Wow. Just wow.
Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.
So says MPAA chief, former US Senator, and apparent extortionist Chris Dodd.
MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren’t Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought | Techdirt
Really? ‘Nerds’? You know, actually, I think the word you’re looking for is ‘experts,’ to enlighten you so your laws won’t backfire and break the Internet.
JON STEWART, on members of Congress considering the SOPA and PIPA bills exasperatedly calling for “nerds” to help them understand SOPA and PIPA, on The Daily Show.
Why does Congress bother convening at all?
(via inothernews)
Emergency NY Tech Meetup #StopSOPA #StopPipa
Maurizio Cattelan @ the Guggenheim (Taken with instagram)
Trailer for the new Wes Anderson - Moonrise Kingdom
“Witnessing this was a draining feeling being terrified for other people’s lives all day long, it’s life or death. Letting go of that rope one time can change your life and not many people will ever experience that in their life.” - Kelly Slater
“The Future Belongs to the Curious”
Great work by @Skillshare
Nicole Thomas, 23, an art director from Brooklyn, said she nearly cried when Timehop reminded her of her good fortune in landing a job last year. Austin Sevener, 26, a survey programmer in Fort Worth, said he hadn’t realized that he had bought his wedding ring on the same day as a lunar eclipse.
It is “the same instinct that drives people to write diaries,” said Jonathan Wegener, 26, a Web entrepreneur in Brooklyn, who started the site with Benny Wong, also 26, a programmer. “That desire to sort of capture a moment in time and capture your thinking and your world so that you can look back on it later.”
Unlike Facebook’s controversial new timeline feature, which makes a user’s Facebook history more readily viewable by friends (including those embarrassing old college photos), Timehop is more private, since the e-mails are sent only to the subscriber.
Aram Sinnreich, an assistant professor of media studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., said that Timehop is part of “a radically new moment in our cultural history” emerging around what he called “the quantified self.” A new wave of Web applications, he said, is empowering people to track, sort and analyze their own online behavior — in much the same way that Web sites and advertisers already track and analyze consumers.
It’s also changing how we view ourselves. “We are beginning to see ourselves not just from the inside, as an actor doing something on a daily basis, but from the outside — understanding what we look like to the world around us and developing a kind of hybrid identity,” Dr. Sinnreich said.
David Fraga, a business developer for Shutterstock, a photo agency in New York, said that using Timehop has made him more conscious of the future memories he is creating on social media sites like Facebook. “I’m not just sharing with friends but also with my future self,” he said.
Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
Make no mistake: These bills aren’t simply unconstitutional, they are anticonstitutional. They would allow for the wholesale elimination of entire websites, domain names, and chunks of the DNS (the underlying structure of the whole Internet), based on nothing more than the “good faith” assertion by a single party that the website is infringing on a copyright of the complainant. The accused doesn’t even have to be aware that the complaint has been made.
I’m not kidding.
