Posted by  thepete
on Monday, October 10th at
2:26 PM. [link]
falconieri:
usagov:
Every year, on the second Monday of October, the United States celebrates Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Americas. Columbus’ official siting of new land was October 12, 1492.
Columbus, a native of Italy, scoured Europe for royal sponsors of his expedition to find the New World. Finally, in…
@usagov, LIAR
“LIAR” indeed, Falconieri. Aren’t we all educated enough to understand that it’s kinda lame celebrating the genocidal asshole who didn’t really discover America and only did that because he was looking for India? Yeah, let’s celebrate a man so greedy and cruel that he would order the hands of locals chopped off if they didn’t bring him gold.
It’s pretty disgusting how we still pat ourselves on the back for “taming” this continent.
If I had a dayjob, I’d go into work today, anyway.
Oh and if I sound like I’m talking out of my ass, go watch “Even the Rain” on Netflix and see how you feel after. It’s also available to stream on Amazon .
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Posted by thepete
on Monday, November 29th at
12:50 PM. [link]
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Many feel the situation has reached crisis proportions. In the academic world, critics have begun to argue that universities are producing and distributing more knowledge than we can actually use. In the recent best-selling book “The Shallows,” Nicholas Carr worries that the flood of digital information is changing not only our habits, but even our mental capacities: Forced to scan and skim to keep up, we are losing our abilities to pay sustained attention, reflect deeply, or remember what we’ve learned.
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- Ann Blair, Information overload, the early years
A very solid and well-researched examination of the attention overload meme, similar to the themes I discussed in The False Question Of Attention Economics.
(via stoweboyd)
That’s a partial quote—hit the Boston.com link for the rest of it. I just wanted to blog this because I experience this daily. In fact, truth be told, I haven’t even read the entire piece, myself! But hey, at least I’m acknowledging the problem, right? RIGHT? Crap, you’re not reading this anymore, are you? ;(
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Posted by thepete
on Saturday, October 16th at
1:54 PM. [link]
Tea baggers? Walmart? Warren Buffett? Get a life. Look no furthur than your mirror for the answer to today’s america. Also look around the world and see the people rising up in defense of their future. What kind of people lets the future of their children be stolen and do nothing? Maybe you can eat your cell phones and flat screens when food prices go off the cliff. Maybe your local sports bar will feed your family. Maybe the mall will give you shelter when you become homeless. Silence and indifference has wiped out america. but you don’t have time to worry about that right now, the holiday season is here. Shop til’ you drop…
work.buy.consume.die.
10 Reasons Why Ordinary Hard-Working Americans Are About To Really Start Feeling The Squeeze
Start taking some personal responsibility for your situation.
(via rainbowhill)
A great sentiment and I agree with everything in it but only to a point—what about the responsibility of our leaders? We, The People, end up getting blamed for our problems because we don’t speak up and do something, but we elect leaders to represent us. We vote with our dollars to make sure companies we like are successful. Where are THEY in playing the “Take Responsibility Game” and why do we keep supporting them and letting them get away with not doing their part?
In a world where our leaders in government and business provide us with no positive examples to follow or learn from, how can we be blamed for our conditioned apathy?
It’s our leaders in government and business who have the resources to set a good example. They can afford to be heroes. But they’re not. And they blame us. And we blame ourselves.
I’m sick of being blamed for shit I didn’t do. I didn’t know my cell phone caused strife in Africa. I didn’t know the car I drove for 10 years would add a ton of pollutants to the atmosphere every year I drove it. However, when I found out, I did something about it. I sold my car. I switched to compact fluorescent bulbs, I made sure to recycle. I don’t own as many computers as I could. I do a host of other things that help reduce my impact on the world around me.
And you know what? None of it’s going to do any good because our leaders in government and business are still dropping the ball. They still fail to see that they are there for us—not the other way around. And since they are in control, there’s not much We, The People can do.
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Posted by thepete
on Thursday, October 7th at
5:23 PM. [link]
If you haven’t heard, a family’s home burned to the ground while fire fighters stood by but did nothing.
It’s not like the guy wasn’t willing to pay, either. It’s so fucked that we can’t just be nice to one another when it comes to stuff like this. Health care, fire fighting, police services, these are all things that fall under the umbrella of “protecting citizens” and are therefore a government’s job. Yet, for some of these categories and in some areas of the country, we have this obviously illogical view that these services should be paid for a la carte, by each person who needs them.
People say America is a generous country?
My ass.
We’re not generous to ourselves, that’s for sure. We’re a bunch of selfish assholes. The rich are more selfish than most of us.
Special thanks to underpaidgenius.com for posting a link to the video. Check out his commentary.
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Posted by thepete
on Tuesday, August 3rd at
5:18 PM. [link]
 From the “Why WaPo Sold You” file:
newsweek:
newyorker:
Kanye West’s tweets meet The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest. The results are hilarious!
Thanks Josh A. Cagan (@joshacagan on Twitter) for these amazing mash-ups - you made our morning!
Today in Things We Love: Further proof that marveling at Kanye’s twitter stream won’t be getting old anytime soon.
(Also, celebrity tweets taken out of context will always be a Nwk Tumblr favorite)
Oh gosh, isn’t that Kanye a silly person! What WILL he say next! Probably something about black people! LAWLZ.
SIGH.
One of the reasons I was resistant to Tumblr at first was the ease at which one can reblog other people’s content—I knew that I’d have to fight the temptation to reblog too much and saw that too many had already given in. What I realize now, however, is that Tumblr didn’t have to make it any easier since people seem to be obsessed with hijacking other people’s content and reposting it “ironically.”
It’s one thing to link to someone else’s post or even excerpt it, and I know I do my fair share of reblogging, too, and up until now, I thought the commentary I added was enough. But now I think I’m done with reblogging other people’s stuff. This reblogged post from Newsweek has inspired me—why?
Because, it came from Newsweek’s Tumblr. A Tumblr, that I started following because it was incredibly interesting and included 100% interesting stuff, either on Newsweek.com or on other sites. I don’t mind it’s relaxed tone, either, but with this post? I really felt compelled to say something.
As far as I’m concerned, Kanye West’s twitterstream was boring to me before Kanye West signed up for Twitter, before he was even famous and before he was even born. I have precisely zero interest in Kanye West’s tweets and, it’s likely, I never will.
What I’d love to see is more content-creators focusing on coming up with our own interesting, original content instead of falling back on snarky “commentary” of things said by stupid people (or stupid things said by people).
Ultimately, though, it’s your blog, do what you want with it, but I do wish everyone who blogged could do it with the goal of improving humanity and not increase the stupid quotient in the process.
Yes, yes, I know I can just choose not to follow the “Nwk Tumblr” but I used to like it.
All right, enough ranting from me…
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Posted by thepete
on Thursday, July 29th at
1:26 AM. [link]
We’ll increasingly be defined by what we say no to.
Paul Graham on addiction. (via gtmcknight)
This quote applies to every aspect of modern life in the western world, IMO.
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