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making San Francisco livable again?
There's an interesting article on how to be a techie and a "good San Franciscan" over here ( Read more... ) -
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People talk about the shift from old print-based journalism to the new world of social media and the sites adapted to serve it. These are fast, responsive, and only just beginning to discover the power of controversy. They are memetic evolution shot into hyperdrive, and the omega point is a well-tuned machine optimized to search the world for the ( Read more... ) -
it's a keeper!
Wow. This could be an ongoing source of rabbit-holes to fall into (as well as an endless fountain of interesting tidbits to note):
http://theongoingcollapse.com
(not, on the face of it, as grim as it sounds) -
*always* reblog:
Networked mortality: a thoughtful piece on what happens to the online and digitized bits of our lives when we're not around anymore, and a start towards tools to deal with it all. -
Ah, I see.
Compare and contrast.
David Graeber (of Debt) and Thomas Piketty (of Capital) in conversation.
Quinn Norton on celebrating the Giants' win in the Mission"Keeping the dissatisfied poor satisfied with circuses and bits of bread goes back to at least Roman times, where the Caesars coined the term bread and circuses as a way of giving enough to the ( Read more... ) -
and, yes, time to step away from the computer.
Twitter is exploding with #Ferguson, and I just can't cope.
Silence is not an option, but I … don't want to watch in real-time... -
playing catch-up:
I think I'm mostly caught up on the usual suspects. And, as usual, both Peter Watts and John Michael Greer are spot-on (and David Brin is starting to look like a complete ass, but that simply scores another point for "do NOT read the comments ( Read more... ) -
a little behind, but...
June 5th isn't entirely over yet, right?
This is awesome: Reset the Net(boingboing has a nice piece here: http://boingboing.net/2014/06/05/today-is-the-day-we-reset-the.htmlRead more... )