The Internet is Designed for Corporations, Not People

Gordon Hull The Conversation
demonstrators acting against Facebook
Urban spaces are often designed as subtly hostile to certain uses. Think about seat partitions on bus terminal benches that make it harder for the homeless to sleep there or decorative leaves on railings in front of office buildings and university campuses that serve to make skateboarding dangerous.

When a Tuna Fish Sandwich Becomes a Work of Art

Allie Wist Saveur Magazine
A tunafish sandwich on wheat toast, with lettuce and butter, and a large glass of buttermilk.
Food, eating rituals, cooking techniques, and dining habits are all tiny and wonderfully significant daily performances. For one artist, these havits of everday life became the stuff of her art.

Marx the Journalist

James Ledbetter Jacobin
Marx is often remembered as a political economist or philosopher. But he made his mark as a journalist. Marx was never content to sit back and let history take its course; he felt compelled to persuade, to use the workings of the news cycle as bits of evidence that his world view is the most sound.

N.S.A. Triples Collection of Data From U.S. Phone Companies

Charlie Savage The New York Times
The large and growing volume of data gathered shows that the N.S.A. continues to collect significant amounts of information about Americans’ phone and text messages after changes made by Congress in a 2015 law, the USA Freedom Act.