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Fortunately –in recent years– the term ‘art’ has lost any solid meaning. I guess if I call something art, I am saying: ‘Look at this thing, consider it carefully and that is all it means.’

Robert Barry (via kamface)

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Normalizing deviance: why tech companies repeatedly do stupid, destructive things

“The normalization of deviance” is a sociological term describing how groups of people become accustomed to ignoring safety rules and best practices, becoming plagued with (sometimes fatal) problems that no one can seem to fix.

Normalized deviance has been blamed for the Shuttle Challenger disaster, and crises in “healthcare, aviation, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and civil engineering.”

Dan Luu uses a paper on normalized deviance in healthcare as a jumping-off point to describe how tech shops make the same kinds of mistakes, with the same kinds of disastrous consequences, and the same inability to fix those mistakes until they pile up so high that they threaten the whole enterprise.

Tech companies are especially vulnerable to this kind of corner-cutting, because of the emphasis on growth for early stage firms. When a company is small, it has nothing to lose and everything to gain by breaking the rules to get big fast. But once it’s big, the culture of crossed-fingers-and-praying instead of methodical processes causes repeated disasters that end when the company melts down or (sometimes) fixes its culture.

Luu is interested in how companies cal learn from each others’ mistakes, rather than making fresh mistakes for themselves at every turn.

http://boingboing.net/2015/12/31/normalizing-deviance-why-tech.html

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Who’s the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who’s horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?

Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger (via wordsnquotes)

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White privilege.

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Ben Greenman on Twitter: “Yahoo’s prematurely published Rihanna record review is a masterpiece of post-modern non-journalism.”

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Why don't you use capital letters?

the kids on tumblr are more receptive to text posts that lack proper capitalization and I am a businessman

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oh my gods the SFX secret actually is so ridiculous i can’t stop laughing

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In this short video, augmented reality startup company Magic Leap used their cool technology to make 3D magic happen in a school gym.

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Cicada, Stages of Conventionalization

Hugo Froelich, Keramic Studio Magazine, 1905

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my friend’s younger brother has had this picture of their dog as his facebook profile pic for years. during the rainbow filter phase he tossed one on there and now he’s adding the french flag. this is a work of modern art and social commentary

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The 15 Best Photoshops Of Shia Watching #AllMyMovies

Shia LaBeouf just spent three days watching all his movies in reverse chronological order while livestreaming his reactions. Reddit turned it into art.

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The amount of misinformation on the #paris tags on tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram is incredible if not unexpected.

The Eiffel Tower didn’t go dark in honor of the dead. They shut the lights off every night.

Thousands of people did not go out into the streets holding up a lighted sign reading “NOT AFRAID.” That was from the Charile Hebdo March.

There was a fire at a refugee camp in Calais but it was not an anti-refugee action. Eyewitnesses report it as small inconclusive.

There are hundreds and sometimes thousands of instances of each of these posts on every platform that I’ve searched.

Instead of checking to see what is actually happening, they’re reposting what they expect or maybe want to see.

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