May 2013
What Yahoo Bought with a Billion Dollars: Hope
newyorker:
It’s too early to say whether Yahoo will screw up Tumblr—by making it ugly, by introducing terrible advertising, by obscuring its wealth of adult content, or by simply casting a pall over it so great that the site’s fickle younger users abandon it. It’s also too early to say whether Yahoo screwed up by buying Tumblr, whose explosive growth has slowed of late, according to Quantcast...
if there is one thing...
navigatethestream:
its the notion of boycotts
you wanna know why the bus boycotts of the civil rights movement were so successful?
because an alternative black run transportation system was created for those who couldn’t walk to work or whatever they had to go
they didn’t just tell people “oh the bus enforces racist policies so don’t take it and FUCK if you can’t get to work on time or where...
“In one 1962 survey roughly 90 percent of White people believed Black children...”
– (Unpacking the Snowflake - Kevin M. Hemer)
In 1962— before Civil Rights legislation, when Black people were literally having their houses bombed for moving into white neighborhoods, and Black neighborhoods were being bombed in entirety for having nice houses, white people were literally releasing...
taxidermy: all the cool kids do it: Nonlinear... →
referenceforwriters:
For those not familiarized with the term: Memento? Homestuck? 500 Days of Summer?
Nonlinear Storytelling: what it is, examples in film, literature, and videogames. Pretty much the basics and probably what you already know.
Story structure: graphic examples…
fuckyeahcracker:
Again, white people have been wrong about racism for the last more than a hundred years.
Why would People of Color all of the sudden magically have no understanding of what racism is, and the majority of white people suddenly have all the wisdom and knowledge about racism when the majority of white people have literally always in this country’s history not been aware enough...
