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2011
Well, it’s december 30th. This is the time of year we generally sit down and hammer out the resolutions we’ll inevitably let fall by the wayside as of January 30th. But hey, let’s be less pessimistic and really believe we’re really going to commit! These are the things I need to do as of now:
1. change my diet. more veg and fish, more fresh, less simple carbs and...
exporting u.s. neuroses, is the u.s making the... →
commonunity:
“Journalist Ethan Watters argues that American models of disorders like anorexia and depression are being embraced in other countries. We revisit our conversation with Watters, who also says mental health professionals who come in to provide counseling after a disaster need to consider local practices and beliefs.” interview by robin young for the show, here and now, on npr. this...
Life without language « Neuroanthropology →
Thought without symbols — life without language — it’s a cognitive reality that is virtually impossible for most modern humans to fathom. For the vast majority of us, our thought processes have been profoundly shaped by the introjection of language into our cognitive worlds, the taking on board of a massive intellectual prosthesis, the collective product of countless generations. Human thought,...
david and solomon, kings of controversy. →
commonunity:
“Most Israeli archaeologists would prefer that their work not be used as a political wedge. This, nonetheless, is the way of young nations. As Bar-Ilan University archaeology professor Avraham Faust observes, “The Norwegians relied on Viking sites to create a separate identity from their Swedish and Danish rulers. Zimbabwe is named after an archaeological site. Archaeology is a very...
Why do grandparents always think they have license to criticize how their grandkids currently or formerly look/dress? I’m pretty close to telling her to shut her damn trap.
'Capitalism and the assault on reason' by Slavoj... →
“In May 2010, large demonstrations exploded in Greece after the government announced the austerity measures that had to be adopted in order to meet the conditions of the European Union for the bailout money to avoid the state’s financial collapse. One often hears that the true message of the Greek crisis - and that of the more recent protests in France - is that not only the Euro, but the entire...
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“WHILE JULIAN Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, celebrated his release on bail...”
– The Irish Times: Alleged Wikileaks source suffers out of spotlight (via bingoparaphernalia)
Um yeah, maybe we should try and keep things in perspective?
dinnerpancakes:
jenniferanne:
For future reference, when you see a woman walking alone on a dark street at 1 am, it’s not cool to yell “hey girl, what’s your name?” twice, louder the second time when she already ignored you the first. Even if she’s already sussed you out and placed you in “potentially annoying probably all talk” category and put on bored/unaffected posture to deter you in the...
For future reference, when you see a woman walking alone on a dark street at 1 am, it’s not cool to yell “hey girl, what’s your name?” twice, louder the second time when she already ignored you the first. Even if she’s already sussed you out and placed you in “potentially annoying probably all talk” category and put on bored/unaffected posture to deter you...
Winter solstice to coincide with lunar eclipse for... →
City of Vancouver Calls Out CRTC on Behalf of its... →
December 16, 2010 – The City of Vancouver today passed a groundbreaking motion in opposition to usage-based Internet billing, calling on the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) to disallow financial penalties for ‘too much’ Internet use. Councillor Andrea Reimer introduced the motion at a City Council meeting today, where it was debated extensively and passed with...
If you were going to buy a novel for a 16 year old girl (who doesn’t fancy herself a literary or intellectual type and isn’t filled with teen angst of any kind as far as can be observed) and you wanted to both find something she could enjoy and relate to but you wanted to expand her horizons, what book would you choose?
“As another prominent Naomi tweeted about the case: “Rape is being used in the...”
– Naomi Wolf responds: Case against Assange is “an insult to rape victims worldwide”
And leaving this here as well.
(via standardgrey)
“Never in twenty-three years of reporting on and supporting victims of sexual...”
– Naomi Wolf on rape, justice and Julian Assange - Boing Boing
I’ll just leave this here.
(via towerofsleep)
Damn.
“Shirky considers this model of activism an upgrade. But it is simply a form of...”
– Malcolm Gladwell - Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted - The New Yorker (via towerofsleep)
//STFU Gladwell… “Easier for activists to express themselves and harder for that expression to have any impact.” I don’t know about you, but last I checked, one million people marching...
not to brag (or jinx myself)
unrepentant:
but i am pretty ace at getting pulled over and not getting ticketed.
this morning i took an illegal left while trying to find a mechanic i’d never visited before. i didn’t realize it was an illegal left because i was so lost and distracted, and i didn’t notice the police car trailing me with lights on until i turned into the shop’s parking lot, parked and took my keys out of the...
