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  • A Tale of Two Hipsters

    A Tale of Two Hipsters daleberan:     A 10,000 word essay on what the term hipster means.     “Bohemia. A desert country near the sea.” -William Shakespeare  … more ›

  • Blackwater

    Blackwater “Betsy’s brother Erik Prince, famous as the founder and owner of the notorious private army Blackwater, was quietly advising the Trump transition team on matters related to intelligence and… more ›

  • Algo-enabler

    Algo-enabler “algorithms have the power to enable and assign “levels of meaningfulness” more ›

  • Algopop

    Algopop “algorithms as expressions of a new rationality and form of social organization.” more ›

  • Estimote year-end summary and our plans for 2017

    Estimote year-end summary and our plans for 2017 estimote: Our vision at Estimote is bold—to create an operating system for the physical world. A software environment that is easy to… more ›

  • The used future

    The used future “He will do much more damage before he departs the scene, to become a subject of horrified wonder in our grandchildren’s history books. ” more ›

  • Populist international

    Populist international “Another big winner in the election was Cambridge Analytica. Steve Bannon, a Cambridge Analytica board member and publisher of the ultra-rightwing online site Breitbart News, was named Trump’s… more ›

  • Manchurian

    Manchurian “The candidate himself became an implementation instrument of the model.” more ›

  • Pre-talk

    Pre-talk “And the company took even more radical measures: starting in July 2016, a new app was prepared for Trump campaign canvassers with which they could find out the political… more ›

  • Adtech granularity

    Adtech granularity “The messages varied mostly in their microscopic details, in order to communicate optimally with their recipients: different titles, colors, subtitles, with different images or videos. The granularity of… more ›