https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/public/ recent bookmarks from betajames 2020-06-01T10:44:55+00:00 https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/05/28/how-the-worlds-most-powerful-country-is-handling-covid-19 betajames covid19 via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:9bcefb835696/ 2020-06-01T10:44:33+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-contract-showing/611389/##The+implied+terms+of+the+racial+contract+are+visible+everywhere+for+those+willing+to+see+them.+A+12-year-old+with+a+toy+gun+is+a+dangerous+threat+who+must+be+met+with+lethal+force%3B+armed+militias+drawing+beads+on+federal+agents+are+heroes+of+liberty.+Struggling+white+farmers+in+Iowa+taking+billions+in+federal+assistance+are+hardworking+Americans+down+on+their+luck%3B+struggling+single+parents+in+cities+using+food+stamps+are+welfare+queens.+Black+Americans+struggling+in+the+cocaine+epidemic+are+a+%E2%80%9Cbio-underclass%E2%80%9D+created+by+a+pathological+culture%3B+white+Americans+struggling+with+opioid+addiction+are+a+national+tragedy.+Poor+European+immigrants+who+flocked+to+an+America+with+virtually+no+immigration+restrictions+came+%E2%80%9Cthe+right+way%E2%80%9D%3B+poor+Central+American+immigrants+evading+a+baroque+and+unforgiving+system+are+gang+members+and+terrorists. betajames covid19 politics race via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:e79df942ba53/ 2020-01-25T06:17:36+00:00 https://theoutline.com/post/8600/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter-moralism betajames reading internet twitter culture online fandom critique https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:4d3003afc354/ 2020-01-11T08:41:06+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/why-you-never-have-time/603937/ betajames time technology society culture atlantic history via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:3317d81b9b29/ 2020-01-08T17:02:02+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/only-way-confront-australias-wildfires/604546/##Then+there+are+the+heatwaves.+On+January+4%2C+2020%2C+western+Sydney+became+one+of+the+hottest+places+on+the+planet%2C+at+120+degrees+Fahrenheit+%2848.9+degrees+Celsius%29.+%E2%80%9CThat%E2%80%99s+uninhabitable%3B+you+can%E2%80%99t+live+in+that%2C%E2%80%9D+Bradstock+says.+And+there+are+floods%E2%80%94one-in-100-year+floods+have+laid+waste+to+Queensland+twice+in+two+years%E2%80%94and+climate-change-related+sea-level+rise%2C+which+is+predicted+to+be+a+significant+issue+for+a+nation+whose+population+is+concentrated+in+a+narrow+strip+of+land+around+its+coastline.+To+abandon+parts+of+this+land%2C+though%2C+will+be+a+tough+sell+to+people+who+have+%E2%80%9Cstay+and+fight%E2%80%9D+ingrained+in+their+soul.+%E2%80%9CThere+is+definitely+something+about+the+Australian+way+that+people+want+to+stay+and+defend%2C+and+don%E2%80%99t+necessarily+want+to+think+about+moving+away+from+the+bush%2C%E2%80%9D+says+Catherine+Ryland%2C+an+urban+planner+and+a+bushfire-resilience+expert.+She+would+like+to+see+more+conversation+around+the+idea+of+planned+retreat%E2%80%94rebuilding+in+low-risk+locations%2C+reducing+development+in+high-risk+areas%2C+and+even+relocating+existing%2C+unaffected+communities%2C+which+she+describes+as+the+%E2%80%9Cbiggest%2C+bravest%2C+boldest+step.%E2%80%9D betajames climate via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:fed854e46352/ 2019-12-30T16:06:50+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/opinion/sunday/new-york-city-scenery.html##Plenty+has+been+written+about+the+perils+of+modern+electronic+devices%2C+real+or+feared%3A+They%E2%80%99re+rewiring+brains.+They%E2%80%99re+shortening+attention+spans.+They%E2%80%99re+killing+dinner-table+conversation.+They%E2%80%99re+disrupting+sleep+patterns.+They%E2%80%99re+addictive.+A+somewhat+ungainly+word+came+into+being+a+decade+ago%3A+nomophobia+%E2%80%94+short+for+no+mobile+phone+phobia+%E2%80%94+meaning+a+fear+of+being+without+one%E2%80%99s+phone%2C+or+at+least+without+juice+or+network+coverage.+But+there%E2%80%99s+a+more+basic+failing+that+is+apparent+every+day+in+a+great+walking+city%2C+be+it+London%2C+Paris%2C+Rome%2C+San+Francisco%2C+Boston+or%2C+for+our+purposes%2C+New+York.+The+frailty+is+inattentiveness.