A bunch of things I’ve found on my digital strolls (which I added to my Tumblr) for your eyes and ears plus brain to spend time on (as no longer on Twitter).
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“Creativity is just deviance put to good use. It, too, seems to be decreasing. A few years ago, I analyzed a bunch of data and found that all popular forms of art had become “oligopolies”: fewer and fewer of the artists and franchises own more and more of the market. Before 2000, for instance, only about 25% of top-grossing movies were prequels, sequels, spinoffs, etc. Now it’s 75%.”
The Decline of Deviance – by Adam Mastroianni
“Digital ID regimes strip privacy from everyone and further marginalize those seeking asylum or undocumented people. They are pursued as a technological solution to offline problems but instead allow the state to determine what you can access, not just verify who you are, by functioning as a key to opening—or closing—doors to essential services and experiences.”
The UK Has It Wrong on Digital ID. Here’s Why. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
“There’s a word for this and it’s not being “resilient” in the face of failure, it’s antifragility. Where you get stronger because of it. The great thing is once you learn this (and we mean really internalize it and accept it), something shifts. You start getting very grateful for all your failures, large or small.
“I’m glad I got fired – I never would have founded my company”
“I’m glad I never got into Harvard – I never would have met my husband at UCLA”
“I’m glad I got sick – I never would have stopped.””
Thank you, shitshow – Gapingvoid
“The most valuable real estate in the world is the graveyard. There lie millions of half-written books, ideas never launched, and talents never developed. Most people die with everything still inside of them. The way to live is to create. Die empty.”
Here’s how to live: Create. | Derek Sivers
“Brain and psychology researchers are delving into how slides down the moral slope begin and what keeps them going. Initially we may be horrified at the thought of lying, cheating or hurting someone. But as we engage in wrongdoing over and over, our brains tend to grow numb to it. It’s harder to embezzle or kill for the first time than it is for the tenth.
Yet moral snowballing can also happen in the opposite direction. Surprisingly, just as neural habituation can drive ethical collapse, it can also drive escalating spirals of virtue, in which one honest or brave action makes the next one easier to carry out. And because our brains adapt to repeated behaviors, movement in a given moral direction can persist—making it all the more critical to pinpoint where and how that movement begins.”
What Brain Science Reveals about Ethical Decline and Moral Growth | Scientific American
WATCH
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Raw Dogging Boredom – Do Nothing On Purpose, a site to watch time tick away.
Check out and play with WigglyPaint – Free Animated Drawing Tool & GIF Creator.
Check out the free (for both personal & commercial use) of Butler the serif typeface from Fabian De Smet.
Check out stickertop.art for a ”unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world.”
Explore the world of hues via Color Palette Pro, an online free resource to play with palettes and combinations.