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Eliminating the evidence…
photo: Jasper Nance, Flickr via source Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense: their soda...
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Hello?… Hello?…
Quoth the always-amusing Tyler Hellard: “ConferenceCall.biz is a spectacular display of existential despair and the modern condition.” And indeed it is. ### As we remember that we can press “8” to...
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in...
In European societies, knowledge is often pictured as a tree: a single trunk – the core – with branches splaying outwards towards distant peripheries. The imagery of this tree is so deeply embedded...
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“It is not enough for code to work”*…
It’s been said that software is “eating the world.” More and more, critical systems that were once controlled mechanically, or by people, are coming to depend on code. This was perhaps never clearer...
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“Why has our age surrendered so easily to the controllers, the manipulators,...
Promenade (2020) by Melissa Brown [source and permissions] Half a century ago, Lewis Mumford developed a concept that explains why we trade autonomy for convenience… … Surveying the state of the...
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