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"Soylent Beige: The Middle Gray of Taste"
Travis Diehl

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/89/178844/soylent-beige-the-middle-gray-of-taste/

"Fucking foreign languages is my fetish"

Mirene Arsanios

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/92/204493/e-autobiography-di-un-idioma/

"Beelzebufo and the Pumpkin Toadlet"
cw: fangs, scary frog
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/beelzebufo-and-the-pumpkin-toadlet/

in #123 a small victory is scored in bringing down a specific series of advertisements for clickbait sites very offensive and hurtful for one person.

this is great, but what happens to the rest of the trash amplified by gross businesses like Taboola? what about those who don't have the means of a powerful media outlet in fighting the abuse? what about the threats to privacy posed by adtech ?

:/
burn to the ground the digital advertisement business

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/123-an-ad-for-the-worst-day-of-your-life#episode-player

"The Akkasah photographic archive at NYU Abu Dhabi is drawn from around the Middle East and North Africa. We digitize, catalogue and preserve photographic collections and make them available for scholarly research and general consultation both online via this website and in person at the NYU campus in Abu Dhabi."

http://akkasah.org/page/frontpage/collections

"Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers"

https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/ecc/#hwps

tired: solstices
wired: soul-stitches

"OneTaste is pushing its sexuality wellness education toward the mainstream. Some former members say it pushed them into sexual servitude and five-figure debts."

cw: cis/heteronormativity appealing scam

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-18/the-dark-side-of-onetaste-the-orgasmic-meditation-company

"Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation"
by Tara McPherson (2012)

http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/29

has anyone here got the chance to look into DouglassOS douglass.io ?

an attempt to categorize gender?

"Fungus MacGyvered Gravity Sensor from Stolen Bacterial Protein"

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/fungus-macgyvered-gravity-sensor-from-stolen-bacterial-gene/

"A Short History of Vantablack: the Darkest Color on Earth"

by Rahel Aima

https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/9k8bpa/a-short-history-of-vantablack-the-darkest-color-on-earth

this is a great reading, I promise:

"Worms, Butterflies and Dandelions. Open source tools for the arts"
by Taeyoon Choi

https://medium.com/@tchoi8/worms-butterflies-and-dandelions-open-source-tools-for-the-arts-9b4dcd76a1f2

a good example of Code of Conduct
https://2018.xoxofest.com/conduct

"Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet"
https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/left-to-their-own-devices-gender-cyberviolence-and-the-internet/