Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tacticThe move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.www.axios.com
Alright, you lovely people you, today's 🏴☠️ drop is this folder of the complete hand-colorized Epic Comics translation of AKIRA, in individual scanned issues Don't say I never did nothin' nice for ya:
Akira - Epic Edition (Issues) - Google Drivedrive.google.comJosephine "beckbook.com" RiesmanI'm usually against colorizing B&W comics, and I'm definitely 100% against doing it digitally... But I gotta say... The hand-colorized Epic Comics reprints of AKIRA were fucking _gorgeous_ Like, I am in awe of even just this one randomly chosen series of panels from issue two:
Just finished Jane Mayer’s Dark Money, a highly informative read about how a tiny group of ultra-wealthy radicals have shifted US politics to the far right. Notable is their emphasis on academia as a “delivery system for their conservative ideology”
Oh I'm so excited that this is finally out! It was really a special opportunity to be able to think and talk about how research gets done and books get written. Plus plus FinTech and scams and all my favorite things
Lee VinselThis week on Peoples & Things, I chat with the wonderful @lanalanalana.bsky.social about _New Money: How Payment Became Social Media_ and her other current, highly-creative projects. I love how Lana thinks through things. It's a really fun chat! newbooksnetwork.com/117-lana-swa...
Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code (1895) was a book of codes to help disguise internal police telegrams in what amounted to some kind of 19th-century version of the encrypted email: http://buff.ly/2ut1vvs
Check out a terrific new special issue of Surveillance & Society on “Resisting Surveillance Through Data Visibility and Invisibility.” Always #OpenAccess. #Ring #Surveillance #FacialRecognition #LGBTQ+ #ForensicArchitecture ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
