“I think anyone who’s perfectly happy isn’t particularly funny.”
Joan Rivers, 1933-2014
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Bitcoin is going to change the world more than the internet did
Think of the cellphone. There were never more than 1.2 billion landlines. Then the cellphone came and we’re at 6.3 billion. Why? It’s not because only those people wanted to communicate. The landlines were all post-pay. You need to have credit to get one. The cell phones were pre-paid. Suddenly you could get one with cash. It had nothing to do with technology. It was an economic restriction. Now there are 1.5 billion bank accounts, same threshold as land lines. I think bitcoin will allow us to see 6.3 billion people banking on their cell phones. That’s what’s so exciting to me. That’s a much better world than we have today.
It’s easy to see bitcoin as a fluke, but these numbers demonstrate why it’s such a powerful idea. Regardless of what happens with mobile technology, when digital currency is figured »
In Marcel Duchamp’s wildest dreams, do you think he ever imagined we’d be printing and singing our own “Fountain” urinals?
Good Early Afternoon
If he were still alive today Duchamp would love this.
Finally found out who took these photos, Fan Ho. Also happens to be publishing a new book.
Day 1
And so it begins. We have just set off on a 27-hour journey across America, from New York City straight across Route 80 to Boulder, Colorado. The stories, people and adventures that lay ahead in the unknown are already unraveling before us. #bbcpopup
Woo! So excited to see what develops!
It’s easier to fight the external aggressor than it is to fight someone who looks like you [Barack Obama]. We have to grapple with this until enough people become convinced that it’s not about individuals and that it’s about institutions and systems of oppression. I don’t think most people yet see it that way. We struggle to try to help people understand that it’s not about individuals. It’s about white supremacy, capitalist oppression and imperialism. But the majority does not share the radical consciousness we try to imbue. Black consciousness is oppositional, but oppositional does not necessarily mean radical. Oppositional means that people have a clear enough perspective that allows them to see an injustice and maybe a set of injustices and the desire to change those injustices. A radical consciousness requires a change of an entire system. And people »
Seems like I’m always reblogging every frame a painting.
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Zardoz, Breaking Bad, & the Fonz jumping the shark. #portlandadultsoapboxderby (at Mount Tabor)
Eric Schlosser’s new book, Command and Control, is a critical look at the history of our nuclear weapons systems—and a terrifying account of the fires, explosions, false attack alerts, and accidentally dropped bombs that plagued America’s military throughout the Cold War.
In today’s interview Schlosser tells us about the early nuclear weapons and the destruction of Hiroshima:
“Early nuclear weapons were essentially handmade. … In the case of Hiroshima, the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was an incredibly crude and inefficient weapon. When it exploded, about 99 percent of the uranium that was supposed to undergo this chain reaction didn’t — it just blew apart in the air. And a very small percentage, maybe 2 percent of the fissile material, actually detonated — and most of it just became other radioactive elements.
So when you look »
A girl from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in Iraq, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing. More Editor’s Choice photos from around the world: http://reut.rs/Vr6olG