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This blog contains what I think might be "big ideas," regardless of subject area. There is a bit of my own writings as well, from those rare times I overcome distraction. A pathological optimist's attempt to direct the river of information towards new ways of thinking. Also, memes.

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Digital Journalism: How Good Is It?

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I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. // Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer (via mcdonatravels)

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How magical thinking haunts our everyday language, and fossilised ideas live on in even the most sophisticated science

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In some ways it was easier for my generation. Racism was blatant and obvious. The “Whites Only” signs let us know clearly, what we were up against. Not much has changed, but the system of lies and trickology is much more sophisticated. Today young people have to be highly informed and acutely analytical, or they will be swept up into a whirlpool of lies and deception.

Assata Shakur, Honey Magazine debut issue (1998)

My friend shared this quote with me today and I instantly remembered another great quote from Assata Shakur that I feel is crucial to be absorbed when reading the quote above “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free”. 

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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice that make philanthropy necessary.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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A bank's earnings are a quantum event; they are entirely probabilistic, and the answer you get depends on who's doing the observing. You make some guesses with some degree of statistical likelihood, and then you apply one of a half-dozen accounting regimes to the guesses, and you get a number, and then you're like, ooh, look at this number, it's so numeric.

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Are you a Millennial? Are you politically independent?

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We Come Together To Make the World Fun! (2012)

acrylic gouache on paper, 22 x 30 in (56 x 76 cm).

by Kzyndan