November 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
STAC (12)
James Blake (10)
Soosh (7)
Lapalux (6)
Kathleen Edwards (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9 Reasons Wired Readers Should Wear Tinfoil Hats |... →
1. Warrantless Wiretapping
2. Warrantless GPS Tracking
3. Tracking Devices in Your Pocket
4. Fake Cell Phone Towers
5. The Border Exception
6. The “6 Months and It’s the Government’s”
Rule
7. The Patriot Act
8. Government Malware
9. Known Unknowns
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Spending my evening reading all the Boston...
And now I’ve got some DARPA thing to read too. Awareness can just be exhausting.
And campy!
Occupy the Future, thanks convincingindie
DARPA, thanks metaconscious
Anonymous asked: show me your tits
Anonymous asked: I randomly went on the meetup page today and realized another date had been chosen - is there a way to alert or message everyone about it? I never got an email saying there was another meetup coming up.
sequinsminusthegloves asked: DANCE! I command you.
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Yes
From now on (until I get bored with it) I will answer every question or comment with the appropriate (or inappropriate) gif.
nesbittslimesoda-deactivated201 asked: Plz airmail whiskey.
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Eclectic Medicine on R.fm - Welcome to a... →
I <3 the Kitsuné Maison mixtapes.
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Crosshatchr On the LA Black Friday Pepper Spraying
the media tells her that she needs to consume: she does.
the media tells her that she needs to get up early to get good deals on black friday: she does
then the media tells her all about pepper spraying non-violent college students: she extrapolates that for her own experience
it is like a case study in someone who has delegated her cognition, morality, and desires to the media
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Loops n' Hooch (Milwaukee, WI) - Meetup →
Tomorrow night at 6pm! Tonic! I’ve got 4 people attending currently. Let me know if anyone else plans on it.
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Let's Talk about "Sousveillance" for a Moment...
The actions of the police officers dealing with the occupy movement are the actions of men who did stop to think or fully realize that their actions were being blogged, reblogged, tweeted, retweeted, vimeoed, youtubed, and facebooked. Their 15 minutes of fame spans days and memes and is arguably the worst moment of their lives on display for the world to see. It will define them. Nothing they ever...
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Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi |... →
Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi
Posted on November 19, 2011 by crank
18 November 2011
Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi
Linda P.B. Katehi,
I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in the Program in Critical Theory and in Science & Technology Studies. I have a strong record of research, teaching,...
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Boston Review — Lawrence Lessig and David V.... →
David Johnson: Republic, Lost is about institutional corruption in Congress. In reading it, one impression I had is that it’s about so much more than just Congress. It’s really about our society. There are so many institutions that are suffering from the same corruption from moneyed interests.
Lawrence Lessig: Yes, and that’s not an accident. I run the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at...
