… One powerful, but underutilized approach is to build community-based cooperative businesses. This model delivers increased earnings, provides better benefits, and creates asset building opportunities for low-wage workers. What’s more, it is a model that has proven to be a workable solution during this challenging economic time because it creates the very economic activity that generates opportunity for workers. …
I never said there was anything wrong with being blonde. Blonde is a brilliant colour. I simply stated that there needed to be more of Rapunzel’s brunette style. :P :P :P
Isn’t Reese witherspoon old enough to portray a presidential candidate where is Legally Blonde: Commander In Chic I’m not fucking playing around
Yes, the Bechdel Test. It’s named for Alison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes. I have one called the Sexy Lamp Test, which is, if you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you’re a hack.
she was special and unique because unlike other girls she read a book and drank a tea and didnt talk about clothes
young adult authors everywhere (via klefable)
#she wasn’t pretty like the other girls but she was skinny and white and conventionally attractive
(via ladysaviours)
#she was also the hetero and she liked to look at the stars at night
(via thedeliverygay)
#she was clumsy and awkward but not in a determental way only a cute way#she didn’t like to talk to other girls bc they liked frivolous things that she was above
(via starkweek)
#And she was an old soul who raised herself, also her eyes were deep pools
(via sailoreuterpe)
#And she didn’t wear makeup but it was okay because she had flawless skin anyway
(via insidiousmisandry)
#Additionally she was so kooky and crazy, but only the adorable, functioning in life kind, where she built little paper ships and put them on her head #not the extreme-ocd-i-am-unable-to-leave-the-house or i-have-panic-attacks-and-it-feels-like-i-am-dying way.
(via tuesunefraise)
#She could say <3 out loud #with perfect pronunciation and though not every guy melted #that one loner guy who played by his own rules who had built a tower of ice around his soul was warmed by her quirky campiness.
(via sleepyvolf)
As Cory Doctorow once wrote, the computer is a machine for copying bits at zero marginal cost, and a business model that depends on stopping people from copying bits is doomed to failure. So the people who hounded Aaron Swartz to his death did so, not even in the realistic hope of victory, but out of the same vindictive impulse that drives a defeated invader to inflict one more indignity on the violated country on its way out. Aaron Swartz was not the last man to die for a “mistake,” but — let us hope — the last atrocity inflicted by a criminal aggressor.
As the publishing industry struggles to figure out a sustainable business model in the digital age, crowdfunded journalism projects have been taking off in droves on Kickstarter, where more and more would-be and wannabe publishers are launching successful campaigns to get their projects off the ground. Whether these projects will thrive or fizzle remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: Crowdfunding’s potential to launch new publishing startups is something journalists can no longer ignore.
And they’re not. …
… What makes Bitcoin so interesting is that it flies in the face of payment models that we’re used to today; it’s a push model rather than a pull one. When you give a website your credit card and billing information to buy something, the company is pulling money out of your account. Giving up that personal information isn’t the safest thing, and Bitcoin allows you to “push” the money to a company to buy something. This means that no personally identifiable information goes with it, making eventual identity theft and fraud nearly impossible during the transaction. …
Once you’ve recognized that textbooks are just an assemblage of resources and that, in a digital world, there’s no reason to bind it together and publish these en masse, then I think you can see a path to liberation from that industry model. You can disassemble, reassemble, unbundle, disrupt, destroy the textbook. It is truly an irrelevant format.
The entire system depends on this generation for its grunt work. The post-industrial, informational model of corporate capitalism depends heavily on what McKenzie Wark called the “Hacker Class.” Even in authoritarian institutions like the NSA, the cubicles are riddled with the kind of people who, like Snowden, would have Electronic Frontier Foundation stickers on their laptops. The Hacker Class is governed largely by its own set of mores, largely corresponding to Pekka Himmanen’s “Hacker Ethos.” They include an increased desire for autonomy, a blurring of the lines between work and play, a belief that a “good hack” is its own reward, and a strong resentment of interference by pointy-haired bosses.