+What%E2%80%99s+the+point+of+navigating+the+metropolis+if+you+ignore+the+very+sights+that+give+urban+life+its+verve%3F betajames technology city attention via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:69c347746cb0/ 2019-12-28T15:44:02+00:00 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katherinemiller/the-2010s-have-broken-our-sense-of-time betajames buzzfeed technology time social media https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:6bb63c9a7d24/ 2019-12-28T15:42:48+00:00 https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-the-smartphone-changed-then-over-a-decade-it-changed-us-11576618873?mod=djemTECH betajames technology science wsj social media via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:71f0615a10ca/ 2019-12-28T15:41:45+00:00 http://hackeducation.com/2019/12/23/top-ed-tech-stories##One+of+the+problems+with+a+lot+of+ed-tech+journalism%2C+I%E2%80%99d+argue%2C+is+that+it+is+has+not+been+particularly+interested+in+accountability.+Some+of+that%2C+thankfully+is+changing.+Trade+publications+have+been+far+less+committed+to+explaining+what+ed-tech+is+or+does+or+was+and+far+more+committed+to+proselytizing+what+it+might+be+or+might+do+%E2%80%94+all+good%2C+all+positive+of+course.+Far+too+many+articles+%E2%80%94+and+this+is+surely+what+its+venture+capitalist+and+philanthropist+backers+hope+%E2%80%94+have+not+reflected+the+landscape+but+have+tried+instead+to+shape+it.+That%E2%80%99s+why+stories+about+the+golly-gee-whiz+prospects+of+learning+to+code%2C+game-based+learning%2C+social+emotional+learning%2C+artificial+intelligence%2C+blockchain+transcripts%2C+and+tutoring+%E2%80%94+by+chatbots+or+by+gig+workers+%E2%80%94+still+fill+the+pages+of+these+publications.+It%E2%80%99s+not+that+these+things+are+necessarily+trends%3B+it%E2%80%99s+that+certain+folks+very+much+hope+they+will+be.+And+so+that+we+don%E2%80%99t+forget+and+so+that+we+can+hold+some+of+these+people+and+companies+accountable%2C+here+is+a+list+of+some+of+what+did+actually+happen+this+year%2C betajames education technology via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:8f2f4798c903/ 2019-12-28T15:41:26+00:00 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614934/teenagers-without-cell-phones/ betajames[This matches my experience. My students in general dislike their phones, and the central role those phones play in their lives, but they see no path to disconnection, can imagine no means of resistance.] ]]> smartphones social media via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:0306710c4604/ 2019-12-28T15:41:06+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/audubon-field-guide-21st-century/604141/##So+it+was+distressing%2C+this+holiday+season%2C+to+learn+that+the+Eastern+goldfinch+could+soon+depart+the+Garden+State%2C+at+least+for+half+the+year.+If+global+temperatures+rise+3+degrees+Celsius+by+2080%2C+the+goldfinch%E2%80%99s+summer+range+will+no+longer+include+any+part+of+New+Jersey%2C+according+to+the+National+Audubon+Society.+So+too+will+the+goldfinch+exit+Iowa%2C+where+it+is+also+the+state+bird.+In+fact%2C+many+state+birds+could+soon+fly+their+domiciles%3A+the+yellowhammer+from+Alabama%2C+the+purple+finch+from+New+Hampshire%2C+the+ruffled+grouse+from+Pennsylvania.+The+official+birds+of+Georgia%2C+Idaho%2C+and+Utah+will+all+see+their+ranges+shrink+dramatically+in+the+state.+These+changes+are+described+in+%E2%80%9CSurvival+by+Degrees%2C%E2%80%9D+a+new+online+project+released+by+Audubon.+It+was+created+with+one+of+the+country%E2%80%99s+most+prominent+data-visualization+firms%2C+Stamen+Design. betajames climate nature via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:21e1ed892011/ 2019-12-19T15:25:57+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/07/31/the-dying-art-of-instruction-in-the-digital-classroom/ betajames teaching pedagogy digital classroom nybooks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:0711c1a0fe53/ 2019-12-17T23:17:14+00:00 https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/17/books-wont-die/ betajames books codex reading via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:e3009f8c6fc4/ 2019-12-03T02:01:02+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2019/oct/31/can-the-us-government-stem-the-tide-of-fake-news-in-a-postmodern-world##we%E2%80%99re+starting+to+see+an+irony+of+the+%E2%80%9Cpost-truth%E2%80%9D+world%3A+the+democratization+of+knowledge+has+been+matched+by+the+intensification+of+the+bureaucratic+model.+This+time%2C+however%2C+the+human+side+of+bureaucracy+is+presented+as+archaic+and+uncool%2C+to+be+replaced+by+%E2%80%9Cobjective%E2%80%9D+algorithms+and+ledgers.+The+one+true+utopia+of+this+mode+of+thinking+%E2%80%93+already+glimpsed+in+places+like+Singapore+or+Estonia+%E2%80%93+is+a+fully-automated+bureaucratic+system+enforcing+the+rules+with+Prussian+efficiency.