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why do people work? if they are not insane, they do it for the money. and what do they need this money for? to buy freedom from work. federico campagna, “squandering: the case for disrespectful opportunism“ (via rajeshbhattacherjee)
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How the “Do What You Love” Mantra Enables Exploitation
technoccult: Klint Finley Miya Tokumitsu writes about the myth of “Do What You Love” (DWYL): One consequence of this isolation is the division that DWYL creates among workers, largely along class lines. Work becomes divided into two opposing classes: that which is lovable (creative, intellectual, socially prestigious) and that which is not (repetitive, unintellectual, undistinguished).…
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denverstreetart: This @mac_arte x #Retna colab reminds me I need to do some roof surfing on Broadway. | #wynwood #streetart #elmac http://ift.tt/Kus0Yr
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It should be no surprise that unpaid interns abound in fields that are highly socially desirable, including fashion, media, and the arts. These industries have long been accustomed to masses of employees willing to work for social currency instead of actual wages, all in the name of love. Excluded from these opportunities, of course, is…
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Notes from “The Robber Bride” by Margaret Atwood
or a different way of thinking, because thought could be a technology Excerpt From Atwood, Margaret. “The Robber Bride.”
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Notes from “The Robber Bride” by Margaret(
Yet history is not a true palindrome, thinks Tony. We can’t really run it backwards and end up at a clean start. Too many of the pieces have gone missing; also we know too much, we know the outcome. Historians are the quintessential voyeurs, noses pressed to Time’s glass window. They can never actually be…
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(Beta) Media Computation with Spreadsheets
(Beta) Media Computation with Spreadsheets This is a new project for transforming pictures into spreadsheets, and back again, letting you do Media Computation with Excel or OpenOffice Calc. This is like this Nifty Assignment by Cigas from 2007, but with support for common image formats (like JPEG and PNG) using an external tool. Blog post…
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fuckyeahnerdpr0n: The “Land of the free” has the highest rate of imprisonments per capita in the world
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In contrast, people who look like me can just kinda do programming for work if we want, or not do it, or switch into it later, or out of it again, or work quietly, or nerd-rant on how Ruby sucks or rocks or whatever, or name-drop monads. And nobody will make remarks about our appearance,…
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I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” (via enjoui)