June 2013
15 posts
Do you want to know my feelings about Feminist Taylor Swift? →
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I am not sure why you would but I started to write a short thing about it and then I kind of wrote 500 very earnest words. About a joke twitter. I don’t know. I’m having a weird week.
lazz |>>>>: #feminist privacy concerns →
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lazz:
what i want to talk about is how governmental/corporate violations of privacy talk to chris kraus, marie calloway, and female confessional writing. how proponents of privacy speak to enthusiasts of exposure.
maybe this is passé but i think it’s fascinating that a politics of exposure is being…
Uh huh.
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I’m very into role-playing: when I crossdress, it is an overt way of showing people I’m playing a “character”. It raises awareness of the choices we make every minute of every day to be who we are. We are all playing roles.
[…]
What’s my motivation? I’m just trying to get to the core of these weird recreations we call the movies.
” —James Franco: why I recreated Psycho | Film | The Guardian
I should stop being shocked when James Franco finds new ways to annoy me.
Update re: possibly age-inappropriate polka dot dress:
A stranger at the bar basically just looked at me and identified that I was going to sing Blondie at karaoke, so I guess it sent the right message?
“I personally am not a shorts-wearing guy.”
—Bob Benson (via seanfennessey)
“Third, and maybe most interestingly, is that if separating downtown were possible, it would still be entirely selfish and irresponsible. A growing majority of the most troubled neighbourhoods in Toronto are in the suburban areas, mainly because those are increasingly the more affordable parts of Toronto. The proposal to erect a political wall has the whiff of white flight: The wards that Ford carried in the last election are places where ethnic “visible minorities” are an actual majority, while the downtown is more than 70 per cent white. All 13 of the city’s “priority neighbourhoods” are in the inner suburbs, where the average income is 30 per cent lower than in the old City of Toronto. So be careful how you discuss “these people” screwing up Toronto politics: De-amalgamation looks a lot like segregation by ethnicity and wealth.”
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A downtown separatist movement solves nothing | The Grid TO
This is pretty much why I feel uncomfortable w/ the de-amalgamation conversation?
When you realize that you probably haven’t had a cold for two months, you’ve just suddenly developed seasonal allergies.
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May 2013
17 posts
“And all of a sudden, one day, much more recently, there was Google Search By Image (no prizes for whomever named it). Somewhere deep in the thousands of parallel machines running searches, an algorithm had emerged for matching an image to exact and inexact versions of itself across the web. I know this makes it sound mystical.”
—Google’s Macchia – The New Inquiry
So I have been biking to work for the past few weeks (for combined reasons of cheapness, healthiness and trying not to be scared of stuff) and it has mostly been great, but today I noticed a thing that happens a lot.
So I’m you know, wearing my violet khakis and biking along with my satchel purse slung behind me, on a busy bike lane and this muscular guy wearing a technical t-shirt kind of cuts me off? Like he passes me on the left but then he starts to pull in front of me way too early so I actually have to slow down so I don’t hit him. Then he proceeds to bike along at basically my pace for the whole rest of the way to my work (like 15 minutes probably?). Obviously I don’t really know why this dude felt the need to aggressively pass me so he could ride at my pace but whatever.
Then, like three times, this thing happens: a dude on a racing bike pulls past me, and then pulls in between me, girly-girl, and this big athletic looking guy who is going basically exactly as fast as i am. So….that’s a thing.
