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imnotkanye: So the freakinomics podcast did an episode about suicide and in it they suggested that...

Thu, 09 May 2013 05:01:39 -0400

So the freakinomics podcast did an episode about suicide and in it they suggested that the reason black americans are far less likely to commit suicide than white americans is because black ppl have the privilege of blaming their problems on white people. Hahaha

Whole Foucault-Chomsky debate is...

Thu, 09 May 2013 03:50:02 -0400

Whole Foucault-Chomsky debate is online http://youtu.be/R_sCRdF2tVI

mthvn: Metahaven & Deterritorial Support Group, VOID...

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:30:00 -0400

mthvn:

Metahaven & Deterritorial Support Group, VOID MYSTIQUE DNA, 2013. Joint statement at pastebin.com/PDkX2GTs. ISBN-13: 978-0-9576316-0-

Convinced the next Boards of Canada clue is in here somehwere

translatingtheprintempserable: Masked terrorists will be...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:40:49 -0400

translatingtheprintempserable:

Masked terrorists will be apprehended. #contrep6 (via @Anarchopanda)
Do not try to protect your private life. Pandas and rabbits are no exception.

paulmasonnews: 1984. Coalville, Leics. CAPTION COMPETITION

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:04:00 -0400

paulmasonnews:

1984. Coalville, Leics.

CAPTION COMPETITION

Theses on Thatcherdeath 2013

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:15:00 -0400

Today’s Novara on Thatcher’s death was an interesting assessment of her legacy. Here are a few of my own brief theses on Thatcher’s death and celebrations, loosely based on the themes in the show.

1) “She may be dead, but her legacy continues”. No one is so stupid to believe otherwise. Ignorance of this is not the reason people celebrated her death, was never the reason people planned the celebration her death. In the conservative historian E. Kantorowicz’s tome, The King’s Two Bodies, he explores how the medieval sovereigns of Europe were invested with both a body corporeal- the shitting breathing bit- and a body mystic - the actual concept of sovereignty itself, that includes the realm and its holy order. Going much further here is going to take me off track, but my point is this: it is a long-established precedent to embody a conceptual framework in a person, with complete appreciation for the artificiality of doing so. Thatchers death is important precisely because it prefigures the death yet to come; the death of neoliberal economics itself.

2) Must we show respect for the dead?

Thatcher never afforded her enemies the same respect. Moreover, her class, her party, has never afforded the poor that respect. From Pinochet to Hillsborough, this bears repeating. Those who accuse ‘fellow leftists’ of flippancy or lack of solemnity, are themselves the least serious of all, because they are clearly incapable of taking seriously the material impact of neoliberalism, and seeing therein the cause of our rejoicing.

3) This is a moment to make a break, to disrupt the solemn atmosphere of statesmanlike economic sycophancy.We were expected to don our rictus grins for the Royal Wedding, The Olympics, and now expected to make the national switch to mourning. In a quotidian sense, we are constantly implored to produce the right affect at the right moment, in the intensively affective labour of post-industrial economy. Our affect will never be appropriate under capitalism. We should embrace the anomic qualities of this moment: ’The left’, so often accused of ‘joylessness’ is now, suddenly, too joyful.

4) ‘The left’ is not celebrating because ‘it was beaten’. We are celebrating because we are still here. We have survived. As long as we survive there is a chance for revenge, the revenge of actually building the world we want to see.

Posterity will ne’er survey

A nobler grave than this:

Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:

Stop, traveller, and piss.

