randomWalks

You will know the future is here because it will not be a continuation and repetition of mids-80s and late-90s phantasms with ever shittier economic and political conditions.

if you described the War On Drugs, with its massive collateral damage to civil liberties and innocent lives to someone from a few decades ago, that would sound pretty crazy

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(via How It Began - mlkshk)

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(via HOLLIS BROWN THORNTON Store — Luke Skywalker - hbt11-03)

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(via @Peanutweeter)

He was a kind of action hero for very famous writers and poets, but he couldn’t create that notion himself. It must’ve been a weird existence for him, where he almost felt like a creation of other people.

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I can at a moment’s notice access any email I’ve sent in the last 14 years, or any school paper I’ve written in the last 23. All this data takes up less than one gigabyte. By 8-bit standards, that’s staggering; by today’s, having the output of an entire era fit on 0.2% of my current computer’s capacity is humbling.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that operates the plant, has said radioactive water could start overflowing from temporary storage areas on June 20, or possibly sooner if there is heavy rainfall.

Earlier this month, Mike Maginnis outlined some of his Apple II goals. It was an excellent call to action for Apple II users to outline what they want to accomplish with or contribute to the Apple II.

So the original Apple II price point was $1195, and it still is.

The communes were the model for the modern idea of the self organising, non-hierarchical network which you now see in internet utopianism. What I show in the film is that what’s been wiped out of the memory of the communes is that most collapsed within three years. The more powerful system used the system and everybody else was defenceless because you were not allowed to make alliances with other people.

When I came back to California after the last commune I’d lived in had broken up, I was a single father with a young daughter, and I had to earn a living. I began acting professionally as a source of income. The good news is I was able to save toward my retirement and send both my kids to good schools and colleges, to graduate debt-free. The bad news is that once I took the money, I was a bought boy. I was dependent on other people for a living. I put my family’s needs before my own authentic desires. I don’t mind, and acting has been good to me, but it’s not where I live, and whenever you violate what’s most important to you, you pay a price.

I felt comforted by the fact that like everyone I’ve reconnected with on Facebook, he’d gotten fat, and by the banality of his listed interests like “Bob Marley” and “Scrubs.” He was a monster in my memory, but on Facebook, he was just a man.

I still agree with my 2005 opinion that rather than assuming “everybody reads” you should assume you’re somebody’s only filter.

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If we are not careful we shall leave our children a legacy of billion dollar roads leading nowhere except to other congested places like those they left behind. (via Malcolm Wells office, Cherry Hill, NJ - a set on Flickr)

To last for centuries, to provide a sheltered roadway, to serve all creatures and to present a living surface to the sky, a bridge must have a roof and a deep covering of earth.

In a Senate floor speech on Tuesday, Udall urged Congress to restrict the Patriot Act’s business-records seizures to “terrorism investigations” — something the ostensible counterterrorism measure has never required in its nearly 10-year existence.

We did public art installations. And, I don’t know if you consider it arts, exactly, but I consider growing organic vegetables in the shadow of a steel mill an art, and that has attracted homesteading.

We also want equitable education that’s shared - not people who know to text each other at 1 a.m. That’s not public education.

I know it might sound nuts, but it’s going pretty well. The allergies seem to have peaked and declined.

In particular, this is directed to locally storing one or more clips corresponding to a media item such that the clips can be immediately played back in response to a user request to play back the media item. While the clips are played back, the electronic device can retrieve the remaining segments of the media item from the user’s media library as a media stream over a communications network. Once the playback of the clip is complete, the electronic device can seamlessly switch playback to the media stream received from the user’s library.

If something is tied to a project’s success, you can’t hope for it, you need to find a way to make it happen.

I got really, really fast and to this day I still think of executing things in 30 minute increments. If something’s not right after 30 minutes, start over and try again.