May 2012
93 posts
Gawker Re: Schools Partnering with Banks
“This is the financial version of colleges selling Marlboro the exclusive rights to get students addicted to cigarettes. But potentially more expensive.”
I clicked on this because it showed a U of M student ID, thinking, “Ooh, what’s the scandal at my school?” Turns out it’s … partnering with TCF to let kids use their ID’s as TCF check cards. Yeah, I did that. And no, I wasn’t a young,...
“What does it then mean for the New Aestheticians to aggregate and curate the...”
– Rahel Aima, “Desiring Machines” (via thenewinquiry)
Robots are getting good at blogging.
things that happen when you date an alien (via...
• you have mild orgasms when he touches your hand, and may or may not get detention
• when you kiss you have a full orgasm and also see a screensaver of the planets, maybe even his interplanetary crash
• you get glowing hickies
• he sees cute memories from your childhood, like you with nice bangs and little lady dress and might need to stop kissing to feel less like a pedophile
what should i make a gif of now?
what exists in the world other than lana del rey? suggestions please.
Barack Obama Being Adorable with Adorable Children
Crushin’ on the President.
elliemce:
Obama 2012 even if just because of these pictures (but bc of other reasons too)
alexleo:
Future Work Skills 2020
i think you can get these by playing on the internet a lot and having friends from other countries ?
futurist-foresight:
The Institute for the Future released a report on future work skills that will be needed by 2020. They are:
Sense-making.
Social intelligence.
Novel and adaptive thinking.
Cross-cultural competency.
Computational thinking.
New-media literacy.
...
Most annoying things you can do when I unsubscribe...
• Say “No don’t go!” when I click “unsubscribe.”
• Bring me to a huge list of options for communications from your company that I have to read for 5 minutes, none of which is just “unsubscribe.”
• Make me sign in and give you my email again before unsubscribing
JUST LET ME UNSUBSCRIBE AND DON’T EMAIL ME EVERYDAY ANYWAY UNLESS YOU ARE MY BESTEST...
Someone answers the Q: I have privilege, so what...
Read the whole thing here (although there are extensive flower metaphors)
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practice saying “not cool, dude” when someone says something racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.
don’t make racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. jokes or comments yourself, even if you’re pretty sure no one from the targeted group is around (especially then).
when someone says “that thing you said was not cool, dude,”...
