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How Companies Learn Your Secrets

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:17:58 -0500

I’m sure everyone’s already seen this, but it fits neatly into my arguments that privacy is already dead, and there’s not much point in complaining about it, since it’s not coming back.

It’s much more useful to think about how we can live in a post-privacy world.

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist | Orion Magazine

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:15:14 -0500

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist | Orion Magazine:

I don’t agree with much of what he says, but he said it in such a lovely way, I think it’s still worth a read.

Robert Reich on The Decline of the Public Good

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:14:05 -0500

Robert Reich on The Decline of the Public Good:

Instapaper queue backlog. Similar vein to the EU dissolution pieces I’ve seen floating by, but about the US.

BBC News - A Point of View: The endless obsession with what might be

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:11:43 -0500

BBC News - A Point of View: The endless obsession with what might be:

“Surely we would be better off if we put an end to our obsession with endings. Humans are sturdy creatures built to withstand regular disruption. Conflict never ceases, but neither does human resourcefulness, adaptability or courage.”

Another article that references Fukuyama, who seems to keep popping up in the things I’ve been reading. This one examines the possible dissolution of the European Union and the destruction of human institutions in general.

Lovely 3 minute breakdown of electronic music. Kottke had a...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:26:22 -0500

Lovely 3 minute breakdown of electronic music. Kottke had a couple good links this evening.

JEFF the Brotherhood, “Bone Jam” ((via Scott...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:23:56 -0500

JEFF the Brotherhood, “Bone Jam”

((via Scott Stevens on a snowboard (watch for the UMass campus in the last shot)) via Kottke)

those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —voltaire

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:34:42 -0500

those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

—voltaire

The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:32:21 -0500

The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes:

Neatly explains why 98% of the corporations in our lives are steaming piles of shit.

Let’s Start Paying College Athletes - NYTimes.com

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:29:13 -0500

Let’s Start Paying College Athletes - NYTimes.com:

Cleaning out my Instapaper queue. This is a sort of follow up to the big article on NCAA insanity in the Atlantic from October.

Adam Shatz · Whose Egypt? · LRB 5 January 2012

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:25:57 -0500

Adam Shatz · Whose Egypt? · LRB 5 January 2012:

“The awakening is not over, but the heady days of the Arab Spring have come to an end. The counter-revolution, Régis Debray once observed, is revolutionised by the revolution.”

Longish look at the various parties vying for power primarily in Egypt but also across the Middle East. The Arab Spring movements brings to mind Fukuyama’s End of History essay, and I wonder what a non-Western and possibly conservative Islamic democracy would look like or if it could even exist.

i don’t try to describe the future. i try to prevent it. —ray bradbury

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:20:39 -0500

i don’t try to describe the future. i try to prevent it.

—ray bradbury