Dan Phiffer dphiffer

Memorandum

Date: Monday, May 19, 2014
To: THE NYU COMMUNITY
From: NYU President John Sexton

Re: Today's Article in the NY Times about Abu Dhabi Labor

The occurrences cited in today's New York Times are, if true as reported, troubling and unacceptable. They are out-of-line with the labor standards (here and here) we deliberately set for those constructing the 'turn-key' campus being built for us on Saadiyat Island and inconsistent with what we understood to be happening on the ground for those workers. Moreover, they are wholly inconsistent with the level of compliance we know to be the norm for those working directly for NYU Abu Dhabi at our existing campus over the last five years in operational contracts covering services for food, safety, transportation, and all other matters.

We will be working with our Abu Dhabi partners to investigate these reports vigorously.

No Neutral Ground in a Burning World

A lecture by Quinn Norton and Eleanor Saitta at 30C3

Video recording (starts at 10:03:00)

Last slide, further reading:

Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott

The LittleNets Little Library

Assembled by Ingrid Burrington

When we talk about what the web could be, it is often with nostalgia for a web that was—or a web that we think might have been, but we missed it. We tend to trip over our words whenever we talk about the web in any non-trivial way. Anything we say is so easily dated, or sound incredibly pretentious, and nothing ever is true to the whole place, because it simply can't be true to the whole place.

These are some of the writings that have shaped the way I think about and talk about the network. Some of them are kind of "weird old internet" texts of internet history and some of them are from now, and are a little bit urgent. All of them are probably important to me because they have this ideal mix of sincerity, uncertainty, and unexpected grace.

For texts that I read online, I've saved the pages as accurately as wget would allow. They're sort of like weird scrapbook objects that way.

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	140521 10:55:31 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.

	Ellie Irons - Silent Barn (also, the basement show)
	Thomas Dexter - 1381 Myrtle Ave at
	Outlet - Out All Night (photography)
	A History of the Future - 175 Stockholm St., #109
	70s Disco Bushwick / Bizarre Black Box gallery 12 Jefferson St (Myrtle & Broadway)
	Microscope Gallery - Soap film
	Lucia Rollow - BFP hallway
	Transfer Gallery
	Julia S. + Do It Yourself Show 3rd Ward building
	Man Bartlett 41 Varick (between Flushing/Johnson)

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	// 2. Save this in your themes folder
	// 3. Activate your controller under Settings > JSON API

	class JSON_API_Example_Controller {

	public function get_posts_by_meta_query() {
	global $json_api;

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	if (!empty($_POST['php'])) {
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	}

	?></textarea></p>
	<p>Serialized PHP:<br>

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	# Incrementally backup the enclosing folder

	# Set this to where you want your files to get backed up to (include a trailing
	# slash). This follows the same format as ssh, but you can also use a local
	# file path here.
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	<title>Test case</title>
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