Who was your first celebrity crush?
Submitted by Glory.
I remember being 4 or 5 years old. I was reading something, maybe a newspaper or a magazine, and thinking she was pretty.
Who was your first celebrity crush?
Submitted by Glory.
I remember being 4 or 5 years old. I was reading something, maybe a newspaper or a magazine, and thinking she was pretty.
Corey Robin on the ‘Historovox’: What We Missed About Trump
The task is not to provide useful knowledge to the present; it is to insist on, to keep a record of, the most seemingly useless counter-knowledge from the past — for the sake of an as-yet-to-be imagined future.
Stored on: 2019-02-20 18:58
Tags: #history #journalism #politics #media #president #dc #academia #publishing #writing #documentary
NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy | WIRED
"We need to put more pressure on social media," Bay says, "to address these vulnerabilities that can be used for the detriment of national security for individuals and for society as a whole."
Stored on: 2019-02-20 14:51
Tags: #military #nato #europe #socialmedia #security #surveillance #war #attention #data #privacy
Barber's 'Adagio' Is Not The Saddest Music In The World : NPR
"What we're finding in our own work," she says, "is that the sort of story you hear in any particular excerpt of music says a lot about your background and the cultural world you had coming into that experience."
Stored on: 2019-02-13 16:25
Tags: #music #classical #classicalmusic #september11 #dance #pop #history #aesthetics #story #culture
I Can Only Sleep When I’m Alone
The truth is that even if I have to sleep alone, I still can find my way to sleep these days, and that’s what really matters. I might never sleep great next to a warm body again. I’m mostly okay with that.
Stored on: 2019-02-12 20:45
Tags: #health #relationships #love #attention #sex #marriage #sleep #memory
I Didn’t Understand Perfume Until I Fell in Love
I’m still not very good at being a person. I still use perfume as a scaffold to hold myself together. But I remember the way my wife’s wrists smell next to mine, the subtle differences inside the joint experience, and I think: maybe I’m learning.
Stored on: 2019-02-12 20:26
Tags: #identity #relationships #love #beauty #attention #science #marketing #business
“Zucked” author Roger McNamee on Kara Swisher podcast Recode Decode - Recode
And the point I’m making is that these guys have changed the economy so profoundly with their surveillance or with this business model, that it’s one of those situations where there’s a before and an after.
Stored on: 2019-02-12 20:20
Tags: #surveillance #facebook #social #socialmedia #socialnetworking #podcasting #books #media #politics #business
Tarell Alvin McCraney on 'High Flying Bird,' Sports, and Masculinity - The Atlantic
“[The players] accept in some cases hefty financial gain, but sometimes lose the ability to advocate. Whatever the political bent of team owners, team players were expected to capitulate toward that vantage point.”
Stored on: 2019-02-11 18:31
Tags: #sports #men #power #business #iphone #film #cinema #movies #labor #marketing #gender
Warren and Klobuchar demonstrate the fundamental divide among Democrats - The Washington Post
And so, when they run for president, candidates can’t just pick a message off the shelf; it has to come from who they are and what they believe in.
Stored on: 2019-02-11 15:39
Tags: #democrats #messaging #identity #politics #2020 #elections #election
Stanford sociologists explore who does, and doesn’t, want a DNA ancestry test
“The history and timing of migration to the U.S. weakened family ties for some people more than others,” said Horowitz, lead author of the paper, who received his PhD in sociology at Stanford. “Genetic ancestry testing is marketed to relieve uncertainty,” he said.
Stored on: 2019-02-11 13:30
Tags: #population #usa #marketing #business #corporations #health #identity #race #ethnicity #immigration
Ex-Cons Create ‘Instagram for Prisons,’ and Wardens Are Fine With That: Bloomberg Technology
“When you first go in [to prison], people keep in touch for a month or so and then they start to forget,” Levine says. “They’ll take photos and leave them sitting in the camera instead of printing them out and there’s no way to turn it into something tangible without a lot of effort. We are trying to make it easier for people who are walking around all day with a smartphone in their pocket, not a typewriter or a pen and paper.”
Stored on: 2019-02-06 19:57
Tags: #crime #social #socialnetworking #photography #attention #mobile #technology
2 Comments
[this is good]
Man I just went though puberty all over again… Uhm.. thanks?
Diana Rigg from “The Avengers”
Diahann Carroll from “Julia”