Remember the Zadie piece alleged to be about violence-yada-words-weapons-yadayada-language-etc?
THIS eyepopper of a piece does the real work- meticulous reporting & argument on the production of political speech, its violent censoring & the manufacture of blindness. It's superb.
"Across social media, then, the one-sided, pervasive over-moderation of Palestinians and Palestine is so frightening because it undercuts some of the few spaces where rights abuse is documented and narrated to a mass audience..."
"The rewards promised by the Algorithm are no longer just rewards, but standards: harness the Algorithm correctly and it might compute the correct output."
Will Allstetter explores algorithmic mysticism in Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm.
for syntax magazine, i wrote about reading my grandmother’s diaries after she died, how bad i am at journaling, and facing oblivion. (an example of an unemployment depression project that turned out pretty well, i think): https://t.co/uSib0gOIAI