tussticular: Archive

Look, I don’t want to post this. I really don’t want to be the one to bring you crashing back to reality first thing in the morning. (And on a Friday too!) But seriously, this shit is ridiculously serious and it affects each and every one of us.

And yeah, I know the numbers aren’t directly comparable but we should all be taking this as a warning shot across the bow. Corporations are outpacing our own government and they have been for a while. We might rely on our iPhones to get our pix to Instagram or our iPads to curl up in bed with to watch the latest episode of Intervention on Netflix, but these are all luxuries. Luxuries we might need to support our lifestyle but definitely not essentials given the grand scheme of things.

The point is that these companies are moving harder, better, faster, and stronger than the government that we need to keep our daily existence intact. Boner (Boehner?) and Obama are turning this into a game of politics but all our lives are on the line. Meanwhile these companies, are playing their game smarter and faster than ever before.

You know, faster than those public schools that bring you nothing but Facebook reminders of the social life you once had as a teenager while they in fact teach your children how to read.

Faster than the PS3/Xbox gaming console that gets hogged by the kids when they come home from said Facebook reminders while you secretly long for the glory days of hiding from your parents and playing the 2600. So you go post some nostalgic pix on Tumblr and wait for your work days to end so your Social Security kicks in and you can retire with a cushy job as a Wal-Mart greeter.

Faster than the check from your insurance company that covers only part of the medical bills you incurred after being hit by a driver (on your way home from work) that didn’t cough up the legally required fee to a private corporation to cover an accident like this.

These corporations are moving faster every day and with all that they bring to the table (Disclaimer: I own products from everyone I’ve mentioned. #inb4hypocrite) - the things that sustain us and give us the architecture to move forward are swayed, the same way that we are, by their shiny objects.

Our government is failing us right now.. so much so, that the dude who lets you listen to music at the gym as you run on your human hamster wheel now has more money on hand than the 1st world power you live in and pledge allegiance to.

Seriously.. Think about that.

Sorry for ruining your day.

Jul 29, 20115 notes

#USA #apple #debt ceiling #drama #steve jobs #wake up #2600 #ipod #ipad #government

Everything About the War in Afghanistan in a Single Sentence.

motherjones:

From CNN:

Army Master Sgt. Benjamin A. Stevenson, 36, was on his tenth tour of duty in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq when he was killed Thursday in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan.

Via Joshua Foust at Registan.net.

Jul 27, 2011138 notes

Jul 26, 20112 notes

#Beastie Boys #DPNG #remix #santigold

Jul 25, 2011402 notes

Jul 25, 2011352 notes

#Private jet #Rich #Tax cuts

Play

Jul 25, 2011580 notes

#split screen

Jul 20, 201114 notes

#obama #audiobook #autobiography #remix #mashup #demigod #strelka

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Jul 19, 2011662 notes

#Beastie boys

Jul 16, 201115,373 notes

Play

Jul 16, 20113,541 notes

inthefade:

A business raised their prices and people are fucking furious.

So, for $15.98 a month - $7.99 more than you are now paying if you have both the DVD and streaming options - you can watch as many fucking movies a month as you want.

For eight bucks more - less than the price of a DVD, less than…

Jul 13, 2011145 notes

#Netflix

Jul 12, 20116 notes

#playground #tezuka architects #kindergarden #jealous

May 30, 20111,026 notes

The day everything became nothing Nomeansno

inthefade:

NoMeansNo - The Day Everything Became Nothing

5:30 song for 5/30

I don’t know how many times I can extol the virtues of NoMeansNo and beg you to listen to them, to listen to that bass and the pounding of the drums and to let the words roll around in your head like a strange yet wonderful book you can’t put down, but I’m doing it again right now.

The day everything became nothing,
I was standing underneath a streetlight, Wishing I’had a cigarette.
I can’t recall anything unusual about it.
If there was something in the air,
If the skies had clouded over, I’wasn’t aware, I’was too bored to care.
No thunder roared. No lightning cracked.
No missiles rained from the sky. This was no sneak attack.
There was just suddenly this awful lack.
Things had changed, that’s for sure.
The day everything became nothing, you couldn’t put your finger on what had gone wrong.
The alleys were still dirty; the garbage still smelled;
There was no panic in the streets; Just a lot of grief…
In people’s faces, in their eyes…a mixture of horror and total surprise.
This was no apocalypse. No one heard a voice from the sky,
There were no miracles at the 7-eleven,
No one screamed, no one even asked why.
It was just like everything had somehow, quietly died.
So let it die!
I can’t recall much of what happened next.
I was on my way to visit this woman I’knew.
All we had in common was good sex,
And now I’couldn’t even remember her address.
A group of us, just strangers, got together and we formed a committee to discuss the problem.
We talked about things like assured mutual destruction and emotional responsibility.
I couldn’t remember my name, so I called myself bob.
It’s weird being a bob, but i’ll get used to it.
I have to.

May 30, 201125 notes

May 27, 20117,400 notes

#hula hoops

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May 27, 2011236 notes

#song #listening

Seth Godin on the Future of Libraries

The library is no longer a warehouse for dead books. Just in time for the information economy, the library ought to be the local nerve center for information.

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We all love the vision of the underprivileged kid bootstrapping himself out of poverty with books, but now (most of the time), the insight and leverage is going to come from being fast and smart with online resources, not from hiding in the stacks.

The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth working on together. Aided by a librarian who understands the Mesh, a librarian who can bring domain knowledge and people knowledge and access to information to bear.

The next library is a house for the librarian with the guts to invite kids in to teach them how to get better grades while doing less grunt work. And to teach them how to use a soldering iron or take apart something with no user serviceable parts inside. And even to challenge them to teach classes on their passions, merely because it’s fun. This librarian takes responsibility/blame for any kid who manages to graduate from school without being a first-rate data shark.

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August 2011

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June 2011

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May 2011

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