[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited from my diigo]
Climatologists predict that #climatechange will increase extreme weather events. If only there was some evidence to back up that claim… https://t.co/dvtgdhAMbb
— AltRockyNPS 🌎 (@AltRockyNPS) September 19, 2017
bröther may i have some fruity lööps pic.twitter.com/ZGa7oErOix
— ⛓ aaron ⛓ (@fuqmeup) September 17, 2017
Yes, Trump is indeed a white supremacist. Watch @tanehisicoates make the case in under one minutehttps://t.co/NMeqVgBxs9 by @alisonrose711 pic.twitter.com/V6SaXO5n9k
— Shareblue Media (@Shareblue) September 18, 2017
#ifyouonlyreadone
The International Alternative Right – “In 2017, we are seeing a rapidly-growing far-right threat to society. It is international, well-funded, and able to influence in the highest corridors of power. We undertook a year-long investigation to unveil the figures, operations, and motives behind the mysterious “alt-right”.” Great resource, great dossier, can’t wait for the video.
#watch,
Elton John – Rocket Man (Official) – It happens to be a pro-refugee animation by Iranian Majid Adin. And the Trumpians are not too happy about that.
Kid Battles Through Hiccups And Performs AMAZING Australian Anthem – “Last night 7-year-old Ethan battled through the hiccups to perform perhaps the greatest rendition of the Australian national anthem EVER SEEN. His reaction after the song is priceless.”
16 year old with AUTISM conversations with DAD – “My son Chase and I hanging out on a Sunday. On occasion, he is super social and will beg me to do something for 48 straight hours such as “Anthony’s house.” About 16 months ago, he got to visit my friend’s house and played nurf guns with three other kids his age and younger.”
Charlotte Is Copying You – Poppy is in equal parts wierd and addictive.
listen and
Poppy – My Style (feat. Charlotte) [Official Lyric Video] – “Poppy is your best friend”
Chris Clark: Rellik EP – Pretty geat soundtrack to a pretty great TV series.
#learn
Accounting error spells chaos for global economy | David Graeber – “Last month I noticed what appears to be a glaring error in the UK’s Office of Budget Responsibilities’ calculations of household debt levels—one with potentially frightening implications for the stability of the financial system as a whole.” Juicy.
Undercover With the Alt-Right – “According to researchers, the key to hooking new recruits into any movement, and to getting them increasingly involved over time, is to simply give them activities to participate in. This often precedes any deep ideological commitment on the recruits’ part and, especially early on, is more about offering them a sense of meaning and community than anything else.” See above for the actual dossier by Hope Not Hate.
Videogames’ portrayal of the Holocaust does a disservice to both players and victims – “Since Nazism is on the rise once more, videogames could play a part in counteracting it through catharsis and education, just as Superman and his super-powered friends once did. Today, the Alt-Right are anti-immigration, mock the LGBT community, and scapegoat anyone with a different belief system. Hitler and his forces did the same during WWII. The FĂĽhrer famously said, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”” A big chance lost.
Embracing plastic and the apocalypse: An interview with Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke – “#Additivism is about poking at things with weird sticks and asking ever difficult, and often unpalatable questions. To take the very powers that oppress you and using their strategies and languages and aesthetics against them. Embrace the apocalypse but use its darkness to create light. That’s how we’ve been staying with the trouble. […] We oppose the grand narrative, and rather hope for an explosion of counter and micro narratives, for a recognition of singularities – plural – a project that by necessity must go on and on endlessly.”
At Harvard, Chelsea Manning Lost Her Fellowship. At Fordham, a Former CIA Torture Proponent Kept His. – “It took less than 48 hours for Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government to revoke its fellowship invitation to whistleblower Chelsea Manning. The announcement that Manning would be a visiting fellow at the school’s Institute of Politics had been met with resistance from current and former denizens of the national security state — a former CIA director resigned his position as a fellow, and President Donald Trump’s CIA Director Mike Pompeo withdrew from a planned speech at the school. About 200 miles south of Cambridge, Massachusetts, an inverse but much quieter debate unfolded after a top CIA veteran was named to an elite university fellowship. This much, however, resembled the row at Harvard: The security state is poised to win out in this showdown, too.”
