Heather is no longer at Autostraddle but she has an excellent newsletter and is working on a book of essays. substack.com/redirect/615...

Technology is not a thing that exists as a force outside of the creation of the minds and hands which make it. Any human made thing can be stopped and changed by humans.

Yes, it actually can.

To give in otherwise is to abdicate responsibility and meaning, and that's cowardly fatalism, not reality.

It’s appealing because you can choose from a menu rather than doing a critical investigation of what makes you feel loved and how society and others have shaped that over the course of your life. People want the multiple choice, not the essay.

It’s also the ways in which folks want to centralize and stitch together this data. Any data set on its own may not set off alarms, but there is an increasing ability to connect them that is unprecedented. ID cards are now used to log which buildings students visit, where they eat, where they sleep.

I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request. It goes against OpenAI use policy.

I think it would be interesting to look at digital coupons/Target Circle type offers as an impulse buying practice in the Instacart era.

Notably our grocery stores in the US typically did not offer delivery as an option before services like Instacart. I was really surprised to see that as a service in the early 2010s in the UK.

With the price of living on campus going up, private landlords can justify jacking their rent up as well (in addition to all the other factors driving up rents).

Yes, many unis have done “public-private partnerships” to replace the aging dorm stock that is owned by the uni itself. State govts are not funding big construction projects so that money is coming from equity/donors now. Result is very expensive dorms, shoddily built that the uni is locked into.