December 2011
69 posts
“Teach kids how the government works by simply taking all their sweets and...”
– Viz Top Tips (via sketchyjoe)
“Dress suitably in short skirts & strong boots, leave your jewels in the...”
– Countess Markievcizv, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice. (via bornofanatombomb)
As Facebook Aims at Millions of Users, Some Are... →
stoweboyd:
Jenna Wortham pokes at the superficial reasons why a small number of wallflowers opt not to use Facebook, but there’s not much new information here.
Although I found the descriptions of the social pressure to get the ‘unfaced’ to use Facebook interesting:
Will Brennan, a 26-year-old Brooklyn resident, said he had “heard too many horror stories” about the privacy pitfalls of...
new-aesthetic:
The People’s Skype, via Tom T.
“A phone-powered, distributed voice and voting system for the #Occupy Movement”
It will be interesting to see if this can be used effectively in the context of a large noisy crowd…
No Copyright Intended →
worsethandetroit:
dailymeh:
Andy Baio:
No amount of lawsuits or legal threats will change the fact that this behavior is considered normal — I’d wager the vast majority of people under 25 see nothing wrong with non-commercial sharing and remixing, or think it’s legal already.
Here’s a thought experiment: Everyone over age 12 when YouTube launched in 2005 is now able to vote.
What happens...
Rocketboom: Twitter-Bot Battle From Russia With... →
rocketboom:
How much you can trust Twitter…
On Sunday Russians voted in the Duma, Russia’s parliament elections. Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won a majority of the votes (surprise, surprise…), and many Russians are unhappy with the results. The internet is flooded with videos and reports of fraud at polling precincts across the country. On Monday, thousands of pissed off Ruskies...
Star Trek Technology + Market-Driven Ideology =... →
enki2:
Anti-Star Trek: A Theory of Posterity
Peter Frase
Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
December 14th, 2010 | Published in anti-Star Trek, Art and Literature, Political Economy | 41 Comments
In the process of trying to pull together some thoughts on intellectual property, zero marginal-cost goods, immaterial labor, and the incipient transition to a rentier form of...
Slightly Right of Centre: Notes and thoughts from... →
worsethandetroit:
nevali:
I am yet to hear a convincing argument as to why lobbyists pushing corporate agendas at the highest level of government should not themselves be subject to some scrutiny. Why are so many corporations so afraid to speak openly and on the record?
Good question.
I’d say it should be quid-pro-quo for access to ministers.
Yeah, there’s this persistent...
“In game theory, grim trigger (also called the grim strategy or just grim) is a...”
– Grim trigger (via slavin) I am so glad this has a name.
Naomi Klein's Inconvenient Climate Conclusions -... →
stoweboyd:
Our willingness to accept the scientific consensus on climate change is strongly influenced by our cognitive worldview:
Naomi Klein in Naomi Klein’s Inconvenient Climate Conclusions
[…] The research coming out of Yale’s Cultural Cognition Project, […] has found that the major determinant of whether a person rejects the scientific consensus on climate change is whether they have a...
“If change occurs it happens on the ground, between persons speaking out of inner...”
– Richard Sennett (via stoweboyd)
“I can’t think of any reason why as a population we should be expected to stand...”
– ~ Alan Moore (via m1k3y)
“We might as well ask the IMF and banks to make all our decisions to start with,...”
– Mark Steel (via jhnbrssndn)
“Iran’s army has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran,”...”
– Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone: reports - Tehran Times (via new-aesthetic) Do you even have your own drone fleet yet? You may be getting left behind…
Please welcome ArduPilotMega 2.0! - DIY Drones →
outlawpoet:
wow, this looks awesome.
For the aforementioned Drone Journalism, I imagine. Aerial sous-veillance, maybe?
“So what is drone journalism? Here’s a first crack at trying to define it: Drone...”
– Drone Journalism (via new-aesthetic)
