[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited from my diigo]
Since I published my account quite a few people have come forward to say this is not in the past but ongoing. https://t.co/5HiFGTM5uq
— Norton Auto-Updater (@quinnnorton) October 21, 2017
Macka B's Medical Monday
'Rosemary'Brand New Album 'Health Is Wealth' available NOW !https://t.co/7MzgGHs4O8
How do you use rosemary? pic.twitter.com/r7EkT4HA7j
— Macka B (@mackab) October 16, 2017
If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet. pic.twitter.com/k2oeCiUf9n
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) October 15, 2017
#ifyouonlyreadone
One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end – “Twitter was built at the tail end of that era. Their goal was giving everyone a voice. They were so obsessed with giving everyone a voice that they never stopped to wonder what would happen when everyone got one. And they never asked themselves what everyone meant. That’s Twitter’s original sin. Like Oppenheimer, Twitter was so obsessed with splitting the atom they never stopped to think what we’d do with it.”
#watch,
Terrifying!! Fearless Little Sister and Brother Catch Very Big Snakes By Digging Hole – How brave.
Naomi Klein on The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur – “Cenk Uygur interviews Naomi Klein, winner of the Sydney Peace Prize and author of five books, including The Shock Doctrine. They discuss Klein’s 5-step plan to resist Trump, what the Dems are doing wrong, how the political ground is shifting, Klein’s relationship with the media, whether or not the Democratic Party needs change, and how the Trump administration is the result of corporatism.”
listen and
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Ring-A-Ring O’ Roses (Official Audio) – “Charlotte Gainsbourg – Ring-A-Ring O’ Roses Nouvel extrait de l’album Rest produit par SebastiAn Sortie le 17 Novembre”
#learn
7-inches for Planned Parenthood – “Lawmakers with extreme views are working hard to shut down Planned Parenthood. If they succeed, millions of Americans will lose access to basic health services, including STD testing and treatment, birth control, and cancer screenings.”
Robert Scoble and Me – Quinn Norton – “Where it is not as safe as I’d like is in sexual harassment — though to be clear, it’s not worse than any other tech conference. It’s just even more upsetting given the warmth and openness and honesty of the event in other ways.”
Carrie Fisher gave predatory producer a cow’s tongue in a box – “Screenwriter Heather Robinson says that after telling Fisher she’d had to fight off a Hollywood executive, the Star Wars actor hand-delivered him the gift with a threatening note” [via nerdcore]
Ta-Nehisi Coates Unplugged – “But [Trump]’s a profane version of what a real American attitude to the rest of the world actually is.”
Porn and Swastikas Have Infiltrated ‘Roblox’ – “Hackers have found ways to subvert parental controls in the children’s computer game.”
Social media bots threaten democracy. But we are not helpless – “Ever-more sophisticated Facebook and Twitter bots can sway political opinions. We have the technology to counter this – we need the will to use it”
Non-Compete Clause | Laurie Penny – “On navigating away from the demands of neoliberal patriarchy”
Armando Iannucci: ‘I was saved from being a reject by comedy’ – “Iannucci’s latest target is Stalin and his cronies. His new film, The Death of Stalin, is set in 1953 and depicts – with unexpected historical accuracy – the undignified scrabble for dominance that followed the demise of the Soviet despot. It is silly, moving and revelatory, all at once”
Septic masculinity: when homophobia prevents men from literally wiping their own asses – “Keith Calder has been looking around on Reddit and has found a string of messages from baffled, distressed women whose male romantic partners literally don’t wipe their asses because touching themselves between the cheeks might make them gay.”
#oldiebutgoodie
“Nevada Anthropocene” by Bruce Sterling (2014) – “When Fernandez awoke within his steel coffin, he knew that his trouble was of an epic, planetary scale. Apocalyptic trouble: The-End-Of-The-World-As-We-Know-It.”
Die Verantwortung der Medien im Umgang mit Rechtspopulismus – ” Wie aber kann eine Kommunikation aussehen, die Fronten und Lagerbildung in der Gesellschaft, aber auch in den Medien nicht weiter verhärtet?”
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