A perimeter is always porous, to certain people. Managing how it is perforated is a kind of professional work. Odd behavior is socially marked out and isolated. In the US security industry, by contrast, a similar function is exported to technologies of access control and credentialing. One of the central artefacts that exercises elements of both is the lanyard. Unlike the laminated ID alone, the lanyard presents a constellation of belonging all at once and, unlike the uniform, its lightweight...| Platypus
Welcome to this week’s Stacking the Shelves post. STS is hosted by Marlene at Reading Reality and details are on her blog as well as a huge amount of book reviews. Why not visit her blog if you haven’t already found it? The gorgeous graphic is also used courtesy of the site. Stacking the Shelves … Continue reading "Stacking the Shelves 213"| Wicked Witch's Blog
There’s some pretty, and a whole lot of pretty interesting among this week’s covers. The prettiest covers, at least from this perspective, are Letters from an Imaginary Country, People Watching, Some Kind of Famous and Turns of Fate, although as usual, they are far from pretty in the same way. Snake-Eater‘s cover is really well […]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
Over on the Futures of Language website we are advertising a PhD and a postdoc position. If you are interested in fundamental questions at the intersection of language, interaction and technology, have a look. We offer a number of resources:| The Ideophone
Dear lawmakers and regulators, this draft industry paper doesn't do the job. I explain why in the hope that you will act.| Generative Identity
Dear lawmakers and regulators, this draft industry paper doesn't do the job. I explain why in the hope that you will act. The post Live or DIE — a review of a draft industry paper on the harms of SSI appeared first on Philip Sheldrake.| Philip Sheldrake
AWS STS or Security Token Service, provides temporary access credentials to access any AWS resource. This temporary access can be requested by other AWS account, or a federated user in case of hybrid cloud environment who can be authenticated using SAML 2.0, Web identity provider. AWS STS works very closely with IAM Roles.| Archer Imagine
Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social Construction of Race by Audrey Smedley & Brian D. Smedley [ Smedle…| anthropolojamz
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles by Emily Martin [ Martin, Emily. 1991. “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Const…| anthropolojamz