I have a lot to say about facebook, but the most important is this: I just realized that facebook uses its members to CREATE FREE CONTENT (posts, comments, photos, et al.) which attracts readers (you, when you view someone else’s profile) and SELLS ADS to accompany that content, ADS targeting viewers specifically through the use of the PERSONAL DATA they voluntarily supply with each link, like, comment, view, etc.
1) Cannot believe I just realized this (thanks, Ivor Tossel & The Walrus)
2) Wow. Shit. Wow. Fackkk.
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
”The most notable fact our culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.”
Adrienne Rich, poet and author (among other things, of “Of Woman Born” which has been on History is a Weapon for years), has passed. She will be missed.
Hard data is still being collected, but experts at the Reuters Food and Agriculture Summit in Chicago this week said an estimated 30 percent to 50 percent of the food produced in the world goes uneaten.
The average American throws away 33 pounds of food each month — about $40 worth — according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, which plans to publish a report on food waste in April.
In a year, that means each person throws away almost 400 pounds of food, the weight of an adult male gorilla.
Read more: Clean your plate, save the world?
Somehow I’m not surprised.
Maybe because border officials isolated and interrogated my boyfriend in a similar way, accusing him of lying about his reasons for traveling, amount of time he’d spent in the states, and student status (“You told me you’re a student, now you say you take courses on line. Well maybe I’m behind the times but when someone tells me a student I expect them to be sitting in class everyday”), then played good cop bad cop, with the supervisor threatening to throw him in a cell.
Developer: Hey Harper, how can we push big development projects through these pesky environmental assessments?
Harper: Oh, I don’t know, why don’t we just get rid of them altogether? Who needs environmental assessments anyways?
how about it?
you gotta click it but it’s worth it! the scientific method is not as innocent as your high school science teacher made it sound—scientists are human and have human weaknesses
one of the amazing ‘demos’ Amber Tamblyn sent Tyrese when he asked her to collaborate (he thought she was Amber Rose)
Tamblyn: “Tyrese is a very sweet guy with good intentions who made a mistake and I, being an actress and engaged to a comedian, could not help myself. Tyrese, please accept my 87% hearfelt apology for stringing you along. I think we could have made beatufiul music together.”
via Jezebel
What really gets to me is that a state considered so incredibly progressive in terms of its environmental policies, particularly concerning emissions and global warming, can be so incredibly pathetic when it comes to prisoners’ rights. After receiving a court mandate through the DA’s office to reduce its prison population, California continues to throw people in jail with lengthly sentences that ensure the prison population will only continue to increase. We all know that environmental issues are human rights issues, too. Will California stop being hypocritical? Or are they determined to clean up the air, but ensure only upper-class white people can go outside to breathe it?
An incredible song about Climate Change. “And who do you think you are? And what did you leave for us?” Because this generation’s art needs to give a voice to the political, environmental and social challenges we’re tackling.
Wade Davis talks about protecting the places we connect with. Mentions poet Gary Snyder’s idea that the most revolutionary thing people can do is stay in one place. Davis is a very talented and informative storyteller. I’ve never listened to a lecture with a more lyric pace.
