[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited from my diigo]
Britain's way of life is threatened by a culture with strange accents, wearing unusual clothing, who attended special schools and are part of a closed society that doesn't integrate with the rest of us. pic.twitter.com/8xdyxdK0Ib
— Russ 🐝 (@RussInCheshire) August 9, 2018
the other day someone said no one freestyles to Oochie Wally anymore. so i did one. 🎈🔥 pic.twitter.com/FiWapQp6Wb
— CHIKA (@oranicuhh) August 9, 2018
A unicorn, riding a unicorn, over a rainbow.https://t.co/OhzKHQLHed pic.twitter.com/9rWzp1NKKc
— 🐭 (A)nticapitalist(A) 🐭 (@pieceoplastic) August 10, 2018
— Humans of Late Capitalism 🕊️ (@HumansOfLate) August 10, 2018
Chomsky elaborates the functioning of one segment of media not often commented on re his model but plays a crucial role in manufacturing consent: the diversionary media, which with the proliferation of the internet and the need to get "hate clicks" has become much more prevalent pic.twitter.com/ZCEP6rDivN
— ☀️👀 (@zei_nabq) August 10, 2018
This should have been an enormous scandal—a tragedy amplified greatly by the indifference and callousness of a president more interested in accusing Puerto Ricans of being lazy and attacking the Mayor of San Juan than actually saving lives and restoring basic public services. https://t.co/twmjV8wl1z
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) August 9, 2018
It’s late so here’s maybe the greatest lesson I’ve learned on the left:
Solidarity doesn’t mean you have to like each other.
Any commitment to social justice has to be robust enough to withstand the fact that stressed-out people routinely annoy the hell out of one another.— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) August 9, 2018
Berlin auf dem Weg zur europäischen Fahrradhauptstadt. (Leo-Bleck-Straße, Zehlendorf). pic.twitter.com/GoxvQrEwF9
— NorbertM (@Radelflieger) August 8, 2018
A year ago, a fascist murdered Heather Heyer. Yesterday in Portland, grinning police nearly killed a demonstrator, who survived with a grenade lodged in his helmet. Who needs fascists when you have police?#AllOutPDX #AllOutBayArea #DefendCville #AllOutDC #AllOutAugust #DefendPDX pic.twitter.com/Bll02cebve
— CrimethInc. (@crimethinc) August 5, 2018
Fucking. Finally. Now fix your goddamned Recommend algorithm. https://t.co/omUAV9Z9GM
— Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) August 6, 2018
after I spent time in different spaces with #noshirtnoservice agreement this summer, my favorite version is the crossed nipples + the specially marked #nippletape in neon color. looks good, highlights the topic and brings men in a #speakingupforfeminism position. here at #kktf18 pic.twitter.com/w17clYoFzW
— Kathia von Roth (@stephiewunder) August 6, 2018
The most special best friends ever.. pic.twitter.com/sGsmNNGF4P
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) August 6, 2018
Nazi Burning Man – the only thing worse than regular Burning Man. https://t.co/EuTNFm7n3k
— Tamar Glezerman (@TamarGlezerman) August 5, 2018
Während wir schleunigst eine Weltregierung aus Wissenschaftlern und Zen-Buddhisten an Stelle der herkömmlichen Politiker bräuchten, kommen Nationalisten und Faschisten wieder groß in Mode.
Ich sag' euch, wir sind das TV-Programm von irgendwelchen Freaks da draußen.— (╯°□°╯) (@ho_uston) August 3, 2018
My roommate just came back from California. Look at him. pic.twitter.com/ULlleCiZBh
— Ker🅱️is (@kermapers) August 2, 2018
#ifyouonlyreadone okay two
Imagining a world with no bullshit jobs – “In this interview about his latest book, David Graeber discusses the role of unions, the challenges posed by automation and “the revolt of the caring classes.””
The Quietest Place in America Is Becoming a Warzone – “A 2011 World Health Organization report found that Europeans were losing nearly 1.7 million years of healthy life annually to noise pollution. While it may seem surprising that noise can literally shorten our lives, the disruption of sleep takes a toll, as does the acute stress noise causes. There’s also evidence noise stresses our bodies out in ways that affects our heart, gut, and nervous system. The report found noise results in the loss of 61,000 healthy years to heart stress and causes 45,000 years in children’s cognitive impairment annually. Those numbers are all just for Europe, and the report says they’re conservative. So yes, we’re actually killing ourselves with sound.” I cried. Quiet as well as consideration for others no longer exist in this world of egomaniac oversharers.
