July 2011
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Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the...
– Martin Amis, The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11 (via rebeccataylorla)
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The Unselfish Gene - Harvard Business Review
Charm for Nurture, Individually hand-painted peppercorns, found mussel shell (Wheaton Island, Maine), 2010. Excerpt from an essay by Yochai Benkler (via notational):
Almost two generations of human beings have been educated and socialized to think in terms of universal selfishness. “We need to get the incentives right” has been the watchword for anyone engaged in designing any kind of...
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Just awoke from a dream.
I was on a journey up a mountain (Andean-like). In the beginning I bumped into a bush that shot thousands of tiny painful thorns in my thighs and ass. I was with someone I knew. We went to the shaman doctor who looked at me for a minute, then disappeared. We waited for a long time, me alternating between sitting and standing in excruciating pain. The shaman didn’t return. Finally I started...
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#deletethetweets, recap and unanswered questions...
a few days ago i went on a twitter rant* to get twitter or fox news to delete a series of tweets from the hacked @foxnewspolitics account that falsely stated that obama had been assassinated. what bothered me was not the hack, or even the content posted, but rather the amount of TIME that the hacked tweets stayed online IN COMBINATION with the content of the tweets. It was over 10 hours, during...
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