A World Worth Reading

"plurality of the public (41%) believes young adults, rather than middle-aged or older adults, are having the toughest time in today’s economy. An analysis of government economic data suggests that this perception is correct. The recent indicators on the nation’s labor market show a decline in the unemployment rate. Nonetheless, since 2010, the share of young adults ages 18 to 24 currently employed (54%) has been its lowest since the government began collecting these data in 1948. And the gap in employment between the young and all working-age adults—roughly 15 percentage points—is the widest in recorded history.1 In addition, young adults employed full time have experienced a greater drop in weekly earnings (down 6%) than any other age group over the past five years."

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/02/09/young-underemployed-and-optimistic/?src=tumblr

"Few individuals outside advertising know about the power of the new media- buying system: its capacity to determine not only what media firms do but how we see ourselves and others. They don’t know that that system is working to attach marketing labels to us based on the clicks we make, the conversations we have, and the friendships we enjoy on websites, mobile devices, iPads, supermarket carts, and even television sets. They don’t know that the new system is forcing many media firms to sell their souls for ad money while they serve us commercial messages, discounts, and, increas- ingly, news and entertainment based on our marketing labels. They don’t realize that the wide sharing of data suggests that in the future marketers and media firms may find it useful to place us into personalized “reputation silos” that surround us with worldviews and rewards based on labels marketers have created reflecting our value to them."

A Guide to the digital advertising industry thats watching your every Click

(Source: occupywallstreet)

deleteyourself:

Samsung’s superbowl ad was another disaster in their “make fun of people with iPhones” campaign. I get what they are trying to do, but it’s hard to convince everyone you’re ahead of the curve when your phone has a stylus.

They are trying really hard to show the world that Android is hip, so much so that the phone in the ad has a map of Williamsburg Brooklyn on it. Check out the above screen grab. The stylus is right over my old apartment.

originofcool:

Feel Safer With Camera Birds

(Source: originofcool)

"Soros goes on to say that as the crisis in the Eurozone only worsens, the American financial system will continue to be hit hard. On the way to a full-blown collapse, he cautions, Americans should expect society to alter accordingly. Riots will hit the streets, says Soros, and as a result, “It will be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States."

George Soros predicts riots, police state and class war for America

"I believe in copyright. I benefit from it. I don’t want it to go away. I love that we have laws and people to enforce them. But if I had to give up one thing, if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless, innovation-fest that is the internet? I’ll take the internet every time."

Jonathan Coulton Destroys The Rationale Behind The Megaupload Seizure With A Single Tweet; Follows Up With Epic Blog Post

mehreenkasana:

Just heard a huge blast. My windows shook. What’s going on?