-Byron

“They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:26:44 -0400

“They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them havecome to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of their skies, depend wholly on this child’s abominable misery.” …

James Poulter: Thoughts on Bitcoin

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:25:32 -0400

James Poulter: Thoughts on Bitcoin:

jdpoulter:

Here are a collection of thoughts I’ve had recently on Bitcoin -

Security - while the cyber attacks on exchanges and users are hitting the headlines, the process of creating and transacting Bitcoins is very secure. If you can store Bitcoin securely then the chances of them being stolen are…

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10 reasons to not provide a protest itinerary to the police (Anonymous source)

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:06:45 -0400

translatingtheprintempserable:

Anonymous March 25, 2012

Original French Text: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2Sot5om4RWyWmI1S1plZXBRMGM/edit

1- The right to protest exists! The Canadian and Quebec Charters of Rights and Freedoms, both documents that protect the fundamental rights governening relations between the state and individuals, guarantee the right to protest as it pertains to freedom of conscience, thought, belief, opinion and expression. These Charters also protect the freedom of peaceful assembly and association, which are the ways in which this form of expression manifests itself.

2- Police everywhere, trust nowhere! Transmitting the itinerary of a protest to the police implies a process of negotiation between the protest organizers and the police. However, it often happens – and this increases in step with the escalation of police repression – that the relationship of trust inherent in this negotiation is found lacking.

3- Why legitimize a negotiation process from which we will clearly emerge on the losing end? The refusal to submit an itinerary is a strategic choice, insofar as experience has shown us that the police will try to impose a route that would undermine the impact of the protest by preventing it from, for example, directing the procession through an important commercial artery or in front of a highly symbolic place, yet one that interferes too much with public order according to “officials”. Without an agreement, the police can even refuse to authorize the protest. Not submitting an itinerary is tantamount to refusing to acknowledge a process of negotiation with the state from which we will leave the loser.

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vintagefuture: latimes: The brave new world of…2013 You may...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:53:00 -0400

vintagefuture:

latimes:

The brave new world of…2013

You may not have a robot dog, techno-comforts or kids listening to “futura-rock.” But some of the predictions in this recently-rediscovered issue of the Los Angeles Times Magazine largely hold true.

Predictions about the increased prevalence of telecommunication, smarter cars (though ours don’t look as funky as the ones seen above) and globalization all seem to be rather spot-on, considering they were made in 1988!

That said, there’s no way your morning starts out like this:

With a barely perceptible click, the Morrow house turns itself on, as it has every morning since the family had it retrofitted with the Smart House system of wiring five years ago…in the study, the family’s personalized home newspaper, featuring articles on the subjects that interest them…is being printed by laser-jet printer off the home computer – all while the family sleeps.

Read through the full article here.

Photos: Los Angeles Times

The future is now!

FRAGMENT ON THE JETSONS

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leftyancestors: The best part about the Dominos experiment was ordering an individual Owen Jones...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:59:47 -0500

leftyancestors:

The best part about the Dominos experiment was ordering an individual Owen Jones with nothing on it (not even sauce) except beef on the left-hand side.

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Hilarious,

UBU//HARRY//DAYTIME-TV-SAXOPHONE

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:25:00 -0500

UBU//HARRY//DAYTIME-TV-SAXOPHONE

fluxmachine: General Von Hindenburg

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:49:25 -0500

fluxmachine:

General Von Hindenburg

By Strategy: Ask an autonomist what her favourite film is and the only correct...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:43:31 -0500

By Strategy: Ask an autonomist what her favourite film is and the only correct...:

by-strategy:

Ask an autonomist what her favourite film is and the only correct reply is Elio Petri’s masterwork La class operaia va in Paradiso (The Working Class Go To Heaven, 1971). The recently published collection of Petri’s writings in English translation reminds us that the piece was exceptionally…

Matt Langer: 291 Five Word TED Talks That Were Real Things And Not Twitter Jokes

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:18:52 -0500

Matt Langer: 291 Five Word TED Talks That Were Real Things And Not Twitter Jokes:

langer:

Be an artist, right now!

Dare to educate Afghan girls

A country with no water

Let’s teach kids to code

A universal translator for surgeons

Ethical riddles in HIV research

Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

What fear can teach us

Why bother leaving the house?

Pool medical patents,…