On the elementary structure of domination: The Bully’s Pulpit by David Graeber for The Baffler.
Schoolyard bullies typically believe they have a right and duty to punish and humiliate those who manifest vulnerability, fear or deviance, and they retroactively justify their actions by the inappropriate ways in which their victims resist, Graeber wrote; this reflects the structure of domination in the larger society.
Algorithms can be a digital star chamber by Frank Pasquale for Aeon.
An algorithm fed into a computer can determine whether you get a job, get credit or get insurance, or what kind. Probably you don’t know about it. Probably you can’t appeal the result because arbitrary assumptions processed through a computer are considered “objective.”
Climate Change Threatens Economic Development, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim Says by Julia Glum for International Business Times. (Hat tip to Hal Bauer)
We’ll see whether he puts the World Bank’s money where his mouth is.
Direct Action vs. Climate Change by Scott Parkin for Counterpunch.
In Iran, ‘death to America’ doesn’t mean what you think it means by Reese Erlich for GlobalPost.
Who profits from the Bangkok bombing? by Pepe Escobar for Asia Times.
Some Thoughts on Mind Coddling by Mike the Mad Biologist.
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