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curate: Welcome to Pakistan. →
curate:
All of these pictures represent Pakistan in a way. Each picture speaks. Cricket & Imran Khan. Enough said. Her childhood passes away like this. Notice the kid is wearing uniform and has books in his hand. Even during the flood, he went to school. Badshahi Masjid. The…
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THE BRAIN IS WIDER THAN THE SKY
The brain is wider than the sky
For put them side by side
The one the other will include
With ease and you beside
The brain is deeper than the sea
For hold them blue to blue
The one the other will absorb
As sponges buckets do
The brain is just the weight of God
For lift them, pound for pound
And they will differ if they do
As syllable from sound
~Emily Dickinson
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“High time preference corresponds to the instant gratification of ‘living for...”
– Nick Land, Time Preference (via hauntology)
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Why the Rich Love High Unemployment →
prostheticknowledge:
In the boardrooms of corporate America, profits aren’t everything - they are the only thing. A JPMorgan research report concludes that the current corporate profit recovery is more dependent on falling unit-labor costs than during any previous expansion. At some level, corporate executives are aware that they are lowering workers’ living standards, but their decisions are...
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“Lungulungu” by FOKN Bois from Ghana
Their...
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“Money is a human creation. It is nothing but a number. Most of it is simply...”
– David Korten (via azspot)
Amen.
(via blakewhitman)
Solve the problem.
(via mikehudack)
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Tens of thousands in austerity protest in Spain →
MADRID (AP) — Tens of thousands of students, social groups and unemployed Spaniards rallied in more than 50 cities on Sunday to protest against government austerity measures and the role banks and political parties have played in the financial crisis.
The events were organized by two activist groups under the banner of “We aren’t merchandise in the hands of politicians...
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lotekpulse:
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus...
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Chris Hedges: ‘We Speak in the Language of... →
May 16, 2011
Video Interview via:GritTv
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“On Tuesday, Senate Republicans…managed to filibuster an effort to eliminate $21...”
– Ezra Klein (via technipol)
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Past and Present in "Strange Simultaneity": Mark... →
Via: Rhizome
Quotes: - K-PUNK, HAUNTOLOGY NOW, JANUARY 17, 2006
by JOANNE MCNEIL | Wednesday May 18th, 2011
excerpt:
Jacques Derrida coined the term “hauntology” in Spectres of Marx (1993), describing the accumulation of ghost-like traces of the past as we move further in the future. Fisher applies this term to describe music with a particular nostalgia, sometimes sounding...
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Web Gallery Help Needed
I am looking for a simple web photo gallery with a CMS back end that can be integrated in to a non profits web site. Their site lives in a hosted environment running on Windows. The idea is to embed the gallery in their existing site.
If you have any ideas send me a pointer here
Thanks!
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Technology and New Populisms
The opening of a talk by Vernor Vinge
Via: smarterplanet
There has been an interesting evolution of opinion about the impact of technology on human freedom:
Up until about the year 1984, the vision of George Orwell’s novel 1984 was probably dominant, namely that technology would empower state tyranny to forever squash freedom.
From the year 1984 until near the end of the...
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The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About...
Via: Torrent Freak
Talks on implementing a Europe-wide firewall to censor and block ‘illicit’ websites has caused concern among many Internet users in recent weeks, and today one of the targeted sites has joined the discussion. Quoting one of Churchill’s most famous speeches, The Pirate Bay team is rallying the public to defend the free Internet and end the threat posed by the entertainment...
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Revolutions of 1848 - Wikipedia, the free... →
Does this remind anyone of the Jasmine Revolution?
