simplyann
Home    Info    Ask
About: 
resting state

california’s wide expanses of nothingness -

between bustling metropolises of

los angeles’s identity crises and

silicon valley riches -

are where i find stars and quiet

wind and road

peace and rest.

in these

bless-ed early morning moments

sunrise tarries, hours away

we trade secrets underneath

the sheets.

i am human

and so are you.

“As I sat on my knees, recollecting all of this, it occurred to me that sharing books is an intimate act in a relationship. If sharing music is considered foreplay — which it is to me anyway — then sharing books is definitely going all the way. With music, you merely glimpse your infatuation’s tastes. Still, it’s easy to tune out a song you don’t particularly care for when you would rather listen to him talk or relish the comfort of his arms. But with books, you pay attention. You’re reading words; you’re consuming ideas and themes that move him; you’re connecting intellectually. Maybe even spiritually.

I could be overthinking this. But I can’t help feel a sense of loss knowing that my book, marked by my handwriting — ideas and phrases that spoke to me, underlined, circled, highlighted — is floating in the world. Just like a man I once loved.”

The Books They Gave Me: Coelho.

  (via fabula)

(via teachingliteracy)

an invented people

means

your humanity is

questionable

fairy tales

have no human rights

in the 21st century.

newmodelminority:

“Actually, if all goes according to plan, the two might have more control, and on a broader scale, than someone like Comcast CEO Brian Roberts does. YouTube would be everything Comcast is—cable operator and network—and more. Comcast doesn’t get to sell ads against most of the programming on its cable system (with the exceptions, of course, of those channels it owns, as well as the minimal minutes alloted it by each channel). No network would dream of giving cable operators that kind of power. But that’s exactly the position YouTube finds itself in under the new arrangement. And YouTube already has many more eyeballs than even the biggest cable operators in the U.S. Comcast, for example, has 22.4 million subscribers. YouTube has 800 million unique users worldwide each month.”

Beyond Cat Videos

Is YouTube on the brink of becoming a programming star?

girl… you got me out of hibernation for this…

let’s talk about the internet. not cute blind kittens or turquoise jeep internets, nah. the real, physical, material hardware of the internet is all pipes. just a connection of pipes laid by verizon, at&t, comcast, timewarner #anem. that’s the internet. without those pipes? no youtube, tumblr, facebook, twitters, newmodelminority.com or afrolicious.com (#noshame)

whoever owns the pipes owns the internet.

yes, youtube is huge with 800 million+ viewers. but comcast owns the pipes that connect 22.4 million of them to the internet. once comcast (and other carriers) starts providing content, it’s game over unless youtube has positioned itself properly.

that is why speculation that verizon buying netflix out is huge. verizon owns pipes. netflix is just the software that flows through the pipes. youtube is interesting because google owns it, but i’m not so sure if google owns enough pipes yet. you know of anybody who pays a google internet bill?

so… ideally brown girls want to own pipes so other brown girls and boys can be subversive on the internet. the real internet. in the meantime, we are situated in the middle ground, between content and carriers. while we are creators and storytellers trying to carve out our own voices in the human chorus, we have to be cognizant of who the carriers are and who benefits from propagating subversive content over those pipes.

got pipes?

"The Elephant In The Room" theme by Becca Rucker. Powered by Tumblr. Install theme.