August 2011
44 posts
July 2011
61 posts
Larry Marshall — Little Boy Blue (from Too...
Drive Like Jehu — New Math (from Yank Crime)
Canada: Prime Minister Stephen Harper likes... →
cameronr:
Of course he does.
Exactly.
jenniferanne:
MEGASLOTH!: jenniferanne: megasloth: jenniferanne: Hacker group Anonymous launches…
jenniferanne:
megasloth:
jenniferanne:
Hacker group Anonymous launches operation to turn Breivik into ‘a joke’ - thestar.com
lukesimcoe:
The carnivalesque power of ‘The Internet Hate Machine’ at work…
Fucking brilliant.
It would be great if this has an actual…
True. I...
jenniferanne:
megasloth:
jenniferanne:
Hacker group Anonymous launches operation to turn Breivik into ‘a joke’ - thestar.com
lukesimcoe:
The carnivalesque power of ‘The Internet Hate Machine’ at work…
Fucking brilliant.
It would be great if this has an actual positive-destructive result but I suspect the humor will find its audience and the sense of picked-on martyrdom its own. This...
Oh, yes!
Hot Snakes reunite. Come on, Jehu.
Meet the LulzSec Leader Arrested by British Police... →
Oops. And only 19 years old.
(via Gawker.)
jenniferanne:
Hacker group Anonymous launches operation to turn Breivik into ‘a joke’ - thestar.com
lukesimcoe:
The carnivalesque power of ‘The Internet Hate Machine’ at work…
Fucking brilliant.
It would be great if this has an actual positive-destructive result but I suspect the humor will find its audience and the sense of picked-on martyrdom its own. This kind of stuff can also be a...
Oh, identity politics....
Census: U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Widest in Quarter Century
A new analysis of U.S. Census data shows the wealth gaps between whites and people of color have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. White Americans now have on average 20 times the net worth of African Americans and 18 times that of Latinos. The Pew Research Center has found the median wealth of white U.S. households in 2009...
Charley Kelly — So Nice Like Rice (from Once...
lowendtheory:
I know better than to take it personally, but I gotta say: I’m a little weirded out at the fact that I’m now beginning to be accused of ableism and of playing the more-authentic-activist-than-thou game, and of shitting on online activism, and of saying that all forms of oppression can be reduced to capitalism.
And so I reread what I wrote and I kinda sorta see how it can be read...
barthel:
Academic Work Should Be Distributed For Free
Right now in academic publishing, what you have is basically a lot of donor- and government-financed nonprofit organizations taking outputs with near-zero distribution costs (electronic journal archives) and selling them to each other. For any one institution, this kind of makes sense. A publisher doesn’t want to give up his fees, which...
Hopeton Lewis — This Poor Boy (from Take it...
jenniferanne:
dropouthangoutspaceout:
Anti-Oppression discourse and Capitalism
lowendtheory:
Without even talking about the billions of people who cannot access this kind of discourse precisely because the very late capitalism that provides us with cheap-ish computers and internet access needs to keep their wages incredibly low in order to do so, I’ll end by saying this: I believe that...
anchorsong:
megasloth:
anchorsong:
“Björk stormed the U.S. dance charts with her proclamation, “I don’t know my future after this weekend/And I don’t want to.” After a decade of hip-hop and dance pop songs describing the elaborate and conservative social codes of “da club,” it’s refreshing to remember that dance clubs used to be idealized as places of political, moral and social freedom. In...
anchorsong:
“Björk stormed the U.S. dance charts with her proclamation, “I don’t know my future after this weekend/And I don’t want to.” After a decade of hip-hop and dance pop songs describing the elaborate and conservative social codes of “da club,” it’s refreshing to remember that dance clubs used to be idealized as places of political, moral and social freedom. In the iconic video for...
New Pop Music Sounds Like Old Pop Music →
towerofsleep:
Simon Reynolds makes an appearance in the NYT with a short essay on the same theme as his new book, Retromania, which should be arriving on my doorstep any day now.
Ah. Add it to the list.
The Observers — Brimstone and Fire (from...
MEGASLOTH!: 20yardsoflinen: “The point of the... →
20yardsoflinen:
20yardsoflinen:
“The point of the matter [for Francis Bacon] is not merely that the action of science and technology brings a greater good over a greater area for a longer period of time [than the action of politics]; it is also superior to politics because it provides a more noble outlet…
You may have to wait years for a more thoughtful reply/conclusion! For now, as I’ve been...
mirienda: megasloth: anchorsong: Reddit co-founder... →
megasloth:
anchorsong:
Reddit co-founder could face 35 years in prison for hacking into MIT network - Cambridge Chronicle
megasloth:
jenniferanne:
towerofsleep:
lukesimcoe:
Speaking as an academic, I can’t think of a more sympathetic hack:
An activist and…
Argh! How do I PM? I am old.
WatchHere’s a dancehall set I produced in 2003 for a show at the Access Gallery in Vancouver I played under the name Cowbell, which is a name I use for various electronic music projects. It was on Halloween, too, so I figured dancehall would be a great costume. Of course, I love dancehall, so it wasn’t much of a costume, I guess.
anchorsong:
Reddit co-founder could face 35 years in prison for hacking into MIT network - Cambridge Chronicle
megasloth:
jenniferanne:
towerofsleep:
lukesimcoe:
Speaking as an academic, I can’t think of a more sympathetic hack:
An activist and programmer, between Sept. 24, 2010, and Jan.6, 2011, Swartz allegedly contrived to break into a restricted computer wiring closet in a...
Reddit co-founder could face 35 years in prison... →
jenniferanne:
towerofsleep:
lukesimcoe:
Speaking as an academic, I can’t think of a more sympathetic hack:
An activist and programmer, between Sept. 24, 2010, and Jan.6, 2011, Swartz allegedly contrived to break into a restricted computer wiring closet in a basement at MIT and get access to MIT’s network without authorization from a computer switch. He did this in order to download a major...
Words and Music: Our 60 Favorite Music Books from... →
Not bad at all. Any other recommendations?
20yardsoflinen:
“The point of the matter [for Francis Bacon] is not merely that the action of science and technology brings a greater good over a greater area for a longer period of time [than the action of politics]; it is also superior to politics because it provides a more noble outlet for man’s aggressive impulses.”
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- Winner, Autonomous Technology
I’ve been struggling with the idea...
lukesimcoe:
“Thus distrust of the serious tone and confidence in the truth of laughter had a spontaneous, elemental character. It was understood that fear never lurks behind laughter (which does not build stakes) and that hypocrisy and lies never laugh but wear a serious mask. Laughter created no dogmas and could not become authoritarian; it did not convey fear but a feeling of strength.”
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Herman Chin Loy — Jah Rock (from Aquarius...
Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?
lukesimcoe:
danhurray:
Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?
Social media has no understanding of anything aside from the connections between individuals and the ceaseless flow of time: No beginnings, and no endings. These disparate threads of human existence alternately fascinate and horrify that part of the media world that grew up on topic sentences and strong conclusions. This...
