Thinking about surveillance and poverty today. From Michele Estrin Gilman‘s “The Class Differential in Privacy Law.” “John Castiglione argues that dignity is an equally important Fourth Amendment value as privacy. As he points out, under the reasonableness standard’s balancing test, it is almost impossible for an individual’s “abstract, indeterminate” privacy interest to outweigh the state’sContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND ELEVEN”
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TWO HUNDRED AND TEN
From artist/photographer Uldus Bakhtiozina’s “Red Beauty,” via Beautiful Decay.
TWO HUNDRED AND NINE
From How to Construct a Time Machine, at MK Gallery. (via happyfamousartists). The show’s title is taken from an 1899 text by the avant-garde French writer, Alfred Jarry, written in direct response to H. G. Wells’ science fiction novel The Time Machine (1895). Wells invented and popularised a distinctively modern, fictional concept of time travel, with the time machine asContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND NINE”
TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHT
On Afghan war rugs, from Cosimo Bizzarri.
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN
Brené Brown, The Courage to be Vulnerable. “But to separate that from the reality of vulnerability, I always ask a very simple question to people. I just say think of the last time you did something that you thought was really brave or the last time you saw someone do something really brave. You know,Continue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN”
TWO HUNDRED AND SIX
Breath by The Mercadantes, via Booooooom.
TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE
From Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox, via Farnam Street. When an expert remembers a patient, he doesn’t remember a mere list of words. He remembers an experience, a whole galaxy of related perceptions. No doubt he remembers certain words—perhaps a name, a diagnosis, maybe some others. But he also remembersContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE”
TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR
Product Review: The Invisible Backpack of White Privilege from L.L. Bean, by Joyce Miller. “The Invisible Backpack of White Privilege is great for carrying questionable things like weed, Ponzi schemes, and sex crimes. I have lived in dense urban areas my whole life, and the cops never once search my Invisible Backpack. Then again, that’s probablyContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR”
TWO HUNDRED AND THREE
Rotterdam and Black Rock City, from Daily Overview.
TWO HUNDRED AND TWO
The stories we tell ourselves about who we are often end up shaping who we become. I really liked this short piece, both because it makes that truth explicit, and because it reminds us that we can choose to be authors rather than subjects.
TWO HUNDRED AND ONE
From Joseph Alfred v. Walt Disney Co. This matter is before me on the Defendants’ motions to dismiss a complaint sounding in contract, filed by the Plaintiff, Mr. Alfred, pro se. That Complaint is remarkable. It is in my experience a unique example of the pleader’s art. It cites to the epic of Gilgamesh, Woody Guthrie, theContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND ONE”
TWO HUNDRED
From Beautiful Decay on McCharen and Chromat’s Bionic Bodies. “Their new line was called Bionic Bodies, inspired by a love story McCharen envisioned between a human and a robot. The result? Bodies scaffolded like bionic arms and exoskeletons, chromed ribcages studded at the seams, and, most strikingly, faces and bras illuminated with blue LEDs. WhenContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED”
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE
The Longest Mixtape, from Caribou.
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT
Ben Grasso (via booooooom!)
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SEVEN
Omid Safi: 9 points to ponder on the Paris shooting and Charlie Hebdo. Let us hope that it is not merely the freedom of speech that we hold sacred, but the freedom to live a meaningful life, though others find it problematic. Let us hope that the freedom to speak, to pray, to dress asContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SEVEN”
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