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Mar 27
Vote?

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Mar 13
“What we can glean from this is an understanding of why we are on the road that we are on. Again, it’s based on what went into his thinking, being surrounded by radicals. You could hearken back to the days before the Civil War, when too many Americans believed that not all men were created equal. It was the Civil War that began the codification of the truth that here in America, yes, we are equal and we all have equal opportunities, not based on the color of our skin. You have equal opportunity to work hard and to succeed and to embrace the opportunities, the God-given opportunities, to develop resources and work extremely hard and, as I say, to succeed. Now, it has taken all these years for many Americans to understand that the gravity, that mistake that took place before the Civil War, and why the Civil War had to really start changing America. What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin. Why are we allowing our country to move backwards instead of moving forward with the understanding that as our charters of liberty spell out for us, we are all created equally?”

SARAH PALIN, on Fox “News,” talking about something.

Game changer.

(via the New Yorker)

—-

Annnnnnd THIS exemplifies why I use the phrase “Sarah Palin stupid” to describe certain things.

(via wilwheaton)

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Mar 4

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Feb 28

wilwheaton:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

thegoddamazon:

Oh look, Jon Stewart. Hay boo haaay.

BOOM

Frothy Lube is unfit to hold public office. He is more suited for the Taliban.

The world makes me sad, but at least Jon Stewart exists.


Feb 21

Jan 26
3liza:

ACTA passed one of the several voting gates it needs to get through before becoming law.
It was ratified in Poland last night.  This was the scene at Polish parliament afterwards, as (presumably) a bloc of anti-ACTA politicians expressed their displeasure and, perhaps without knowing it, foretell of the Anonymous repercussions to this bill.
Some things you should know:
Online petitions are meaningless.  While they are well-intentioned and organized, the signing of a digital petition takes about twenty seconds, and does not require that you leave your beanbag chair in the coal cellar.  Politicians know this, and pay just as much attention to online petitions as is warranted by a “political action” that is literally less strenuous than leaving a YouTube comment.
Nothing except direct action is going to do a goddamn thing.  This means getting out in the street, it means DDoSing, it means vicious and widespread boycotts, site blackouts, and other strongarm tactics that actually impact the flow of money from corporations to lobbyists to politicians.  How do you, as a tiny flailing consumer, do this?  You can’t, really.  You can join up with groups that are intent on doing actions that actually mean something, adding your voice to a chorus of hundreds or thousands, instead of screaming alone.  You can contact celebrities, the spokespeople of our time, as ask them to leverage their followers on the issue.  You can write to Tumblr and ask for more blackouts.  None of these things will be very effective, so don’t be too disappointed when they don’t work, but they sure as fuck are more effective than online petitions, and the intense response to SOPA by corporations and consumers was responsible for getting it “tabled” (not dead, but dreaming lies).
ACTA was already signed by Obama in September of 2011.  He had been praising the bill for over a year prior, and signed it without reservation.  Most of us didn’t hear about it, and he likely used the 9/11 coverage to make sure of that.
Eventually, one of these bills will pass, and the pro-corporate laws will go into effect.  Expect it.  Be prepared.  Learn to circumvent this garbage and you’ll have a leg up when the feds shut down the internet as we know it.
The best thing you can do now is install Tor and learn how to use it.  Tor is free software and an open network that helps             you defend against a form of network surveillance that             threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business             activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.  In order to circumvent the coming corporate takeover of the web, we’re going to have to go underground, creating a sub-internet of encrypted nodes known as a “darknet”.  It’s probably going to be like the internet was in the beginning, with most people only seeing what AOL wanted them to see, and only a small group of super-nerds existing outside of that bubble in the “real” internet.  It’ll take another twenty years for them to catch up to us again.
Welcome to the grim cyberpunk future.

3liza:

ACTA passed one of the several voting gates it needs to get through before becoming law.

It was ratified in Poland last night.  This was the scene at Polish parliament afterwards, as (presumably) a bloc of anti-ACTA politicians expressed their displeasure and, perhaps without knowing it, foretell of the Anonymous repercussions to this bill.

