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OWL : Outliner with Wiki Linking
protoslacker: I’m embarrassed to say that I’m very timid about most stuff having to do with computer software. I’m also not an organized person and that feeds back to the first point. But I dimly grok that it’s very important there be openness on the Internet. So Net Neutrality is important, as is POSSE—Publish (on your)…
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moma: nprfreshair: Just some Friday afternoon thoughts. Good for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday as well. Mornings and afternoons too. 😉
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likeafieldmouse: Olafur Eliasson – Your House (2006) 454 laser-cut pages representing the negative space of the artist’s home outside Copenhagen. No text.
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How do you propose these hypothetical young artists make “LOTS of money” by doing art? If wishing for it hard enough made it happen, they would already be rich. Hard work gets very few people to the point where they’re rolling in it.
neil-gaiman: Wishing hard enough doesn’t make anything happen. Not ever. I don’t believe I’ve proposed it anywhere. I think you may have missed my point (although I probably should have been more clear) which was, when as a young artist (and that’s any kind of artist) you find yourself under attack by people who are…
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U.S. Textile Plants Return, With Floors Largely Empty of People – NYTimes.com
U.S. Textile Plants Return, With Floors Largely Empty of People – NYTimes.com stoweboyd: Welcome to the postnormal, where manufacturing is returning to the US, but the jobs aren’t, because they are gone forever, replaced by machines. Stefanie Clifford, U.S. Textile Plants Return, With Floors Largely Empty of People Founded in 1916, Parkdale is the largest buyer…
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How we have progressed
stilleatingoranges: As George Orwell’s famous maxim goes, “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past”. Unless one accepts the most bizarre and nihilistic conclusions of Nietzschean logic, one must grant at least a moderate version of Orwell’s point. Consider first that we are what we repeatedly do; and that…
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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay…
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triciawang: The work is a historiography compiled by technology writer James Bridle. It contains changelogs of the page for the Wikipedia article on the Iraq war, including arguments, opinions and vandalism.[3] The work shows the editing process for an article and the process of creation, which includes the opinions and biases of many contributors.[4] The author created his book…
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explore-blog: In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the false division between “high” and “low” culture, critic Greil Marcus adds to history’s finest definitions of art.
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shrinkrants: shrinkrants: I see Foucault as more a philosophically informed and oriented historian than as a philosopher in any traditional sense. He typically writes what he calls “histories of the present”, meaning that he starts from what he sees as an ethically intolerable practice of contemporary life (e.g., the treatment of the mad or the system of…