Arts grantmaker living in Austin, TX. Jazz, museums, pre-Kurtzman Star Trek, so forth and such as. Also in the fediverse at @5easypieces@social.coop.
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Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet …
An inside look at modern open source software development and its influence on our online social world.
Open source software, …
Spy Novel
Spy Novel
To live in data in the twenty-first century is to be incessantly extracted from, classified …
Utterly fantastic. A poetic, approachable guide to how to think about data from multiple viewpoints. The book for our present moment. I loved it.
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in …
Set in Kolkata, India, the novel tells the story of its central character Jivan, a woman who witnesses a terrorist …
A study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS.
Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Every day, …
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America is a 2017 book by Richard Rothstein …
Nobody knows my name (1962, Dell])
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son is a collection of essays, published by Dial Press in …
I’m not sure if this book challenged or just indulged me, but I loved it all the same.
