December 2011
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“If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is...”
– Noam Chomsky (via myheadisweak)
“There is something strangely semi-human about Mitt. To enlarge on a metaphor...”
– Martin Amis Goes on the GOP Campaign Trail - The Daily Beast
“Fiscally responsible, Ron is an isolationist and a constitutional...”
– Martin Amis Goes on the GOP Campaign Trail - The Daily Beast
“In his new book, Wilson posits that two rival forces drive human behavior: group...”
– E. O. Wilson’s Theory of Everything - Magazine - The Atlantic
“Wilson told me he’d worked for a decade on the ideas he presents in Social...”
– E. O. Wilson’s Theory of Everything - Magazine - The Atlantic
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“Until now, the conventional wisdom on the social evolution of humans has focused...”
– E. O. Wilson’s Theory of Everything - Magazine - The Atlantic
This guy has long been one of my favorite scientists and thinkers. This article is well worth the read for anyone interested not only in biology, but also in how scientific ideas come about, get argued, and have the ability to shape our...
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“Operations like the Greek swap/short index maneuver were easy money for banks...”
– A Christmas Message From America’s Rich | | Rolling Stone
That last sentence nails it. The social contract is broken.
“But it seems to me that if you’re broke enough that you’re not paying any income...”
– A Christmas Message From America’s Rich | | Rolling Stone
“It seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak...”
– A Christmas Message From America’s Rich | | Rolling Stone
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“At this point, there is an almost perfect inverse relationship between the...”
– Can The U.S. Government Close Social Media Accounts? Glenn Greenwald (via manicchill)
As if there weren't enough reasons to adore,... →
timekiller-s:
… she wrote this op-ed, published on the blog Blue Mass Group, about her support for LGBTQ equality:
As other states grapple with whether to support marriage equality, I’m ready to move to the next step: End the two-tiered system created by the Defense of Marriage Act. Our federal government should not be in the business of selecting which married couples it supports and which...
“We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an...”
– Dan Gillmor, Professor, Cronkite School of Journalism. 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly.
Nieman Lab is running an interesting 2012 preview series by asking prominent journalism observers what they think the upcoming year will hold.
Gillmor believes the open Internet —...
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This Is The Right One: cultureofresistance: FBI... →
cultureofresistance:
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new…
“The problem with companies like Lehman and Enron is that their executives always...”
– Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style | | Rolling Stone
“Geithner and Obama are behaving like Lehman executives before the crash of...”
– Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style | | Rolling Stone
“The notion that what Wall Street firms did was merely unethical and not illegal...”
– Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style | | Rolling Stone
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (via ulfurmur)
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You and Mark Aren't Friends
thenewinquiry:
Facebook’s Timeline turns your old updates into an unexpurgated biography
by Giovanni Tiso
Timeline is the story of your life.
—Mark Zuckerberg
Nine beef consommés, one iced cucumber soup, one mussel soup
—Georges Perec, “Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Ninteen Hundred and Seventy-Four”
Four months...
Christopher Hitchens died yesterday. We won’t be seeing another like him in our lifetime.
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Live SOPA Coverage →
morningstar:
Watch our Huxleyan society morph into an Orwellian society, live on the soon-to-be-censored internet!
“We are in a dangerous place when people can be told, to their faces, that they...”
– Comment: The Attack on “All-American Muslim” : The New Yorker
“The actual complaint that the Florida Family Association has is particular and...”
– Comment: The Attack on “All-American Muslim” : The New Yorker
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“The more I learn about this country, the more I think I should live somewhere...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via pyrrhic-victoria)
“The hackneyed tritisms like “[progressives] hope to ban your SUV” and “outlaw...”
– Libertarian’s Folly: Why Progressivism Provides an Answer (via ryking)
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Activate the Mechanism!: Democracy in America is a... →
abaldwin360:
by Steven Van Zandt | Huffington Post
There Is Only One Issue In America…
I was obsessed with politics in the ’80s. I’ve recovered and I’m feeling much better now thank you.
By the time I realized, as interesting as it was, I’d better stop this stuff and try to earn a living, I had…
“There’s really only one label for the pathetic exercise we’ve just witnessed in...”
– Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and CIGI Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario, in his new article in the Globe & Mail, ‘Climate summit was a pathetic exercise in deceit’. (via...
“It seems to me that the reporting of the collapse of capitalism has reached a...”
– Robert Fisk: Bankers are the dictators of the West - Robert Fisk - Commentators - The Independent
“The banks and the rating agencies have become the dictators of the West. Like...”
– Robert Fisk (via azspot)