May 2013
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“In a dramatic display of how threats from multinational corporations are driving...”
– Apple chief calls for US corporate tax to be cut to single digits | Technology | The Guardian
May 21st
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“(…) in possibility everything is possible, and he who truly was brought up by...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Dread, page 140. (via thedreadexhibition)
May 20th
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May 20th
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May 19th
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“Even as I talk I am convincing myself that it is stronger than I thought when I...”
– Just another lovely sentence by China Miéville.
May 16th
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“Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager...”
– “In this country, it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.” Voltaire, Candide.
May 16th
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May 15th
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“There is something about the notion of being piloted by absence that is...”
– China Miéville on drones in the forthcoming Dread book. (via thedreadexhibition)
May 15th
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May 14th
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“It’s not quite as testerically overwrought as it was during 9/11…”
– Transcribing a conversation with China Miéville is taking the English class I never had: “ineffable, ratiocination, testerical, hankering.”
May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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Escalating the climate of fear
Whatever else is true, this DOJ behavior will escalate the already intense climate of fear that prevails for journalists and their sources — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 13, 2013
May 13th
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May 13th
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Ollie Bown is a high-speed musical genius.
May 13th
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May 13th
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“If I had a 3D printer, I’d mess with its mind by commanding it to print out...”
– Health and safety, eh? Eh? Health and safety! Health! And! Safety! Eh? Charlie Brooker http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/12/health-and-safety-eh
May 12th
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May 12th
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“Well, you know, that wasn’t, that actually wasn’t an influence. I was about a...”
– http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/livetranscript.pdf William Gibson on Blade Runner.
May 12th
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“I don’t even know if we had a Discovery Channel when I wrote that, so maybe I...”
– http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/livetranscript.pdf William Gibson sounding warm, modest and funny in this conversation that took place in New York a few weeks ago.
May 12th
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Guantanamo Protest Events - May 2013 (and beyond)
anonyops: There are a number of Protests/direct actions/marches/vigils coming up in May 2013 (and beyond) in protest of Guantanamo. Please help shut down Guantanamo.  Ongoing (all month and beyond) - rolling hunger strike Where - All over who - http://www.witnesstorture.org Ongoing - Rolling hunger strike Where - The White House Who - CodePink May 12 - Contact Michelle Obama. Tell her...
May 12th
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May 11th
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Viral Radio #17 at Red Light Radio
Viral Radio #17 at Red Light Radio: 00:00 Chapelier Fou - Protest (Dimlite re-ça va pas)  04:13 Dean Blunt - The Pedigree  06:48 Matthewdavid - Reunited  09:34 Gravetemple - Ambient/Ruin A  17:48 Paul Jebanasam - Rites: II  24:55 Vatican Shadow - Security Cameras And Perimeter Walls As High As 18 Feet Topped With Barbed Wire  33:26 Ital Tek - Pixel Haze  38:22 D’eon - Transparency, Pt. IV ...
May 10th
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“The printing press taught the people how to read; the internet taught the people...”
– Benjamin Bayart, from. Cypherpunks, Julian Assange et al., page 84/85
May 9th
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“The present age is an age of publicity, the age of miscellaneous announcements:...”
– Kierkegaard at 200 - NYTimes.com Søren Kierkegaard, you prescient, miserable, brilliant man.
May 5th
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“The idea that industrial civilization has “ended nature” must be replaced by the...”
– The Breakthrough Institute - The Long Anthropocene
May 1st
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Age-defying: Master key of lifespan found in brain →
The brain’s mechanism for controlling ageing has been discovered – and manipulated to shorten and extend the lives of mice. Drugs to slow ageing could follow
May 1st
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“In my terminology dread is ineffable, a bad sublime, a dark awe. It’s the...”
– China Miéville in conversation for the upcoming Dread book. (via thedreadexhibition) 68 minutes of unspeakably good awe via Facetime.
May 1st
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April 2013
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Apr 30th
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Slava, Raw Solutions (Software, 2013) One of the best dance music albums of the year so far. It has been released by Daniel Lopatin’s Software label.
Apr 30th
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“The darker truth is that these havens are not gaps in the world’s financial...”
– Austerity exposes the global threat from tax havens - FT.com
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 26th
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“A funny thing just happened: virtual currency bitcoin has now passed the first...”
– Bitcoin takes an important step toward becoming part of every web browser on the planet – Quartz
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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“Crucially, if CISPA passes, the immunity letters may no longer even be necessary...”
– Government giving AT&T, others secret immunity from wiretap laws - Salon.com
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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“Het museum wil het verhaal vertellen van de vaderlandse geschiedenis aan de hand...”
– Metropolis M » Opinion » Wim, Wij, het Rijks & ING Sinds de cynische bezuinigingen - want politiek, niet economisch - op de cultuur in Nederland ben ik het niet altijd eens geweest met de toon van Domeniek Ruyters van Metropolis M. Hier ben ik het echter volkomen met hem eens. Het...
Apr 22nd
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“Het moet toch vreemd zijn geweest voor de koningin om zich terug te zien in een...”
– Metropolis M » Opinion » Wim, Wij, het Rijks & ING
Apr 22nd
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“So for those of you keeping score at home – locking down an American city: a...”
– Why does America lose its head over ‘terror’ but ignore its daily gun deaths? | Michael Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer
Apr 21st
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“It’s true that Boston never leaves you. It is indeed a city where one comes of...”
– slavin: My experience of Boston lacks just about all of this, except shitty relationships and shitty coffee. But I appreciate this lovely little piece, which to my mind is not about Boston, but rather about cities and youth. Which I mean as a compliment. To my mind, it’s how cities and the...
Apr 20th
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“In fact, less than 48 hours after the bombings, police said, Dzhokar was back on...”
– Two brothers, two paths - Metro - The Boston Globe A long and good profile of the Tsarnaev brothers.
Apr 20th
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“It is bizarre indeed to watch Democrats act as though Graham’s theories...”
– What rights should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get and why does it matter? | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Apr 20th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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“#Music will integrate with ITunes, Spotify, and Rdio, with subscribers of the...”
– Twitter #Music for iPhone and web now available | The Verge
Apr 18th