Lava run: man runs over glowing lava flow (by Marc Szeglat)
Volcano Surfing - Wider World of Sports (by ESPN)
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Drones profile in the Financial Times.
(via thedreadexhibition)
“Why Shouldn’t I Work for the NSA?” Good Will Hunting
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Roma ladies who normally sell flowers to tourists now selling anonymous masks and spray paint in Taksim. twitter.com/zeynep/status/…
— Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) June 9, 2013
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Taksim now.
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Taksim, 8 June 2013.
Unwarranted government surveillance is an intrusion on basic human rights that threatens the very foundations of a democratic society. I call on all web users to demand better legal protection and due process safeguards for the privacy of their online communications, including their right to be informed when someone requests or stores their data.
(via thedreadexhibition)
Back in 2007, Obama said he would not want to run an administration that was “Bush-Cheney lite.” He doesn’t have to worry. With prisoners denied due process at Gitmo starving themselves, with the C.I.A. not always aware who it’s killing with drones, with an overzealous approach to leaks, and with the government’s secret domestic spy business swelling, there’s nothing lite about it.
#occupygezi in emoticons
Patterns of communication form a digital fingerprint in time, and finding every thing, person and place you have interacted with becomes easy. Such records are exactly the kind of information we now know that Verizon, and likely every other US carrier, is handing over to the NSA on a daily basis.
It takes just four calls or text messages, each made at a different time and place, to distinguish one person’s movements from everyone else’s.
The human hammer having fallen, the sixth mass extinction has begun. This spasm of permanent loss is expected, if it is not abated, to reach the end-of-Mesozoic level by the end of the century. We will then enter what poets and scientists alike may choose to call the Eremozoic Era — The Age of Loneliness.
BBC’s Our World “Turkish Journey”.
A documentary Ben Hammersley made in Turkey for the BBC in 2007, examining the tensions between the modern secular state and Islamism, just before their general election that year.
