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Pariser sits at the nexus of what Howard Rheingold would call a smart mob. Rheingold, a veteran technology watcher and well-published futurist (Tools for Thought, 1985; Virtual Reality, 1991; The Virtual Community, 1993), has put his finger on yet another transformative technology. In Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Perseus; 288 pages) he describes how large, geographically dispersed groups connected only by thin threads of communications technology--cell phones, text messaging, two-way pagers, e-mail, websites--can be drawn together at a moment's notice like schools of fish to perform some collective action...
...Last week, Duterte held a live, nationally televised press conference to deliver his defiant message to the terrorists. Extending the middle finger of one hand, he declared, "It's our turn now to start bombing you ... I will create hell for those criminals ... It's either I who will be killed or you, you idiots." The war on terror began in Southeast Asia just a few months after 9/11. It's far from over...
...from being available is wrong and should be discouraged. Unfortunately, even asking tutors to ask their students to stop tearing down posters has been less successful than hoped. On one floor in DeWolfe, posters were torn down nine times in two days while the proctors refused to lift a finger. The Quincy dining hall stairs frequently bear the remnants of posters torn down just a few minutes after being...
Again, it is not that Libeskind’s design is not masterful. He has fulfilled his commitment to optimism. The hope with which his design reaches upwards, sitting like the curled hand of God around the footprint of the two towers, its index finger stretching towards the sky—taller, indeed, than any building in the world, save a few telecommunication towers—is important, even necessary in what is to be our revisioning of Manhattan. It is as much an immigrant’s vision of the endless possibility that marks our most American of American...
...Drill” is one of many standouts, setting epic pizzicato strings against a swirling synth, while “Finger Paint” balances distorted guitar with warm female vocals. Thankfully, Amp rescues “Sorry” (an apology to Zion’s ex-girlfriends) from the realm of tired cliches, laying an ethereal flute and keys over violins and a crunchy boom-bip. MC Zion particularly shines on “Dune,” a haunting proclamation of socio-political apocalypse. The song’s chorus finds some hope among all the despair...