July 2012
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Did Twitter ban a journalist for #NBCFail? →
Something of a controversy has arisen on Twitter after the account of Guy Adams — Los Angeles bureau chief for The Independent — was suspended following a string of tweets criticizing NBC’s television coverage of the Olympics. Adams’ displeasure certainly isn’t unique, nor is his choice of a platform from which to voice his complaints: viewers have made their frustrations known...
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Skype handing over more chat data to law... →
Skype has expanded its cooperation with law enforcement in the United States, making text chats and user information more available to police, according to a new report in the Washington Post.
Real-time audio and video surveillance remains “impractical,” the paper concluded, “but that barrier could eventually vanish as Skype becomes one of the world’s most popular forms of telecommunication.”
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Banned Books from Arizona's banned Ethnic Studies... →
posttragicmulatto:
Arizona banned these books when they banned ethnic studies.
Banned Books List
High School Course Texts and Reading Lists Table 20: American Government/Social Justice Education Project 1, 2 – Texts and Reading Lists
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
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Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds 'Global Warming... →
“The decadal land-surface average temperature using a 10-year moving average of surface temperatures over land. Anomalies are relative to the Jan 1950 – December 1979 mean. The grey band indicates 95% statistical and spatial uncertainty interval.” A Koch-funded reanalysis of 1.6 billion temperature reports finds that “essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse...
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Record labels won't share Pirate Bay winnings with... →
By Cory Doctorow at 5:35 pm Saturday, Jul 28
The record labels that successfully sued The Pirate Bay for millions on the grounds that the network had infringed upon artists’ copyrights have announced that it will not share any of the money it receives from the suit with those artists. Instead, the money will be used to bankroll more “enforcement” — that is, salaries...
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NBC Cuts Out Olympic Tribute To Terrorism Victims... →
According to a report on Deadspin, NBC’s broadcast of the Olympic opening ceremonies lacked a crucial portion of the performance – a nearly six minute long tribute to the victims of the 2005 7/7 terror attacks which occurred less than one day after London was selected to host the 2012 games. During the portion of the performance that was not broadcast in the U.S., the BBC announcer asks the...
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Batman Movies Don't Kill. But They're Friendly to... →
Update 7/28/12: In the week since this has run, some people have read it and understood, and, as the comments show, many have read it and not understood. Earlier this week I posted the caveat below to try to clarify. For some, that didn’t work — so I made this argument in a different way, with more context and specific examples, in Batman Returns: How Culture Shapes Muddle Into Madness. You may...
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NYPD to Launch All-Seeing System to Track Crime →
theamericanbear:
socialuprooting:
The New York Police Department will soon launch an all-seeing “Domain Awareness System” that combines several streams of information to track both criminals and potential terrorists.
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the city developed the software with Microsoft.
Kelly says the program combines city-wide video surveillance with law enforcement...
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Wedding Banned: Black Couple Told They Can't Wed... →
Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson were looking forward to saying “I do” in the First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, Miss. on July 21. But the day before their Big Day, their pastor told them their wedding had been cancelled.
Fox 6 in Alabama reports that the couple had booked the church and distributed invitations only to find out that the church’s congregation had...
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catspirations replied to your post: mandapolos replied to your post: wtf where did…
I thought it was just a url change since my follower count didn’t fall?
good point. Mine went down by one…but maybe it was someone else.
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mandapolos replied to your post: wtf where did xochitl/political-linguaphile go …
wait she’s gone?
political-linguaphile.tumblr.com :(
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just FYI, everyone, Tumblr has updated their bookmarklet
if you try to use the old one you’ll get 400 errors every couple of times, combined with an infinite load every other time, so go to the updated page to get the new one
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mouthynaut replied to your post: wtf where did xochitl/political-linguaphile go …
im next probably
fuck.
it’s always people I don’t know very well
as in, people who I’ve talked with a bit, which is why we follow each other
and I’m like oh wow this person is cool, I look forward to many interesting conversations
then POOF
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wtf
where did xochitl/political-linguaphile go
WHY ARE YOU ALL LEAVING TUMBLR GOD DAMMIT
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America:... →
Kiese Laymon
I’ve had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies — once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once by my mother and twice by myself. Not sure how or if I’ve helped many folks say yes to life but I’ve definitely aided in few folks dying slowly in America, all...
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The WTA to Ban Grunting in Women's Tennis →
BY JOSH LANDER
ANCHOR ANA COMPAIN-ROMERO
Screaming women — it may become a thing of the past in women’s tennis. The Women’s Tennis Association is trying to quiet down its players. Fox News tells us what all the noise is about. “There’s been clinical evidence that tennis players, the female ones, actually play better when they are grunting. The fans, they don’t want to hear it. And there’s...
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“‘Experience and reason demonstrate that the method used in the past to cut...”
– Michel Foucault-Surveiller et punir
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So I'm a douche for my last post... oh well.
lov3ofdarkn3ss:
There are two forces that can help a person: a higher power and a willpower. Believe that you’re taken cared off and you are protected while also learning to better yourself.
