aidarends

a year of lovin you

In spring it becomes obvious how lovely you really are my baby my baby my baby soft voiced but strong In summer it is unavoidable you strutted right into bedstuywithout a sweat it seemed from the outside tho you say In fall it is clearer than ever the murderers drop facade and the world goesContinue reading “a year of lovin you”

Crowdsourcing Surveillance by Chaz Arnett :: SSRN

The Essay applies a critical race and technology approach to examine a dimension of policing and criminalization that is taking new shape through advancing technology: collective state and private partnerships to control and monitor Black lives. It theorizes these practices as a form of crowdsourced surveillance that manifests in at least three ways: (1) inContinue reading “Crowdsourcing Surveillance by Chaz Arnett :: SSRN”

oh si

oh sila playa mexicana oh si la playa mexicanaoh sila playa de mi tierra a mi no me abierta oh si la playa floriditaa mi no me entregaoh si la playa californita no me da becita

Concessions

To protect their own interests against the growing enthusiasm for communism, the capitalist class of the West permitted the passing of worker-friendly social policies. Here, I’m going to walk through a few examples of these policies that were motivated by fear of the U.S.S.R. and its influence in the world. I want to show howContinue reading “Concessions”

of the Western Gate

The coastline of southern California between San Diego and Los Angeles lies generally in a north/south direction, but as it proceeds northward, it slowly curves toward the west until at Santa Barbara, the coastline lies in an east/west direction. At the extremity of this westward curve lies Point Conception. The Chumash call it Humqaq, ”TheContinue reading “of the Western Gate”