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Littering the blargh-o-sphere.

Permalink natashavc: YOU WERE TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THIS WORLD. 
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Can I make a confession? I was late to the NSA story because I was trying to avoid Game of Thrones spoilers and I thought Edward Snowden was a character on the show.

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If Snowden had surrendered himself to U.S. authorities, he almost certainly would have faced charges that carry penalties of decades in prison. He might have rationally feared being subject to years of pretrial detention and the kind of degrading treatment Manning faced. And if he had chosen to fight the charges, he would have risked spending decades in prison if he lost.

Permalink “Children today will grow up with no concept of the right to privacy and in fact not understand the need for it. Because the Facebook generation is not concerned with what people know about them … they will have no problem with additional governmental supervision, spying and intervention. They will be thrilled that the Internet will be able to follow their every move. I suspect we are probably looking at the last generation of Americans that exist in a democracy. Totalitarianism is not far in our future, and the next generation will go down that road happily.” - Barry Sonnenfeld Shut up, the director of the Men in Black films mind as well be our (/my?) generation’s Benjamin Franklin. (Did you know Sonnenfeld was the DP on Raising Arizona?) This guy GETS IT.
Permalink The help’s corporate site is quite a delight (and an absolute time killer). But seriously, if you’re a major soda manufacturer I too would like to know how much money you’d like to give me. KTHNX.
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Permalink theparisreview: “In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.” ―Thomas Mann
Permalink timemagazine: This week’s TIME cover story, which is illustrated by the artist-activist Ai Weiwei, examines China’s place in the world.Read a preview of the story here.(Art by Ai Weiwei for TIME, Typography by Post Typography)