February 2012
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From Eeeee Eee Eeee, by Tao Lin
“Capitalism has no built-in moral code other than maximizing profits. Whatever...”
– via Doug Harvey (via radicalnotions, azspot)
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The Guardian Reveals: Britain leads dash to... →
Can anyone say war profiteering?
via newsflick:
This is the true face of Britons involvement in Somalia.
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Think!: Sat 10:00 In-between →
via technofederalist:
We look at the world and see a one of overwhelming trouble. We ask ourselves, why do we settle for this? We conclude, life should be about total happiness, not relative compromise, not unfilled desires to be more than one is. We often over assume and in turn overlook what remains present throughout the human condition, the world we experience is inherently one of...
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WatchEducation is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
In this TED talk video, Sugata Mitra shows that, perhaps, the only thing we need to do to better education is to leave education to children themselves. If we give them access to information and ask them a question, they will acquire an answer in hours. If Mitra’s hypothesis is true, then education and our...
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Thoughts [February 15, 2012 at 12:45 AM]
While sleeplessness is certain to cause memory loss and uncertainty in one’s abilities, it does not alter the intelligence of the sleeper. To be frank, I may be losing sleep and I may perform more poorly in school because of said lost sleep, but at least I am trying. I will continue to do so until I achieve that which I desire: an education with which I am satisfied. It is unfortunate,...
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I’M NOT OKAY WITH CHRIS BROWN PERFORMING AT THE... →
via ancestryinprogress:
Hell yes!
I’m sick and tired of people acting like it’s no big deal that Chris Brown will be performing at the Grammys.
I’m frustrated that the mainstream media is covering this story like it’s any comeback story, like an exiled prince’s return to a former glory, like this is another political timeline — as though some rich and powerful old white men in the music...
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January 2012
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This is important: Feminist texts written by women... →
via radicalnotions
mylifeasafeminista:
This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted. I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me. Please reblog and add your own suggestions to the list. Each time someone adds something new, I’ll go back to this original post and make sure to include them. Thanks and enjoy!
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December 2011
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To read:
Fiction:
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin
The Plague by Albert Camus
Ongoing Philosophy/Metatheory:
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Cosmodernism by Christian Moraru
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective by Terrence Tao
Just finished:
The Perks of...
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Dream 6
I found myself lost in the house of my childhood, but I could not breathe very well. As I heaved and huffed and puffed, someone told me to look in the mirror. I did.
I found before me the face of a well-tanned, sixteen year-old girl. I was that girl. I did not find this odd, except for the strange inability to breathe. I then awoke to my own, male body.
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The Rip-Off in Iraq →
via tetw:
Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient. George W. Bush’s war in the Mesopotamian desert was an experiment of sorts, a crude first take at his vision of a fully privatized American government. In Iraq the lines between...
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Sad But Funny And Confusing
via ghostorballoon:
dagseoul:
non white new atheists.
I can understand it I guess, the only new atheist I’ve ever read more than twenty pages of was Dawkins, and his smug assertions of power seemed a lot more rooted in heterosexual maleness and class than in race. Race was there, but his key kool kid kualifications seemed to primarily be a nice house, a nice diploma, and bland patronizing...
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R&D
Humanity.
I would like to think that perhaps this country, wherein I reside, is stuck in a bit of a quagmire. One should stop reading now if one thinks I am incorrect, by all means. There are two camps (who brutally force everyone else to submit to their whim) in this land of fifty states (but mostly one big stick) and they play with each other on a regular basis. Actually, they also have a...
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I’m so tired.
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Here's an awkward post-mortem for the Occupy L.A.... →
via shortformblog:
Los Angeles police used nearly a dozen undercover detectives to infiltrate the Occupy LA encampment before this week’s raid to gather information on the anti-Wall Street protesters’ intentions, according to media reports.
None of the officers slept at the camp, but they tried to blend in during the weeks leading up to the raid to learn about plans to resist or use weapons...
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November 2011
20 posts
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petits mots, petites morts: Rant About Twilight →
via topographe:
I guess my real question is one of writer responsibility, censorship, and social norms. Is Stephanie Meyer to be held responsible for the disturbing sexual undertones in a book written for young audiences? Or can she write whatever she wants? (Was she even aware of the implications of the story she created? That’s the only jibe I’ll take at her.) As a society, or a ...
Human beings are fools.
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