Julian Gutman: Archive

“Kanye is more like David Foster Wallace, scribbling his funny long sentences...”

– Never thought I’d see these two of my favorite artists compared. Amazing article American Mozart - Magazine - The Atlantic

Apr 19th

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Mar 19th

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A powerful talk about the state of our justice system and the lingering racism/classism that distorts it (via Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice | Video on TED.com)

Mar 5th

“The moment is worth more than the memory”

– Some dude

Feb 16th

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Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source | Onion News Network)

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Jan 19th

If You Support PIPA/SOPA, You're A Socialist

Economic innovation is driven by destruction. Joseph Schumpeter coined the term “Creative Destruction” to describe this idea in his seminal work Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Schumpeter argues that what makes Capitalistism uniquely effective is its ability to generate and tolerate the destruction of old industries by the force of technological innovation. More top-down...

Jan 18th

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Jan 17th

“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it...”

– If— Rudyard Kipling

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“Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the...”

– Havel, Power of the Powerless, 1978

Dec 22nd

“Programming languages are like cats. It is easier to get a new cat than to get...”

– JavaScript: The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language Has Become the World’s Most Popular Programming Language

Dec 16th

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Dec 13th

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Alabama Shakes - Treat your ears right. Listen to this album.

Dec 11th

“Taking this a couple of steps further, the article points out that, to many...”

– The end of social - O’Reilly Radar

Dec 11th

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Dec 5th

“The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with...”

– Henry David Thoreau , Civil Disobedience

Nov 23rd

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“Trendiness is seductive, especially to the young and inexperienced, for the...”

– Paul-Rand.com :: Confusion and Chaos: The Seduction of Contemporary Graphic Design

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Siri is Apple's Answer to Google and the Future

Here is the demo video of the Siri feature Apple announced: Siri’s magic is a combination of Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Although currently demoed on the iPhone, Siri will be strategically important to Apple across all its current products and for the future of Apple computing. The on the go mobile use case is the most currently relevant and obvious one. The...

Oct 9th

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Oct 6th

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Child Poverty in The Richest Country in the World

Nearly 15 million children in the United States – 21% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level – $22,050 a year for a family of four. Research shows that, on average, families need an income of about twice that level to cover basic expenses. Using this standard, 42% of children live in low-income families. http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html

Oct 4th

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“This peculiar fiction of “public secrecy” allows the government to withhold not...”

– After September 11: Our State of Exception by Mark Danner | The New York Review of Books One of the best pieces I’ve read on what we’ve become a decade after 9/11

Sep 15th

Sep 13th

“In the remaining years of his presidency, I visited Bush several more times,...”

– The American Scholar: Dubya and Me - Walt Harrington The problem with America today is that the populace is so far removed from these things that the president hears everyday

Sep 13th

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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when...”

– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (via kevinkearney)

Aug 18th

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