#watch,
Kashakas en Senegal – “Salliou, un senegalés que fabrica sus propios Kashaka, tocando en freestyle.” Dude rocks em.
kermit peterson cries about individualism – “damn :(” Damn straight, damn.
Anonymous Operation QAnon – “Nope, you tossed it aside and let it grow into a deformed Alex Jones conspiracy thought bubble. Someone is gonna get hurt, so we have to put our foot down and start some shit with you all, oh kay? We don’t know if you can hang with the real thing, cuz believe it or not – we’re kind of upset that you’d try to even associate yourselves with our decentralized collective.” Yes QAnon, time’s up.
Decentralized Web Summit 2018-Courtyard 2 – Cory Doctorow explaining – erm – things.
Portland Police Attack Antifa – “Police nearly killed a counter protester after firing a projectile through their helmet. After the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer and other right wing nationalists descended on Portland, things turned violent as police attacked community counter demonstrators. The Portland police department used concussion grenades, pepper-spray, paint balls, and flash bangs on both bystanders, counter protesters, journalists and civil society groups that were on the scene.” Sadistic police.
listen and
Aphex Twin – T69 Collapse – “WARNING: CONTAINS STROBING.” New EP out soon.
Travis Scott – STOP TRYING TO BE GOD – “Featuring Philip Bailey, James Blake, Kid Cudi and Stevie Wonder on harmonica” Wait for the harmonica.
QAnon—Breaking It Down – “In The QAnon Code, Reply All hosts Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt examine one of the internet’s most topical and controversial internet conspiracy theories.” In case you wondered what this QAnon thing mentioned above is all about.
#learn
The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old – “Founded in 2003 by a group of hackers and activists, The Pirate Bay aimed to bring file-sharing to the masses. In the fifteen years that followed, the site transformed from a small community to Hollywood’s resilient arch-rival, serving millions of users. And that’s not the only thing that changed.” Happy birthday, I guess.
breathing exercise – Google Search – It’s got one there, like.
Twitter is not your friend. The Sarah Jeong saga shows us why. – “Twitter is not your friend. It is built to reward us for snarky in-group communication and designed to encourage unintended out-group readership. It fosters both tribalism and tribal collision. It seduces you into thinking you’re writing for one community but it gives everyone the ability to search your words and project them forward in time and space and outward into another community at the point when it’ll do you maximum damage.” While I get the point of this article, some arguments are a bit on the dramatic side of things.
Head of German secret service advised far-right Alternative for Germany – “Hans-Georg Maaßen, the president of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), met with former Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Frauke Petry several times in 2015, advising her how to avoid nationwide surveillance of the AfD by the German secret service and having her party designated as “right-wing extremist.”” Yeah, duh. But.
Antipodr – Find the other side of the world! It’s in the ocean near OZ for us.
A Conversation with the Women of WikiLeaks – “The premise of the conversation also highlights a key point: The fact that women are excluded from media conversations about WikiLeaks is another symptom of the endemic problem of social and economic inequality that sidelines women along with many other traditionally marginalized groups – minorities, those in the developing world, the poor. Ideas that appear to be solving problems, like WikiLeaks, need to be proactively inclusive, otherwise they could end up harboring those same inequalities.” Gives some much needed perspective.
Ai Weiwei’s Beijing studio razed by Chinese authorities – “The dissident artist posted on social media that he had been given no advance warning” Fuck em.
#oldiebutgoodie
The day the gorillas met David Attenborough – Attenborough at 90 – “One of the gorillas gives his opinion of the famous broadcaster”
Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression – “We may look back at self-expression as the terrible deadening conformity of our time. It doesn’t mean it’s bad and it doesn’t mean it’s a fake thing. It’s gotten so that everyone does it—so what’s the point? Everyone expresses themselves every day.” Mememe
«Hallo Alice» – “Die AfD bestreitet seit langem, etwas mit einem millionenschweren Unterstützungsverein zu tun zu haben. Doch Dokumente, die der WOZ und der «Zeit» vorliegen, zeigen: In der Startphase bestanden enge Verbindungen.” The connection between the AfD in Germany and the SVP in Switzerland, that always was denied by all parties envolved seems to exist after all.
Die Schweiz als Stützpunkt – “Das militante neonazistische Netz Combat 18 baut europaweit Strukturen auf. Die Mitglieder bewaffnen sich und halten Schiesstrainings ab. Auch in der Schweiz. Und was tun die Sicherheitsbehörden?” Well researched.
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