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Developer Unveils Plans for Shipping Container Apartments in The Cedars


unconsumption:

Our friend Chip G. passes along this news of a project in Dallas converting shipping containers into living space. Interestingly, the coverage here — while acknowledging that “converting shipping containers into housing for the homeless is a growing idea both in the U.S. and Europe positions this example as something of a “luxury”-level development.

That’s $2.75 a square foot, right in line with luxury units across the
city of Dallas. The units will come with versions of the necessities
you’d expect from an apartment complex. Plumbing, kitchenettes and
skyline views that are actually pretty good. There will be a communal
dog-friendly space for pet owners, a “cool-ass laundromat” and outdoor
grills.

More here. I’m not sure I’ve come across this sort of critique before, but prior/additional coverage of container reuse and “cargotecture” can be found here and here.

— rw

Ready Player One.

Developer Unveils Plans for Shipping Container Apartments in The Cedars

Developer Unveils Plans for Shipping Container Apartments in The Cedars


unconsumption:

Our friend Chip G. passes along this news of a project in Dallas converting shipping containers into living space. Interestingly, the coverage here — while acknowledging that “converting shipping containers into housing for the homeless is a growing idea both in the U.S. and Europe positions this example as something of a “luxury”-level development.

That’s $2.75 a square foot, right in line with luxury units across the
city of Dallas. The units will come with versions of the necessities
you’d expect from an apartment complex. Plumbing, kitchenettes and
skyline views that are actually pretty good. There will be a communal
dog-friendly space for pet owners, a “cool-ass laundromat” and outdoor
grills.

More here. I’m not sure I’ve come across this sort of critique before, but prior/additional coverage of container reuse and “cargotecture” can be found here and here.

— rw

Ready Player One.

Developer Unveils Plans for Shipping Container Apartments in The Cedars

The TTIP deal hands British sovereignty to multinationals


Owen Jones: Cameron’s and Ukip’s backing for a treaty that lets corporations devour public services exposes their duplicity

We’re reaching the economic TTIPing point.

Yes, I’m very proud of that pun.

The TTIP deal hands British sovereignty to multinationals

The TTIP deal hands British sovereignty to multinationals


Owen Jones: Cameron’s and Ukip’s backing for a treaty that lets corporations devour public services exposes their duplicity

We’re reaching the economic TTIPing point.

Yes, I’m very proud of that pun.

The TTIP deal hands British sovereignty to multinationals

The FBI Just Completed its Facial Recognition System, and It’s Absolutely Terrifying


Say cheese!

The FBI’s new Next Generation Identification system is up and running, and is expected to absorb some 52 million photos in its first year alone. In an announcement posted to their website, the FBI describes the project as an upgrade to its already-existing fingerprint database, which contains more than 100 million records:

Yipes

The FBI Just Completed its Facial Recognition System, and It’s Absolutely Terrifying

The FBI Just Completed its Facial Recognition System, and It’s Absolutely Terrifying


Say cheese!

The FBI’s new Next Generation Identification system is up and running, and is expected to absorb some 52 million photos in its first year alone. In an announcement posted to their website, the FBI describes the project as an upgrade to its already-existing fingerprint database, which contains more than 100 million records:

Yipes

The FBI Just Completed its Facial Recognition System, and It’s Absolutely Terrifying

The DOJ to train community leaders to spot ‘radicals’


hipsterlibertarian:

This is so, so creepy.

The Department of Justice is launching a new program today in partnership with the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center that will train “community leaders” like teachers and social workers to monitor their communities for signs of radicalization. If the trainees think they have observed burgeoning radicalism, they are to report the potentially radicalized person(s) to law enforcement so the government can intervene before any crime has been committed.

In his announcement of the initiative, Attorney General Eric Holder described the program as a way to “be both innovative and aggressive in countering violent extremism and combating those who would sow intolerance, division, and hate” in the homeland. He labeled it an expansion of existent efforts to “to identify threats before they emerge, to disrupt homegrown terrorists, and to apprehend would-be violent extremists.” Presumably this is only a stop-gap program until precogs can be developed for war on terror use.

– – Bonnie Kristian

It seems the War on Thought Crime is ramping up. The line between social activism and unacceptable radicalism will soon blur.

The DOJ to train community leaders to spot ‘radicals’

The DOJ to train community leaders to spot ‘radicals’


hipsterlibertarian:

This is so, so creepy.

The Department of Justice is launching a new program today in partnership with the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center that will train “community leaders” like teachers and social workers to monitor their communities for signs of radicalization. If the trainees think they have observed burgeoning radicalism, they are to report the potentially radicalized person(s) to law enforcement so the government can intervene before any crime has been committed.

In his announcement of the initiative, Attorney General Eric Holder described the program as a way to “be both innovative and aggressive in countering violent extremism and combating those who would sow intolerance, division, and hate” in the homeland. He labeled it an expansion of existent efforts to “to identify threats before they emerge, to disrupt homegrown terrorists, and to apprehend would-be violent extremists.” Presumably this is only a stop-gap program until precogs can be developed for war on terror use.

– – Bonnie Kristian

It seems the War on Thought Crime is ramping up. The line between social activism and unacceptable radicalism will soon blur.

The DOJ to train community leaders to spot ‘radicals’

9th century Baths found at Bulgaria’s Pliska


archaeologicalnews:

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Archaeologists working at the site of Pliska, once the capital of the First Bulgarian Kingdom, have uncovered a luxurious royal baths that they believe date back to the ninth century CE.

The baths are probably the oldest medieval baths found in the country, reports on September 8 said.

The…

9th century Baths found at Bulgaria’s Pliska

9th century Baths found at Bulgaria’s Pliska


archaeologicalnews:

image

Archaeologists working at the site of Pliska, once the capital of the First Bulgarian Kingdom, have uncovered a luxurious royal baths that they believe date back to the ninth century CE.

The baths are probably the oldest medieval baths found in the country, reports on September 8 said.

The…

9th century Baths found at Bulgaria’s Pliska

Scots voting no to independence would be an astonishing act of self-harm


George Monbiot: England is dysfunctional, corrupt and vastly unequal. Who on earth would want to be tied to such a country?

