algopop: Twitter-bot death threats and the police Jeffry Van Der Goot had a twitter-bot that was a Markov-ebooks type, remixing his own personal twitter profile, “it takes all my tweets I’ve ever made, takes random chunks of it and tries to make new sentences that make sense”. The bot somehow rearranged his words in a…

npr: nprfreshair: From ‘Batman’ To ‘Birdman,’ Michael Keaton Knows Suits And Superheroes In the existential comedy Birdman, Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a washed up, insecure actor looking for a second shot at fame and success. In a last attempt to reignite his career, Riggan directs and stars in a Broadway play. Meanwhile, he is taunted…

gjmueller: Higher Education Is Not a Mixtape That aside, it’s a fantasy that higher education is careening toward an unbundled future of consumer choice, lower prices, and efficiency. Those making such predictions are peddling flawed analogies, while the technology they rely on is flawed. They just don’t understand the economics of higher education. Higher-education consumers—students…