Diabolical-dialectical - A's Blog Thingy

"The Earth is listening" painting by Mikhail Pyaskovsky, USSR, 1988.

Inbread cats (Cats provided by lightrup, sk33t3r) 

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One’s regret is that society should be constructed on such a basis that man has been forced into a groove in which he cannot freely develop what is wonderful, and fascinating, and delightful in him

Why Are Rich People So Anxious?

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

"toward a provisional avant-garde" from a handbook of disappointed fate, anne boyer

That chapter is really saying, “If you do everything right, and you’re still living in a society that is deeply impacted by its hatred of the poor and its fear of precarity, you’re still going to create systems that punish, police, and profile.” And that’s the most frustrating place that people get to. Because then they’re like, “Well then, what do we do?” And they want me to give them a ten-point plan for creating better technologies. And I’m like, “Well, what we do is, join in social movements, and end poverty everywhere, and forever.” And I’m sorry that that’s a frustrating answer. But it’s the real answer.

The High-Tech Poorhouse

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