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The Culture of Shut Up

“Win the argument; don’t declare the argument too offensive to be won.” – The Culture of Shut Up

Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level – NYTimes.com

“Mr. Klein, hoping to avoid incrementalism — “the biggest source of waste is everything the journalist has written before today,” he said — instead wants his journalists responsible for constantly updating pages that are the ultimate resource on a topic. “It would be like a wiki page written by one person with a little attitude,” explained Ms. Bell.

To help accomplish this, the developers have…

Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level – NYTimes.com

“the rich graphic interface and facile reader interaction have helped Vox earn a reputation for quality and attract a highly desirable audience: its largest demographic is educated households run by 18- to 34-year olds with incomes over $100,000. // a platform for the 1% of 18 to 34 year olds. Seriously, what percentage of households under 34 are making that kind of dough?” – Vox Takes Melding of…

Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas: When property becomes smart

“Currency is an invented unit of value. Property, on the other hand, is the world, being valued. Smart property, if it becomes a success, could put the entire authority by which the world is valued beyond our understanding, including the ground beneath our feet, the water that we drink, the air that we breathe.” – Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas: When property becomes smart

“We could all render a 3D scene with ease. But when asked to do basic tasks like jump from Point A to Point B in a Nintendo 64 game, I watched my female friends fall short.” – http://ift.tt/1hlCXom

So You Think You’re Smarter Than A CIA Agent

“access to classified information doesn’t automatically and necessarily give you an edge over a smart group of average citizens doing Google searches from their kitchen tables.” – So You Think You’re Smarter Than A CIA Agent

So You Think You’re Smarter Than A CIA Agent

“First, if you want people to get better at making predictions, you need to keep score of how accurate their predictions turn out to be, so they have concrete feedback.” – So You Think You’re Smarter Than A CIA Agent

“In this atmosphere of religious fundamentalism, separatist desire, and organized revolutionary violence, Oktar grew bored with his interior design classes.” – http://ift.tt/1jTrN1L

“since when did daily issues have nothing to do with ideology?” – http://ift.tt/ODKrMY

“‘We are not doing this because we want to, driven by theory or ideology … We are doing this because we have to.’ – David Cameron” – http://ift.tt/ODKrMY

The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

“[Hacker preservationists:] Through meticulous infiltration, UX members have carried out shocking acts of cultural preservation and repair, with an ethos of “restoring those invisible parts of our patrimony that the government has abandoned or doesn’t have the means to maintain.”” – The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

Pope Francis says the Internet is a ‘gift from God’ – latimes.com (via new-aesthetic)

“The digital world can be an environment rich in humanity, a network not of wires but of people,” said Francis, adding: “The Internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.” – Pope Francis says the Internet is a ‘gift from God’ – latimes.com (via new-aesthetic)

What to Do If You’re Falling Out of Love With New York

“even though we all know New York is a terrible place for creative types, it is also a wonderful place for creative types, because sometimes people show up at 11pm on a Wednesday to watch grown adults roll around on a floor in the east 30s.” – What to Do If You’re Falling Out of Love With New York

“Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.” – http://ift.tt/OfYCry

#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics

“Platforms are the in­fra­struc­ture of global so­ciety. They es­tab­lish the basic para­meters of what is pos­sible, both be­ha­vi­our­ally and ideo­lo­gic­ally. In this sense, they em­body the ma­terial tran­scend­ental of so­ciety: they are what make pos­sible par­tic­ular sets of ac­tions, re­la­tion­ships, and powers. While much of the cur­rent global plat­form is biased to­wards…

#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics

“We be­lieve that any post-​capitalism will re­quire post-​capitalist plan­ning. The faith placed in the idea that, after a re­volu­tion, the people will spon­tan­eously con­sti­tute a novel so­cioeco­nomic system that isn’t simply a re­turn to cap­it­alism is naïve at best, and ig­norant at worst. To fur­ther this, we must de­velop both a cog­nitive map of the ex­isting system and a…