a real product featured in “Ready Player One.” Though there are still many challenges to it becoming a mass market product, we’re hyped that the technology is even this far along.

April 17, 2018 at 04:32PM
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The Untold Story of Jaime Levy, Punk-Rock Cyber-Publishing Pioneer
How a punk kid from LA created the coolest publications of the 1990s.

April 17, 2018 at 04:07PM
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Perry Chen Says He Wants To Revitalize Kickstarter. Employees Say He’s Doing the Opposite.
Since founder Perry Chen took back the reins at Kickstarter, the company has landed in a period of turmoil set in motion by the person most equipped to steer it in a new direction: Chen himself.

April 17, 2018 at 03:04PM
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