tangles something something.

"it could be that this is some degree of sexism . m.i.a. had to deal with this with the respected..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:13:29 -0400

“it could be that this is some degree of sexism . m.i.a. had to deal with this with the respected website pitchfork.com where they assumed that diplo had produced all of her kala album without reading any credit list or nothing , it just had to be , it couldn´t have been m.i.a. herself ! it feel like still today after all these years people cannot imagine that woman can write , arrange or produce electronic music . i have had this experience many many times that the work i do on the computer gets credited to whatever male was in 10 meter radius during the job . people seem to accept that women can sing and play whatever instrument they are seen playing .but they cannot program , arrange , produce , edit or write electronic music .”

- Björk, on sexism in the electronic music genre (via radioheadofficial)

trying to find some inspiration for new music, sometimes my...

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:47:00 -0400

trying to find some inspiration for new music, sometimes my bedroom window helps

edit: not just even music just new things, anythings.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 09:37:32 -0400

redstarpolitics: A very relevant analogy in any discussion...

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:46:02 -0400

redstarpolitics:

A very relevant analogy in any discussion about equality.

“Racists suggested that black and brown people people were simply not capable of running...

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:14:14 -0400

“Racists suggested that black and brown people people were simply not capable of running countries, were inherently lazy, or corrupt, or both. They could not be trusted in countries like Vietnam to make their own choices; across Africa intervention was needed in terms of arms not troops. Latin america was looked down on with concern from Washington from where strings began to be pulled in earnest, most obviously in Chile in 1973. The underlying rhetoric all the time was that these people needed ‘help’, that providing such ‘help’ was the continued ‘white man’s burden’, that richer countries needed to indirectly rule those not so white, especially if they might turn to socialism or communism. As elitist thoughts were sustained in rich nations through the 1950s, and exclusion of the poor became tolerated again in the 1960s at home, in the 1970s the rich began to see their destiny as to rule, but now through intervention, co-option and conversion rather than directly through colonial mandate. And they called this leadership”

Daniel Dorling again.

the hardening of souls

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:57:05 -0400

“Childhoods across the rich world had been, in general, traumatic just a couple of generations ago, in an environment that fostered unthinking behaviour. Children were to be seen and not heard, often abandoned, regularly beaten and systematically terrorised to such and extent that the majority of children were what we would now consider abused. Children who were abused can, in adulthood , make good, sometimes racist, bullies. Now in affluent countries far fewer children are brought up in these ways, but sadly many still suffer trauma, not just from abuse, but from events such as having the misfortune of experiencing the death of one of their parents early in their childhood, with insufficient care taken over their welfare subsequently. That can harden people. When the poor are hardened they teach their toddlers to fight, to harden them in turn, and often find ideas such as racism attractive.”

really enjoying Daniel Dorling’s book: “Injustice. why social inequality persists”

Liberalism is thinking you earned your privileges.

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:41:18 -0400

looks like grothendieck’s demons chased him onto his notes

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:41:40 -0400

looks like grothendieck’s demons chased him onto his notes

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Wed, 01 May 2013 09:34:33 -0400

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Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:06:47 -0400

slay-z: zora is my favorite ever and this quote is my favorite...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:38:09 -0400

slay-z:

zora is my favorite ever and this quote is my favorite ever

“I would like to suggest that, whoever you are, wherever you are, whether you are a student,...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:14:10 -0400

“I would like to suggest that, whoever you are, wherever you are, whether you are a student, an academic, whether you are a worker, whether you are a person involved in your church, whether you are an artist, there are always ways to gear your work towards progressive, radical transformation”

Angela Davis

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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:57:15 -0400

"If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing..."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:10:47 -0400

“If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.”

- Emma Watson, Trailblazer Honoree, MTV Movie Awards 2013 (via meetthedarkmark)

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:01:21 -0400

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:22:30 -0400

"This year a black person has died on average every 40 hours at the hands of a police officer or — though to a lesser extent — a security guard or vigilante. In 1892, when lynchings reached their peak in the United States, a black person was strung up on average every 54 hours."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:20:37 -0400

"This year a black person has died on average every 40 hours at the hands of a police officer or — though to a lesser extent — a security guard or vigilante. In 1892, when lynchings reached their peak in the United States, a black person was strung up on average every 54 hours."

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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:53:43 -0400

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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:24:12 -0400

"After spending all day in school, our children are forced to begin a second shift, with more..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:53:07 -0400

“After spending all day in school, our children are forced to begin a second shift, with more academic assignments to be completed at home. This arrangement is rather odd when you stop to think about it, as is the fact that few of us ever do stop to think about it.
Instead of assuming that homework should be a given, or that it allegedly benefits children, I’ve spent the last few years reviewing the available research and talking to parents, teachers and students. My findings can be summarized in seven words: Homework is all pain and no gain.
The pain is obvious to kids but isn’t always taken seriously by adults. Backpacks stuffed with assignments leave students exhausted, frustrated, less interested in intellectual pursuits and lacking time to do things they enjoy. “Most of what homework is doing,” says literacy expert Harvey Daniels, “is driving kids away from learning.”
We parents, meanwhile, turn into nags. After being away from our children all day, the first words out of our mouths, sadly, may be: “So, did you finish your homework?” One mother told me it permanently damaged her relationship with her son because it forced her to be an enforcer rather than a mom.
The surprising news, though, is that there are virtually no pros to balance the cons. Even if you regard grades or test scores as good measures of learning, which I do not, doing homework has no statistical relationship to achievement in elementary school. In high school, some studies do find a correlation between homework and test scores, but it’s usually fairly small. And in any case, it’s far from clear that the former causes the latter. And if you’re wondering, not a single study has ever supported the folk wisdom that homework teaches good work habits or develops positive character traits such as self-discipline, responsibility or independence.”

- Alfie Kohn, The Case Against Homework (via thislifeunforgiven)

Shit I knew in school but was unable to articulate.

(via catbountry)