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February 22, 2018

Nebula Award nominees for 2018

*I should read more of these. *It’s been a pretty good year for Singaporean writer Vina Jie-Min Prasad, who may have the some Singaporean writerly...

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Published on February 22, 2018 00:02

Media Archaeology Lab residents for 2018

*What interesting people. http://mediaarchaeologylab.com/blog/c... We were absolutely blown away by the number and caliber of applications we received for MAL residencies this year. Many thanks...

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Published on February 22, 2018 00:02

February 21, 2018

Prix Meret Oppenheim 2018 laureates announced

*I wish I had a Meret Oppenheim prize. Even a modest little teacup in fur would be fine. Prix Meret Oppenheim 2018 Award ceremony June...

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Published on February 21, 2018 00:01

The General Data Protection Regulation: What it says, what it means

*People in The Industry probably don’t think they have to obey this European scheme, and yeah, it’s not gonna be patrolled very well, but every...

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Published on February 21, 2018 00:01

February 20, 2018

Dead Media Beat: electric guitars

*Who needs ’em? They’re not “media,” but the media structure that formerly supported rock and roll stars, yeah, that was “media.” And it’s dead. So...

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Published on February 20, 2018 00:03

He thinks crypto will revive the Internet and dissolve the Stacks

That’s very interesting, but no, it won’t *This is like thinking that cryptographic networks will dissolve the highway system because the best car engineers can...

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Published on February 20, 2018 00:03

Japanese innovations in scissors

*Man, that is Japanese design at its finest. Why don’t I have all these quirky and newfangled scissors? I feel deprived. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Comp... (…) Raymay Fujii...

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Utopia for Realists, Dutch intellectual anarchist style

*The Dutch should give him some minor-league smart town and see if he can make that work. Rutger Bregman (…) One of those seeking to...

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Published on February 20, 2018 00:03

February 19, 2018

Boss of Chinese Cyberspace Administration gets purged

*More on Lu Wei, who must have really stepped on somebody’s cyberspatial foot. https://qz.com/1206816/chinas-shamele... China’s former internet czar was expelled from the Communist Party and...

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Storm clouds over the Munich Security Conference

*Everybody wants to play the Donald Trump stage tough guy this season. Look at all that raucous incivility on stage, and among the heavily armed,...

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Published on February 19, 2018 00:01

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