December 2011
107 posts
A few thoughts on social media user types →
I’m pleased that the Bain company conducted research into social media users. Honestly and with earnest affirmation. However, the types they found among us users beg a few…
November 2011
164 posts
Instagram: the object of sharing & the shared... →
Pictures worth a thousand tweets
Wall St isn't winning - it's cheating →
When you take into consideration all the theft and fraud and market manipulation and other evil shit Wall Street bankers have been guilty of in the last ten-fifteen years, you have to have balls like church bells to trot out a propaganda line that says the protesters are just jealous of their hard-earned money.
“So after cleaning the yard around his house — a big job, a gift to his wife — in...”
– Man Uses His Schizophrenia to Gather Clues for Daily Living - NYTimes.com (via rubenfeld)
“I condemn the political parties. Our politicians have long been incapable of...”
– Jürgen Habermas
A Philosopher’s Mission to Save the EU. der spiegel, 25.11.11.
(via citymaus)
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“He says that states have no rights, “only people have rights,” and then he takes...”
– Habermas, the Last European: A Philosopher’s Mission to Save the EU - Part 2 (via globalsociology)
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Infographic: Money (All of it) →
The mother of all infographics!
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The 'Hipster'-est Words in NPR's Definitive Piece... →
villagevoice:
Yesterday NPR posted an article called “The Hipsterification of America.” We are momentarily lifting our ban on the word hipster to address it, because it is, indeed, something special, and should be publicly recognized. Never in the history of writing about hipsters have so many hipster terms, most particularly, the word hipster itself, been utilized! Herewith, all the words, in...
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This is what happens when governments go bust →
“The banks need another bubble to inflate, or they will be exposed as the giant bubble they themselves are.”
