January 2012
Twitter Announces Micro-Censorship Policy →
emergentfutures:
Paul Higgins: This does not sound too good
courtenaybird:
Via NYTimes.com: So much for the free-wheeling, libertarian reputation of Twitter. The company announced Thursday that it could start censoring certain content in certain countries, a sort of micro-censorship widget that would pop up up in a grey box on the Twitter feed.
“Tweet withheld,” it would read “This tweet...
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wolfandfox:
The Skin I Live In (Almodovar 2011) (thanks to)
Another Incredible film from 2011.
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Johnny Otis (21 minutes) →
Via Fresh Air from WHYY
Johnny Otis recounts a career as band leader and cultural rebel. Musical and cultural history recounted by a man who deserves our respect and admiration. Johnny Otis was a founder of Rhythm & Blues.
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“The U.S. really is a society that simply no longer believes in due process: once...”
– Glenn Greenwald, Lessons of the Megaupload seizure (via absurdlakefront)
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SPEKTRMODULE - MixTapes from Warren Ellis
If you haven’t discovered the SPEKTRMODULE music posts from Warren Ellis (writer), I recommend you give them a try:
SPEKTRMODULE 04
SPEKTRMODULE 05
These mixes run between 35 and 45 minutes a piece and are a blend of ambient and folk electronica, with some spoken word peppered in from the grisly old master himself, Warren Ellis. Each issue comes with a play list, I have discovered...
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OWS Now What?
Via Adbusters:
Insight from Spain’s Indignados.
By Carlos Delclós and Raimundo Viejo
excerpt:
The conquest of political power, particularly in liberal democracies, is not the most important task of social change. Political change tends to occur once social changes have already taken place. Thus, if what we desire is to change existing social relations and inequalities, it makes...
“The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens...”
– The next SOPA – Marco.org (via robot-heart-politics)
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Malware Spread through Search Engine Results
Part of my job is to cleanup PCs that have been infected with malware, maleware has completely replaced viruses, we rarely see a virus on a PC. This is the introduction to a paper entitled deSEO: Combating Search-Result Poisoning published by members of the University of Washington Computer Sciences Department. LINK
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The spread of malware through the Internet has increased
dramatically...
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Chris Hedges Sues Obama Administration
Via: Chris Hedges
Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by the...
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Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an... →
hautepop:
“Within the next few years an important threshold will be crossed: For the first time ever, it will become technologically and financially feasible for authoritarian governments to record nearly everything that is said or done within their borders—every phone conversation, electronic message, social media interaction, the movements of nearly every person and vehicle, and video from...
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