May 2026 archive

from No Logo, Naomi Klein

“… many of today’s best-known manufacturers no longer produce products and advertise them, but rather buy products and ‘brand’ them …” p5 “[T]his corporate obsession with brand identity is waging a war on public and individual space; on public institutions such as schools, on youthful identities, on the concept of nationality, and on the possibilities …

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Janelle Shane’s You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

a few bits from Janelle Shane’s You Look Like a Thing and I Love You “Researchers have discovered that something as seemingly insignificant a a small sticker can make an image recognition AI think a gun is a toaster …” p4 And vice versa, I presume.  Well, that’s not alarming at all. “A team at …

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