Scots voting no to independence would be an astonishing act of self-harm

Scots voting no to independence would be an astonishing act of self-harm


George Monbiot: England is dysfunctional, corrupt and vastly unequal. Who on earth would want to be tied to such a country?

Scots voting no to independence would be an astonishing act of self-harm

The Multiracial Population Is Growing, But Kid Lit Isn’t Keeping Up


weareallmixedup:

“The multiracial population is undeniably growing. According to the 2010 United States Census, nine million people marked more than one race. In fact, the multiracial population grew by 32 percent since 2000, in contrast to the nine percent growth of the population marking a single race. Using the language of the U.S. Census, “interracial or interethnic” families grew by 28 percent. However, the Children’s Cooperative Book Center released the statistic that of the books published in 2013, a mere 253 out of 3,200 were about children of color. I look at these statistics and wonder how many of these 253 books feature protagonists who might fall into more than one of the categories used—African-American, American-Indian, Pacific Islander/Asian-American, or Latino. I suspect very few.

…The time has long passed for our children’s literature to develop more complex and realistic representations of race. Our kids’ books need to represent the biracial or multiracial experience, and not only in black and white. Multiracial characters do not need to have one white parent—they can be Native American and Latino, for example, or Asian-American and African-American.”

"Monica Brown (www.monicabrown.net) is the author of more than a dozen picture books, including “Tito Puente: Mambo King/Rey del mambo” (HarperCollins) and the award-winning “Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/no combina” (Lee & Low).”

The Multiracial Population Is Growing, But Kid Lit Isn’t Keeping Up

The Multiracial Population Is Growing, But Kid Lit Isn’t Keeping Up


weareallmixedup:

“The multiracial population is undeniably growing. According to the 2010 United States Census, nine million people marked more than one race. In fact, the multiracial population grew by 32 percent since 2000, in contrast to the nine percent growth of the population marking a single race. Using the language of the U.S. Census, “interracial or interethnic” families grew by 28 percent. However, the Children’s Cooperative Book Center released the statistic that of the books published in 2013, a mere 253 out of 3,200 were about children of color. I look at these statistics and wonder how many of these 253 books feature protagonists who might fall into more than one of the categories used—African-American, American-Indian, Pacific Islander/Asian-American, or Latino. I suspect very few.

…The time has long passed for our children’s literature to develop more complex and realistic representations of race. Our kids’ books need to represent the biracial or multiracial experience, and not only in black and white. Multiracial characters do not need to have one white parent—they can be Native American and Latino, for example, or Asian-American and African-American.”

"Monica Brown (www.monicabrown.net) is the author of more than a dozen picture books, including “Tito Puente: Mambo King/Rey del mambo” (HarperCollins) and the award-winning “Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/no combina” (Lee & Low).”

The Multiracial Population Is Growing, But Kid Lit Isn’t Keeping Up

Younger Blacks are less likely to suggest that discrimination explains racial disparities, tending to ascribe them to Blacks’ lack of will to “pull up their bootstraps.”


Five decades on from the end of institutionalized segregation in the U.S., racial disparities between blacks and white endure. Despite these persistent inequalities, there has been a shift among Blacks away from believing that these disparities are caused by continuing discrimination and prejudice….

The findings here are troubling given the on-going inequality in the criminal justice system, persistent wealth inequality, re-segregation of American schools, racial discrimination in job employment processes, and the like. This research raises questions about who will be wiling and able to speak up on issues of racial inequality in an era of colorblindness.

A worrying gap between perception and reality.

Younger Blacks are less likely to suggest that discrimination explains racial disparities, tending to ascribe them to Blacks’ lack of will to “pull up their bootstraps.”

Younger Blacks are less likely to suggest that discrimination explains racial disparities, tending to ascribe them to Blacks’ lack of will to “pull up their bootstraps.”


Five decades on from the end of institutionalized segregation in the U.S., racial disparities between blacks and white endure. Despite these persistent inequalities, there has been a shift among Blacks away from believing that these disparities are caused by continuing discrimination and prejudice….

The findings here are troubling given the on-going inequality in the criminal justice system, persistent wealth inequality, re-segregation of American schools, racial discrimination in job employment processes, and the like. This research raises questions about who will be wiling and able to speak up on issues of racial inequality in an era of colorblindness.

A worrying gap between perception and reality.

Younger Blacks are less likely to suggest that discrimination explains racial disparities, tending to ascribe them to Blacks’ lack of will to “pull up their bootstraps.”

Three Officers Are Sentenced In Death of Man in Custody


Three former Orange police officers were sentenced to 33 months in prison Thursday on federal charges of conspiring to violate the civil rights of a 27-year-old man who died in police custody in 1999 after he was arrested by mistake in the killing of a policewoman. The sentences of two former officers, Tyrone Payton, 38, and Paul Carpenteri, 38, and a former lieutenant, Thomas Smith, 40, were much lower than the more than 10 years that prosecutors had sought before Judge John C. Lifland of Federal District Court.

Three Officers Are Sentenced In Death of Man in Custody

Congratulations: You’re a Tenement Inspector


newyorker:

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Sarah Larson participates in a new public program at the Tenement Museum:

“Varma led us downstairs and outside, where we climbed a few steps to the front door of 97 Orchard. She knocked, and a dark-haired young woman in a high-collared blouse and a floor-length olive-green skirt…

Congratulations: You’re a Tenement Inspector

Mideast’s most ancient metal object found in Beit She’an Valley


archaeologicalnews:

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Researchers say an awl from the Middle Chalcolithic period (5200-4600 BCE) is the oldest metal object ever found in the Middle East.

The awl is made of copper and was found at excavations at Tel Tsaf in the Beit She’an Valley section of the Jordan Valley.

Chemical analysis dates the item…

Mideast’s most ancient metal object found in Beit She’an Valley

Mideast’s most ancient metal object found in Beit She’an Valley


archaeologicalnews:

image

Researchers say an awl from the Middle Chalcolithic period (5200-4600 BCE) is the oldest metal object ever found in the Middle East.

