stillness is a lie, my dear
Every few months, I’m reading a trend piece about something wacky those silly ladies are doing. Did you know that ladies take selfies, and it’s evidence of how vain and self-involved they are? Or that ‘Instagram husbands‘ scuttle about doing the bidding of their wives, whipped by their spouses into enabling their glamorous social media […]
The tech industry’s high rate of activity in cities like San Francisco and New York is heralded as an economic victory, and maybe to some extent it should be, because there’s no doubt that the economy was struggling in the recession and the tech industry has been part of its revitalisation, but there’s a whole string […]
Every other day, the internet is up in arms about something a corporation has posted on a social networking site, often with good reason. Some companies post really awful things, and it’s important to talk about those things when they happen — to discuss the problem, to challenge companies on why they thought it was […]
If you’re on social media, you probably encounter them frequently: images of missing people, often girls, with a note saying that someone’s daughter/wife/sister is missing and a plea for anyone who sees her to get in touch with the original poster. Such images are widely circulated, often with a load of guilt attached — if […]