Month: March 2018

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001982/Virtual%20Reality%20Funerals%20Give%20the%20Living%20a%20Little%20Taste%20of%20Death

Beijing’s biggest funeral parlor held an open day last Thursday that featured a virtual reality simulation of death, reported The Beijing News

https://supchina.com/2018/03/29/point-click-buy-house-sydney-vancouver/

Alibaba almost got into real estate e-commerce?

http://www.okayafrica.com/9-films-prove-caribbean-cinema-on-rise-pan-african-film-festival.amp

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/mbxbkb/aclu-democracy-municipal-broadband

the ACLU argues in a new report published Thursday that creating municipally-owned ISPs is the best way to preserve net neutrality

http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2018/02/28/white-people-hate-protests-a-zine/

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001965/face-loans-prove-chinas-unnerving-obsession-with-beauty

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001883/Why%20Ghost%20Marriages%20Live%20On%20in%20Rural%20China

http://www.okayafrica.com/wed-stage-the-whole-thing-cambridge-analytica-executive-on-rigging-kenyan-elections.amp

https://shoshanakessock.com/2017/08/28/disability-erasure-and-the-apocalyptic-narrative/

And so it brought me back to the inherent problem about post-apocalyptic narratives: they are, by nature and design, ableist in the extreme. Apocalyptic fiction doesn’t just embrace the erasure of the disabled and medically compromised, it normalizes their obliteration. It presents stories where we’ve re-embraced survival of the fittest as the only moniker and lionizes those who overcome hardship through leaving behind the injured and ill.