The awl is made of copper and was found at excavations at Tel Tsaf in the Beit She’an Valley section of the Jordan Valley.

Chemical analysis dates the item…

Mideast’s most ancient metal object found in Beit She’an Valley

15 Black Uprisings Against European and Arab Oppression They Won’t Teach in Schools | Atlanta Black Star


america-wakiewakie:

Nat Turner’s Revolution‬

Nat Turner’s rebellion, also called the Southampton Insurrection, is probably the most famous slave uprising in North America. The revolt was brilliantly planned by Turner and took place August 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia. The Turner-led group of  ”freedom fighters” killed up to 65 people of European descent, the highest number of fatalities caused by a slave uprising in the American South. Though the rebellion was quelled within a few days, Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterward.

Haitian Revolution

The most successful slave uprising in the Western Hemisphere was the Haitian Revolution, which began in 1791. Dutty Boukman, an educated slave from Jamaica who was sold to a French slave master in Haiti, organized and started the revolution that was eventually led by military mastermind Toussaint L’Ouverture. During the war, which culminated in the first independent black country in 1804, 100,000 French and British soldiers were killed.

THE ZANJ REVOLT 

The largest revolt by enslaved Africans was ignited by the Zanj against Arab slavers. The Zanj or Zinj were the inhabitants of the land along the coast of East Africa. They were traded as slaves by Arabs and were made to work in the cruel and humid saltpans of Shatt-al-Arab, near Basra in modern-day Iraq. Conscious of their large numbers and oppressive working conditions, the Zanj rebelled three times.

The largest of these rebellions lasted from 868 to 883 A.D., during which they inflicted repeated defeat on Arab armies sent to suppress the revolt. For some 14 years, they continued to achieve remarkable military victories and even built their own capital–Moktara, the Elect City.

New York Slave Revolt of 1712‬

The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 happened in New York City, when 23 enslaved Africans killed nine people of European descent and injured six more. The slaves planned and organized the revolt on the night of April 6, 1712. After setting fire to a building on Maiden Lane near Broadway, they waited for  colonists to rush to put out the flames, then proceeded to attack them.

The First Maroon War

In 1739, the Jamaican Maroons were the first enslaved Africans to win their freedom from European slave masters. During the First Maroon War, they fought and escaped slavery and established free communities in the mountainous interior of the island. For 76 years, there were periodic skirmishes between the British and the Maroons, alongside occasional slave revolts.

Eventually, the British government and slave holders realized they couldn’t defeat the Maroons, so they came up with a peace treaty that allowed them to live in their own free states in Jamaica. As a result, the Maroons established their five main towns: Accompong, Trelawny Town, Moore Town, Scots Hall, and Nanny Town.

(Read Full Text)

Fine examples of revolutions against oppression

15 Black Uprisings Against European and Arab Oppression They Won’t Teach in Schools | Atlanta Black Star

15 Black Uprisings Against European and Arab Oppression They Won’t Teach in Schools | Atlanta Black Star


america-wakiewakie:

Nat Turner’s Revolution‬

Nat Turner’s rebellion, also called the Southampton Insurrection, is probably the most famous slave uprising in North America. The revolt was brilliantly planned by Turner and took place August 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia. The Turner-led group of  ”freedom fighters” killed up to 65 people of European descent, the highest number of fatalities caused by a slave uprising in the American South. Though the rebellion was quelled within a few days, Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterward.

Haitian Revolution

The most successful slave uprising in the Western Hemisphere was the Haitian Revolution, which began in 1791. Dutty Boukman, an educated slave from Jamaica who was sold to a French slave master in Haiti, organized and started the revolution that was eventually led by military mastermind Toussaint L’Ouverture. During the war, which culminated in the first independent black country in 1804, 100,000 French and British soldiers were killed.

THE ZANJ REVOLT 

The largest revolt by enslaved Africans was ignited by the Zanj against Arab slavers. The Zanj or Zinj were the inhabitants of the land along the coast of East Africa. They were traded as slaves by Arabs and were made to work in the cruel and humid saltpans of Shatt-al-Arab, near Basra in modern-day Iraq. Conscious of their large numbers and oppressive working conditions, the Zanj rebelled three times.

The largest of these rebellions lasted from 868 to 883 A.D., during which they inflicted repeated defeat on Arab armies sent to suppress the revolt. For some 14 years, they continued to achieve remarkable military victories and even built their own capital–Moktara, the Elect City.

New York Slave Revolt of 1712‬

The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 happened in New York City, when 23 enslaved Africans killed nine people of European descent and injured six more. The slaves planned and organized the revolt on the night of April 6, 1712. After setting fire to a building on Maiden Lane near Broadway, they waited for  colonists to rush to put out the flames, then proceeded to attack them.

The First Maroon War

In 1739, the Jamaican Maroons were the first enslaved Africans to win their freedom from European slave masters. During the First Maroon War, they fought and escaped slavery and established free communities in the mountainous interior of the island. For 76 years, there were periodic skirmishes between the British and the Maroons, alongside occasional slave revolts.

Eventually, the British government and slave holders realized they couldn’t defeat the Maroons, so they came up with a peace treaty that allowed them to live in their own free states in Jamaica. As a result, the Maroons established their five main towns: Accompong, Trelawny Town, Moore Town, Scots Hall, and Nanny Town.

(Read Full Text)

Fine examples of revolutions against oppression

15 Black Uprisings Against European and Arab Oppression They Won’t Teach in Schools | Atlanta Black Star

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=FDpcNUag7ZM&u=/watch?v=Iu4HLr4hIUk&feature=share


Senator Sheldon Whitehouse deconstructs The Climate Denial Beast.

Great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=FDpcNUag7ZM&u=/watch?v=Iu4HLr4hIUk&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=FDpcNUag7ZM&u=/watch?v=Iu4HLr4hIUk&feature=share


Senator Sheldon Whitehouse deconstructs The Climate Denial Beast.

