Juliana Hatfield: Physical

David Hockney: “Will It Ever Work?” (iPad drawing, 2011)

jaybushman : pdf version here

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Scott Conrad Kelly (@scottconradkelly) on Aug 29, 2017 at 1:18am PDT Scott Conrad Kelly: “Signs of the Times (2017). Mountain.”

Elon Musk and the Unnerving Influence of Twitter's Power Users : kenyatta : The perennial lesson of the internet is that it will forever find ways to subvert its egalitarian and democratic promise, delivering instead levels of inequality that would make North Korea blush . Musk is not personally responsible for turning Twitter into a celebrity-focused inequality engine, but he’s Exhibit A of why t

“ In his 1928 book, “Propaganda,” Edward Bernays — often described as the father of the modern public relations industry — explained that advertising propaganda is about social control: ‘The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an in

Vanishing Point: How the Light Grid Defined 1980s Futurism

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thexfilesgifs : 4.08 Tunguska I think about this moment every time Trump tried to impugn the FBI.

vintagecomputers : Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts , in 1983 by W. Daniel “Danny” Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hillis’s doctoral work at MIT on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial product known as the Connection Machine . The company moved in 1984 from Waltham to Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusett

“This is the feeling I cannot seem to shake, before the election and after. Like the shades of the Inferno, we suffer; and like them, we are desperate for respite, change, for news, and for something new. Yet everything new is a calamity, and the present seems further away than the past and future. Every day is a week, every week a month, every month a year. Our memories and our dread have a sudde

yorha-unit-moving : Paris is Burning (1990)

halorvic : “Man, repressing your feelings is great!”

“We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.” - Michael Crichton (Prey) (via ninjaruski )

“Facebook is refusing to release a copy of the animated “Hillary Thinks African Americans are Super Predators” advertisement, or any other ‘negative’ presidential political ad that it ran. Facebook is also refusing to release details about the gender, ethnic, or location targeting parameters of these ads. Until further review, its uncertain if these targeted political advertisements are fully comp

Made some more gifs of one of my all-time favorite funny things no one else seems to know about: Moby attempting to compose a theme song on Andy Dick’s old show. One of the many comedy gifts my wife has given me over the years.