Daily Matter

  1. [190513.2108]

    Thoughts on the Yahoo! Thing

    edwardspoonhands:

    First, I love Tumblr and want to keep loving it. And yes, it is immediately terrifying to hear that Yahoo (which, from a lot of our perspectives, is a laughably backwards and culturally irrelevant company) is going to own Tumblr. I sympathize. 

    But there are a number of circumstances in which this will not be a disaster. Let’s think:

    WHY TO NOT BE TERRIFIED

    1. David Karp is being kept on as CEO for at least 4 years. Karp’s policies made Tumblr what it is.
    2. Tumblr is only as good as we (its creators) are. The idea that the cultural identity and creations we’ve fostered here have become worth a billion dollars is both inspiring and worrisome. But nevertheless, since we hold the value, we hold the power. 
    3. Tumblr is being kept as a separate company. This is what Google did with YouTube and significant changes were very slow to come to YouTube (though they eventually came, and are still coming). My guess is there will be no significant changes to Tumblr for at least 12 months.
    4. They’re buying it to become more culturally relevant. They know that controlling the platform will reduce or even remove that relevance, so they would be idiots to do it.

    WHEN TO ABANDON SHIP

    1. If Tumblr requires an account somehow linked to Yahoo.
    2. If David Karp steps down, no matter what the reasons are.
    3. If you have to pay to reach all of your followers (FACEBOOK!)
    4. If Yahoo begins censoring legal images and videos.
    5. If your dashboard becomes three columns by default.
    6. If more than 10% of the dashboard is taken up by advertising.

    ADVICE TO YAHOO! PEOPLE

    1. Don’t do any of the above things or we will leave and you will own a billion dollar hole in the internet.
    2. Drop the exclamation point for chrissake…it’s gaudy and grammatically confusing.

    Yes, I do wish that Tumblr (being a more interesting kind of company) could have found a more interesting kind of exit for its founders and investors than the old standby of selling to a floundering company trying to revitalize itself. But I think Yahoo and Marissa Mayer are intelligent enough to not totally fuck it up. Here’s hoping.

     - Hank

    I’m pretty upset about this. Yahoo, for god’s sakes. 

    // from edwardspoonhands

  2. [190513.0815]

    gacougnol:

    Harry Callahan

    // from gacougnol

  3. [170513.0720]

    samanthakeelysmith:

    SLIVER, 32” x 48”, oil, enamel & shellac on canvas, 2012, by Samantha Keely Smith. (+ detail images)

    zoom in here: http://www.samanthakeelysmith.com/samantha-keely-smith-paintings/sliver.php

    http://www.facebook.com/SamanthaKeelySmithPainter

    http://twitter.com/SamanthaKeelyS

    http://www.instagram.com/skeelys

    (via skeelys)

    // from samanthakeelysmith

  4. [160513.1820]

    Suppose a man makes unwanted social advances to a woman in, let’s say, a restaurant or theatre, and she eventually has to tell him loudly or angrily to get lost. She is the one who will be perceived as rude, hostile, aggressive, and obnoxious. His verbal aggression and invasiveness are accepted and expected; her rudeness (or mere curtness) in getting rid of him is noticed and condemned. One of our great myths is that a “real lady” can and should handle any difficulty, defuse any assault, without ever raising her voice or losing her manners. Female rudeness or violence in resistance to male aggression has often been taken to prove that the woman was not a lady in the first place, and therefore deserved no respect from the aggressor or sympathy from others.

    D.A. Clarke, “A Woman With a Sword” (via foodbeersexwhatever)

    (Source: wretchedoftheearth, via artisticallyadequate)

    // from wretchedoftheearth

  5. [140513.1937]

    evocates:

    C. G. P. Grey 

    // from evocates

  6. [120513.2018]

    maymay:

    “Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of 2. (link to Part 2)

    Sources:

    1. College Men: Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,Lisak and Miller, 2002 [PDF, 12 pages]
    2. Navy Men: Lisak and Miller’s results were essentially duplicated in an even larger study (2,925 men): Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel, McWhorter, 2009 [PDF, 16 pages]

    By dark-side-of-the-room, who writes:

    These infogifs are provided RIGHTS-FREE for noncommercial purposes. Repost them anywhere. In fact, repost them EVERYWHERE. No need to credit. Link to the L&M study if possible.

    Knowledge is a seed; sow it.

    (via quaverserif)

    // from maymay

  7. [120513.1953]

    maxcapacity: i was just getting mad about this a minute ago *siiiiiiiiiigh*

    maxcapacity:

    i was just getting mad about this a minute ago

    *siiiiiiiiiigh*

    (Source: norwegian-blue, via mothrasmash)

    (see in high-res)

    // from norwegian-blue

  8. [090513.1757]

    The sexualization of women is only appealing if it’s nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s “sluttiness,” and sluttiness is agency and agency is threatening and so, therefore, sluttiness must equal disposability.

    Lindy West, Female Purity Is Bullshit  (via drexelsafe)

    (via basedonatruetory)

    // from drexelsafe

  9. [090513.1755]

    lestercorp: Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers on the set of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    lestercorp:

    Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers on the set of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    (via blue-voids)

    // from lestercorp

  10. [090513.1750]

    (Source: drunkonstephen, via stfuwhiteliberals)

    // from drunkonstephen