Never mind,
This too belongs to the silence.
Where ideas come to die,
And dreams are left behind.
Above the litany of time,
Have you heard the earth screaming?
Can you heal a dying star?
Or reassure it with new meaning?
In our own ways we felt it.
In our own ways we tried.
To recognize with words
And build them outside.
Hush as the moon rising,
Then sinking again beneath tides.
Fear, folly, love, lust,
Wonder.
What kept us going?
On the shores of comprehension,
But a mote, I was awash.
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“In crowds you hide
Behind doors, open up.
You searched the land
But never looked inside.”
…is inversely proportional to the demands placed upon it.
Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world.
Twitter recently announced that it will be able to put a virtual fence around content and ideas that may be deemed unsuitable or offensive to users in a specific country.
Do platforms such as Twitter have a responsibility towards the nature of content? I don’t think so. I think most reasonable people would agree that this is a grand expectation. Moreover, not only are people and ideas self organizing, they are also self regulating.
Twitter is a driver of global conversation and by taking on the responsibility of moderating an overwhelming sea of international complexities, it is confusing it’s role as the messenger.
The sheer scale of this operation will be massive and it will be interesting to see how Twitter manages to walk the line globally.
Bottom line: Virtual fences hurt free speech and global conversation. Localized censorship will present itself as an ongoing headache to Twitter and is largely pointless in an increasingly open, free world.
#LetTheTweetsFlow
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” — Richard Dawkins
To genuinely “remember” means to work for peace, not national chauvinism nor romanticizing war.
(Source: thinksquad)
“Customers almost universally never experience their expectations being met, much less exceeded. How can you exceed the customer’s expectations if you have no idea what those expectations are? I was at a Hilton a few weeks ago. They had taken this absurdity to its logical end. There was a huge sign in the lobby that said, “Our goal is to exceed the customer’s expectation.” The best way to start would be to take down that bullshit sign that just reminds me, as a customer, how cosmic the gap is between what businesses say and what they do.” — Dan Pallotta
“[The language of marketing] is a lot like the language of astrology. If you are a fellow believer it sounds incredibly convincing, but if you’re not, it makes you sound like an idiot!” — Rory Sutherland quoting a friend on the false dichotomy between the creative and scientific worlds
The Holstee manifesto. Lots of respect for taking a stand on Black Friday hyper consumption by symbolically pausing sales for a day.