A note: This post is a bit longer than my others, and I wish I could say that’s why it’s taken two weeks longer to write. But really, it’s because writing this was tough. Thinking about the recent MIT scandal means thinking about how cruel the world is to survivors, how easily abuse is dismissed … Continue reading Science Loses When Winners Take All
Hackers & Users
A couple weeks ago, the Duke Law & Technology Review published a special symposium issue in honor of the late John Perry Barlow—lyricist for The Grateful Dead, internet pioneer, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The issue kicks off with Barlow’s “A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace” (1996), which I initially read last year … Continue reading Hackers & Users
The Societies
Earlier this year, I found myself hooked on a Netflix show called The Society, which is at first glance difficult to pick out from the glut of similar YA dystopian fiction on and off screen. Its setting, a town to which a group of high school students return from a school trip, only to find … Continue reading The Societies
Navya Muses 