The problem isn’t the substance of student complaints — the problem is that university lecturers are so terrified of the effect student complaints could have. That’s a problem to be solved by universities having faculty members’ backs, not by somehow… Continue reading

“Today EPA confirmed what communities living with fracking have known for years, fracking pollutes drinking water,” said Earthworks Policy Director Lauren Pagel. She continued, “Now the Obama administration, Congress, and state governments must act on that information to protect our… Continue reading

We’ve had the authority to collect and publish data on police use of force for 20 years. We can’t wait another 20 for transparency or accountability Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com Continue reading

The reptilian antihero gets civic papers granting special residency for watching over the people of Tokyo (and boosting tourism) Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com Continue reading

The rise of in-game photography has left people asking: when is a screenshot a photograph and is it ever art? Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.hopesandfears.com Ontology of the virtual work of art… photography within games. Continue reading

“For the past century, cities in Texas have had courts and the state recognize their power to govern themselves, with the understanding that the city knows best how to protect its way of life and its citizens,” says Adam Briggle,… Continue reading

Elites have changed the very rules by which the economy runs — and not in a good way. Sourced through Scoop.it from: prospect.org Robert Reich amending his standard interpretation of inequality to more properly include how plutocrats have reconstructed social… Continue reading

Four leading researchers share their concerns and solutions for reducing societal risks from intelligent machines. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.nature.com Continue reading

The apparatus of disappearance is a capitalist ritual of creating ghosts. Disappearance is intrinsic to capitalism, to Western modernity, which is always already prepared to dispose of these othered humans along lines of racialized poverty. Disappearance in this sense, of… Continue reading