Month: August 2014
August 13, 2014
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Amazing. Live stream from WITHIN the protest in #ferguson.
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930
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Get your shit together America.
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Fuck you CNN
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“Who’s a little facehugger? Are you a little facehugger? Yes you are, yes you are. A boo-boo-boo.”
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I guess when they’re young the grandkids would look like this. pic.twitter.com/xu5hk1MahU
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I’d give even odds my grandkids will go through life looking like this. pic.twitter.com/HGStMP2doY
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You only need to try Oculus Rift DK2 once to immediately get it.
I’ve seen the future.
August 12, 2014
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America Is Not For Black People:
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/america-is-not-for-black-people-1620169913/+GregHoward1
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Funny because it’s true.
http://the-toast.net/2014/08/12/dad-magazine-august-edition/
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Suicide contagion and social media: The dangers of sharing ‘Genie, you’re free’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/12/suicide-contagion-and-social-media-the-dangers-of-sharing-genie-youre-free/
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The Saddest Burger King In The World™ is always surprised when customers arrive.
August 11, 2014
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Since we’re all media now, it’s important to understand how to talk about suicide. Some good guidelines:
http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide
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The how and why are not for us to know.
Celebrate the person’s life rather than fixating on their death.
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If you find yourself having suicidal thoughts or trouble coping with life, it’s important you talk to someone. Help IS out there.
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A VC: The Fallacy Of Zero Sum Game Thinking
We invest in a lot of marketplaces. When they scale, we often hear complaints from early adopters, amplified by the media, that the early adopters are getting hurt by the "mainstreaming" of the marketplace. You hear that kind of argument with other kinds of networks as well. When Twitter went…
August 10, 2014
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Best thing I’ve read on Amazon v Hachette
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Thomas the Tank Engine explained:
RT @HimeshJPatel: I was sent this recently. pic.twitter.com/TGApTN4RQm
August 9, 2014
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“Imagine The Bell Jar written by Rizzo from Grease.”
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I’d happily pay Amazon $30/mo for the rest of my life to have instant digital access to any book I wanted.
August 8, 2014
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How We Got From 9/11 to Massive NSA Spying on Americans: A Timeline | Mother Jones
Total Information Awareness, PRISM, encryption back doors, a "black budget" of billions, and everything in between. Gulnara Samoilova/ZUMA, Eric Draper/White House, US Department of Defense/DARPA Recent news reports exposed how the National Security Agency has been collecting millions of Americans’…
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August 5, 2014
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Is technological progress a thing of the past? | vox
Technological progress has been at the heart of economic growth for two centuries. Some authors, however, have suggested that product and process innovation are running out of steam: Robert J Gordon and Tyler Cowen, inter alia, have expressed the view that technological progress is slowing down…
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Complaining about ads in ad-supported media has always struck me as particularly odd.
August 4, 2014
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Outtakes from Bowie’s “Heroes” album cover photo session:
http://www.retronaut.com/2014/07/david-bowies-heroes-cover-shoot-the-outtakes-masayoshi-sukita/
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August 3, 2014
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Is “Times of Israel” a Jewish version of The Onion? Please tell me it is.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/does-this-war-make-me-look-fat/
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“Of course sometimes shit goes down when there’s a billion dollars on an elevator.”
http://p4k.in/1tJCkQV
/ht @zoeschafer