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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

The apparatus of disappearance is a capitalist ritual of creating ghosts. Disappearance is intrinsic to capitalism, to Western modernity, which is always already prepared to dispose of these othered humans along lines of racialized poverty. Disappearance in this sense, of… Continue reading

Originally posted on coromandal: Imagine asking pardon of the spirit of the tree before cutting a branch, of the mountain before extracting stone for aggregate, of the lake before fishing, the stream before removing water, the sky taking a bird, the earth… Continue reading

It is risky to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases based on what the justices say at the oral argument. But Kennedy’s commitment to the principle of human dignity and his understanding of its role in protecting intimate relationships… Continue reading

The Art of the Gouge… describes how NYU engages in a mind-numbing range of tricks and traps to extract as much in fees as possible from students, while at the same time failing to invest in and often degrading the… Continue reading