My Mother Didn’t Believe Me When I Said The Reason Her Phone Keeps Displaying Ads For Dog Car Harnesses

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.”

What is the weirdest thing you had to account for when building the perseverance rover?

The BuzzFeed-ification of Mental Health

Online identity formation and capitalist schizophrenia

Jonah Peretti, one of the original founders of BuzzFeed, wrote a paper that foretold the site’s entire business model, and the business model of much of the internet. In 1996, as an undergrad at UC Santa Cruz, Peretti submitted a journal article titled Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Contemporary Visual Culture and The Acceleration of Identity Formation and Dissolution.

In the paper, Peretti wrote that capitalism would need to create an ever-growing number of micro-identities for people to fit themselves into, so that those identities could be commodified and marketed to.

wow

Did a Truck Carrying an 'Evergreen' Container Block a Chinese Highway? | Snopes.com

The visual parallels to the blocked Suez Canal were not lost on social media.

What an unfortunate coincidence... or was it? The plan unfolds...

my pronouns? i havent a pronoun to me name fore i am penniless and own nothing but me cap and some newspapers to sell ya

Are there any houses for sale here? Packing my bags as we speak

Cong, Ireland (by Kim Kelly)

winter longings

Just to be clear, this is not a shitpost or a joke. This 22 year old has in fact been appointed mayor of the Welsh town of Bangor.

Source tweet: LINK. A news article: LINK.

VACCINATE YA KIDS FFS