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ourrisd: Yesterday afternoon as students returned to classes after the Thanksgiving break, up the hill at Brown they were sidestepping their peers’ lifeless bodies strewn across the main green. The living corpses remained silent but held signs with the names of African Americans killed by excessive police force. The dramatic demonstration was part of a student-run…
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nprplays: Earlier this year, radicalbytes (aka Jonathan McIntosh, Feminist Frequency producer) wrote a piece for Polygon about some of the invisible benefits males enjoy while gaming — especially online. I interviewed McIntosh back then about the piece for NPR’s All Tech Considered blog. He said then that this is an issue everyone in the gaming…
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How a Wealthy California Town Makes Sure No Poor Kids Attend Its ‘Public’ School
How a Wealthy California Town Makes Sure No Poor Kids Attend Its ‘Public’ School Orinda’s schools are among the best in California – public schools that glean extra revenues from a local parcel tax (that required a two-thirds vote to pass) and parental contributions to the Educational Foundation of Orinda which “suggests” donations of $600…
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emergentfutures: 3D LED printer makes a contact lens display possible By breaking the concept of an LED down to its most basic form, the researchers saw that they needn’t think of LEDs as little domed plastic lightbulbs, but simple stacks of interacting material. This printer can lay down an LED with a sandwich structure that’s…
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emergentfutures: 3D LED printer makes a contact lens display possible By breaking the concept of an LED down to its most basic form, the researchers saw that they needn’t think of LEDs as little domed plastic lightbulbs, but simple stacks of interacting material. This printer can lay down an LED with a sandwich structure that’s…
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*That was a pretty good analysis from a dozen years ago, and now it explains why “fiction” about cyberpunk is irrelevant. It’s no longer ”aesthetic vision,” it’s everyday lived experience. Cyberpunk and Empire Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. DePauw University/ Science Fiction Studies (…) Nonetheless, I think we can safely identify certain aspects of cyberpunk’s aesthetic vision…
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kenyatta: William S. Burroughs – A Thanksgiving Prayer Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shat out through wholesome American guts. Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison. Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger. Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin…