Just a little note to say that The Intersection of Things pod is on hiatus for a while. 🛌Thank you to everyone who supported us making this. 💚 In the meantime there are 28 episodes of lovingly made audio for you whenever you're in the mood 🎧 theintersectionofthings.com/

An interesting read by @WorkPrayCode that touches on some of the conversations we had about tech culture in our Ritual episode - "Today, the theocracy of work... is hollowing out our faith communities and civic associations" nytimes.com/2022/05/24/opini…

In our latest pod episode we talked about people changing faces & bodies at the altar of "The Algorithm". And that's not the only way filters change us. To avoid angering the almighty algorithm, people are creating a new vocabulary - @TaylorLorenz washingtonpost.com/technolog…

You can read the article here, and we have all the footnotes for our episode on the site above. #CitationsAreSolidarity newdesigncongress.org/en/pub…

In New Celebrity we take inspiration from many places including @jaz_off and @helveticade brilliant piece on “aesthetic flattening”, and share why this is the vibe of the pandemic and the tone of too many tiktoks - theintersectionofthings.com/…

"we have to question what it means when new faces, new bodies, new politics always seem to come with the same type of selling" - @aliciakennedy This is a great piece, especially on✨content making✨, many similar themes to our recent New Celebrity ep. aliciakennedy.news/p/on-tech…

Taking disaster capitalism and greenwashing and just smooshing them together into a gross exploitation of tragedy -

"For many influencers, deception is lucrative, and becoming increasingly extreme. There are some feigning their wealth, their followers and even their ethnicity while hawking dubious products to their followers." - theguardian.com/fashion/2022…

Enjoyed our episode on new celebrity? This article is a great follow on read @facilitymartin speaks to @symeonbrown about new book “Get Rich or Lie Trying” - (which is just a *chef kiss* title) dazeddigital.com/life-cultur…

In this episode Ruth & Marianela discuss what @jiatolentino calls the “rootless exoticism” of #InstagramFace, the “algorithmic tendency to flatten everything” - and how the pandemic has exaggerated them both - theintersectionofthings.com/…

New Episode! ⏰We go from new celebrities to reflections 🪞 and talk about mirror-selves, mirror-verses, and mirror cutters. It’s all about whose faces the algorithms love and reward - soundcloud.com/thingsinterse…

"Beyond false positives or false negatives is something even more important—the right not to use biometric technology at all, regardless of its accuracy" - @jovialjoy theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

If, like us, you're not a fan of NFTs or the massive energy waste that is Bitcoin, you might enjoy going back to episode 10 - Money. 🪙🪙🪙 We looked at cryoto scams, colonialism & more - theintersectionofthings.com/…

After sharing that great article on inclusive spellings from @DIVAmagazine the other day, this beautifully designed piece by @MinamiFunakoshi & Samuel Granados on recognising the spectrum of genders across languages is a brilliant next read - graphics.reuters.com/GENDER-…

You can hear our conversation about it on the money episode theintersectionofthings.com/… and of course just read it below - xitter.cf/terryandrob/status/148…

Sex With An X: The Perils Of Performative Spelling autostraddle.com/sex-with-an… via @autostraddle

Your annual reminder that #BlueMonday is just another Internet Myth. 🧵