the sort of factors rigorously documented in Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine 3 Signs You Are Too Creative for a 9-to-5 – James Hamblin – The Atlantic This phrase is funny for its uncritical use of words about Jonah Lehrer. The pernicious thing about finding out about Lehrer’s plagiarisms and creativity with facts is that we don’t…

Everything starts from a dot Wassily Kandinsky, who would’ve turned 147 today (via kickstarter)

One of my favorite facts is that there are no LEDs in Blade Runner. Neon, florescents, and CRT, but no LEDs. LEDs at that time were too dim for anything other than calculator displays, and even then had to be lensed so they were big enough to see. Blue LEDs didn’t exist until 1994. Interdome,…

The meritocracy we have is one in which the illusion of merit is used to justify the neglect of those less fortunate. That meritocracy is deployed not in order to give everyone an equal opportunity to achieve, but to defend the preexisting structures of power. Mandy Brown, You keep using that word (via stoweboyd)

An ethic of incommensurability, which guides moves that unsettle innocence, stands in contrast to aims of reconciliation, which motivate settler moves to innocence. Reconciliation is about rescuing settler normalcy, about rescuing a settler future. Reconciliation is concerned with questions of what will decolonization look like? What will happen after abolition? What will be the consequences…