My point here is that technology has a tendency to create its own norms. The classic example is the automobile — a technology which kills more than 30,000 Americans every year. From the 1930s through the 1990s, societal norms about who roads belonged to, and what people should do on them, were turned on their head thanks to the new technology. The dangerous new activity allowed by the new technology became the privileged norm, to the point at which just about all other road-based activity — and roads have been around for thousands of years, remember, since long before the automobile — essentially ceased to exist. Eventually, we reached the point at which elected representatives were happy saying that if a bicyclist gets killed by a car, it’s the bicyclist’s fault for being on the road in the first place. If Google Glass — and wearable computing more generally — takes off and fulfills its potential, it will change society’s norms about what is public and what is private. It is therefore entirely rational, whatever you think of the set of norms we have right now, to assume that they will end up moving towards something more well disposed towards the new technology.
Reblog if you love Star Wars
Whether you know everything about the interior workings of the Millennium Falcon, Han and Leia’s Children, and the Black Sun OR you maybe watched part of one movie with your cousin chad or something like that and kinda liked it. I want to know how big our fandom is here. Just curious.
Here are some awesome and empowering quotes from several very strong female celebrities.
And Kristen Stewart.
No, you know what? Fuck you.
Let me tell you about Kristen Stewart.
Let’s talk about how she’s the centerpiece of one of the most inexplicably popular misogynistic pieces of film shit and somehow gets blamed for it sucking, despite the fact that, hey, the books were actually worse. For those who were lucky enough to escape reading the actual books, her apparent lack of emotion is 100% accurate to Bella’s character, because Bella is in fact not a character but a blank white wall for fourteen-year-old girls to project themselves onto. Robert Pattinson is not the only one in the cast who hates Twilight, thank you.
Let’s talk about how she got crucified in the media for having an affair with a married man, when that man was her director. And let’s remember that she was called all manner of things for “ruining her relationship with RPattz” when she wasn’t even engaged to the dude, let alone married with kids. But oh no, she gets called a slut because she’s Kristen Stewart, she gets her career fucked because she’s Kristen Stewart, and the dude gets off scott free.
Let’s talk about how she is incredibly shy and anxious (rather, incidentally, like Chris Evans) but does film anyway, because she’s just that awesome.
Fuck your noise. She’s not the best actor in the world but she sure as hell doesn’t deserve that kind of shit.
This. So hard. I’m not the biggest fan of Kristen Stewart as an actress, but I hate hate hate how much shit she gets blamed for as a person. Particularly getting kicked around sfm for the affair, which is utter bullshit, and the whole being shy and not smiling very often thing. She doesn’t OWE you that. There are tons of dude actors who are shy and smile in public way less than she does and not a word is said, but if Kristen Stewart acts that way — and seriously, if you were dragged through the media for stupid reasons as often as she is, would you really be smiling? — she’s a frigid bitch? No. Fuck off.
AU - The Wolf’s Cub
“What are you singing to her, Doctor?”
“I’m singin’ an old nursery rhyme from Gallifrey. I want to make sure she knows the language.”
OH MY GOD NINE/ROSE CAN I KISS YOU
MY HEART
I think i’m crying
stabbing my face off would have been kinder
“Well, when I was nine years old Star Trek came on,” Goldberg says. “I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, ‘Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!’ I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.”
This is part of the reason Star Trek is important.
This is part of the reason Cumberbatch’s casting is such a huge deal.
