February 2012
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Where There's No I
dailymeh:
We live in the age of narcissism. I don’t believe for one second that this generation is substantially worse than the one before, or the five hundred before that. The young were immoral and lazy and unwise when Socrates walked the streets of Athens, and they are no different now. As were the old. But this generation has developed the technology to perfectly express the same narcissism...
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“There’s a rule futurists use: go back twice as far as you wish to predict...”
– grinding.be » Blog Archive » Time travellin’ with Werner Herzog (via eddieatthegov)
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Watchyearoftheglitch:
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Source: a video consisting of one black frame and one white frame.
Process: iterative re-compression using Quicktime .MOV h264 w/ QT filters and selective manipulation of the raw data using a hex editor.
Concept: successive signal degradation returns to the initial starting point.
I love the aesthetic of these videos, perhaps even more so when watching them at...
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People using pseudonyms post the highest-quality... →
untanglingtheweb:
two interesting things in this article from Poynter:
1) “real identity” is described as “verified by Facebook”
2) “many news sites have been using [Facebook’s plugin] to verify identity… and raise the level of discourse”
I’m ISO any research that correlates “raising the level of discourse” and “real identity”. It’s for #hate.
HT the magnificent Meg Pickard.
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I have a bad feeling about this - raganwald's... →
At every point in the last forty years, wealth, health, and happiness in our economy have been built on the freedom to disrupt the entrenched powers, not the preservation of their rent-seeking monopolies.
Via Mark Pesce
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"The Cyber-Industrial Complex" →
Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy:
Jerry Brito & Tate Watkins
Abstract
There has been no shortage of attention devoted to cybersecurity, with a wide range of experts warning of potential doomsday scenarios should the government not act to better secure the Internet. But this is not the first time we have been warned of impending dangers;...
churchofcyberpunk:
Black Cat Hacks: This is meant to be a list of free technologies aimed at empowering Internet users to gain better control over their…
whatajollyworld:
Abine - A Firefox / Internet Explorer plugin that blocks third party advertising networks, manages HTTP, DOM, and Flash cookies, and securely manages site logins. Currently in private beta, but invites aren’t hard to...
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UK Government 'may sanction nerve-agent use on... →
Leading neuroscientists believe that the UK Government may be about to sanction the development of nerve agents for British police that would be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical weapons.
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socialismartnature:
If only the media and the political establishment vented as much anger at the police every time they murder an innocent Black man — or smash some peaceful protester’s head in — as they do when someone clad in black clothes smashes a Starbucks window, we might not even have a need for protests in the first place!
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“At this point in our career we’d like for our work to have a unifying theme, and...”
– - Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson
I’ve been listening to undun a lot lately. It’s absolutely wonderful.
(via captainfuck)
It’s been a permanent fixture in my car CD-changer since I picked it up.
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Doyle McManus: U.S. targeted killing program needs... →
As an example of the problem, he cites the example of Anwar Awlaki, the New Mexico-born member of Al Qaeda who was killed by a U.S. drone in Yemen last September. “We needed a court order to eavesdrop on him,” Hayden notes, “but we didn’t need a court order to kill him. Isn’t that something?”
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“FOR OUR MASTERS
Bullingdon
The bow-tie of the floppy-haired young man
has...”
– Roz Kaveney (via mollycrabapple)
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U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners →
The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed.
The findings are published just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a “targeted, focused effort” that “has not caused a huge number of civilian...
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