Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Down with Activism; Up with Revolution
…we imagine that we are revolutionaries when we are nothing more than temporary rebels. Activism is far from revolution, and the left at the centres of capitalism is dominated by activists and activist groups––NOT revolutionaries and revolutionary movements. The most popular and predictable… Continue reading
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Free to Be Miley
[Miley Cyrus] says she has come to consider her own sexuality — even her own gender identification — fluid. “I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age.… Continue reading
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The Racial History of American Swimming Pools
Yesterday, I posted about a police overreaction in McKinney, Texas, to some kids who racist neighbors did not think should be using the community pool. This story from the Atlantic gives a bit more background to this long running issue… Continue reading
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Heather Cassils: the transgender bodybuilder who attacks heaps of clay
By playing with body art, gay male aesthetics and extreme physical training – from weightlifting to martial arts – the artist has adapted his own female body into a series of powerful physical shapes that challenge any notion of binary… Continue reading
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Friday Night Fights: Racism in Texas
A pool party in McKinney, Texas, on Friday, June 05, ended with police terrorizing kids in the Dallas suburb. A police officer with the City of McKinney–Eric Casebolt–has come under special scrutiny and been placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced… Continue reading
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The City of Marinaleda
With virtually no police, crime or unemployment, meet the Spanish town described as a democratic, socialist utopia. Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks to its farming cooperative. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.filmsforaction.org Continue reading
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Ora et Labora, #Prayer and #Work
St. Benedict summarized the entirety of his rule in two practices, contemplating with the heart and laboring with the hands. “The monastic life is very plain and ordinary,” says Father Cassian Folsom, the founder and prior of the Monks of… Continue reading
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Supersymmetry or Monopoles?
Physicists around the world (myself included) are hoping that this week will mark the beginning of a new era of discovery. And not, as some fear, the end of particle physics as we know it. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.iflscience.com… Continue reading
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Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison | WIRED
ROSS ULBRICHT CONCEIVED of his Silk Road black market as an online utopia beyond law enforcement’s reach. Now he’ll spend the rest of his life firmly in its grasp, locked inside a federal penitentiary. On Friday Ulbricht was sentenced to… Continue reading
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I was a liberal adjunct professor. My liberal students didn’t scare me at all.
The problem isn’t the substance of student complaints — the problem is that university lecturers are so terrified of the effect student complaints could have. That’s a problem to be solved by universities having faculty members’ backs, not by somehow… Continue reading
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PredPol: Tomorrow’s Minority Report Today
How the the gathering of infometrics by Amazon and Wal-Mart teaches the police to “predict” crime… The future of policing, it seems, will look a lot like the present of policing, just faster and with more math. Instead of using… Continue reading
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EARTHWORKS | EPA study reveals fracking pollutes water
“Today EPA confirmed what communities living with fracking have known for years, fracking pollutes drinking water,” said Earthworks Policy Director Lauren Pagel. She continued, “Now the Obama administration, Congress, and state governments must act on that information to protect our… Continue reading
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The US government could count those killed by police, but it’s chosen not to | Rashad Robinson
We’ve had the authority to collect and publish data on police use of force for 20 years. We can’t wait another 20 for transparency or accountability Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com Continue reading
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Resident evil: Godzilla made official Japanese citizen
The reptilian antihero gets civic papers granting special residency for watching over the people of Tokyo (and boosting tourism) Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com Continue reading
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The photographer subculture inside Fallout, GTA and Left 4 Dead
The rise of in-game photography has left people asking: when is a screenshot a photograph and is it ever art? Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.hopesandfears.com Ontology of the virtual work of art… photography within games. Continue reading
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Texas Bans Bans: Adam Briggle quoted by @Newsweek
“For the past century, cities in Texas have had courts and the state recognize their power to govern themselves, with the understanding that the city knows best how to protect its way of life and its citizens,” says Adam Briggle,… Continue reading
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The Political Roots of Widening Inequality
Elites have changed the very rules by which the economy runs — and not in a good way. Sourced through Scoop.it from: prospect.org Robert Reich amending his standard interpretation of inequality to more properly include how plutocrats have reconstructed social… Continue reading
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Robotics: Ethics of artificial intelligence
Four leading researchers share their concerns and solutions for reducing societal risks from intelligent machines. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.nature.com Continue reading
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