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Notes: 52 / 3 hours ago from shorterexcerpts (originally from asparagus)
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4 hours ago from bookmarklet"As a recent college graduate, just beginning my career, I can corroborate many of the claims made in the piece. There is a sense of entitlement – an assumption that good things will and should come to you as long as you stay the course and don’t mess up. There is a belief – which I cannot fully renounce – that one’s personal life should take precedence over one’s work. And it’s true that many of us – myself included – don’t respond well to negative feedback. These characteristics are so prevalent, in fact, that it felt strange to hear them presented as news. What did surprise me was the fact, also reported in the segment, that companies were spending 50 billion dollars a year placating the millennial mentality. The need to recruit and retain the smartest young employees had birthed an entire industry dedicated to providing corporate perks, including free food, happy hours, and nap rooms. Of course, the success of this industry is highly dependent on a single market condition “that there are more jobs than young people to fill them."
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4 hours ago from bookmarkletThe extreme secrecy of the federal courts BY GLENN GREENWALD
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Notes: 17 / 4 hours ago from warningdontreadthis
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Notes: 15 / 4 hours ago from vasta (originally from scribble-scribbles)"Stay, stay until there are no more words left between us to say, we’ll forever remain in awe of the peaceful silence."- scribble-scribbles (via vasta)
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1 day ago from bookmarkletBook Review - 'There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby - Scary Fairy Tales,' by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya - Review - NYTimes.com
Every one of the 19 stories in Petrushev skaya’s “There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby” presents an arresting parable of this kind. Timeless and troubling, these “scary fairy tales” grapple with accidents of fate and weaknesses of human nature that exact a heavy penance. While each story seizes the imagination in its own manner, one called “Revenge” features a woman who could be the double of Grushenka’s spiteful peasant. Jealous of her neighbor in a communal apartment — an unmarried woman, like herself, whose pregnancy has disrupted their friendship — she booby- traps their common space with boxes of needles and buckets of bleach and boiling water, hoping an accident will befall the unsuspecting mother’s young child. Will the woman succeed in her cruel plan — and, if so, will she be punished? How can justice be served on an unprovable crime? Petrushevskaya has both the answer and the judgment.
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Notes: 72 / 1 day ago from libraryland (originally from designtumblelog)"What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."-
Possibly the most concise description of our modern struggle.
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TUMBLR is currently my dilemma.
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Notes: 7 / 1 day ago from inothernews
Congress is like the middleman we're trying to get rid of in healthcare.
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Notes: 2 / 1 day ago from givethissonganotherlisten
What to take when life gets you down
if these really existed…i would probably take one every hour.
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Notes: 5 / 1 day ago from givethissonganotherlisten
Once again, nice guys DO finish last
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1 day ago from bookmarklet"But the rest of the country cannot rest easy. The rage out there is larger than Palin and defies partisan labeling. Her ever-present booster Continetti, writing in The Weekly Standard, suggested that she recast the century-old populist outrage of William Jennings Bryan by adopting the message “You shall not crucify mankind upon the cross of Goldman Sachs.” If Obama can’t tamp down that rage across the political map, Palin will at the very least pave the way for a demagogue with less baggage to pick up her torch."
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