March 2012
0 posts
How Companies Learn Your Secrets →
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 |... →
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 →
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... →
“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...
January 2012
6 posts
those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
—voltaire
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing... →
Neatly explains why 98% of the corporations in our lives are steaming piles of shit.
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 →
“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...
i don’t try to describe the future. i try to prevent it.
—ray bradbury