May Day

"‘Slut’ is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say ‘yes.’ ‘Friendzone’ is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say ‘no.’"

angels and angles: Why the friendzone is bullshit and self-proclaimed “nice guys” are misogynists  

"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."

Nietzsche

Fourth Amendment case law in the United States relies in part on what the court considers a “reasonable expectation of privacy.”

Under the new regime of so-called frictionless social sharing, this expectation becomes less clear than ever before— just the latest example of technological and legal realities clashing in uncharted territories.

"Games are a series of interesting decisions."

Sid Meier

After 244 Years, Encyclopedia Britannica Ceases Publication

"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give."

Philip K. Dick

The device contains a tiny computer, a microphone and a powerful wireless antenna. It captures network traffic and audio at the site of closed meetings and anonymously streams the data to a dedicated server where email fragments, HTML pages, images and voice are extracted and displayed on an online map.

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Artist Sonja Hinrichsen’s work at Rabbit Ears pass Colorado

(via neighborhoodr-denver)