all of you should definately read this. its about quantative computing algorythms, the impending singularity, and the 1%ers and how they try to stay one step ahead of you
not every little thing will fit into itâs proper little spot
not every single soul fits your narrow minded reason
we are the lucky ones, the ones free to love
there are a special few who can love without it being more
who knock down prejudiced walls and walk on...
I have might
so am I right
or just a whore
in love with war
teams and uniforms
may change
yet itâs still
the same old game
young men sent
to kill and die
while mothers and
heartsick lovers cry
within without
large or small
line em up
against the wall
play for keeps
lose or...
One more hit
will take me there
to the place
where I wonât care
One more hit
it wonât be real
I wonât hurt
and I wonât feel
One more hit
heavenâs calling
catch me God
this time Iâm falling
One more hit
asleep or dead
no more voices
in my head
One more hit
yes thatâs it
all I need is
one more hit
One more hit
and Iâll be free
no more sorrow
no more me
Protests have sprung up in numerous cities around the world to support Palestine and call for an end to the ongoing attacks. Here are photographs from some.
The World Stands With Palestine: Protests On Every Continent
As clouds part going separate ways
different paths, unfazed
I think of you,
but like the worn out blue
of my favorite jeans
youâve faded
Is this what moving on is like?
a passage of time
just a streak
through a small
hardly used
part of my mind
I think of you
for a second or two
a handful of times a day
but I carry you forever
in my heart
where youâll never ever fade
so much of activism relies on speaking truth to power, or at the very least, raising awareness of a disparity between what is and what is being presented as true. we live ever-submerged in truths of an untrue world and depending on which of the false truths one has been effected by, campaigns...
"Anger is not something to be overcome or "healed" because it is not a sickness or disease. Instead of telling people to "heal" their anger, perhaps telling them to channel it towards the things angering them would be empowering, creates the potential for change, and counters the debilitating colonial belief that there is something wrong with us becuase we are pissed off about genocide." - Status Update 04/15/14 By @[513438070:Ian Kiâlaas Caplette]
So far coverage of Facebookâs plan to squeeze the organic reach of Pages has focused on its impact on âbrandsâ that spam us with ads and promotions. But nonprofits, activists, and advocacy groups with much fewer resources (and no ad budgets) are also being hugely affected. Itâs starting to look like Facebook is willing to strangle public discourse on the platform in an attempt to wring out a few extra dollars for its new shareholders.
Chief Justice John Roberts doesnât quite seem to get it.
OK so noteworthy things from this article:Â
The privacy settings of the social network and its related applications came up in the discussion of Riley v. California, a case involving a San Diego college student, David Riley, who was pulled over for expired tags, only to have police seize his phone and use a photo on it to convict him for participation in a drive-by shooting. Litigator Jeffrey L. Fisher, representing Riley, argued that even flipping through photos on a smartphone draws on a multitude of data that is âintrinsically intertwinedâ in the device in such a way that implicates the Fourth Amendment.
Depending on a userâs privacy settings, Facebook activity can range from entirely public to only available to an individual user â although Facebook changes the settings often enough that usersarenât always awareof the current setup. Twitter offers users the option of making their tweets public or only sharing them with approved followers.
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For instance, if a user is logged into a social media account via an app on the phone, and if law enforcement is able to digitally search through that app, then private aspects, such as direct messaging archives, would be available to authorities.
Fisher responded by noting that most of the information on smartphones is private. âEven a Facebook account is a limited universe of people who have access to it,â he explained.
But Roberts seems to indicate that he believes anything shared on Facebook is potentially fair game, regardless of privacy settings. âI mean, you know, maybe itâs a hundred people ,â he said. âBut itâs certainly not private in the sense that many of the other applications are.â
ok a) most people use facebook to connect to family and frieds.Â
b) i have a political opinion that i want 100 ppl to know, but those 100 ppl are often specified by the *friends* I make on fb, not every random harry on the streetÂ
c) so really, just bcs i want to send âŠ.mass texts to ppl in a way doesnt mean my posts are public?Â
d) like. facebook isnât a public blog?Â
d) also direct messages are a whole other issueÂ
is there something i m not getting in chief justiceâs robertâs argument?
Tom Burke was driving through a sleepy part of Grand Rapids, Michiganâan empty neighborhood full of abandoned warehousesâwhen he first noticed the vehicle tailing him. âI was like, Why is this car turning left whenever I turn left?â he recalled. âI figured out I was being followed.â
That same morning, he and his wife were served with subpoenas demanding they testify before a grand jury. By December, 23 activists across the Midwest were subpoenaed and asked to answer for their activism. Among other things, they were accused of providing âmaterial supportâ for terrorism, a charge that can mean anything from providing guns to a terrorist group to providing any sort of âadvice or assistanceâ to members of such a group, even if that advice is âlay down your arms.â (Former president Jimmy Carterwarned a few months before the raids that the threat of a âmaterial supportâ charge âinhibits the work of human-rights and conflict-resolution groups.â)
Nearly four years later no one has been charged with a crime, and an unsealed affidavit, which the FBI used to get a federal judge to sign off on the 2010 raids, even notes that this group of mostly middle-aged peace activists explicitly rejected the idea of providing arms to anyone. The document, released by court order last month in response to requests from the activists, shows that an undercover special agent was intent on luring people into saying ominous things about ârevolutionâ and, sometimes, some of these people indulged her, which provided the pretext for legally harassing a group known to oppose US policy at home and abroad.
Tech project by #lulzlab that provides internet-free digital data transmission through radio waves - video embedded below:
Airchat is a free communication tool, free as in âfree beerâ and free as in âJeremy Hammond must be freedâ. It doesnât need the internet infrastructure, nor does it need a cellphone network, instead it relies on any available radio link (or any device capable of transmitting audio - we even made a prototype working with light/laser based transmissions).
This project was conceived not only from our lessons learned in the Egyptian, Libyan and Syrian revolutions, but also from the experience of OccupyWallStreet and Plaza del Sol. We have considered the availability of extremely cheap modern radio devices (like those handhelds produced in China), to start thinking about new ways in which people can free themselves from expensive, commercial, government controlled and highly surveilled infrastructure.
AirChat is not only our modest draft or proposal for such a dream, but it is a working PoC you can use today. we hope you will enjoy it and we also hope that you too will be able to feel the beauty of free communications, free communications as in âfree beerâ and free communications as in âfree yourself and your people foreverâ.
so ive deduced im an oblivious big deal somehow or am absolutely out of touch with reality- if its the latter then i will still be believing the former, quite a conundrum
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