things you should read on the internet.
Anonymous asked: Have my babies, plz?
Since I know who this is: <3.
A couple of my friends are making this really cool alternative to, well, every social network ever. It’s an aggregator for every social network, but it also allows YOU to own your data unlike Facebook; definitely worth a look!
Anonymous asked: 3. Does the BCB have the right to special exemption from the provisions of CPA 2009 as a result of their traditional practices? In addition, how does the location of the caves as “adjacent” to the reservation, and not on tribal lands, affect the tribal rights to exploitation of them?
To whomever asked this — I’m working on it. The second part, anyway.
Apologies for being on a seeming Facebook kick, but this is a perfect complement to the article just posted. While Facebook is growing up, it’s privacy options give you less and less control over what kind of privacy you have. I’m happy to know, though, that there are alternatives being built (joindiaspora.com!).
Steven Levy, always a wonderful writer, shows us the landscape of Facebook today. He brings up some of the issues that people have with Facebook and how Facebook attempts to navigate this. Even as a fan of long form articles, this article is a little long for my taste, but anyone who’s interested in social media and Facebook’s direction should take a peek at this.
Anonymous asked: Mango or Pineapple?
Mango! Duh.
Talk about defining deviancy down. What beige days we live in, when mentioning Rilke, Warhol, and David Bowie are proof positive of edgy intelligence. Rilke isn’t exactly obscure, and Warhol and Bowie are two of the best-known brands in pop history. Gaga isn’t all that weird, despite her revisionist accounts of growing up feeling “like a freak,” as she told Barbara Walters. Can we get some context, here? Performance artist Leigh Bowery giving himself an enema, onstage, and hosing the front rows at one of his performances with an anal geyser is weird. Painter and curiosa collector Joe Coleman adopting a pickled anencephalic fetus as his son and naming it Junior is weird. Faking your own hanging at the Video Music Awards because you “feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend” isn’t weird; it’s a time-tested career strategy, straight out of the shock-rock playbook.
As someone who took class with both Joe and Nicole, and had Dery has a professor, everything above and below is worth reading.
I’ll go ahead and say this is the best Gaga takedown yet, and all he’s really doing is calling her boring. He heads off claims of rockism and anything-phobia and somethousand words later, he’s just saying we deserve more. More weirder.
If you can get through the breathless prose and endless intellectual namedrops (a Dery cocktail is an acquired taste), you will learn something, guaranteed. It was fun getting cut off every time I developed the inklings of a counter-argument.
All I’m left with: Gaga for the hedonists, Gaga for the Lady Antebellum fans, Gaga for those who don’t give a flying fuck about semiotics, or at least not when they’re drunk. Gaga for the real thinkers won’t last, or at least doesn’t hold up, but she’s still the weirdest platinum artist and worldwide brand in decades, leaving Dery’s ending reference to her potential the real takeaway here. Let’s just not agree that everyone is whatever they claim to be, evidence or substance be damned, Dery seems to be saying. This piece feels late to the conversation, but it’s possible that if things go really right (or really wrong), it will end up being on the early side. Prescient, even.
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Oh my god I love Kadinsky.
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Cory Doctorow’s short essay on copyright’s 300th birthday. Totally awesome.
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