TRASH ISLES – The World’s First Country Made of Trash – “Which in a nutshell means that by becoming a country, other countries are obliged to clean us up.” Yeh yeh, keep blaming plastic for everything.
Flush With Cash: Swiss Toilets Mysteriously Stuffed With 500-Euro Bills – “Toilets in Geneva were clogged with tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of discarded cash earlier this summer — and nobody knows why.” Alert: We don’t all flush cash down the toilet in this country.
Centrism Dot Biz – “When they go low (point out that neoliberalism can’t solve the problems caused by neoliberalism) we go high (insert a stock photo of solar panels).” This is very funny.
The Pirate Bay Website Runs a Cryptocurrency Miner (Updated) – “A few hours ago a cryptocurrency miner appeared on The Pirate Bay website, using the computer resources of visitors to mine Monero coins. The operators of The Pirate Bay are testing it as a new way to generate revenue, but many users aren’t happy.” If declared this ain’t the worst solution.
World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM with 58.4% support, EFF resigns – “In July, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium overruled dozens of members’ objections to publishing a DRM standard without a compromise to protect accessibility, security research, archiving, and competition.” WWWC are sell outs.
Italy Imprisons Refugees Who Were Forced to Pilot Smuggling Boats At Gunpoint – “The Wrong Catch – Italy Imprisons Refugees Who Were Forced to Pilot Smuggling Boats At Gunpoint” Wrong.
#oldiebutgoodie
Icon Match HTML 5 | BĂĽro Destruct – “Start train your memory banks with the HTML 5 «Icon-Match», featuring some of BĂĽro Destruct’s most iconic designs.”
Burka: FĂĽr mich ist das kein „Feministinnen-Zoff“ – “Das Problem ist meines Erachtens, dass die kommende Burka-Abstimmung eine Schein-Abstimmung ist, bei der es nicht um die Frage geht, was Frauen brauchen, um ein möglichst emanzipiertes oder freies Leben zu fĂĽhren. Es geht – hintergrĂĽndig – um „den Islam“ insgesamt. Darum, „den Islam“ (wie schon bei der Minarett-Initiative), doof oder gut zu finden. Ein unsäglich vulgärer und zerstörerischer Move in einer interkulturellen Gesellschaft. Damit wird die durchaus relevante Frage, wie muslimische Frauen in der Schweiz ein emanzipiertes Leben leben können, ĂĽberhaupt nicht gestellt.”
Alte und Neue Rechte vereint in Schnellroda – “Mitglieder der Neuen Rechten aus Ă–sterreich und Deutschland kamen am Wochenende nach Schnellroda ins „Institut fĂĽr Staatspolitik“ zu einer Szene-Veranstaltung. Rund 60 Menschen protestierten gegen das Treffen der Rechten. Eine Gruppe Rechtsextremer musste von der Polizei abgedrängt, als sie auf die Gegendemonstranten zustĂĽrmten.”
Laurie Penny ĂĽber Kämpfe unter Linken: „Warum sollte ich mich bremsen?“ – “Gender und Race sind die Revolution – und keine Randthemen, sagt die Feministin. Ein Gespräch ĂĽber das Wort „Bitch“, Objektivität und rechte Bewegungen.”
Nur Gutes aus der Region? Die Krux mit den Lebensmitteln von nebenan – “Fast alle Supermärkte verkaufen inzwischen Lebensmittel „aus der Region“. Die Marken heissen „Feins vom Dorf“ oder „NatĂĽrlich vom Hof“ und versprechen Nachhaltigkeit, Frische, Tradition. Das klingt gut. Doch wer genau hinschaut, merkt: Irgendetwas stimmt hier nicht.”
„Nicht nur wĂĽtend“ Interview mit Laurie Penny – “Zentral daran ist die Radikalisierung weiĂźer Männer, die sich in ihren Privilegien bedroht fĂĽhlen. Die teilweise berechtigte Wut der Arbeiterklasse gegen Einschnitte im Sozialstaat wird kanalisiert in Fremdenfeindlichkeit, Rassismus und auch Sexismus.”
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