Submissions for the Surveillance&Society special issue on "Literature and Surveillance" are starting to roll in, so for all my surveillance people AND literature people: We're accepting submissions until Jan 1! Submit, get in touch with ?s, and please share! ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
If if were 2009 I might have said that this sort of thing is why they need more women on the boards of tech companies, but truly, by this point, they absolutely know that this is going to enable stalking and violence, and that women will take the brunt of that, and they just don't care.
New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...
The technology, which marries Metaās smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home...
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We're four days into the most significant natural disaster in the recorded history of our region. Our community is experiencing an ongoing crisis created by infrastructural collapse and the profound failure of capitalism to value and sustain life. 1/?
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im glad the washington post editorial board is addressing this vs say, abortion laws designed to keep women pregnant with death as an acceptable outcome
I can't understand how people are still baffled by this. From what I've seen, it generally boils down to huge costs, world going to shit, women learning they don't need to get forever stuck with a garbage man, huge impact on daily life that's even bigger if no local family support. Also, costs.
The question of whether or not to have children implicates lifeās deepest, most vexing questions.
Imagine looking around the landscape of higher ed, at the conditions that are shaping our ability to teach honestly and our students' ability to learn meaningfully, and saying "you know what? We should reduce the number of student accommodations." I mean, what the fuck /8
We are excited to say that The Modernist Review is seeking papers for a āModernism and Dataā special issue! Deadline 20th December for submissions. Please see the link below for the full CFP: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/m...
āA New World of Informationā: Modernism and Data Modernism has a problem with data. Within adjacent fieldsāVictorian, Post45, and Black studiesāthere has been a proliferation of attempts to expoundā¦
It's currently Banned Books Week and I'd love to use this moment to remind you that book bans aren't about the books. They're about silencing marginalized people (and creating the permission structure for their harm) and defunding institutions of public learning.