People still want to use technology for detecting and communicating with ghosts, though the preferred gadgets have evolved into electronic voice phenomena (EVP) recorders and geophones.

communicating with spirits didn’t seem much more impossible than harnessing electricity

the spirit phone’s unbelievable promise invoked technologies like the telegraph and air flight, which were both seen as impossible until proven otherwise

“spirit phone”

In 1920, the inventor shocked the public when he told American Magazine: “I have been at work for some time, building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.” 

Some of the most dangerous people out there are perfectly happy expressing hate and violence in their own names.

values and seeks to facilitate the greatest amount of speech from the most diverse group of people

active moderation

when black people are the go-to choice for nonblack users to act out their most hyperbolic emotions, do reaction GIFs become “digital blackface”?

black reaction GIFs have become so widespread that they’ve practically become synonymous with just reaction GIFs.

Pick a meme, any meme, conceived or co-opted by Black social media — I’ll show you a meme that worms its way toward respectability political rhetoric, with misogynoir at its core.

“misogynoir” to succinctly describe the anti-Black misogynist intersection of racism and misogyny that uniquely impacts the lived experiences of Black women.

white and non-Black people making anonymous claims to a Black identity through contemporary technological mediums such as social media.

offering virtual tours through photo galleries of the tech-nology, the people, and the places making up their data centers.1

“Why would I ever need a [insert name or function of new technology here]?”

Essentially, the kaleidoscope had been “domesticated.”

Of the millions who have witnessed its effects, there is perhaps not one hundred who have any idea of the principles upon which it is constructed, and of the mode in which those effects are produced.”

He felt betrayed, “deceived into believing that what he saw was at least the shadow of something real and beautiful, when in truth it was only a delusion.”

462,880,899,576 years and 860 days

immersed

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