Brad Barrish

I don’t work well with people I don’t like, or with people who don’t seem to get what I want. If it seems like a lack of skill, poor communication, or incompatible design taste are blocking the progress toward what I desire, I can’t abide it.
Vesper Review: Collect Your Thoughts
Most online experiences are made, like fast food, to be cheap, easy, and addictive: appealing to our hunger for connection but rarely serving up nourishment. Shrink-wrapped junk food experiences are handed to us for free by social media companies, and we swallow them up eagerly, like kids given buckets of candy with ads on all the wrappers.
Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World . Our Digital Crisis

bombtune:

While we are interested in genuine, human connections, VSCO Grid™ is not a social network. You’ll notice an absence of standard social network fare: comments, reblogs, number of followers, etc. We hope people discover new creatives and their work, but VSCO Grid™ is focused on craft, curation and content, and less on followers and likes.

Can’t wait for my VSCO grid. 

I’d never heard of VSCO CAM until now. Might have to give it shot. 

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Maxistentialism: Julian Assange: [Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen] offer an...

Maxistentialism: Julian Assange: [Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen] offer an…

maxistentialist:

Julian Assange:

The advance of information technology epitomized by Google heralds the death of privacy for most people and shifts the world toward authoritarianism. While Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Cohen tell us that the death of privacy will aid governments in “repressive autocracies” in “targeting their citizens,” they also say governments in “open” democracies will see it as “a gift” enabling them to “better respond to citizen and customer concerns.” In reality, the erosion of individual privacy in the West and the attendant centralization of power make abuses inevitable, moving the “good” societies closer to the “bad” ones.