I started this semester writing about my fear of killing penguins with too much printer paper. I have since had to halt that practice; printing everything in college is simply impractical penguins or not. So I have learned to be content highlighting in PDF and taking margin notes in notepad. It’s not that I never […]
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On the Internet, everybody knows you’re a DOGE
Monday, November 27, 2017
Every once in a while I do an exercise. I draw up on a piece of paper a sketch of my phone. For each of the apps I use, I write the purpose of the app and try to come up with an alternative way of achieving the same ends. Since I was young, I […]
95
Friday, November 10, 2017
On October 31st , exactly two hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences on the door of the Catholic Church in Wittenberg. It was an iconic moment that challenged ecclesiastical authority and a big deal for the course of European history. Fortuitous and concurrent events that […]
Data, Democracy, and PUPPIES
Friday, October 27, 2017
When I was in high school, I was on the debate team for three years. As a relatively unknown and definitively underbudgeted team, we often took advantage of the open evidence files available to us. While this proved somewhat useful, we quickly realized that the majority of bulk of emergent scholarship was still largely inaccessible […]
(AI)n’t She Sweet
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Since mankind could dream of AI he has thought of her as a woman. the trope is so familiar in the shared imagination even Hollywood picked up on its salience. One of the earliest portrayals of the girl bot was in Metropolis. Releasedin 1927, the “expressionist sci-fi epic has influenced everything from Superman to Blade […]
iLost Generation
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Senior year of high school, I made the radical decision to delete Facebook off my phone. I unfollowed people on Instagram and exclusively started following dogs. I never figured out how twitter worked so that was fine. The impetus for all this was college decisions. Ironic given where I am now I suppose but I […]
Manus x Machina
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Since I was little, I have always been fascinated by clothes. I liked the way that what I wore could speak and question and have a conversation when appropriate even without words. I liked matching and clashing colors and textures and I liked how I moved differently when I wore dresses. When I grew up I […]
Wikipedia Kids
Saturday, September 23, 2017
As a kid I used to spend hours in front of the laboratory computer Wikipedia page hopping while I waited for my parents to finish working. My favorite page was an entry on mermaids. I was accosted by words like “etymology” and “mythology,” names and references to the esoteric and arcane. Obviously I had no […]
Why won’t programmers wear shoes?
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Why won’t programmers wear shoes? I’ve noticed this trend throughout Where Wizards Stay Up Late as well as in my real life observations of computer science majors. There is a peculiar mythology of the iconoclastic genius and his odd but tolerable behaviors. Crowther insisted on only wearing sneakers. Einstein purportedly never wore socks. My father, […]
Printers and Penguins
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
I would like to start by talking about printers. The other day I stood in the library printing paper copies of all the readings for each of my four classes plus one back-up class. As I watched the printer spit paper out at me for a solid two minutes I was reminded when I was […]