Some things you should know:

  • Online petitions are meaningless.  While they are well-intentioned and organized, the signing of a digital petition takes about twenty seconds, and does not require that you leave your beanbag chair in the coal cellar.  Politicians know this, and pay just as much attention to online petitions as is warranted by a “political action” that is literally less strenuous than leaving a YouTube comment.
  • Nothing except direct action is going to do a goddamn thing.  This means getting out in the street, it means DDoSing, it means vicious and widespread boycotts, site blackouts, and other strongarm tactics that actually impact the flow of money from corporations to lobbyists to politicians.  How do you, as a tiny flailing consumer, do this?  You can’t, really.  You can join up with groups that are intent on doing actions that actually mean something, adding your voice to a chorus of hundreds or thousands, instead of screaming alone.  You can contact celebrities, the spokespeople of our time, as ask them to leverage their followers on the issue.  You can write to Tumblr and ask for more blackouts.  None of these things will be very effective, so don’t be too disappointed when they don’t work, but they sure as fuck are more effective than online petitions, and the intense response to SOPA by corporations and consumers was responsible for getting it “tabled” (not dead, but dreaming lies).
  • ACTA was already signed by Obama in September of 2011.  He had been praising the bill for over a year prior, and signed it without reservation.  Most of us didn’t hear about it, and he likely used the 9/11 coverage to make sure of that.

  • Eventually, one of these bills will pass, and the pro-corporate laws will go into effect.  Expect it.  Be prepared.  Learn to circumvent this garbage and you’ll have a leg up when the feds shut down the internet as we know it.

  • The best thing you can do now is install Tor and learn how to use it.  Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.  In order to circumvent the coming corporate takeover of the web, we’re going to have to go underground, creating a sub-internet of encrypted nodes known as a “darknet”.  It’s probably going to be like the internet was in the beginning, with most people only seeing what AOL wanted them to see, and only a small group of super-nerds existing outside of that bubble in the “real” internet.  It’ll take another twenty years for them to catch up to us again.

  • Welcome to the grim cyberpunk future.

Jan 21

Jan 19
newsweek:

Behold! What the Stop SOPA blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours.

Abuse of power. Totally.
Also, insanely glad that @herpderpedia is not representative of the population as a whole.

newsweek:

Behold! What the Stop SOPA blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours.

Abuse of power. Totally.

Also, insanely glad that @herpderpedia is not representative of the population as a whole.

(via cwby)


Jan 18
collegehumor:

Man sends Telegram to get Senator’s attention, after realizing she doesn’t have a twitter.
(click for larger)

collegehumor:

Man sends Telegram to get Senator’s attention, after realizing she doesn’t have a twitter.

(click for larger)


Jan 13
youranonnews:

STOP SOPA
THE ESSENTIALS:
Summary and bill text of SOPA - H.R. 3261: link
Summary and bill text of PIPA - S.968: link
Congressmen who support SOPA and how much money in donations they received to support it: link

IN DEPTH:
Companies that support SOPA - link
Companies that oppose SOPA & PIPA - link
Video: What is PIPA and how will it affect you? link
SOPA 101: An Infographic - link
Tech Law & Policy: House takes Senate’s bad Internet censorship bill, tries making it worse - Analysis of SOPA & PIPA - link
GET INVOLVED:
Take Action Checklist to Stop Censorship - link
Join @YourAnonNews and @AnonymousIRC and pledge not to tweet between 8AM-8PM EST (1300-0100 UTC) on 18 January [check your local timezone here - Use hashtags #SOPAblackout and #J18
Add the following banners to your Twitter pic: “CENSORED” - link | “STOP SOPA” - link
How to contact Facebook and Google to support the January 18 SOPA blackout - link
Contact your local Representative with info and a widget to find them by EFF and Wired for Change - link

youranonnews:

STOP SOPA

THE ESSENTIALS:

  • Summary and bill text of SOPA - H.R. 3261: link
  • Summary and bill text of PIPA - S.968: link
  • Congressmen who support SOPA and how much money in donations they received to support it: link

IN DEPTH:

  • Companies that support SOPA - link
  • Companies that oppose SOPA & PIPA - link
  • Video: What is PIPA and how will it affect you? link
  • SOPA 101: An Infographic - link
  • Tech Law & Policy: House takes Senate’s bad Internet censorship bill, tries making it worse - Analysis of SOPA & PIPA - link

GET INVOLVED:

  • Take Action Checklist to Stop Censorship - link
  • Join @YourAnonNews and @AnonymousIRC and pledge not to tweet between 8AM-8PM EST (1300-0100 UTC) on 18 January [check your local timezone here - Use hashtags #SOPAblackout and #J18
  • Add the following banners to your Twitter pic: “CENSORED” - link | “STOP SOPA” - link
  • How to contact Facebook and Google to support the January 18 SOPA blackout - link
  • Contact your local Representative with info and a widget to find them by EFF and Wired for Change - link

Jan 10
“Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulations, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.” 1984, George Orwell (via jefftidball)

(via wilwheaton)


Jan 9
cracked:

Freedom Fist Bump

cracked:

Freedom Fist Bump


Jan 1
RIP, habeas corpus

RIP, habeas corpus

(via 3liza)


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