[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited from my diigo]
ONCE AGAIN ITS ON
Peep my new single "All Your Bases" and pre-order announcement for "Let Them Eat Sand"
My new self produced album / bookhttps://t.co/EDqf6eqIHn pic.twitter.com/uHRQsmyHrq— S O L E (@mcsole) January 4, 2018
ineffective egret scaring appendage of the day. pic.twitter.com/oiuTgpg37w
— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) January 4, 2018
T®üMp How-To:
💜❤️💛💚💙
1. Do not follow him – if you already do, unfollow now (you will find out anyway)
2. Never RT or respond to his tweets (or just using screenshots)
3. Misspell his name
4. Use your voodoo dolls daily
5. Don’t forget to breathe & spread love
💜❤️💛💚💙— 🐭 (A)nticapitalist(A) 🐭 (@pieceoplastic) January 3, 2018
I cannot understate how small @realDonaldTrump’s penis is.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) January 3, 2018
Sneaky lil tiger is sneaky.
Let’s scare them to pieces this year. pic.twitter.com/dGnNQzhFn8
— 🐭 (A)nticapitalist(A) 🐭 (@pieceoplastic) January 1, 2018
Stella Donnelly – Boys Will Be Boyshttps://t.co/D5ezNOoqsI
Made me cry. We (boys, guys, whatever) must find a way to change this bullshit. We can. We fucking can. We fucking must. FFS. Let’s fucking do this.
— 🐭 (A)nticapitalist(A) 🐭 (@pieceoplastic) January 1, 2018
Two years ago, I was raped by a leader in the privacy/security community. The #CCC provided a supportive platform for him for years, and his abuse was not a secret. Today, the #CCC still fails to protect against other predators. #34C3 #MeToo https://t.co/aqABMKMLUj
— chelsea komlo (@chelseakomlo) December 30, 2017
2017 Monthly Series – Happy New Year 2018
https://t.co/HTR3NpWVko#stösschen #2017 #2018
— 🐭 (A)nticapitalist(A) 🐭 (@pieceoplastic) December 31, 2017
#ifyouonlyreadone
Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’: Inside Trump’s White House – “One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.” And why is he still the president, by the way?
#watch,
Building a FLYING BATHTUB! – “Finally our manned Multicopter is finished!” Next, the flying Jacuzzi?
A Burst of Deep Sea Fireworks: Halitrephes Jelly – “The frilled tentacles of the Halitrephes maasi jelly came into view at 1225m in the Revillagigedo Archipelago off Baja California, Mexico.” The comments of the scientists in the off are pretty funny.
1UP – Happy New Year 2018 Wholecar – “Daytime Madness and Wholecar Business.” Macho graffiti from Berlin.
Cult Fiction – “Von den „Leiden des jungen Werther“ bis zu „Harry Potter“, über „Unterwegs“ oder „Millennium“ enthüllt Cult Fiction – ohne allzu viel zu verraten! – den Hype um Romane, die in einer Gesellschaft für Aufregung sorgen, andächtige Jünger finden, oder sogar Ausschreitungen nach sich ziehen.”
2017 Monthly Series – Happy New Year 2018 from us ;).
listen and
Let Them Eat Sand Book & CD (58 pages) from sole – “A 58 page booklet of the writings from Let Them Eat Sand.” New record by sole, you can now order a limited edition booklet that goes along with the release.
Capital – Podcast – “Meet the civil servants dealing with the fallout of a referendum that brings back capital punishment with a 51% majority.” Hmm, are they talking about Brexit?
3. On Robots | The Sisterhood – “Laurie and Eleanor Penny discuss the coming of the robots, and why AI assistants like Alexa and Siri are always given female characteristics.” To the point again. This could become my new favourite podcast.
#learn
Musician’s White Noise YouTube Video Hit With Copyright Complaints – “A music technologist who teaches in an Australian university music department has seen his self-generated ten-hour video containing white noise flagged by several copyright holders. Sebastian Tomczak informs TorrentFreak that all of the rightsholders chose to monetize his work, meaning that they’re making money from his efforts, rather than him.” I’ll test it by uploading my fart sounds, let’s see if the cease and desist me for that.
“Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws – “Immediate concern is for Intel chips, but everyone is at risk.” This. So. Sucks. Supergau.
How Anti-Fascists Won the Battles of Berkeley : 2017 in the Bay and Beyond: A Play-by-Play Analysis – “The perilous politics of militant anti-fascism defined 2017 for the anarchist movement in the United States. The story in the Bay Area mirrors that of the country at large. It’s a narrative full of tragedies, setbacks, and repression, ultimately concluding with a fragile victory.” Fragile is the key word, this will keep happening.
Dude, you broke the future! – Charlie Stross – “Science fiction is written by people embedded within a society with expectations and political assumptions that bias us towards looking at the shiny surface of new technologies rather than asking how human beings will use them, and to taking narratives of progress at face value rather than asking what hidden agenda they serve.” Stross 34c3 keynote well, until he started repeating the Cambrdige Analytica PR-claims.
The year we wanted the internet to be smaller – “The vast digital metropolis of the internet — that place that was supposed to make us feel never alone — failed us this year; we built what we needed on its outskirts.” The problem here, some lonely (unpopular) assholes (like myself) are still stuck on Twitter.
Antisocial media: why I decided to cut back on Facebook and Instagram – “Until the likes of Facebook match their greater power with a greater sense of responsibility, we ought to ask ourselves how much we want to be a willing part of their journey to world domination.” Yeh, duh. Do not feed Facebook/Instagram free content. Come on guys.
Rotten Apples – “The Rotten Appl.es is a searchable database that lets you know whether or not a film or television show is tied to a person who has been accused of sexual misconduct.” Could (and should) be extended to other areas.
On Trying to be Better Men – “diverse people have diverse answers to diverse problems, and we keep making the same mistakes over and over again. No matter how you cut it, excluding more than half of the workforce is just plain stupid.mBut just putting them in contact with the community without any change in how we socialize will be a disaster.” We must. Feminism is what is needed now, and will make the world a better place.
Behind Every Serial Abuser, There Are Many Enablers – “Systemic abuse does not happen in a vacuum; it is not just one bad individual. The enablers of sexual predators should also be held accountable- the people and organizations whose inaction, avoidance, and even support allows abusers to go unchecked and immune from accountability.” Outrageous.
#oldiebutgoodie
The Fertile Ground of Bewilderment (E15) – Charles Eisenstein – “The Fertile Ground of Bewilderment was the title of a speech I gave at St. James Church in London. I’m sharing it with you all because it was such a high-energy event and I ventured into territory I haven’t brought into public speaking before.” Some parts of this talk are a bit out there, esoteric, but I like the general message.
Supreme Court entscheidet über Zukunft unserer Privatsphäre – “Das US-Justizministerium verlangt von Microsoft die Herausgabe von E-Mails, die auf einem Server in Irland gespeichert sind. Demnächst entscheidet der US Supreme Court. Sollte er dem Justizministerium Recht geben, befürchten Kritiker dramatische Folgen für Internetnutzer in aller Welt, weil dann nicht nur Behörden in den USA, sondern auch in Ländern wie China den Zugriff auf weltweite Daten von Unternehmen fordern könnten, die auf ihrem Staatsgebiet aktiv sind.” And here we go.
Die weiße Scharia: Faschismus und Männlichkeit – “Wie das angeschossene Tier ist auch das untergehende Patriarchat, so die Soziologin Franziska Schutzbach, womöglich gefährlicher als das Patriarchat selbst.” Misogynous groups as a breeding ground for white nationalism.
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