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wilwheaton:

I watch TV and read the papers like everyone else. We know what we’re going to hear: vague platitudes like “tough vote” and “complicated issue.” I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress. I know what a complicated issue is; I know what it feels like to take a tough vote. This was neither. These senators made their decision based on political fear and on cold calculations about the money of special interests like the National Rifle Association, which in the last election cycle spent around $25 million on contributions, lobbying and outside spending.

Our democracy’s history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate — people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.

Very powerful op-ed from Gabby Giffords in yesterday’s NYTimes.

wilwheaton:

More #TabletopDay awesomeness

I was talking with my pal and Tabletop Day Super Make It All Happen Guy, Boyan, a bit earlier…

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parislemon:

wilwheaton:

rurone:

Yessss

I have no words to express how much I love these.

Amazing.

Wow

(Source: rocknrollercoaster)

parislemon:

christmasgorilla:

From Tyler Surfboards, courtesy of Lane Wood.

So true.

Yep

Andrew Mason, in his letter to Groupon employees following his ouster. (Which he posted publicly because “it will leak anyway”.)

A brilliant and refreshingly straightforward way to exit.

Nice one

It’s always important to learn the lesson that leads you to this point.

(Source: pushthemovement, via quotehimonthat)

wildcat2030:

These 3-D Portraits Were Created Using Only A Person’s DNA

Stranger Visions is an art project which tries to determine what we look like based on a single strand of hair.

How much information about ourselves do we leave behind in public, as we shed saliva, hair, and sweat throughout the day? It’s a question that drives the artwork of Heather Dewey-Hagborg, whose project Stranger Visions reconstructs the faces of the anonymous as 3-D printed sculptures, using genetic detritus found in chewing gum, cigarette butts, and wads of hair around New York City. (via 7 | These 3-D Portraits Were Created Using Only A Person’s DNA | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation)

(via emergentfutures)

emergentfutures:

Paul Higgins: Totally agree - it will provide improvements but not utopia. It will allow finer grained analysis of stuff and patterns we cannot current see but it is not going to change complexity theory

stoweboyd:

Not too long ago, I expressed some disbelief about the techno-utopianism that seems to surround discussions of big data.

Stowe Boyd, Re: The Future Impact Of Big Data

Unconstrained and dynamic complex systems — like our society, the economic system of Europe, or the Earth’s weather — are…

(Source: Wired)

buzzfeed:

The IMDB 404 Error Page is amazing.

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