+The+digital+culture+that+ensues+makes+for+a+very+odd+beast.+Not+surprisingly%2C+it%E2%80%99s+conducive+to+the+kind+of+cognitive+dissonance+feeding+the+alt-right.+On+the+one+hand%2C+in+a+populist+manner+reminiscent+of+Wikipedia%2C+it+dispenses+with+expertise%2C+as+everyone+is+assumed+to+be+equal+to+everyone+else%2C+much+like+the+nodes+on+the+blockchain+network+%28another+myth%29.+On+the+other+hand%2C+it+intensifies+the+modernist+faith+in+rules+and+regulations+%E2%80%93+and+the+possibility+of+finding%2C+by+some+quantitative+means%2C+the+single+truth%2C+which+can+then+be+made+available+to+all%2C+without+any+intermediation+by+forces+other+than+technology.+If+one+had+to+come+up+with+a+label+for+this+ideology%2C+%E2%80%9Cpopulist+modernism%E2%80%9D+would+be+quite+appropriate. betajames technocracy algorithms knowledge truth via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:ebc821fb2135/ 2019-12-01T20:22:34+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/tech-climate-change-luddites-data##But+it%E2%80%99s+clear+that+confronting+the+climate+crisis+will+require+something+more+radical+than+just+making+data+greener.+That%E2%80%99s+why+we+should+put+another+tactic+on+the+table%3A+making+less+data.+We+should+reject+the+assumption+that+our+built+environment+must+become+one+big+computer.+We+should+erect+barriers+against+the+spread+of+%E2%80%9Csmartness%E2%80%9D+into+all+of+the+spaces+of+our+lives.+To+decarbonize%2C+we+need+to+decomputerize. betajames climate computing via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:52ff59448af2/ 2019-12-01T20:14:39+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/business/liberal-arts-stem-salaries.html betajames nytimes jobs majors stem english salary via:warnick https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:d15d7d05791f/ 2019-12-01T20:13:25+00:00 https://theweek.com/articles/879823/google-wants-finish-sentences-thats-problem##Machine+learning+works+by+taking+what+exists+and+then+suggesting+it+back+to+you.+In+other+words%2C+algorithms+are+centripetal+in+nature+because+they+are+based+on+feedback+loops.+They+will+inevitably+suggest+language+or+phrasing+that+other+people+are+already+using.+It%27s+hard+to+seriously+say+that+one+new+feature+in+one+piece+of+writing+software+will+fundamentally+change+language.+But+Smart+Compose+is+part+of+a+broader+pattern+in+digital+culture+that+at+least+beckons+people+toward+sameness.+The+rise+of+algorithms+in+things+like+writing+software+isn%27t+going+to+doom+us%2C+but+they+are+a+centripetal+force+that+you+can+either+choose+to+go+along+with+or+resist. betajames google language algorithms via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:1318e38c2a18/ 2019-12-01T20:10:19+00:00 http://hackeducation.com/2019/11/28/ed-tech-agitprop betajames storytelling seems to be quite powerful rhetorically, emotionally. It's influential internally, within the field of education and education technology. And it's influential externally -- that is, in convincing the general public about what the future of teaching and learning might look like, should look like, and making them fear that teaching and learning today are failing in particular ways. This storytelling hopes to set the agenda. Hence the title of my talk today: "Ed-Tech Agitprop" -- ed-tech agitation propaganda.]]> dystopia agitprop narrative edtech via:mcmorgan https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:eb22fbb0300e/ 2019-11-20T18:43:51+00:00 http://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/ betajames capitalism society work culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:1532885e2cb3/ 2019-11-19T16:01:39+00:00 https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/11/moore-on-jerusalem-eternalism-anarchy.html betajames comics via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:42ef082c88bf/ 2019-11-12T18:10:10+00:00 https://www.vox.com/features/2019/11/11/18273141/postmodernism-donald-trump-lyotard-baudrillard betajames theory postmodern truth politics philosophy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:1c296bee2ed4/ 2019-11-05T19:46:39+00:00 https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/the-weakened-web/##The+web+itself+will+always+be+interesting%2C+even+when+it%E2%80%99s+only+the+next+many+small+things+instead+of+the+next+big+thing.+The+big+worry+is+the+collateral+damage+caused+by+its+decline.+Most+of+us+don%E2%80%99t+appreciate+just+how+much+of+the+web+is+held+together+not+by+technology+but+by+sociopolitical+duck+tape+and+bailing+wire+and+that%E2%80%99s+likely+where+most+of+the+harm+will+take+place.