The Global Garage
August 24, 2021
Militarized frontiers get a tech-savvy makeover.
Will Meyer
Will Meyer is a freelance writer and co-editor of The Shoestring in western Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in Teen Vogue, The New Republic, Longreads, Columbia Journalism Review, and other publications.
The Power and the Noise
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Damon Krukowski’s Ways of Hearing poses a compelling counternarrative to typical tech criticism.
Scream Time
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Apple’s surveillance as self-care
The Garbage Man
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Meet Sidney Torres: New Orleans trash king, private police chief, reality TV star, and, possibly, the next Trump.
Less-Lethal Weapon
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Taser International, now Axon, has rebranded to better showcase its “suite of smart weapons.”
The Attention Deficit
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Once upon a time a lot of hope was invested in adblockers. Many saw them as a way to halt the blight of online advertising. The thinking was that if everyone got adblockers, it would not only make the ads disappear, but it might make the internet a more enjoyable place, too. We ...
Q & A with Geert Lovink
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Presently holed up at the Amsterdam School of Applied Sciences, 7,000 miles from Silicon Valley, tech critic Geert Lovink has held it down in different forms of European bohemia since the eighties, asking, over a series of five books: How can we use technology to actually make ...