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Jul 02
WhoMadeWho - “Keep Me In My Plane”
Bleak, in an awesome way.
Jul 01
It’s THAT DAY again. Pour some out later for the Class of 2013, who take their oath at 6 PM this evening. Apparently, there are 8 prior-enlisted Marines and 1 sailor from this incoming class who have already served in Iraq or Afghanistan. The other 1,221 kids who will be sweating their junk off in T-Court later have absolutely no idea what the fuck they’ve gotten themselves into. I wish them well, and I pray their new boss is more thoughtful about where he sends them and what he sends them there for than their last boss was.
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Jun 30
“ What [Wired editor Chris Anderson] is proposing is down somewhere, on the scale of ethics, well beneath Wal-Mart’s policies of no longer hiring any full-time workers so as to avoid health and unemployment insurance. It is in fact some weird sort of neo-feudal, post-contract-worker society, in which he will create a dystopian and eager volunteer-slave system of “attention-paid” enthusiasts (which is to say, people with no other options, and no capital of their own) to create products from which rich people can get richer. ”
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— Choire Sicha on Chris Anderson’s response to Gladwell’s New Yorker takedown of his new book.
From either a policy or an aesthetic perspective, this is indeed a terrifying scenario, and it’s one that, as Sicha points out, already runs rampant thoughout the inter-spheres. I won’t pretend I have the solution to the economics of zero-scarcity, but I shudder to think a version of creative wage-slavery Ayn Rand would be proud of is it.
From either a policy or an aesthetic perspective, this is indeed a terrifying scenario, and it’s one that, as Sicha points out, already runs rampant thoughout the inter-spheres. I won’t pretend I have the solution to the economics of zero-scarcity, but I shudder to think a version of creative wage-slavery Ayn Rand would be proud of is it.
“Exploit Yourself”, Carl Erik Rinsch’s spec ad for Nike featuring badass parkour robot. So boss.
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Jun 29
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Bill Callahan - “Eid Ma Clack Shaw” (from Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle)
All these fine memories are fucking me down.
Dispatches from the path not taken:
You were the first person I knew who was artistically gifted but chose not to pursue it. That was a revelation for me—you told me, ”Just because I can, it doesn’t mean I want to”. Until then I assumed people who didn’t were people who couldn’t, not people who opted out… Those talents don’t leave; they just get buried under other stuff.
(paraphrased from a former teacher’s email)
Jun 26
Red-Band Trailer for Chan-wook Park’s THIRST
Jun 25
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Ain’t No Sunshine When He’s Gone
:-(
Boners for always, Jill Munroe. RIP.
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“ You Can’t Produce a Baby in One Month by Getting Nine Women Pregnant. ”
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» They had nothing but wooden spears and moral force to defeat the oil companies – and, for today, they have won.
Here is Johann Hari’s account of an indigenous people’s inspirational defense of their home and our future. We need to be paying a lot more attention to the bottom-up social and political revolutions quietly supplanting US hegemony throughout Latin America.
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You gotta love the gems my “Duncan Sheik” Google Alert unearths.
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Jun 24