+The+web+has+become+the+backbone+of+all+of+our+media+and+communications+and+as+it+declines%2C+it+has+the+potential+to+take+our+public+discourse+with+it%2C+and+when+public+discourse+goes%2C+so+do+our+democracies.+I+honestly+have+no+idea+on+how+to+mitigate+this+harm+or+even+how+long+the+decline+is+going+to+take.+My+hope+is+that+if+we+can+make+the+less+complex%2C+more+distributed+aspects+of+the+web+safer+and+more+robust%2C+they+will+be+more+likely+to+thrive+when+the+situation+has+forced+the+web+as+a+whole+to+break+up+and+simplify.+The+IndieWeb+movement+feels+like+a+good+start. betajames indieweb internet via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:96eadf9422a1/ 2019-11-05T19:46:31+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage betajames film algorithms via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:c3881bfad151/ 2019-10-11T16:12:22+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/books/review/jeanette-winterson-by-the-book-interview.html betajames reading via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:4d2eff8473a0/ 2019-10-09T14:09:33+00:00 https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?uri=nyt://newsletter/75ca54a5-0db0-4a98-bcdb-9bb51acf9ad5&te=1&nl=the-privacy%20project&emc=edit_priv_20191008?campaign_id=122&instance_id=12924&segment_id=17689&user_id=ba7c8f0a3eff440417307a28e4af2a10&regi_id=81401482 betajames [This is the heart of the matter. If Jack and the other people who run Twitter have any decency, they'll shut it down and move on to other, hopefully less destructive, endeavors. They won't do it, of course, but it's interesting that someone would ask Dorsey about the possibility, because at least he seems like a human being. No one would bother to ask Zuck.] ]]> socialmedia ethics via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:4fe663ff6e5d/ 2019-08-08T15:31:46+00:00 https://academeblog.org/2019/08/02/academic-freedom-and-the-learning-management-system/ betajames The most important standard I would bring to any discussion about what technology should be employed on campus and the faculty role in how it should be employed is that faculty deserve the same prerogatives when they use an online tool as they do when they are teaching in an entirely conventional face-to-face classroom. To suggest anything else defeats the purpose of moving any part of a class online in the first place. > The second standard I would bring to any discussion of how technology like the LMS should be employed on campus is that faculty should be offered as many technological choices as possible and that they should be the ones who make the final decision about which ones they use. > The final standard I would bring to a discussion of the LMS is that the result should be as close to the open Internet as humanly possible. That means faculty have to be able to employ tools that exist entirely outside their LMS if they so choose, like Slack or Hypothes.is, the open source web annotation program. Because > college campuses are the kinds of places that are supposed to be on the cutting edge of technology since they have so many smart people on them. Treat those smart people like the average corporate peon when it comes to how they teach – the action at the center of their job descriptions – and you are going to have a lot of very unhappy smart people on your hands. ]]> learning management system lms blackboard university academia via:mcmorgan https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:47211cb63633/ 2019-07-25T16:39:14+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/why-little-ice-age-doesnt-matter/594517/##What+makes+those+older+eras+different+from+modern+warming+is+coherence%E2%80%94that+climate+change+is+happening+today+just+about+everywhere+at+the+same+time.+%E2%80%9CThat+coherence+cannot+be+explained+by+the+natural+variability+of+the+climate+system%2C%E2%80%9D+Steiger+said.+And+it+does+not+characterize+any+previous+era.+%E2%80%9CThis+study+is+another+nail+in+the+coffin+of+the+idea+of+that+there+was+a+globally+warm+or+cold+period+that+fit+tidily+into+a+specific+couple+of+centuries%2C%E2%80%9D+said+Yarrow+Axford%2C+a+climate+scientist+at+Northwestern+University%2C+in+an+email.+She+was+not+involved+in+writing+the+new+paper.+The+idea+that+the+Little+Ice+Age+or+eras+like+it+were+uniform+global+events+was+%E2%80%9Calready+dying+within+the+scientific+community%2C%E2%80%9D+she+said%2C+yet+that+idea+remains+%E2%80%9Cperennially+popular+with+nonexperts+who+want+to+sow+doubt+about+the+significance+of+the+dramatic+and+truly+global+warming+that+has+occurred+in+the+past+century.