Great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=FDpcNUag7ZM&u=/watch?v=Iu4HLr4hIUk&feature=share

The Problem of Speaking For Others | Alcoff.com


Consider the following true stories:
1. Anne Cameron, a very gifted white Canadian author, writes several first person accounts of the lives of Native Canadian women. At the 1988 International Feminist Book Fair in Montreal, a group of Native Canadian writers ask Cameron to, in their words, “move over” on the grounds that her writings are disempowering for Native authors. She agrees.2
2. After the 1989 elections in Panama are overturned by Manuel Noriega, U.S. President George Bush declares in a public address that Noriega’s actions constitute an “outrageous fraud” and that “the voice of the Panamanian people have spoken.” “The Panamanian people,” he tells us, “want democracy and not tyranny, and want Noriega out.” He proceeds to plan the invasion of Panama.
3. At a recent symposium at my university, a prestigious theorist was invited to give a lecture on the political problems of post-modernism. Those of us in the audience, including many white women and people of oppressed nationalities and races, wait in eager anticipation for what he has to contribute to this important discussion. To our disappointment, he introduces his lecture by explaining that he can not cover the assigned topic, because as a white male he does not feel that he can speak for the feminist and post-colonial perspectives which have launched the critical interrogation of postmodernism’s politics. He lectures instead on architecture.
These examples demonstrate the range of current practices of speaking for others in our society. While the prerogative of speaking for others remains unquestioned in the citadels of colonial administration, among activists and in the academy it elicits a growing unease and, in
some communities of discourse, it is being rejected.

The Problem of Speaking For Others | Alcoff.com

The Problem of Speaking For Others | Alcoff.com


Consider the following true stories:
1. Anne Cameron, a very gifted white Canadian author, writes several first person accounts of the lives of Native Canadian women. At the 1988 International Feminist Book Fair in Montreal, a group of Native Canadian writers ask Cameron to, in their words, “move over” on the grounds that her writings are disempowering for Native authors. She agrees.2
2. After the 1989 elections in Panama are overturned by Manuel Noriega, U.S. President George Bush declares in a public address that Noriega’s actions constitute an “outrageous fraud” and that “the voice of the Panamanian people have spoken.” “The Panamanian people,” he tells us, “want democracy and not tyranny, and want Noriega out.” He proceeds to plan the invasion of Panama.
3. At a recent symposium at my university, a prestigious theorist was invited to give a lecture on the political problems of post-modernism. Those of us in the audience, including many white women and people of oppressed nationalities and races, wait in eager anticipation for what he has to contribute to this important discussion. To our disappointment, he introduces his lecture by explaining that he can not cover the assigned topic, because as a white male he does not feel that he can speak for the feminist and post-colonial perspectives which have launched the critical interrogation of postmodernism’s politics. He lectures instead on architecture.
These examples demonstrate the range of current practices of speaking for others in our society. While the prerogative of speaking for others remains unquestioned in the citadels of colonial administration, among activists and in the academy it elicits a growing unease and, in
some communities of discourse, it is being rejected.

The Problem of Speaking For Others | Alcoff.com

Names, Words, and Phrases Appearing in a Single NYT Trend Piece


jessicacoen:

An abridged list, in no particular order.
  • Edmund Wilson
  • poststructuralism
  • the Situationists
  • “extrainstitutional intellectualism”
  • bourbon
  • “proletarian meta-narrative”
  • the Lost Generation
  • Cornell
  • Sacre Coeur
  • Jonathan Lethem
  • The Paris Review
  • paradigm
  • Jacques Derrida
  • French…

Names, Words, and Phrases Appearing in a Single NYT Trend Piece

Barack Obama: The Least Transparent President in History: Amy Goodman


Six years into the Obama administration, the president’s promise of “a new era of open government” seems just another grand promise, cynically broken. – 2014/03/26

The powerful don’t like us finding out what they do.

Barack Obama: The Least Transparent President in History: Amy Goodman

Barack Obama: The Least Transparent President in History: Amy Goodman


Six years into the Obama administration, the president’s promise of “a new era of open government” seems just another grand promise, cynically broken. – 2014/03/26

The powerful don’t like us finding out what they do.

Barack Obama: The Least Transparent President in History: Amy Goodman

Michelle Alexander: White Men Get Rich from Legal Pot, Black Men Stay in Prison | Alternet


Here is an idea. Why not release all the young men and women currently incarcerated for cannabis related crimes. Give them micro-loans to start businesses in the Cannabis industry. Teach them, help them grow. Help them expand the economy not just in cannabis smoking but also hemp seed foods, hemp oil, wax, resin, rope, cloth, pulp, paper, and fuel.

In one full swoop the economy problem, the prison population problem and the jobs problem could be solved.

Perhaps that’s just thinking too crazy.

Michelle Alexander: White Men Get Rich from Legal Pot, Black Men Stay in Prison | Alternet

Michelle Alexander: White Men Get Rich from Legal Pot, Black Men Stay in Prison | Alternet


Here is an idea. Why not release all the young men and women currently incarcerated for cannabis related crimes. Give them micro-loans to start businesses in the Cannabis industry. Teach them, help them grow. Help them expand the economy not just in cannabis smoking but also hemp seed foods, hemp oil, wax, resin, rope, cloth, pulp, paper, and fuel.

In one full swoop the economy problem, the prison population problem and the jobs problem could be solved.

Perhaps that’s just thinking too crazy.

Michelle Alexander: White Men Get Rich from Legal Pot, Black Men Stay in Prison | Alternet

This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes | Elite Daily


The reading game is about to change forever. Boston-based software developer Spritz has been in “stealth mode” for three years, tinkering with their program and leasing it out to different ebooks, apps, and other platforms.

Because why on earth would we want reading to be fun or relaxing?

NO TIME FOR THAT IS THERE?

I am desparing quietly.

This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes | Elite Daily

This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes | Elite Daily


The reading game is about to change forever. Boston-based software developer Spritz has been in “stealth mode” for three years, tinkering with their program and leasing it out to different ebooks, apps, and other platforms.

Because why on earth would we want reading to be fun or relaxing?

NO TIME FOR THAT IS THERE?

I am desparing quietly.

