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Kiese Laymon: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance
Kiese Laymon: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance
I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies — once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once by my mother and twice by myself. Not sure how or if I've helped many folks say yes to life but I've definitely aided in few folks dying slowly in America, all without the aid of a gun.
·gawker.com·
Kiese Laymon: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance
Taylor Morris: Pussy Riot and Hashtag Activism
Taylor Morris: Pussy Riot and Hashtag Activism
There are jailed dissenters around the world, with harsher sentences for lesser crimes, wasting in silence. We shouldn’t forget them and we shouldn’t forget the message Pussy Riot was trying to spread. However, we should let rebellion and reform grow organically from within a country and then foster and support it with an outsider’s perspective; we shouldn’t place ourselves and our lives and our Twitter feeds directly into someone else’s story and someone else’s struggle. If it’s not about you, don’t make it about you.
·aylororris.tumblr.com·
Taylor Morris: Pussy Riot and Hashtag Activism
Amanda Marcotte: Pussy Riot: Found guilty in what looks like a 21st century witch hunt. (Slate)
Amanda Marcotte: Pussy Riot: Found guilty in what looks like a 21st century witch hunt. (Slate)
This entire debacle should be a reminder to the world why a secular society isn't just a lark or some unbearable burden on religious people who want to nose around in their employees' sex lives. A subset of religious people will always claim that their faith requires them to silence dissent and impose their values on others through government force, but we cannot be afraid to stand up to them, no matter how loudly they squall about having their feelings hurt. The Pussy Riot travesty is the logical end result of giving special legal consideration and privileges to religion.
·slate.com·
Amanda Marcotte: Pussy Riot: Found guilty in what looks like a 21st century witch hunt. (Slate)
NoHomophobes.com
NoHomophobes.com
This website is designed as a social mirror to show the prevalence of casual homophobia in our society. Words and phrases like “faggot,” “dyke,” “no homo,” and “so gay” are used casually in everyday language, despite promoting the continued alienation, isolation and — in some tragic cases — suicide of sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ) youth.
·nohomophobes.com·
NoHomophobes.com
Eric Harvey: What’s the best way to fight cynicism, or at least escape it? (Applies to dealing with other people’s cynicism and/or one’s own encroaching fears of giving into it.) (marathonpacks Tumblr)
Eric Harvey: What’s the best way to fight cynicism, or at least escape it? (Applies to dealing with other people’s cynicism and/or one’s own encroaching fears of giving into it.) (marathonpacks Tumblr)
Cynicism is more or less the act of giving in to one’s basest insecurities and fears—or buying into those of others, it’s inherently dialogical, as is everything IMO—and letting them guide your actions. In other words, everything gets filtered through the “ugh” and “siiiigh” filters, and it’s impossible for one to do most anything productive when buried waist-deep in that sort of shit. You’re consistently pushing outward at ostensibly negative forces that are collapsing in on you, and you’re wiring your brain to think that this is the only way of doing things. Everything is always already bad.
·marathonpacks.tumblr.com·
Eric Harvey: What’s the best way to fight cynicism, or at least escape it? (Applies to dealing with other people’s cynicism and/or one’s own encroaching fears of giving into it.) (marathonpacks Tumblr)
Andre Torrez: "i am not busy"
Andre Torrez: "i am not busy"
EVERYONE has a lot of stuff to do because there IS a lot of stuff to do. Some of it is work. Some of it is hanging out with your family. Some of it is just laying on the couch reading a book.
·notes.torrez.org·
Andre Torrez: "i am not busy"
Eric Harvey: Paper Trail: ‘MP3: The Meaning of a Format’ (Pitchfork)
Eric Harvey: Paper Trail: ‘MP3: The Meaning of a Format’ (Pitchfork)
In his new book, Mp3: The Meaning of a Format, McGill University professor Jonathan Sterne exhaustively and eloquently traces the history of the mp3 from the initial hearing model developed in Bell Labs to the current debates about piracy. As the author argues, each time we rip a CD to our hard drives, we're not only saving space in our living rooms or ensuring we have the appropriate gym soundtrack, but also reaffirming a fundamental idea about the limits of human perception.
·pitchfork.com·
Eric Harvey: Paper Trail: ‘MP3: The Meaning of a Format’ (Pitchfork)
Eric Harvey: More from my interview with Jonathan Sterne.
Eric Harvey: More from my interview with Jonathan Sterne.
I interviewed Jonathan Sterne for Pitchfork about his new book. While conducting the interview, I thought Pitchfork readers would like to know about how AT&T’s capitalistic policies in the 1910s and 1920s laid the groundwork for those compressed bits of data currently clogging their hard drives, and other gentle, science-laden facts about the mp3’s history. I was wrong. But not to worry! Here are the cut bits.
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Eric Harvey: More from my interview with Jonathan Sterne.
Can-Do Honolulu
Can-Do Honolulu
From Honolulu’s Department of Information Technology, city/government data made publicly available for citizens to use and build apps around. Collaboration with Code for America in some cases. ‘Citizens Analyzing Numbers Discover Opportunity’
·can-do.honolulu.gov·
Can-Do Honolulu
Matt Lemay: On being both a critic and a musician.
Matt Lemay: On being both a critic and a musician.
This is a thing I read at (and wrote specifically for) the Pitchfork Music Festival’s amazing Book Fort on Sunday. It is about being both a writer and a musician, and the overlapping attendant neuroses of both.
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Matt Lemay: On being both a critic and a musician.
Laura Franz: Avoiding Faux Weights And Styles With Google Web Fonts (Smashing Magazine)
Laura Franz: Avoiding Faux Weights And Styles With Google Web Fonts (Smashing Magazine)
If you’re using Google Web Fonts on your websites, then there’s a very good chance that 1 in 5 visitors are seeing faux bold and italic versions of your fonts — even if you correctly selected and used all of the weights and styles. That’s because the implementation method recommended by Google Web Fonts doesn’t work with Internet Explorer 7 or 8.
·smashingmagazine.com·
Laura Franz: Avoiding Faux Weights And Styles With Google Web Fonts (Smashing Magazine)