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Posts tagged with disguise
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What the Selfie Really Is
The selfie is just another tool in the repertoir of mating behavior that reminds the person who is the subject of the selfie that they are real. A selfie is a take on verisimilitude in that the subject understands that this image is of him and yet there’s more where…
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Tim Barrus: the New York Times
I’ve gone deeper than you can know. I feel secure enough about it to let some of it slip out into your universe of hate and complicity. So deeply off the grid, I want you to know it can still be done. It’s cold out there. In a world where…
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No 1 Knows What Facebook Is
Tim Barrus: The New York Times Different versions of one’s second selves remains a successful strategy. Greed is not a second self. It is a spectrum. We are not what we pretend to be on Facebook. My actual friends plead with me not to lift the veil. My friends are…