This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes | Elite Daily

apexart :: Film Screening :: The Truth of Poetry


What is the truth of poetry? Does anybody really know? Casey Smith, a poet from Washington, DC, sets out to explore these questions in a short film made by Mick Williams, a troubled artist who now earns his living as a commercial video-editor. The “Truth of Poetry” charts the dissolution of their friendship over the course of the film’s production, while never quite answering the ambitious promise of the film’s title.

apexart :: Film Screening :: The Truth of Poetry

apexart :: Film Screening :: The Truth of Poetry


What is the truth of poetry? Does anybody really know? Casey Smith, a poet from Washington, DC, sets out to explore these questions in a short film made by Mick Williams, a troubled artist who now earns his living as a commercial video-editor. The “Truth of Poetry” charts the dissolution of their friendship over the course of the film’s production, while never quite answering the ambitious promise of the film’s title.

apexart :: Film Screening :: The Truth of Poetry

Deal Me Out | Alex Pareene | The Baffler


The New York Times, as everybody knows, is the premier source of authoritative journalism in the world’s most powerful formal democracy. Among the paper’s storied achievements are its courageous, pathbreaking coverage of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the release of the Pentagon Papers in defiance of a prior restraint order in 1971, and investigative coups on everything from the abuses of money in politics to the disastrous course of the war in Afghanistan. It has also, along the way, committed travesties like Judith Miller’s misreporting of WMDs allegedly in the possession of Saddam Hussein prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the long run of stories plucked out of thin air by serial fabricator Jayson Blair, and the paper’s bafflingly exhaustive coverage of the consumption habits of would-be bohemians in certain East River–adjacent neighborhoods. But the Times mostly takes its self-assigned mission to be the nation’s “newspaper of record” seriously.

Deal Me Out | Alex Pareene | The Baffler

Deal Me Out | Alex Pareene | The Baffler


The New York Times, as everybody knows, is the premier source of authoritative journalism in the world’s most powerful formal democracy. Among the paper’s storied achievements are its courageous, pathbreaking coverage of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the release of the Pentagon Papers in defiance of a prior restraint order in 1971, and investigative coups on everything from the abuses of money in politics to the disastrous course of the war in Afghanistan. It has also, along the way, committed travesties like Judith Miller’s misreporting of WMDs allegedly in the possession of Saddam Hussein prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the long run of stories plucked out of thin air by serial fabricator Jayson Blair, and the paper’s bafflingly exhaustive coverage of the consumption habits of would-be bohemians in certain East River–adjacent neighborhoods. But the Times mostly takes its self-assigned mission to be the nation’s “newspaper of record” seriously.

Deal Me Out | Alex Pareene | The Baffler

Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life


“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge.” In the year of reading more and writing better, we’ve absorbed

A great list.

Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life

Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life


“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge.” In the year of reading more and writing better, we’ve absorbed

A great list.

Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life

Can the Government Block the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger?


It would create a national behemoth out of two already-maligned companies. Then again, it’s hard to make the anti-trust case if the cable providers barely compete for any customers.

Can the Government Block the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger?

Can the Government Block the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger?


It would create a national behemoth out of two already-maligned companies. Then again, it’s hard to make the anti-trust case if the cable providers barely compete for any customers.

Can the Government Block the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger?

The Paranoid Style in American Politics | Harper’s Magazine


It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it—and its targets have ranged from “the international bankers” to Masons, Jesuits, and munitions makers. American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority. But behind this I believe there is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right-wing. I call &

The Paranoid Style in American Politics | Harper’s Magazine

The Paranoid Style in American Politics | Harper’s Magazine


It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it—and its targets have ranged from “the international bankers” to Masons, Jesuits, and munitions makers. American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority. But behind this I believe there is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right-wing. I call &

The Paranoid Style in American Politics | Harper’s Magazine

Uncomfortable Historical Truths: On White Privilege and the Movie “12 Years a Slave”


No mainstream American film would dare to show the true range of white on black torture and cruelty that took place during slavery in the West because such depictions would not be believed by the general public.

Uncomfortable Historical Truths: On White Privilege and the Movie “12 Years a Slave”

Uncomfortable Historical Truths: On White Privilege and the Movie “12 Years a Slave”


No mainstream American film would dare to show the true range of white on black torture and cruelty that took place during slavery in the West because such depictions would not be believed by the general public.

Uncomfortable Historical Truths: On White Privilege and the Movie “12 Years a Slave”

The 8 White Identities


nativnuance:

IMPORTANT:

The original post of “The 8 White Identities” was a list drawn from my notes on a Lecture given by Professor Barnor Hesse during his course “Unsettling Whiteness”. Following some confusion, I want to clarify that the list was NOT authored or authorized by Professor Hesse; I cited…

The 8 White Identities

The 8 White Identities


nativnuance:

IMPORTANT:

The original post of “The 8 White Identities” was a list drawn from my notes on a Lecture given by Professor Barnor Hesse during his course “Unsettling Whiteness”. Following some confusion, I want to clarify that the list was NOT authored or authorized by Professor Hesse; I cited…

The 8 White Identities

Creator of ‘The Wire’ says ‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show.’ | The Raw Story


America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it. About 20 blocks away is another America entirely. It’s astonishing how little we have to do with each other, and yet we are living in such proximity.

Creator of ‘The Wire’ says ‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show.’ | The Raw Story

Creator of ‘The Wire’ says ‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show.’ | The Raw Story


America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it. About 20 blocks away is another America entirely. It’s astonishing how little we have to do with each other, and yet we are living in such proximity.

