The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet it is the greatest of our miseries. - Pascal Met the creator of this video at a Media Ecology conference a few years ago. The idea comes from the book Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman. Read it.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes LGBT people in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. – MLK My niece will look back on this moment in our history in her textbooks with disgust at the treatment [...]

    FTW wildguess:. h/t to Sara for this.

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Was reminded of a conversation I had with a good friend and colleague when I saw this. To his credit, he was talking about this over 2 years ago before anyone really gave a shit. Go Andrew. Though back then we were concerned with what would essentially be virtual sweatshops (i.e. labor goes in but [...]

The revolution will not (just) be televised.

via Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks | Video on TED.com. Your network and your place in it matters more than you might think.