[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited from my diigo]
Here 's the entire crazy comic "The Wall" I did back in 1990 about some guy named Trump. https://t.co/VyRIDSnICI
Next comic: impeachment!— Peter Kuper (@PKuperArt) September 26, 2017
#Trump #TrumpRussia pic.twitter.com/5K7IpTNFOh
— digitaler Gutmensch™ (@Tigerelch) September 25, 2017
This ceiling hates Jesus.https://t.co/MEWM4N7GtR pic.twitter.com/FX36TUvFw5
— (A)nticapitalist(A) (@pieceoplastic) September 26, 2017
#ifyouonlyreadone
#BANTRUMP: Why Twitter should ban Donald Trump – “Donald Trump is the asshole in the corner screaming at everyone and grabbing every woman’s ass and telling the bartender not to serve the darkies. And Twitter thinks that guy is the reason people go to the bar. Twitter believes it’s protecting free speech, but it’s really protecting that belligerent dick at the bar, at the expense of the other patrons. That’s not a principled stance. That’s a dick move” Just ban him already.
#watch,
Climeworks – Capturing CO2 from air – “Climeworks is capturing CO2 from air with the world’s first commercial carbon removal technology.” Fuck, and in comes Switzerland to save this damn planet.
Hans Zimmer And Radiohead Collaboration: Creating (ocean) bloom – Blue Planet II Prequel – “We go behind the scenes to get an exclusive interview with Radiohead and Hans Zimmer as they discuss their Blue Planet II collaboration (ocean) bloom.” Try not to look at Thoms pants. And Jonnys teeth.
listen and
Get Out of Your Own Way: Anarchy & Peace with Penny Rimbaud of Crass
#learn
CDC officially admits people who are positive but undetectable cannot transmit HIV – “The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has officially stated that those living with HIV who are undetectable cannot transmit the virus to others.” This is very good news for the HIV+ community.
INTERVIEW: Penny Rimbaud on Wilfred Owen – “The artist, activist and Crass founder Penny Rimbaud speaks to Patrick Clarke on his powerful new album, setting the war poetry of Wilfred Owen to intense interpretative jazz” Penny still as sharp as ever. Just skip his views on Antifa.
Branded in Memory – “Overall, 16 percent of people drew near perfect logos, and 37 percent were good but not perfect. As we would expect, the more complex the logo, the less likely people are to remember it in full.” Who cares, but it’s kind of interesting.
Radical Leftists Built Their Own Reddit After It Banned Them – “I decided to delete my Reddit account and make a site where socialists and anarchists wouldn’t get punished for talking out against fascism.”
Monsanto banned from European parliament – “MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller” Switzerland lags behind.
Paul Horner, key distributor of fake news during 2016 election, dies at 38 – “Authorities report evidence of accidental overdose in death of Horner, who said he believed his actions had won Trump the White House” The fake news that he was killed must already be spreading.
DHS planning to collect social media info on all immigrants – “A new rule published in the Federal Register last week calls to include “social media handles and aliases, associated identifiable information and search results” in the department’s immigrant files.” Orwell 1984.
Apple is being sued for patent infringement by a Native American tribe – “New IP rules: Patents can be reviewed, “unless you pay off some Indian tribe.”
What the Lavinia Woodward case tells us about race, gender and justice – “This causes problems for those feminists, like myself, who are keen to see justice done and to challenge patterns of structural violence but uncomfortable with relying on the courts and the prison industrial complex for those ends. I’m no advocate of incarceration. There are very few circumstances where locking someone in a cage is either ethically appropriate or a good use of public funds. I’d just like to see the benefit of the doubt applied far more fairly – across the divides of gender and class. Almost everyone deserves a second chance, whatever their circumstances – mercy, like justice, should not be the preserve of a privileged few with “promising” futures.”
I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets – “The dating app knows me better than I do, but these reams of intimate information are just the tip of the iceberg. What if my data is hacked – or sold?” Exploiting peoples vulnerability when it comes to dating and sex.
David Attenborough on the scourge of the oceans: ‘I remember being told plastic doesn’t decay, it’s wonderful’ – “His sequel to The Blue Planet will focus not only on the marvels of sea life but also the threats to it. The naturalist explains why plastic pollution, climate change and overpopulation are problems too urgent to be left to ecologists” Plastic is lovely.
The AfD’s breakthrough shows that parties of the left must get radical – “The accepted diagnosis among European centre-left parties is that they have either been too long in grand coalitions or become bland technocrats, easily outflanked by colourful populists of the left and right. But the problem goes deeper. The neoliberal economic model, which social democracy sought to soften and humanise, no longer works. It is on a global life-support system consisting of $12tn of central bank money.” Well, they must… But.
YouTube-style confessionals expose anorexia’s devastating hold in BBC drama – “BBC3 series Overshadowed follows a teenager’s battle with her eating disorder”
Iceland authorities weighing options after neo-Nazi site registers there – “The racist site has been at a .is domain for more than a week.” Go on Iceland, you can do it. Ban them.
Dave Eggers: ‘As the hurricane bore down, Trump tweeted his excitement’ – “The novelist counts the political cost of hurricanes Harvey and Irma”
#oldiebutgoodie
Go Right: GamerGate und AfD – “Das Bild von Journalisten, die in Elfenbeintürmen sitzen und einseitig berichtenden Medien eint GamerGate und AfD”
«Das System ist todgeweiht, Reformen ändern nichts, alles muss anders werden» – “War Lenin Held oder Massenmörder, Opportunist oder struktureller Denker? In seinem neusten Stück befasst sich Milo Rau mit dem russischen Revolutionsführer.”
#Populismus an der Macht: Was Russland unter Putin über Trumps Amerika erzählen kann – “Populismus wird meist als Strategie der Opposition diskutiert, auch bei uns. Doch was passiert, wenn populistische Bewegungen und ihre Führer an die Macht kommen? Die Beispiele Russlands und der USA, aber auch Venezuelas oder der Türkei sind erhellend.”
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