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Are We Facebook's Slave Labor? Jason Lanier's Who Owns the Future, Reviewed by Slate Voice on SoundCloud

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:14:16 -0400

Are We Facebook's Slave Labor? Jason Lanier's Who Owns the Future, Reviewed by Slate Voice on SoundCloud

unhistorical: March 15, 1917: Tsar Nicholas II...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:48:10 -0400

March 15, 1917: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates.

Crowned in 1894, Nicholas II led Russia through a disastrous and embarrassing war against Japan, a period of widespread political and social unrest, a world war in which millions of Russians were killed, and finally, the last Russian Revolution before the Tsar’s abdication. Violence and riots erupted as a result of the hardship - famine, inflation, military defeat, all-around misery - caused by the first World War, and especially the Tsar and his government’s handling of the war. In Petrograd, then the Russian capital, thousands of people converged to protest and condemn the Tsar, his disastrous policies, and the old imperial government. the Tsar attempted to use military force to put down the rebellion, but it was too late; thousands of soldiers joined the rebellion in protest as well. On March 15, 1917, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated as Emperor of All the Russias, and because he was the last to officially rule (his designated successor, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, never reigned), his abdication also brought an end to the Romanov dynasty, which had ruled Russia for over three hundred years.

The Tsar signed his own decree of abdication in the afternoon, and his issued statement called for the people of Russia “to obey the Tsar in the heavy moment of national trials”, but the Russian Empire was dissolved that year with the proclamation of the Russian Republic and the creation of Soviet Russia following the October Revolution. Nicholas and his family (his wife, four daughters, and son) went into exile and were subsequently executed together in July of 1918.

guardian: 1,000 postgraduates a year …twitter.com 1,000...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:00:38 -0500

guardian: 1,000 postgraduates a year …
twitter.com

1,000 postgraduates a year ‘too poor’ to take up Oxford place http://gu.com/p/3dcxj/tw

everything that is free…ain’t free

George Ayittey on Cheetahs vs. Hippos #TED : http://on.ted.com/pXe

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:52:13 -0500

George Ayittey on Cheetahs vs. Hippos #TED : http://on.ted.com/pXe

Why You Should Want This Rapper In Your History Class

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:24:12 -0500

Why You Should Want This Rapper In Your History Class

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:24:12 -0500

Why You Should Want This Rapper In Your History Class: Killer Mike…an education.

https://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAow4Hc/the_99/CAIiEPEJFWVSQ8q01E7cUMgKK9AqEwgEKgwIACoFCAow4HcwkBAwkjQ/cut_your_losses_how_to_know_when

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:59:02 -0500

https://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAow4Hc/the_99/CAIiEPEJFWVSQ8q01E7cUMgKK9AqEwgEKgwIACoFCAow4HcwkBAwkjQ/cut_your_losses_how_to_know_when

gasstation: Eva Green during the shooting of Dior: Midnight...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:45:47 -0400

gasstation:

Eva Green during the shooting of Dior: Midnight Poison Campaign, 2007

Listen to: Thelonious Monk – “Green Chimneys” @ http://pokingsmot.net/music/15544 Tagged as: 1968, hard bop, jazz, post-bop

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:49:00 -0400

Listen to: Thelonious Monk – “Green Chimneys” @ http://pokingsmot.net/music/15544 Tagged as: 1968,...

mothernaturenetwork: Superheroes help their fans’ self-imageNew...

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:39:40 -0400

mothernaturenetwork:

Superheroes help their fans’ self-image
New study finds that people who feel a personal connection with a superhero feel better about their physiques when they see a picture of that superhero.

Occupy All Streets: The Role of Carfree Cities in a More...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:45:32 -0400

Occupy All Streets: The Role of Carfree Cities in a More Sustainable World

by J.H. Crawford

"This speech was not only a bad speech, it was one of the most remarkable acts of political..."

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:57:38 -0400

“This speech was not only a bad speech, it was one of the most remarkable acts of political...

Train of thought is back on Schedule....

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:58:00 -0400

don’t confront me with your twisted truth and soft boiled tails of that dame that walked into...

anarcho-queer: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year For...

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:23:50 -0400

anarcho-queer:

Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year For Child Porn, Drug Smuggling, Corruption

Border Patrol agents smuggling weed and coke. Immigration agents forging documents and robbing drug dealers. TSA employees caught with child porn. Those are just a few of the crimes perpetrated by Department of Homeland Security employees in just the past year.

Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security nearly a decade ago, the agency’s inspector general has been tasked with uncovering corruption, waste and criminality within its own ranks. The IG has had his hands full.

According to a newly released DHS inspector general’s summary of its significant investigations, 318 DHS employees and contractors were arrested in 2011 (.pdf). That’s about one arrest per weekday of the men and women who are supposed to be keeping the country safe. The report lets us not only see how corrupt some agents tasked with protecting the homeland can be, it also gives us a scale of the problem. In short: There are a lot of dirty immigration and border officers.

Related: Pentagon reluctant to investigate 5,600 employees accused of viewing child porn

REal Life (http://flightlog.aerofex.com/)Speeder

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:49:17 -0400

REal Life (http://flightlog.aerofex.com/)Speeder

Elon James White is a writer and satirist and host of the...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:55:04 -0400

Elon James White is a writer and satirist and host of the award-winning video and radio series This Week in Blackness. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Tumblr.

http://thisweekinblackness.com/

They May Soon Replace Your Resume...

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:32:00 -0400

They May Soon Replace Your Resume...: In January, Aimee Groth penned a piece for the Business...

Hackitat - A film about political hacking, world wide Are the...

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:24:54 -0400

Hackitat - A film about political hacking, world wide

Are the hackers winning the battle to keep technology and the Internet free?

hat compels some people to spend a lot of time and energy on setting up servers, creating programs and even committing crimes to help people in a dictatorship in another country to communicate freely?

Who are the people building a nation on the Internet and why are they doing it? How are the hackers in Bolivia working to integrate indigenous languages into computer software so that all people can access the technology?

Who are the hackers in the middle east that some call terrorists and some call freedom activists. What drives this activism and does anonymous in Bahrain share a common ideology with anonymous in Brazil?

Around the world there is a network of hackerspaces that explore, hack and create new ways of expressing themselves with technology. Hackerspaces that by some are seen as a threat to our digital society. What is it that drives these people? What are their purpose and their reasons for what they do? How do they live their lives?

http://hackitat.com/

timothypatrickmcmahon: reasonable. very reasonable.

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:02:35 -0400

timothypatrickmcmahon:

reasonable. very reasonable.

guardian: And the US takes gold again! A light shines behind...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:22:36 -0400

guardian:

And the US takes gold again! A light shines behind President Barack Obama as he speaks during a campaign event in Iowa Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP