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Life, language, human beings, society, culture – all owe their existence to the intrinsic ability of matter and energy to process information.
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Wow, give this a readholy shit this is actually insane
the actual fuck?
This is the most confusing, yet correct, murder/suicide story I have ever read. Pre-planned coïncidences, and actual coïncidences, leading to such a weird turn of events. What.
omg thats intense
wat. it’s like a suicide but through 4 people but like woah. Read it. seriously.
this is siiiick omg
FATE spins its yarn once again.
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“…print both reinforces and transforms the effects of writing on thought and expression. Since the shift from oral to written speech is essentially a shift from sound to visual space, here the effects of print on the use of visual space can be the central, though not the only, focus of attention. This focus brings out not only the relationship between print and writing, but also the relationship of print to the orality still residual in writing and early print culture. ” p 113
“By removing words from the world of sound where they had first had their origin in acive human interchange and relegating them definitively to visual surface, and by otherwise exploiting visual space for the management of knowledge, print encouraged human beings to think of their own interior conscious and unconscious resources as more and more thing-like, impersonal and religiously neutral. Print encouraged the mind to sense that its possessions were held in some sort of inert mental space.” p. 129
from Orality and Literacy, Ong
as I transcribe this stuff, it makes it easier to read it aloud to myself, which is itself interesting…
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Male privilege has been with us for — how long? Ten thousand years? A hundred thousand? Contraception, in the mere blink of an eye in historical terms, toppled the core rationale that justified that entire system. And now, every aspect of human society is frantically racing to catch up with that stunning fact. Everything will have to change in response to this — families, business, religion, politics, economics…everything.
Sara Robinson, on “Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now”
Everyone should read this article.
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sign language
The visual modality allows the human preference for close connections between form and meaning, present but suppressed in spoken languages, to be more fully expressed.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language#Gestural_theory
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Henry Miller had the same issues focussing on productivity in 1933 as we do today. Of course, he had the added advantage of living at a time without Facebook or Tumblr.
I particularly like no. 7.: “…drink if you feel like it.” Oh wow! I do that!
(Thanks to my husband for finding this!)
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Any company that is providing great content online in a way that’s easy to use with a fair price has a booming business right now. The people who don’t are trying to fight that future.
So here we have this legislation, with all of these possible harms, to solve a problem that only exists in the minds of people who are afraid of the future. Why should the government be intervening on behalf of the people who aren’t getting with the program?
Tim O’Reilly on SOPA: it protects the wrong people - Boing Boing
Pretty accurate, succinct way of putting it, Tim O’Reilly. Kudes!
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[Ed.] While I endorse the above message, I do not endorse Mr. Crocker’s slangifying of “kudos.”
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JW: There’s the stand-up bit you did, and it’s in the Lucky Louie pilot, too, where your daughter keeps asking, “Why, why, why,” to everything. Doesn’t your comedy sort of do the same thing?
Yeah, Pamela always says to me that onstage, I’m a kid, I’m a child, and she always points that scene out and says, “That’s you.” It’s this deconstruction to a point where there’s not any answers. I don’t think you’re really through…when you’re learning about something and dissecting it, I don’t think you’re really through until you don’t understand anything about it. If you study something and you find all this stuff about it, you just went skin deep, so if you keep going and going, you should be left with a fucking mess of unanswered questions. If you take any subject and keep asking, “Why,” without stopping, you’ll get to a point where there really isn’t any clear answers. It can be a bit painful and scary, so I think that’s a fun way to come at it.
“The Writearound: Louis C.K.” — Jonah Weiner, jonahweiner.com
yes this is wonderful
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Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism: Misconceptions about Marxism →
So because I’m a massive nerd with time on my hands, here are a few misconceptions about Marxism and communism:
Marxism is just resentment against the successful.
Engels was a capitalist. Participating in the democratic revolutions of their time, Marx and Engels saw the bourgeoisie as a…
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On my own I can really only find my way a couple places in Lite-Up, and those places are real close to the main Transit outlets. The streets aren’t really numbered clearly or consistently here because companies have bought most of them, so it’s hard to keep your mental map straight. But now we’re pretty far afield, deep in the jaws of Lite-Up, surrounded by tattooers and eyebrow threaders and cheap electronics. Here and there an apartment window peeking out incognito between neon and lightbulb grids. This isn’t my kind of place, I know, and every time I end up here it seems more like I’ve kind of grown up too much for it, which I guess means all the tourists are like little kids. But Quin says she knows someplace that’s respectably underground, even here, where she says they sell booze to minors and you can get Slippers if you act cool and all. Between big flash marquees for a specialty movie theater and a multilevel strip club we go into a place called CAVERN OF DELITES, its entrance so dark and unadorned that the bulk of the crowd doesn’t even know it’s there. This turns out to be only an intermediate place: a labyrinthine mall, snaking little interstitial paths throughout a block of real estate. Its ceiling is covered in blue neon, here and there rendering a wireframe stalactite. We pass glass doors into various shops, like spotlights into the weird blue gloom: sunglasses and flash jewelry, housewares and smoking paraphernalia, off-grid cellular providers and psychic advisement (SPEAK TO RELATIONS LIVE OR DECEASED).
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The American Dream: Das Racist's Dapwell →
Ten Ideas for My Unreleased Album’s Cover Art
01. My head photoshopped on Fidel Castro’s head in the famous photo of his meeting with Malcolm X at the Theresa Hotel in Harlem.
02. A photograph of me in the kitchen smiling and holding a skillet. On the counter next to me is a plate of eggs and…
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