The Tyee – The New Class Warfare over Bicycles →
lukesimcoe:
This is a must-read.
I am a total dumbass.
For the past few weeks I have been looking forward to this coming Wednesday, the day I was supposed to be going to Vancouver… only to realize today, just an hour or so ago, that I’m actually leaving Tuesday, which is tomorrow! I started to have a funny feeling that I might just have confused myself about the dates when both the friend I’m staying with and my boyfriend asked if I...
4chan Declares War On Snow →
wondertonic:
A loosely-organized group of internet activists known as Anonymous announced on Sunday that it was declaring war on the meteorologic phenomenon known as snow. The hacker group, born out of the influential internet messageboard 4chan and responsible for the recent attacks against MasterCard and…
now this is good.
standardgrey asked: Thanks for the shout-out :)
This is amaaaaazing for getting stuff done:
http://solarflares.tumblr.com/post/1307265551/mix-of-the-week-two-hours-and-fourty-nine
2.5 hours!!
This is amaaaaazing for getting stuff done:
http://solarflares.tumblr.com/post/1307265551/mix-of-the-week-two-hours-and-fourty-nine
2.5 hours!!
i just searched my dashboard for "wikileaks" and...
clearly, tumblr’s search function needs some work.
NewsOne: New Word on GA Prisoner's Strike →
The December 9 Strike became the biggest prisoner protest in the history of the United States. Thousands of men, from Augusta, Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith and Telfair State Prisons, among others, initiated this strike to press the Georgia Department of Corrections (“DOC”) to stop treating them like animals and slaves and institute programs that addresstheir basic human...
A number of nice little signs of some kind of...
This is good. I’ve needed this. I’ve been grinding my wheels, even regressing since I moved out here instead of plunging into the first real phase of my adult life like I was hoping to. But these little affirmations of my ability to write, of people actually taking an unsolicited interest in what I “do,” or of even just being as excited to become my new friend as I am of...
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“What WikiLeaks is really exposing is the extent to which the western democratic...”
– Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It’s your choice | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Guardian
(via diskurs)(via lukesimcoe)
also in nice news today
I ran into my field studies prof and she asked me if I’d be willing to speak to the class about my tumblr ethnography because she thinks my work so far, which is just the first run of field notes and shot at a basic analysis of the situation, is one of the best in class. I warned her that when I’m nervous I talk dumb dumb, but said I’d give it a go anyways! The idea of having to...
I think I have finally made a friend in...
…and she’s a fucking badass, hardcore continental philosophy lady! We meant to study for our Nietzsche and Deleuze exam which is tomorrow, but we spent most of the 6 hours talking about our lives, our pasts, how we feel about philosophy and what we are each trying to work out in our own thinking, etc. It’s such an awesome thing for me to have made a connection with someone on...
“The oil giant Shell claimed it had inserted staff into all the main ministries...”
– WikiLeaks cables: Shell’s grip on Nigerian state revealed | Business | The Guardian Nothing new here. (via aaronleaf)
Now THAT is an important leak.
So I just found those very same boots I already ordered for half the price (so far, its bound to go up in the next 9 hours) in my actual size on ebay (instead of the half size off I had to gamble on.) Oh boy. I’m gonna have to bid, and have 2 pairs of these boots… and either return the first pair and lose the shipping fee or sell them to someone else. Sure wish I checked ebay first!...
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Urbanism is the modern fulfillment of the uninterrupted task which...”
– Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle (via pieto)
I should probably give this book a re-read now that I am actually capable of understanding it.
CENSORED NEWS: Wikileaks: Canada's unauthorized... →
OK so CBC mentioned the document in which some American diplomat complained that Little Mosque on the Prairie was “anti-American” but they didn’t mention this one? This is the most important leak about Canada that I’ve been made aware of so far.
Some thoughts on “sex by surprise” — Feministe →
I’m not particularly interested in debating What Assange Did or Whether Assange Is A Rapist, and I’d appreciate it if we could steer clear of that in the comments section. Rather, I’m interested in pushing back on the primary media narrative about this case, which is that women lie and exaggerate about rape, and will call even the littlest thing — a broken condom! — rape if they’re permitted to...
Mo'olelo Aloha Aina →
culturite:
Gotta support the Kanaka Maoli in their struggle!
Check out this new website with stories and mana’o from kanaka aloha aina who have been involved in different land struggles in Hawai’i! The Moolelo Aloha Aina project website is at: http://moolelo.manainfo.com/
Here’s a little bit about the project:
The Moolelo Aloha Aina project gathers oral histories of Aloha Aina activists...