Creator of ‘The Wire’ says ‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show.’ | The Raw Story

Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 2012 Elections | Next New Deal


Key Findings:

  • Existing data sources used for studies of campaign finance have a variety of serious flaws.
  • As a result, the degree to which major parties’ presidential candidates depend on very large donors has been underestimated and the role small donors play exaggerated.
  • The relation between the money split between the parties and the proportion of votes received by their candidates in House and Senate races appears to be quite straightforward.
  • Firms and executives in industries strongly affected by proposed regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions heavily backed Mitt Romney. So did much, but not all, of finance.
  • President Obama’s support within big business was broader than hitherto recognized. His level of support from firms in telecommunications and software was very strong indeed, sometimes equaling or exceeding Romney’s. Many firms and sectors most involved in the recent controversies over surveillance were among the President’s strongest supporters.
  • Republican candidates showed sharply different levels of contributions from small donors; President Obama’s campaign, while heavily dependent on large donors, attracted more support from small donors than did his Republican opponent.
  • Big business support for Tea Party candidates for Congress was substantial, but well below levels for more mainstream Republicans. Many of the same sectors that strongly supported Romney also backed Tea Party candidates. Backing for Tea Party candidates by Too Big To Fail banks ran above the average of business as a whole by every measure.

Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 2012 Elections | Next New Deal

Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 2012 Elections | Next New Deal


Key Findings:

  • Existing data sources used for studies of campaign finance have a variety of serious flaws.
  • As a result, the degree to which major parties’ presidential candidates depend on very large donors has been underestimated and the role small donors play exaggerated.
  • The relation between the money split between the parties and the proportion of votes received by their candidates in House and Senate races appears to be quite straightforward.
  • Firms and executives in industries strongly affected by proposed regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions heavily backed Mitt Romney. So did much, but not all, of finance.
  • President Obama’s support within big business was broader than hitherto recognized. His level of support from firms in telecommunications and software was very strong indeed, sometimes equaling or exceeding Romney’s. Many firms and sectors most involved in the recent controversies over surveillance were among the President’s strongest supporters.
  • Republican candidates showed sharply different levels of contributions from small donors; President Obama’s campaign, while heavily dependent on large donors, attracted more support from small donors than did his Republican opponent.
  • Big business support for Tea Party candidates for Congress was substantial, but well below levels for more mainstream Republicans. Many of the same sectors that strongly supported Romney also backed Tea Party candidates. Backing for Tea Party candidates by Too Big To Fail banks ran above the average of business as a whole by every measure.

Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 2012 Elections | Next New Deal

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=LYAZE9p-7nZXiEbDK7hZXQ&u=/watch?v=y-mzvpkbHyQ&feature=share


Experts discuss Israel’s domestic achievements and challenges, and offer recommendations for moving forward. SPEAKERS: Ari Shavit Robert M. Danin PRESIDER: D…

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=LYAZE9p-7nZXiEbDK7hZXQ&u=/watch?v=y-mzvpkbHyQ&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=LYAZE9p-7nZXiEbDK7hZXQ&u=/watch?v=y-mzvpkbHyQ&feature=share


Experts discuss Israel’s domestic achievements and challenges, and offer recommendations for moving forward. SPEAKERS: Ari Shavit Robert M. Danin PRESIDER: D…

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=LYAZE9p-7nZXiEbDK7hZXQ&u=/watch?v=y-mzvpkbHyQ&feature=share

Enlightenment Thinkers Invented Anti-Black Racism, FYI


medievalpoc:

tackedtothewall:

medievalpoc:

auroramere said:

I’ve fallen hard for Sleepy Hollow and the diversity is teaching me so much about my own racism. It’s about time white people got to look at a room with four black characters in it and say, “That’s funny… I’m not there.” Surprise!

Yes, apparently this is… [tumblr snipped]

I know a lot of people have been 
reacting to Sleepy Hollow, but I’m hoping it’s making even more people *think*.

I think one of the moments which could really be thought provoking if you let it is the “I see you’ve been emancipated” moment. I mean, bully for you Mr. Crane that you were a member of the AntiSlavery society, but that was no guarantee that he was going to treat Lt. Mills like a person (he did, but that’s his magical 21st century adaptability thing. or possible over exposure to certain Enlightenment thinkers).

Anyway, this show doesn’t always make me think about race, but it certainly has me thinking about teaching historical thinking (and thinking historically) to the public through pop culture.

“over exposure to certain Enlightenment thinkers”

Uhhhhh. I hope you mean the opposite of what you said, because The Enlightenment was basically when racism as we know it today was invented.

Enlightenment thinkers like Immanuel Kant:

The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling. Mr. [David] Hume challenges anyone to cite a single example in which a Negro has shown talents, and asserts that among the hundreds of thousands of blacks who are transported elsewhere from their countries, although many of them have even been set free, still not a single one was ever found who presented anything great in art or science or any other praiseworthy quality, even though among the whites some continually rise aloft from the lowest rabble and through superior gifts earn respect in the world. So fundamental is the difference between these two races of man.

Enlightenment thinker David Hume the “Abolitionist”:

I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences…. [T]here are NEGROE slaves dispersed all over EUROPE, of which none ever discovered any symptoms of ingenuity; tho’ low people, without education, will start up amongst us, and distinguish themselves in every profession. In JAMAICA, indeed, they talk of one negroe as a man of parts and learning; but ‘tis likely he is admired for very slender accomplishments, like a parrot, who speaks a few words plainly.

Enlightenment thinker John Locke, who is responsible for codifying race-based chattel slavery into the United States Constitution:

Sir Leslie Stephan charged Locke with personal racism for inserting section CX: “Every freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power and authority over his negro slaves, of what opinion or religion soever.” There is some evidence to suggest that Locke did play a part in formulating the sections on religion — though it is possible this may have been at the bidding of Lord Ashley. […] David Armitage has shown that Locke was involved over the years in amending the Fundamental Constitutions of the Carolinas right up to the time at which he was writing the Two Treatises of Government, and while many articles of the Constitutions were removed at various times, this was not the case with the clause about negro slavery. Armitage implies that this shows not only that Locke agreed with the clause about negro slavery in the Fundamental Constitutions but that we should interpret the Second Treatise account of slavery as intended to justify the institutions and practices of Afro-American slavery.

Enlightenment thinker Thomas Jefferson:

Jefferson also dodged opportunities to undermine slavery or promote racial equality. As a state legislator he blocked consideration of a law that might have eventually ended slavery in the state.

