January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Anonymous and the Zetas Cartel Declare a Truce
Well, it’s certainly quite a story. Folks at Gawker don’t seem to buy any of it, for what it’s worth. True or not, it seems like a story arc out of a William Gibson novel.
Anonymous retreats from Mexico drug cartel... →
Plans by the hacker collective Anonymous to expose collaborators with Mexico’s bloody Zetas drug cartel – a project it dubbed “#OpCartel” – have fallen into disarray, with some retreating from the idea of confronting the killers while others say that the kidnap of an Anonymous hacker, the incident meant to have spawned the scheme, never happened.
The apparent climbdown by the group came as...
October 2011
15 posts
What!?! →
“Videomatica is not dead. Guess where it’s moving? Zulu Records.”
Great compromise. It’s like a special little antique mall!
(On edit: my wife, Robin, suggested they should have a public pay phone in there, too.)
In search of...
Help! Know any (good) songs (or music more generally) with nautical themes? Particularly about being on the ocean, lost-at-sea, shipwrecked, etc.?
“Can people participate in the Habermasian public sphere and still preserve their...”
– Evgeny Morozov goes the fuck in on Public Parts, the latest from Self-Promoting Pseudo-Intellectual Twitter Blowhard Jeff Jarvis. (via marathonpacks)
Oh snappppppp. ITS ON.
Did y’all Internet folks know I’m a Habermasian? This despite Zizek’s undying hate of his philosophy.
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“While multiculturalism can accommodate the ideal of equality between most...”
– David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital : And the Crises of Capitalism. (via djalykhan)
Yup. Class is fundamental. This is pretty much why I feel so put off by the notion of basing my politics specifically around feminism, especially identity oriented feminism, as a focal point. Feminism is...
Tower of Sleep: lukesimcoe reblogged you: Cool... →
towerofsleep:
lukesimcoe reblogged you:
Cool idea… but flawed. We shared music files because they were small, and bandwith was scarce. We had been doing the same thing with other kinds of texts — documents, pictures, gifs — prior to the advent of Napster. The revolution was already under way, and…
lukesimcoe would probably know best about file sharing (including stealing and such) on...
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If Steve Jobs dies because of it, I guess there’s no cure for it. Sheesh.
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Government Orders YouTube To Censor Protest Videos →
lukesimcoe:
megasloth:
laborreguita:
industryrevealing:
In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the “free” Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by...
20 yards of linen: Reply to AFM →
20yardsoflinen:
andrewfm said: I don’t understand why dialectical materialists think that contradiction inheres in reality. They never give an argument for it, just assertions with some sloppy examples.
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Yeah, as far as contradiction being an…
As far as reality is concerned, what about this for basic: something and nothing. I’m...
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Government Orders YouTube To Censor Protest Videos →
laborreguita:
industryrevealing:
In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the “free” Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by government mandate.
Read...
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It's Not Plagiarism. In the Digital Age, It's...
towerofsleep:
youmightfindyourself:
By Kenneth Goldsmith for The Chronicle, Sept 11, 2011
In 1969 the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler wrote, “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” I’ve come to embrace Huebler’s idea, though it might be retooled as: “The world is full of texts, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”
It...
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September 2011
13 posts
Occupy Wall Street Is About to Get Bigger
From Gawker:
“The Occupy Wall Street protesters — who the New York Times and other such venues had told me were too vague, too in need of glitzy PowerPoint presentations with concrete goals, too poorly dressed, too busy playing drums, too hypocritical because they used “computers” and other modern products, too middle-class, and in general too gross to sustain any interest for...
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“They’re very unfocused. It was difficult to figure out, exactly, what they were...”
– Wall Street ‘occupied’
The thing I find interesting about this comment is that, while I certainly don’t disagree with it, I wonder if it misses the point? Because, lord knows, there are people at the protest who are fighting for things I would never stand behind in a million years…but it seems like...
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August 2011
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Jack Layton's last letter to Canadians →
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Opposition Leader Jack Layton Dead at 61 →
towerofsleep:
lowpresssure:
I don’t have many words because i’m not a Toronto politico and nothing smart to say, but i always voted NDP and was rooting for Jack. I don’t want to even know what the Right wingers are up to now. Spraying bottles of champagne at Rob Ford’s Mothers Backyard? Drenching endangered animals with Albertan oil? Sacrificing Virgins to Xenu?
Rest In Peace Jack. You were...
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“Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than...”
– Slavoj Žižek (via gingerche)
Good question.
(via jenniferanne)
Easy answer?
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David Harvey on the English riots: Feral... →
towerofsleep:
What I say may sound shocking. Most of us don’t see it because we don’t want to. Certainly no politician dare say it and the press would only print it to heap scorn upon the sayer.
But my guess is that every street rioter knows exactly what I mean. They are only doing what everyone else is doing, though in a different way — more blatantly and visibly in the streets.
Thatcherism...
