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Introducing the Manything Channel
ifttt: Manything turns any iOS device into a WiFi camera for monitoring your home, your pets, anything! Comes with live streaming, motion activated alerts, cloud video recording, and more. //ifttt.com/assets/embed_recipe.js //ifttt.com/assets/embed_recipe.js //ifttt.com/assets/embed_recipe.js //ifttt.com/assets/embed_recipe.js //ifttt.com/assets/embed_recipe.js //ifttt.com/assets/embed_recipe.js The Manything Team shared a bunch of Recipes to help you get started.
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minusbaby: “How-to Guide: Makeshift Tear-Gas Mask“ [2014] Illustrated by Marwan Kaabour at Barnbrook
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minusbaby: “How-to Guide: Makeshift Tear-Gas Mask“ [2014] Illustrated by Marwan Kaabour at Barnbrook
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The ideological premise of the Internet of Things is that surveillance and data production equal a kind of preparedness. Any problem might be solved or pre-empted with the proper calculations, so it is prudent to digitize and monitor everything. The Lights Are On but Nobody’s Home (via iamdanw)
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… we don’t realize that the astonishing linguistic capacity of the human brain did not evolve in relation to the computer, nor even in relation to written texts. Rather, it evolved in relation to stories that were passed down orally. For countless millennia, stories and story-telling were the way we humans learned our language. Spoken…
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This insurer also exemplifies how algorithmic biases can become regressive social forces. From its name to its site design to how its telematics technology is implemented, Drive Like a Girl is essentializing what “driving like a girl” means — it’s safe, it’s pink, it’s happy, it’s gendered. It is also, according to this actuarial morality,…
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I taught at Yale for five years when I was managing editor and what I tried to stress for students interested in journalism, rather than picking a specialty, like blogging or being a videographer, was to master the basics of really good storytelling, have curiosity and a sense of how a topic is different than…
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One challenge that we’ve encountered is that there isn’t a lot of precedent for this kind of game, and a lot of existing knowledge about how to construct first person shooter (FPS) maps is useless when you have only two players and melee weapons. Game balance isn’t easy either because in Chambara, it’s a matter…
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How to Be a Better Online Reader
How to Be a Better Online Reader The shift from print to digital reading may lead to more than changes in speed and physical processing. It may come at a cost to understanding, analyzing, and evaluating a text. Much of Mangen’s research focusses on how the format of reading material may affect not just eye…
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You Are Mountain – Ian Bogost – The Atlantic
You Are Mountain – Ian Bogost – The Atlantic just go read it.