Paul English co-created the app SpamStrike which sends political messages to your junk folder. WBZ-TV's David Wade reports.
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I feel a lot of affection for the person speaking in these texts, which is the way I imagine Ani DiFranco and PJ Harvey feel when they listen to their demo recordings from the early 90’s, or Alanis Morissette addressing her younger self in her song “UR.” SOP My name is X. I wor...
Jonathan Wallace suggested that “God!” functions as a semantic stopsign—that it isn’t a propositional assertion, so much as a cognitive traffic signal: do not think past this point.1Saying “God!” doesn’t so much resolve the paradox, as put up a cognitive traffic signal to halt the...
In 1990, New Gingrich had discovered that elevating the level of outrage was a good political strategy. Here is a fascinatingNPR podcastabout this shift: There was one memo I write about in the piece called “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control,” that literally included a list of recommend...
-Spam Texts -Political Texts -Annoying Ads -Unwanted Solicitors -Custom Keywords -Custom Numbers -Your Annoying Ex CONTROL WHO CAN TEXT YOU Receive only the texts you want. Spam Stop offers fully customizable text blocking options, allowing you to block spam texts on your terms. Unlike other ap...
Last year, it was NMC’s honor to host a series of discussions with several incredibly brave members of the international music community fighting to keep creators and their works safe from political harm. One such hero of musical culture is Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, founder of the Afghanistan Nation...
of authentically expressing desires and hopes and political critiques and inviting sustained thought and reflection, but rather as a way of getting investors is more than a trick. It is a violent foreclosure of alternative futures in favor of one, endless, awful reproduction of the capitalist statu...
The theory breaks down somewhat when it allows that “influencers” are being paid by mega corporations in cahoots with the government to get us both to buy stuff from the big tech/industrial complex and to buy political wares on offer from the government and big media. These seem like ...
“That sort of enterprise should be paid for by candidates or political parties,” Mitchell said, without offering evidence any agency is pressuring individuals to vote for a particular party by providing them with registration materials. In the tapes, Mitchell also disparaged the Democrats’ recent...