As president he acquired the Louisiana Territory but did nothing to stop the spread of slavery into that vast “empire of liberty.” Jefferson told his neighbor Edward Coles not to emancipate his own slaves, because free blacks were “pests in society” who were “as incapable as children of taking care of themselves.” And while he wrote a friend that he sold slaves only as punishment or to unite families, he sold at least 85 humans in a 10-year period to raise cash to buy wine, art and other luxury goods.

Destroying families didn’t bother Jefferson, because he believed blacks lacked basic human emotions. “Their griefs are transient,” he wrote, and their love lacked “a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation.”

Jefferson claimed he had “never seen an elementary trait of painting or sculpture” or poetry among blacks and argued that blacks’ ability to “reason” was “much inferior” to whites’, while “in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.” He conceded that blacks were brave, but this was because of “a want of fore-thought, which prevents their seeing a danger till it be present.”

So, I can only assume that it’s a LACK of exposure to Enlightenment thinkers that presumably led to our fictional character Ichabod Crane, time traveling Apocalypse-Thwarter, to eschew the violent and virulent racism that was a product of his time.

Enlightenment Thinkers Invented Anti-Black Racism, FYI

Enlightenment Thinkers Invented Anti-Black Racism, FYI


medievalpoc:

tackedtothewall:

medievalpoc:

auroramere said:

I’ve fallen hard for Sleepy Hollow and the diversity is teaching me so much about my own racism. It’s about time white people got to look at a room with four black characters in it and say, “That’s funny… I’m not there.” Surprise!

Yes, apparently this is… [tumblr snipped]

I know a lot of people have been 
reacting to Sleepy Hollow, but I’m hoping it’s making even more people *think*.

I think one of the moments which could really be thought provoking if you let it is the “I see you’ve been emancipated” moment. I mean, bully for you Mr. Crane that you were a member of the AntiSlavery society, but that was no guarantee that he was going to treat Lt. Mills like a person (he did, but that’s his magical 21st century adaptability thing. or possible over exposure to certain Enlightenment thinkers).

Anyway, this show doesn’t always make me think about race, but it certainly has me thinking about teaching historical thinking (and thinking historically) to the public through pop culture.

“over exposure to certain Enlightenment thinkers”

Uhhhhh. I hope you mean the opposite of what you said, because The Enlightenment was basically when racism as we know it today was invented.

Enlightenment thinkers like Immanuel Kant:

The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling. Mr. [David] Hume challenges anyone to cite a single example in which a Negro has shown talents, and asserts that among the hundreds of thousands of blacks who are transported elsewhere from their countries, although many of them have even been set free, still not a single one was ever found who presented anything great in art or science or any other praiseworthy quality, even though among the whites some continually rise aloft from the lowest rabble and through superior gifts earn respect in the world. So fundamental is the difference between these two races of man.

Enlightenment thinker David Hume the “Abolitionist”:

I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences…. [T]here are NEGROE slaves dispersed all over EUROPE, of which none ever discovered any symptoms of ingenuity; tho’ low people, without education, will start up amongst us, and distinguish themselves in every profession. In JAMAICA, indeed, they talk of one negroe as a man of parts and learning; but ‘tis likely he is admired for very slender accomplishments, like a parrot, who speaks a few words plainly.

Enlightenment thinker John Locke, who is responsible for codifying race-based chattel slavery into the United States Constitution:

Sir Leslie Stephan charged Locke with personal racism for inserting section CX: “Every freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power and authority over his negro slaves, of what opinion or religion soever.” There is some evidence to suggest that Locke did play a part in formulating the sections on religion — though it is possible this may have been at the bidding of Lord Ashley. […] David Armitage has shown that Locke was involved over the years in amending the Fundamental Constitutions of the Carolinas right up to the time at which he was writing the Two Treatises of Government, and while many articles of the Constitutions were removed at various times, this was not the case with the clause about negro slavery. Armitage implies that this shows not only that Locke agreed with the clause about negro slavery in the Fundamental Constitutions but that we should interpret the Second Treatise account of slavery as intended to justify the institutions and practices of Afro-American slavery.

Enlightenment thinker Thomas Jefferson:

Jefferson also dodged opportunities to undermine slavery or promote racial equality. As a state legislator he blocked consideration of a law that might have eventually ended slavery in the state.

As president he acquired the Louisiana Territory but did nothing to stop the spread of slavery into that vast “empire of liberty.” Jefferson told his neighbor Edward Coles not to emancipate his own slaves, because free blacks were “pests in society” who were “as incapable as children of taking care of themselves.” And while he wrote a friend that he sold slaves only as punishment or to unite families, he sold at least 85 humans in a 10-year period to raise cash to buy wine, art and other luxury goods.

Destroying families didn’t bother Jefferson, because he believed blacks lacked basic human emotions. “Their griefs are transient,” he wrote, and their love lacked “a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation.”

Jefferson claimed he had “never seen an elementary trait of painting or sculpture” or poetry among blacks and argued that blacks’ ability to “reason” was “much inferior” to whites’, while “in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.” He conceded that blacks were brave, but this was because of “a want of fore-thought, which prevents their seeing a danger till it be present.”

So, I can only assume that it’s a LACK of exposure to Enlightenment thinkers that presumably led to our fictional character Ichabod Crane, time traveling Apocalypse-Thwarter, to eschew the violent and virulent racism that was a product of his time.

Enlightenment Thinkers Invented Anti-Black Racism, FYI

What Does the Christian Right Want? Chris Hedges on American Fascists (2007)


American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America is a non-fiction book by American Pulitzer Prize journalist Chris Hedges, published in January …

What Does the Christian Right Want? Chris Hedges on American Fascists (2007)

What Does the Christian Right Want? Chris Hedges on American Fascists (2007)


American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America is a non-fiction book by American Pulitzer Prize journalist Chris Hedges, published in January …

What Does the Christian Right Want? Chris Hedges on American Fascists (2007)

Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2014 and Beyond


Future predictions are always fun and often woefully wrong. Even so here is one that’s rather entertaining or ominous or entertainingly ominous depending on your mood:

Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and IT users for 2014 and beyond. Gartner’s top predictions for 2014 combine several disruptive topics Digital Industrial Revolution, Digital Business, Smart Machines and the Internet of Things that are set to have an impact well beyond just the IT function.

