Archiving my links here now, because G+ has the annoying tendency to decide my posts are spam and render them invisible.
http://theclustermag.com/2013/05/feminism-and-other-unfulfilled-promises-of-the-text-based-internet/ - A depressing but incisive critique of the problems with posthumanism and internetism (small peeve of mine though: they falsely equivocate the social construct of objectivity with the mathematical-realist construct of objectivity; I assume the author is a mathematical nominalist, so whatever, it's fine)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/expats-move-in-as-rio-favelas-improve-a-900626.html - "Now that the notorious drug gangs of Rio de Janiero's shanty towns have been driven out, the neighborhoods are attracting new residents from Southern Europe. Fleeing the euro crisis back home, the expats are contributing to a real estate boom in the favelas."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/05/13/183704091/what-is-it-about-bees-and-hexagons - What Is It About Bees And Hexagons?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/05/23/ceos-are-terrible-at-management-study-finds/ - CEOs Are Terrible At Management, Study Finds
http://blog.echonest.com/post/48943428838/how-we-cope-with-spammers-fakers-and-cloners - "Here, The Echo Nest Senior Software Engineer Aaron Mandel explores the sneaky techniques used by musical spammers to “game the system” in music services — and how we stop them from succeeding."
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001034.html - USA Intellectual Property Theft Commission recommends inserting mandatory malware/ransomware into every computer, to detect and eliminate copyright infringements
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/05/crib-sheet-accelerando.html - "In the background of what looks like a Panglossian techno-optimist novel, horrible things are happening. Most of humanity is wiped out, then arbitrarily resurrected in mutilated form by the Vile Offspring. Capitalism eats everything [...]"
http://grinding.be/2013/05/27/special-guest-post-from-the-uk-cat-vincent-brings-us-rate-of-return-woolwich-4gw-and-kayfabe/ - "Another front in The Forever War opened these past few days… and for those who aren’t part of the kayfabe, who strive to break past the fourth wall of us-and-them, resilience is becoming that much harder."
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/26/google-blimps - Google Zeppelins may start allowing internet access in large swaths of Africa, both urban and rural
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwile_flonking - "A full game comprises four 'snurds', each snurd being one team taking a turn at girting. The jobanowl adds interest and difficulty to the game by randomly switching the direction of rotation, and will levy drinking penalties on any player found not taking the game seriously enough."
http://twitter.bug.quietbabylon.com/ - An unusual Twitter bug report
http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/bondage-sm-aficionados-better-adjusted-than-most-58723/ - "Overall, a picture emerges of the psychological characteristics of the average BDSM practitioner that, compared with non-BDSM practitioners, is quite favorable."
http://thespiritleveldocumentary.com/ - "Based around the best-selling book The Spirit Level, this film looks at how the rising gap between rich and poor has impacted on our societies. How has it risen? Why does it impact on society? And could greater equality really benefit everyone, even the rich?"
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/51726771856/the-police-state-is-you - The Police State Is You
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/06/20/your-body-your-choice-fight-for-your-somatic-rights/#.Uafie7WG05c - "And sooner or later (I’ve given up on guessing time-frames), instead of merely arguing over what we’re allowed to do with the body we’re born with, there will be debates about our rights to choose what kind of body we have."
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/philosophy-as-an-art-of-dying/ - "And so here are the condemned philosophers: speechless, with only their dying bodies to express themselves. One may quip that the body has finally got its chance to take its revenge on the philosophers."