%E2%80%9D betajames climate atlantic change via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:9dbe332e7536/ 2019-07-23T17:47:10+00:00 https://www.outsideonline.com/2152131/freezing-death betajamesscience health outside environment survival https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:f43cae826545/ 2019-07-23T17:46:34+00:00 https://www.outsideonline.com/2398105/heat-stroke-signs-symptoms betajamesscience health outside environment body https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:d63006230caf/ 2019-07-09T18:12:56+00:00 https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/short-circuit-high-cost-electric-vehicle-subsidies-11241.html betajames climate travel via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:31956e54e8ef/ 2019-07-01T19:49:33+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/how-to-speak-silicon-valley-decoding-tech-bros-from-microdosing-to-privacy betajamessatire technology guardian https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:b4b12d966fca/ 2019-07-01T19:31:09+00:00 https://academeblog.org/2019/06/30/its-time-to-move-away-from-the-digital-classroom-in-our-smartphone-altered-universe/ betajames education technology academia teaching pedagogy via:mcmorgan https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:1dc176f3be17/ 2019-06-27T18:47:59+00:00 https://www.wired.com/story/internet-made-dupes-cynics-of-us-all/##The+internet+is+increasingly+a+low-trust+society%E2%80%94one+where+an+assumption+of+pervasive+fraud+is+simply+built+into+the+way+many+things+function.+People+do+adapt+to+low-trust+societies%2C+of+course.+Word-of-mouth+recommendations+from+familiar+sources+become+more+important.+Doing+business+with+family+and+local+networks+starts+taking+precedence%2C+as+reciprocal%2C+lifelong+bonds+bring+a+measure+of+predictability.+Mafia-like+organizations+also+spring+up%2C+imposing+a+kind+of+accountability+at+a+brutal+cost.+Ultimately%2C+people+in+low-trust+societies+may+welcome+an+authoritarian+ruler%2C+someone+who+will+impose+order+and+consequences+from+on+high.+Sure%2C+the+tyrant+is+also+corrupt+and+cruel%3B+but+the+alternative+is+the+tiring%2C+immiserating+absence+of+everyday+safety+and+security. betajames internet society via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:94c7e5cd414a/ 2019-06-24T19:50:53+00:00 https://reallifemag.com/friction-free-racism/ betajames algorithms diversity surveillance gilliard facebook data platform extraction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:050befbe9df3/ 2019-06-24T18:31:41+00:00 https://kfitz.info/we-have-never-been-social/##The+project+has+as+its+working+title+We+Have+Never+Been+Social%3A+Rethinking+the+Internet.+It+revisits+the+history+of+the+Internet%E2%80%99s+development+and%2C+in+particular%2C+the+rise+of+the+social+media+structures+that+have+come+to+dominate+so+much+of+our+experience+of+networked+communication%2C+arguing+that+a+significant+part+of+what+has+led+us+to+the+mess+we+find+ourselves+in+today+%E2%80%94+with+corporate+entities+tracking+our+every+move+while+ignoring+%28or+abetting%29+the+growth+of+violent+radical+movements+just+under+the+surface%2C+undermining+not+just+how+we+interact+with+one+another+in+casual+ways+but+the+very+organization+of+our+formal%2C+public%2C+political+lives+%E2%80%94+is+a+desperately+flawed+model+of+sociality%2C+one+that+is+in+fact+not+just+un-social+but+anti-social.+These+structures+allow+us+to+talk+to+one+another+and+to+form+connections+with+those+who+share+our+interests+and+concerns%2C+for+sure%2C+but+they+are+predicated+on+a+hyperindividualism+that+is+not+just+contrary+to+but+actually+corrosive+of+the+kinds+of+deliberation+necessary+to+a+productive+public+life. betajames social media internet technology identity https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:a3f9f7233e8f/ 2019-06-19T17:38:15+00:00 https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-driving-rapid-shifts-between-high-and-low-water-levels-on-the-great-lakes-118095 betajamesclimate change water michigan conversation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:7bad73298817/ 2019-06-13T14:43:23+00:00 https://www.theroot.com/white-people-want-trump-1835458008 betajames https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:33ad59b2f8a2/ 2019-06-08T03:02:44+00:00 https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190602-smith?