This is the gem:

By 2020, the labor reduction effect of digitization will cause social unrest and a quest for new economic models in several mature economies. Near Term Flag: A larger scale version of an “Occupy Wall Street”-type movement will begin by the end of 2014, indicating that social unrest will start to foster political debate.

Digitization is reducing labor content of services and products in an unprecedented way, thus fundamentally changing the way remuneration is allocated across labor and capital. Long term, this makes it impossible for increasingly large groups to participate in the traditional economic system — even at lower prices — leading them to look for alternatives such as a bartering-based (sub)society, urging a return to protectionism or resurrecting initiatives like Occupy Wall Street, but on a much larger scale. Mature economies will suffer most as they don’t have the population growth to increase autonomous demand nor powerful enough labor unions or political parties to (re-)allocate gains in what continues to be a global economy.

Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2014 and Beyond

Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2014 and Beyond


Future predictions are always fun and often woefully wrong. Even so here is one that’s rather entertaining or ominous or entertainingly ominous depending on your mood:

Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and IT users for 2014 and beyond. Gartner’s top predictions for 2014 combine several disruptive topics Digital Industrial Revolution, Digital Business, Smart Machines and the Internet of Things that are set to have an impact well beyond just the IT function.

This is the gem:

By 2020, the labor reduction effect of digitization will cause social unrest and a quest for new economic models in several mature economies. Near Term Flag: A larger scale version of an “Occupy Wall Street”-type movement will begin by the end of 2014, indicating that social unrest will start to foster political debate.

Digitization is reducing labor content of services and products in an unprecedented way, thus fundamentally changing the way remuneration is allocated across labor and capital. Long term, this makes it impossible for increasingly large groups to participate in the traditional economic system — even at lower prices — leading them to look for alternatives such as a bartering-based (sub)society, urging a return to protectionism or resurrecting initiatives like Occupy Wall Street, but on a much larger scale. Mature economies will suffer most as they don’t have the population growth to increase autonomous demand nor powerful enough labor unions or political parties to (re-)allocate gains in what continues to be a global economy.

Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2014 and Beyond

Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt


Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions.

what Werner is doing with his modelling is different. He isn’t saying that his research drove him to take action to stop a particular policy; he is saying that his research shows that our entire economic paradigm is a threat to ecological stability. And indeed that challenging this economic paradigm – through mass-movement counter-pressure – is humanity’s best shot at avoiding catastrophe.

Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt

Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt


Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions.

what Werner is doing with his modelling is different. He isn’t saying that his research drove him to take action to stop a particular policy; he is saying that his research shows that our entire economic paradigm is a threat to ecological stability. And indeed that challenging this economic paradigm – through mass-movement counter-pressure – is humanity’s best shot at avoiding catastrophe.

Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt

Men Apologizing To Me


On men, women, and apologizing.

I also get pitches from a not-insignificant number of straight white men,* and while I love you all enormously and will allow many of you to live after the revolution, you really ought to be picking up the women’s slack in the apology department. Sometimes you even send me pitches about a subject after I’ve specifically asked only to hear from women. Sometimes — my boys, my pets, my darlings, my ickle eensy tiny poppets — you begin your pitches with “I know you asked to hear from women/women of color/LGBT women/literally anyone in the world but me just this one time, but…” My sweet little twitching angels, such behavior merits a sincere apology.

Mallory Ortberg is The Amazing

Men Apologizing To Me

Men Apologizing To Me


On men, women, and apologizing.

I also get pitches from a not-insignificant number of straight white men,* and while I love you all enormously and will allow many of you to live after the revolution, you really ought to be picking up the women’s slack in the apology department. Sometimes you even send me pitches about a subject after I’ve specifically asked only to hear from women. Sometimes — my boys, my pets, my darlings, my ickle eensy tiny poppets — you begin your pitches with “I know you asked to hear from women/women of color/LGBT women/literally anyone in the world but me just this one time, but…” My sweet little twitching angels, such behavior merits a sincere apology.

Mallory Ortberg is The Amazing

Men Apologizing To Me

Kyriarchy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Kyriarchy (“rule by a lord”; from the Greek κύριος/kyrios “lord or master” and αρχή/arche “authority, leadership”) is a social system or set of connecting social systems built around domination, oppression, and submission.

My new favourite word.

Kyriarchy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kyriarchy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Kyriarchy (“rule by a lord”; from the Greek κύριος/kyrios “lord or master” and αρχή/arche “authority, leadership”) is a social system or set of connecting social systems built around domination, oppression, and submission.

My new favourite word.

Kyriarchy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Infrared News from the Transhuman Underground – OMNI Reboot


Big news from our correspondent in the Transhuman underground: basement biohackers, attempting near-infrared vision experiments, want us to see the world very differently.   I hate rainbows.   Sure, they symbolize many positive things to different cultures: peace, sexual identity, a bridge to heaven. But I hate real rainbows. Every time I see one of those clown-colored frowns in the […]

Infrared News from the Transhuman Underground – OMNI Reboot

Infrared News from the Transhuman Underground – OMNI Reboot


Big news from our correspondent in the Transhuman underground: basement biohackers, attempting near-infrared vision experiments, want us to see the world very differently.   I hate rainbows.   Sure, they symbolize many positive things to different cultures: peace, sexual identity, a bridge to heaven. But I hate real rainbows. Every time I see one of those clown-colored frowns in the […]

Infrared News from the Transhuman Underground – OMNI Reboot

Unarmed woman shot dead after car chase from White House — MSNBC


The female suspect tried to breach the White House and was shot dead after a car chase that ended on Capitol Hill.

Outside of the police and federal officers was there ever an active shooter?

So many questions.

Unarmed woman shot dead after car chase from White House — MSNBC

Unarmed woman shot dead after car chase from White House — MSNBC


The female suspect tried to breach the White House and was shot dead after a car chase that ended on Capitol Hill.

Outside of the police and federal officers was there ever an active shooter?

So many questions.

Unarmed woman shot dead after car chase from White House — MSNBC