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German Government Spyware Transforms Citizen’s... →

Discovered by the Chaos Computer Club, reports GlobalPost: The use of so-called “Trojan horse” software by authorities in a number of German states came to light after the Computer Chaos Club, a hacker group, published details of their examination of spyware planted on a laptop in Bavaria. It found that the software — developed by a private company called DigiTask for the Bavarian police — was...

Nov 1st

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The Protect-IP (E-Parasite) Act Threatens Tumblr, SoundCloud, YouTube, Puppies and Babies. garychou: Kirby Ferguson, creator of the Everything is a Remix series made this video for the Fight For the Future folks: When I found out Fight for the Future needed help with their campaign against a new bill called PROTECT-IP, I had to take a little time away from Everything is a Remix Part 4 and...

Oct 29th

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A List of American Congressional Acts Against...

The Page Act of 1875 (Sect. 141, 18 Stat. 477, 1873-March 1875) was the first federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered “undesirable.”[1] The law classified as “undesirable” any individual from Asia who was coming to America to be a contract laborer, any Asian woman who would engage in prostitution, and all people considered to be convicts in...

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“The Greeks had no act structure in their plays. The plays had one act. The...”

– What’s Wrong With The Three Act Structure

Oct 19th

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Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →

Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going forward,” to borrow the business-speak. Economists are warning that even when the economy recuperates,...

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Oct 17th

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“I’m not really sure how Bezos came to this realization — the insight...”

– Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant Part of my series on “Those Damn Hippies Have Been Right All Along But Unfortunately We Were Dicks About All of It.”

Oct 17th

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“The beauty of the market is that it has a way of creating the widest access...”

– - Me on the ahistorical nature of commercial hip hop. I’m speaking on a panel on art + race + and technology at the Festival of New Black Imagination later today but am feeling massively jetlagged and a little bit ill. Just in case I don’t explain myself very clearly, I thought...

Oct 15th

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“An article at the moviemaking technology website Creative Cow reports that the...”

– R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888-2011 - Salon.com (via rafer) YAAAAAAAAAAY! (As with most things in this industry, “cease production” probably means years of continued use + maintenance by the production companies that don’t want to bear the cost of replacing their costly gear...

Oct 15th

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Oct 14th

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Jetlag is the feeling you get while your soul...

The great thing about modern air travel is I can leave Beijing at 1pm on Friday and arrive the same day in NYC at 2pm (12hr time diff.) The not so great thing is that it’ll take me days to adjust (thanks for the heads up, elspeth.)

Oct 14th

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“The problem is that for most people, any kind of writing looks like work to...”

– Professional writer and fanfic writer Naomi Novik

Oct 14th

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“At any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of...”

– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker

Oct 14th

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Speaking at the Festival of the New Black... →

The Festival of the New Black Imagination is a new platform designed to celebrate the exciting ideas springing forth from 21st century urban cultural producers. And it’s no accident that it’s happening in Brooklyn, arguably the epicenter of a global movement—one that impacts other cities across the country as well as Europe and Africa–that drives everything that’s exciting in black...

Oct 14th

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