what i'm hearing today - jay electronica

"my momma told me never throw a stone and hide your hand" - from Exhibit C

what i'm reading today

"Instead of carting rocks from the moon, we should be carting feces out of Lake Erie"
-E. B. White, 1969

what i'm watching today: The Canary in the Library Coalmine - Ben Hammersley, UK Prime Minister's Ambassador to Tech City

I think he's a bit ideal, but I like much of what he says, and generally his point of view on the Internet, information access, the knowledge generation, and how libraries fit in. 

TWIL #68: Ben Hammersley (UK Prime Minister’s Ambassador to TechCity) from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.

in light of the two earthquakes in Indonesia this am

"The bottom line? We must frame the conversation not as "climate change" but place it in the context of global risk - alongside the developing antibiotics crisis, growing asymmetries in global security, potential impacts of garage synthetic biology, the self-replicating nanobot "grey goo" scenario, implications of next-gen robotics for global employment, a TEPCO/Chernobyl event just one level higher, and - sad to say - potential for another 2008 tsunami to strike and perhaps destroy global financial markets."

-Nigel Cameron, President and CEO of C-PET, recent address of sustainability and climate change on a global level at PuP 2012

today i'm reading opinions on the "hipster"

so the term has taken on a life of its own, to be scoffed at, to be hurled in insult, to be joked about over whiskey, to be shrugged off in apathy.  i think it's safe to say it's rarely worn badge-like.  however you look at it, in my own personal experience, and i'm sure many others', my generation has "hipster" issues. so i guess today this is where i am, reading a post on Flavorwire titled "What Comes After the Hipster" 

"Of course, I could be wrong. The best bet for the next thing would be for something to emerge from the Occupy movement: less concerned about music and clothing, more concerned about politics; less concerned about differentiating yourself from the people around you, more concerned about working with them; less concerned about status, more concerned about social change; less ironic, more earnest; less polished, more grungy. The one thing I don’t think will happen is that youth culture will fragment into cultural tribes. Youth culture is all about emulation, being hip however hip happens to be defined at the moment, and far from fragmenting the culture, technology provides a means to unify it, by disseminating it, more efficiently than ever.

On the other hand, what the hell do I know?"