5IT: debonair
1. Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jonas Mekas. "That summer, that hot Roman summer afternoon, I see you sitting on the curb, waiting for the door to open, & seeing...
5it: debacle
1. These are the lengths humans are willing to go to understand the structure of the universe. "Two kilometers below ground in Canada, scientists deployed a...
5IT: dead line
1. A wonderfully large argument for the importance of rhythmic rituals in improving the form of human consciousness that we experience. "My claim is not so...
5IT: dead letter
1. The FBI doesn't think it needs a warrant to place a stingray cell-tower spoofer in 'public places.' "Without going into the full scope of the program, the...
5it: data
1. A plan for a "cyborg coast" in Louisiana. "Cantrell, now an associate professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, became fascinated with the river...
5IT: daemon
1. 5IT reader Antoine Wojdyla translated a 1985 Marguerite Duras interview in Les Inrocks about what she expected in the future. It is uncanny and disturbing...
5IT: cute
1. For a robot, the hard thing about cooking won't be learning the recipes, but grasping the tools. "We believe that the grasp type is an essential component...
5IT: cup
Happy New Year, everyone. Relish the surge pricing! 1. The Sad Internet in Review. "Some manifestations of the Sad Internet make a mockery of the pervasive...
5IT: cunning
1. Ancel Benjamin Keys' very bad idea: the shoddy science that got fat booted from the American diet. "Despite continuing doubts, it became, and still is,...
5IT: cult
1. Everyday phone surveillance by abusive partners is a terrible and underreported problem. "A survey by Women’s Aid, the domestic violence charity, found...
5IT: culinary
1. What people asked the New York Public Library in the time before Google. Is it possible to keep an octopus in a private home? I just saw a mouse in the...
5IT: cul-de-sac
1. Painting viruses. "Like traditional illnesses, computer viruses travel through networks of communication or trade, meaning that they can be mapped and...
5IT: Crooked
1. A German steelworks was physically damaged by a digital attack. "The BSI document states that a steelworks site was directly targeted using a very...
5IT, 12/18
1. Imagine being on the receiving end of these shipments. "Over the past few years, Fighters for a Free North Korea have used hydrogen balloons to pilot...
5IT: Climate causation, supercapitalism/Uber, cryptorubles, the haves, a neverending essay generator
1. How prominent historians are exploring the role of climate change in world history. "All are conversant in conventional explanations for the various rises...
5IT: Poisonous cities, translation, livestreaming and Jesus, automation, phonology of swearwords
1. Rehearsal for an inhospitable planet. "Paper face masks have been common here for a long time, but now the heavy-duty kind with purifying canister filters...
5IT: Cyberfeminism, risk, the Uber doctrine, old teeth, speculative archaeology
1. The first cyberfeminist revolution. "They coded. They built websites. They hung out in chat rooms and text-based online communities like LambdaMOO. They...
5IT: The cheetah that wasn't there, hacks, Pavlov, MacGyver, dancing
1. When computers think they see something in an image that humans don't. "Our findings shed light on current differences between human vision and [deep...
5IT: Dirtboxes, Machine Fiction, Robo-Fish, Women's Work, Peak Trade
1. Senators asking questions about how government agencies spoof cell towers to surveil people. "Recent reports reveal that multiple government agencies -...
5IT, 12/10
1. This is a very interesting possibility for decentralizing the web. "'Distributed technology can and does empower users,' says BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker,...