Alot of people have a bad habit of playing the victim… and then there are those with daddy issues.
That is all….
also this stinks of “I don’t really understand freudian psychoanalysis at...
So I'm a douche for my last post... oh well.
lov3ofdarkn3ss:
There are two forces that can help a person: a higher power and a willpower. Believe that you’re taken cared off and you are protected while also learning to better yourself.
Alot of people have a bad habit of playing the victim… and then there are those with daddy issues.
That is all….
well SHOOOOOT, all it takes to overcome trauma and medical conditions is divine...
dorothy-cotton:
Another year passes me by.
I feel myself growing older each day, not so much aging as I am decaying. Rotting, slowly, from the outside in.
Life is pain. Life is cruel. The moment you part from your mother’s womb, you are truly alone - trapped in the shall you call a body.
And yet we celebrate birth.
Cake.
Candles.
a mockery. A monument to my torment.
dude u gotta...
$21 trillion has been stashed in tax havens by... →
The Tax Justice Network’s Estimating the Price of Offshore Revisted report says that over $21 trillion has been squirrelled away in offshore tax-havens by 90,000 super-rich tax-cheats (0.001% of the world’s population). The crime was abetted by a network of “enablers” from banks like UBS, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs.
Much of the money has been looted from the...
men are the ones silencing male rape victims
highvoodoopussypope:
pancakesforone:
dolbia:
coldeyesthatburn:
a mans manhood its put on trial if he does step forward with his story
because men are suppose to be strong
men are suppose to be powerful
only the weak get dominated and raped
only women are suppose to be weak
if a man is weak the hes obviously a faggot
dont try and act like women are responsible for male victims...
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Uninsured Aurora shooting victims face financial... →
Caleb Medley, an aspiring standup comic,YouTuber, total nerd, and enthusiastic fan of Batman, was shot in the eye at the Aurora movie theater mass shooting.
He is currently in intensive care in an induced coma. He lost his right eye and suffered brain damage. His wife Katie “is about to give birth to their first child,” one floor away, according to this CBS News report.
Update:...
I am sick as a dog. That is all.
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Stanford's computational cell model lets... →
Stanford scientists have created a full computational model of the Mycoplasma genitalium bacteria, which will rapidly speed up experiments that would otherwise involve time-consuming alterations to physical cells. The research team chose M. genitaliumbecause of its simplicity, and the model consists of 28 individual algorithmic modules that represent each of the cell’s major cellular...
Justice Department Sues Telecom for Challenging... →
Last year, when a telecommunications company received an ultra-secret demand letter from the FBI seeking information about a customer or customers, the telecom took an extraordinary step — it challenged the underlying authority of the FBI’s National Security Letter, as well as the legitimacy of the gag order that came with it.
Both challenges are allowed under a federal law that governs NSLs, a...
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"Immigrant Mom Loses Effort to Regain Son Given to... →
indigocrayon:
In a controversial case that involved the rights of illegal immigrants and their young children, a Guatemalan mother lost her effort today to get back the five-year old son who was taken away from her after her arrest on immigration charges and put up for adoption in Missouri despite her objections.
A Missouri judge ruled the boy should stay with the Missouri couple, Melinda and...
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aynrandinaminiskirt:
Every now and then I get anons who send me threats under the assumption that I am a WoC due to the fact that I talk about sexism, the fetishization of WoC, calling myself kawaii desu as fuck, my friends calling me a prude bitch, or for whatever other reason.
And the level of threats are just so horrible. I get a lot of threats as a MoC but when anons assume that I’m a WoC...
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“I am telling women to not be afraid to go out wearing their veils. And by paying...”
– Rachid Nekkaz has set up a million euro fund to pay fines for women who choose to wear the full Islamic veil in countries, like France, where it is against the law to do so in public.
old news via Alt Muslimah’s Facebook page
(via muslimwomeninhistory)
choongcommunist:
LOL @ all the Marxists/Anarchists who are straight up racists or wishy-washy liberals when questions of race and gender enter the picture.
Lol @ all the Marxists/Anarchists whose arguments are punctuated with racist caricatures of “identity politics”, oftentimes with a weird accusation that positing race as a class category is betraying Marxist/Anarchists ideology.
You people...
quoms:
i’m probably too fatalist but there’s nothing i can do about that
I wish I could give you all a hug (if you wanted one)
paradiscacorbasi:
fatqueerfemme:
angels and angles: “Another Moviegoer With A Gun” could NOT have stopped the shooter.
bankuei:
paradiscacorbasi:
The thought that “another person in the theater with a gun could have stopped the Colorado gunman” is, in a word, ludicrous. Why? Let’s break down what we know about the shooting. 1. The shooter was wearing kevlar body armor. Another person in...
in other news, some zionist opened fire on a group...
covenesque:
banner day for violent white doods with guns, y’all.
lol forever at “possible racial motive”
I'm going to file "Vigorous enforcement of the...