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emg5I4pGpqgDYdFcXqmtQ_k4pulndAkP5Ct5rOMaq6K8c-azV4V05SeWtwMnpQM0c2Ukd6LTFxQUs4c3RTNnhJNUZFYUp2SE9RR2M2aw betajames social media academia che via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:3cd2a02d61bb/ 2019-05-30T13:28:49+00:00 https://fredrikdeboer.com/2019/05/28/going-halfline/##I+think+it+would+be+good+for+everyone+if+we+all+communally+understood%3A+when+we+use+these+technologies%2C+we+are+giving+access+to+our+brain+to+some+very+shadowy+figures.+And+too+many+of+us+are+relying+on+the+pleasant+fiction+that+our+conscious+mind+will+overpower+the+unconscious%2C+the+conditioned%2C+the+Pavlovian.+It+is+a+hallmark+of+irrational+thinking+to+believe+that+our+rationality+prevails.+Take+it+from+one+who+knows+of+what+he+speaks%3A+we+are+not+in+control+of+our+own+minds.+And+when+we+sign+away+the+deed+to+even+a+sliver+of+our+brains%2C+we+risk+bringing+discord+of+an+insidious+and+unknowable+variety+to+the+recesses+of+our+selves.+You+do+not+have+to+believe+that+we+live+in+the+worst+case+scenario+of+what+social+media+could+potentially+do.+You+only+need+to+believe+that%2C+when+you+open+the+door+to+those+amoral+and+rapaciously+ambitious+men+of+Silicon+Valley%2C+you+never+know+what+will+come+through%2C+or+if+you+will+even+notice+the+day+it+walks+in. betajames social media via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:5e7f1e41b56b/ 2019-05-20T12:59:10+00:00 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190516185925.htm betajames children technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:c418451a3529/ 2019-05-16T13:52:04+00:00 http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2019/05/06/on-the-utility-fallacy/ betajames email communication work technology social media via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:4bf3bfa9d6ac/ 2019-05-13T13:30:56+00:00 https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/article_detail.asp?id=916&css=print betajames technology social media culture via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:063952f80942/ 2019-04-09T19:49:04+00:00 https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2019/03/27/cancel-culture-the-internet-eating-itself/ betajames internet culture history language via:aparrish https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:b9cb303ad969/ 2019-03-16T19:10:49+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/technology/facebook-youtube-christchurch-shooting.html betajames extremism internet-culture memes platforms algorithm hate muslim via:rachaelsullivan https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:cda2116cba30/ 2019-03-08T13:13:51+00:00 https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2019-02-12/what-will-it-take-to-save-flint-michigan betajames flint water usnews https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:2c3df2a3dec1/ 2019-03-08T13:10:27+00:00 https://www.npr.org/2018/10/26/661136990/whats-changed-and-what-hasnt-when-it-comes-to-the-flint-water-crisis betajames flint water crisis npr history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:18d51fd71cb0/ 2019-01-15T20:16:43+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/immediate-fossil-fuel-phaseout-could-arrest-climate-change-study betajames climate change guardian study solutions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:d686b5371818/ 2019-01-15T20:15:14+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/how-governments-react-to-climate-change-an-interview-with-the-political-theorists-joel-wainwright-and-geoff-mann betajames government climate change politics interview newyorker https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:b7d3cad8fbf2/ 2019-01-15T20:12:45+00:00 http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190110-how-science-fiction-helps-readers-understand-climate-change betajames writing fiction climate change future bbc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:a7051451d61f/ 2019-01-14T17:17:26+00:00 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/denying-the-grave/201901/climate-change-denial betajames psychology climate change denial https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:5939f8d6799a/ 2019-01-10T12:04:07+00:00 https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/01/08/climate-resilience-mesoamerican-reef/ betajames climate change adaptation resilience https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:f3463df24601/ 2019-01-10T12:01:43+00:00 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/01/communities-adapt-to-changing-climate-after-fires-floods-storms/ betajames climate change adaptation resilience future natgeo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:6959cfb5bb6d/ 2019-01-07T20:39:34+00:00 https://longreads.com/2018/09/18/no-i-will-not-debate-you/ betajames politics debate via:warnick https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:df904593fa31/ 2019-01-07T17:45:05+00:00 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2019/01/02/feature/opinion-here-are-11-climate-change-policies-to-fight-for-in-2019/?noredirect=on betajamesclimate change solutions future 2019 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:c7a2ac935997/ 2019-01-05T09:10:06+00:00 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-your-brain-stops-you-from-taking-climate-change-seriously betajamesclimate change psychology rhetoric discourse pbs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:e0a15136b0ba/ 2019-01-03T21:33:10+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/what-deniers-climate-change-and-racism-share/579190/ betajames atlantic climate change racism beliefs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:3bb6d708a4ee/ 2019-01-03T21:30:56+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/30/opinion/climate-change-weather-2018.html betajames opinion nytimes climate change 2018 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:a2387e7905d6/ 2019-01-03T21:29:53+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/05/the-guardian-view-on-climate-change-too-much-too-soon betajames climate change guardian editorial https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:1044f8503d74/ 2019-01-03T21:28:16+00:00 https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/10/world/climate-change-extreme-events-wxc/index.html betajames climate change weather cnn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:54aaf214e063/ 2019-01-03T21:27:31+00:00 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/climate-grief-growing-emotional-toll-climate-change-n946751 betajames climate change grief nbc psychology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:3add8f570f03/ 2019-01-03T21:26:43+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/29/opinion/climate-change-global-warming-history.html betajames timeline nytimes climate history change https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:2a07237b5e41/ 2019-01-03T21:24:52+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/29/elena-ferrante-rain-darkening-skies-global-warming betajames future ferrante guardian climate change dread https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:a1972c7d2cb4/ 2019-01-03T21:23:42+00:00 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/americans-believe-in-climate-change-but-not-climate-action.html betajames climate change future coping grief nymag https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:363ce77519a3/ 2019-01-03T21:22:12+00:00 https://grist.org/article/future-proofing-is-how-you-say-climate-change-in-texas/ betajamesclimate change rhetoric discourse language grist texas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:9760c61df478/ 2019-01-03T21:07:46+00:00 https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2018/12/its-all-over.html betajames media technology language discourse culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:22e43aae0143/ 2018-12-21T20:13:51+00:00 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/parenting-children-generation-of-climate-change.html betajames climate change parenting future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:cc19f4ae76b6/ 2018-12-21T20:06:19+00:00 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612658/the-day-i-tasted-climate-change/ betajames climate change future live mit https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:79080a944647/ 2018-12-21T20:04:26+00:00 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/12/monarch-butterflies-risk-extinction-climate-change/ betajamesclimate change extinction natgeo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:8c35c59b91fb/ 2018-12-21T19:59:06+00:00 https://grist.org/article/heres-a-better-way-to-argue-about-climate-change/ betajamesgrist argument climate change https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:6fb307b6bd7e/ 2018-12-21T19:58:37+00:00 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/12/21/how-convince-americans-act-climate-change/ betajamesclimate change persuasion wapost https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:betajames/b:aa2d7e652167/