The Origins of Privilege : The New Yorker
I asked myself, on a daily basis: What do I have that I didnât earn? It was like a prayer.
Joshua Rothman interviews Peggy McIntosh: The Origins of Privilege
I asked myself, on a daily basis: What do I have that I didnât earn? It was like a prayer.
Joshua Rothman interviews Peggy McIntosh: The Origins of Privilege
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Somewhere, some junior ad exec with the Fleischmann’s Yeast account has just gotten their first google news ping in a decade.
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran, 1977
(Kamran Diba)
Neal Cassady: The Denver Years - Colorado Public Television / KBDI 12 Video
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Cira Centre at sunset
That these people, at this point of reasoning, seem to both want and not want something, to no ends, is vaguely an example of the base desire of conscious beings to want to stop being conscious, as a means of fulfillment, while knowing that if they stop being conscious they wonât require fulfillment, a paradox present in all consciousness-related phenomenon after 2-4 steps of cognition.
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Comic Book Readers
orkin 1947
whatâs this?
Little girls read comics from the very beginning of their incarnation??
âGirl reading comic book in newsstandâ by Teenie Harris (c. 1940-1945) Š 2006 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
That sound you hear is thousands of wangsting sexist fanboys shrieking in horror.
Suck it.
You will have to search long and hard in Philadelphia to find anyone who will say anything bad about Comcast.
Principles for Living in the 21st Century
- Resilience over strength
- Pull over push
- Risk over safety
- Systems over objects
- Compasses over maps
- Practice over theory
- Disobedience over compliance
- Emergence over authority
- Learning over education
The page includes a little description/explanation of each principle.
Thinking about this again.
It is becoming clearer to more and more people that none of the institutions which claim to represent us are ever going to act in the interest of communities.
“The brutal truth is that the bulk of white people in American never had any interest in educating…"
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âThe brutal truth is that the bulk of white people in American never had any interest in educating black people, except as this could serve white purposes. It is not the black childâs language that is in question, it is not his language that is despised: It is his experience. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance, and enter a limbo in which he will no longer be black, and in which he knows that he can never become white. Black people have lost too many black children that way. And, after all, finally, in a country with standards so untrustworthy, a country that makes heroes of so many criminal mediocrities, a country unable to face why so many of the nonwhite are in prison, or on the needle, or standing, futureless, in the streetsâit may very well be that both the child, and his elder, have concluded that they have nothing whatever to learn from the people of a country that has managed to learn so little.â
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If Black English Isnât a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
James Baldwinâs concluding graf is the literary equivalent of the mic drop.
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No doubt, some will find the idea of engineering platforms to promote diversity or adapting existing laws to curb online harassment unsettling and paternalistic, but such criticism ignores the ways online spaces are already contrived with specific outcomes in mindâthey are designed to serve Silicon Valley venture capitalists, who want a return on investment, and advertisers, who want to sell us things. The term âplatform,â which implies a smooth surface, misleads us, obscuring the ways technology companies shape our online lives, prioritizing and upraising certain purposes over others.
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groupsâŚSo I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.
Weâve spent the last 30 years losing every battle with kleptocracy and government support of corporations so enthusiastic it has become a merging. Political protest is a Potemkin village, and everyone knows it. It is pure spectacle, free of real world consequence. It can be safely ignored or marginalized on the edges of real American politics, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the kleptocracy. If it does, or even threatens to talk about the kleptocracy, it will be violently put down.
Turns out, as with all things political, there’s money involved in here. In order to entice Huy Fong from Rosemead - where they’ve been operating for years without complaint - Irwindale offered the company a low cost loan and expected to collect the interest. Huy Fong built the plant, moved and immediately refi’d and paid off the loan, screwing the city out of the interest. Irwindale, like a lot of these little LA satellite cities is a crooked cesspool. The Mayor and the Deputy Mayor are both under indictment for fishy practices with money. Also, the vast majority of the complaints have been filed by one household - who’s the nephew of one of the city councilmen. It’s a shake down pure and simple.
It has a neck. No fish has a neck. And you know what? When you look inside the fin, and you take off those fin rays, you find an upper arm bone, a forearm, and a wrist.
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This is the age of the obvious. You must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, what any educated individual already should know because there is a lot of money in obfuscating the obvious.
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A technical glitch causes the Hubble Space Telescope, which ordinarily captures magnificently crisp scientific imagery of the cosmos, to lose balance and create this inadvertent piece of modern art.
It is suspected that in this case, Hubble had locked onto a bad guide star, potentially a double star or binary. This caused an error in the tracking system, resulting in this remarkable picture of brightly colored stellar streaks. The prominent red streaks are from stars in the globular cluster NGC 288.Â
When I first got this role I just cried like a baby because I was like, âWow, next Halloween, Iâm gonna open the door and thereâs gonna be a little kid dressed as the Falcon.â Thatâs the thing that always gets me. I feel like everybody deserves that. I feel like there should be a Latino superhero. Scarlett does great representation for all the other girls, but there should be a Wonder Woman movie. I donât care if they make 20 bucks, if thereâs a movie youâre gonna lose money on, make it Wonder Woman. You know what I mean, âcause little girls deserve that.
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