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Burning Calories

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These iconic creators of such platforms like Mark Zuckerberg are worshiped in our society as peaceful innovators with only good intentions. But the truth is very different

These iconic creators of such platforms like Mark Zuckerberg are worshiped in our society as peaceful innovators with only good intentions. But the truth is very different

"I hope Gosling has seen them and liked them, and I hope he isn’t going to get tormented by people with spoons for the rest of his career"

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"It’s a strange reversal. For most of history, the poor would have eaten the local pigs and known the origin of their socks, and the rich had better access to a global marketplace. But changing elite tastes and the relentless efficiency of supply chains have slowly inverted tastes: In many categories, the poor now buy from the exotic unknown, and the rich insist on what can be traced, from the pig next door to the locally sewn sock"

The Hidden Costs of Buying on the Cheap

John Maus - And The Rain

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"Dubai’s advantage over the rest of the world was its willingness to accept the total irrelevance but cosmetic necessity of countries. It could be every country, no country, and its own very particular kind of country, all at once"

Urban Planting

"Though its commercial resurgence is small in absolute terms, the vinyl record is one of the key modern cultural commodities on which these loose and elusive cultural properties are fixed and stabilised. In short, the vinyl record is a perfect example of how a mechanically reproducible product can become an iconic signifier full of references. It shows that aura of authenticity is not reducible to any one notion of originality or uniqueness but is instead constituted relationally in contingent social performances."

Vinyl: The Analogue Medium in the Age of Digital Reproduction

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"The question is how we react to this great prejudice against women. The rule of law and social activism certainly are crucial. But no matter how strong the social structure, there is always that cheek-slapped moment when you are alone with the anti-woman prejudice: the joke, the leer, the disregard, the invisibility, the inescapable fact that the moment you walk through the door you are seen as lesser, no matter what your credentials"

How to Be a ‘Woman Programmer’

"What must be obvious to most by now is that Ford has never seemed comfortable in his own skin as mayor. At worst, he may have unaddressed substance-abuse issues that are ruining his career, his reputation, and could ultimately threaten his life. At best, he seems to share the same predicament described more than a century ago by L. Frank Baum about another gentleman whose ascent in the world exceeded his abilities. He is not a bad man; he is just a very bad mayor for a cosmopolitan city with a budget of about $10 billion a year"

Will Rob Ford’s latest trouble crack Ford Nation?
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