November 2010
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“‘For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against leaders,...”
– Slavoj Zizek, Living in the End Times
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“Here’s the thing about inauthentic people. Inauthentic people are obsessed...”
– Jonathan Franzen, GQ interview December 2010
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“[WikiLeaks’ next leak] will give a true and representative insight into how...”
– Julian Assange in a new interview, promising that WikiLeaks’ next expose will be aimed at sharing thousands of documents from an American bank currently in business. (via ryking)
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"WikiLeaks and people who disseminate information... →
ryking:
It is incredibly disturbing to hear the Obama White House brand Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as “criminals” when they haven’t even been CHARGED with a crime, let alone convicted of one. Once again Obama and his corrupt crew demonstrate their hostility to whistle-blowers.
aatombomb: Introducing the Hot New Social Network,... →
aatombomb:
SILICON VALLEY (The Borowitz Report) – A new social network is about to alter the playing field of the social media world, and it’s called PhoneBook.
According to its creators, who invented the network in their dorm room at Berkeley, PhoneBook is the game-changer that will leave Facebook, Twitter…
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: A Message From a... →
There’s been quite a bit of scuttlebutt in the press and amongst the civil liberties crowd about what we—myself and my fellow full-body scanners—are coming to your airports to do. What is our real purpose? How invasive, truly, are these full-body scans? Will air travel, over time, become somehow less dignified, less “private”?
I’d like to take the opportunity of this...
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“The secret of being boring is to say everything.”
– Voltaire (via wine-loving-vagabond)
“A few months ago, I came across an announcement that Citigroup, the parent...”
– Wall Street, investment bankers, and social good : The New Yorker
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“Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never...”
– Fernando Pessoa, A Factless Autobiography (via the-victory-rose)
WatchObama Outlines Moral, Philosophical Justifications For Turkey Pardon | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source | Onion News Network
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“Dreaming is fusion with God, Nirvana, by whatever definition; dreaming is the...”
– Fernando Pessoa
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“Life is a ball of yarn someone tangled up. There is sense to it, if it were...”
– Fernando Pessoa
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“The test of originality for an idea is not the absence of a predecessor, but the...”
– Nassim Taleb
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“The trouble with Freudian psychology is that it is based exclusively on a study...”
– Aldous Huxley
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“An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical...”
– Nassim Taleb
“Understanding is a lot like sex; it’s got a practical purpose, but...”
– Frank Openheimer
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“The scientists were interested in the activation of the striatum, an area rich...”
– Why Making Dinner Is a Good Idea | Wired Science | Wired.com (via slantback)
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“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the...”
– Diderot
“Meliorism is not perfectibilism.”
– A. C. Grayling
INSTITUTE INDEX: Senate rejects women’s pay... →
corruptpolitics:
ISS - INSTITUTE INDEX: Senate rejects women’s pay equality
apsies:
Amount U.S. women earn for every dollar earned by men: 77 cents Amount African-American women earn for every dollar earned by a white man: 61 cents Amount Latinas earn for every dollar…
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“I’m coming to the conclusion that searching for the “real” Glenn Beck makes no...”
– The Beck of Revelation by Mark Lilla | The New York Review of Books
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ephemerals:
“Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears. It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don’t look more...
“The bullshit train just keeps rolling on.”
– Mortgage Bubble Blamed, Ludicrously, on the Government — Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com
“Much of what Obama proposes to do in response to the November defeat sounds...”
– President Obama Gets Independent Voters All Wrong | The New Republic
“About one-third of independents are important swing voters: The two other...”
– President Obama Gets Independent Voters All Wrong | The New Republic
“What political scientist John Petrocik writes of many independents is...”
– President Obama Gets Independent Voters All Wrong | The New Republic
“…[T]his is getting to the point where Obama is looking weak in many, many...”
– Political death by a thousand cuts (via ryking)
“Too often, conservatives dupe themselves. They wrap themselves in closed...”
– David Frum (via azspot)
The Philosophers’ Magazine | Hacker’s challenge... →
“Peter Hacker tells James Garvey that neuroscientists are talking nonsense.”
This is a great interview, approaching an essay, of one of the best kinds. It totally challenges the way I had always thought about a subject. I wish I could find things to read every week that would challenge my assumptions the way this one did. Well worth the read for the philosophically-inclined.
“If you ask people to imagine winning the lottery,” Dr. Gilbert says, “they...”
– Wandering Mind Is a Sign of Unhappiness - NYTimes.com
“The time has come for Dems to develop their 21st century manifesto, a pledge to...”
– The Disputed Truth (via azspot)
“I wonder - more radically - if a “magazine” can really exist online at all. What...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via aatombomb)
Waging a War on Christmas, to Save Thanksgiving →
Thanksgiving is our best holiday. Let’s not let it get ruined by Christmas, one of our worst.
“It’s no mystery what has happened on the deficit commission: as so often happens...”
– The Hijacked Commission - NYTimes.com
“The goals of reform, as Mr. Bowles and Mr. Simpson see them, are presented in...”
– The Hijacked Commission - NYTimes.com
“Count me among those who always believed that President Obama made a big mistake...”
– The Hijacked Commission - NYTimes.com
On Austerity →
Austerity is not “about the economy.” It has nothing to with competition, job creation or fiscal solvency. It’s not about efficiency. It’s not about the commonweal. Austerity is about changing the function of the State back to an older, more versatile, more enduring stable form. Austerity is about preserving the State as a military-policing instrument, whilst shedding those functions which...
“It seems to me that the last year or so in America’s political culture has...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via azspot)
So, Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing Again? →