“I’m not familiar with that”: The five most dishonest answers Mark Zuckerberg gave to Congress. Why dictators love Facebook: The social media network lives according to double standards. Facebook doesn’t need to listen through your microphone to serve you creepy ads. Facebook uses artificial intelligence to predict your future actions for advertisers, says confidential document. We may own our data, but Facebook has a duty to protect it. Why Facebook’s data scandal has not become a wider crisis:
…Ludwig Wittgenstein noted that in representational writing, “one thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing’s nature . . . and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it.” In Wayne Koestenbaum’s “trance journals”—The Pink Trance Notebooks (2015) and the newly released Camp Marmalade—both the frame and the off-frame are folded into his trans-perspectival impressions.
…Howe has long been interested in distilling signs and symbols, whether “art objects” or words themselves, into something more revelatory. Considering riddles, lost languages, doubled surfaces, spells, magical thinking, and other elusive forms of expression, Howe sounds the depths.
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