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  • …if not for the anarchists and antifascists

    Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking about the terror in Charlottesville. The white supremacist violence there began Friday night as hundreds of neo-Nazis, KKKmembers and other white nationalists descended on the city and participated in a torch march.…

  • I’m Not Your Exception

    Originally posted on Holding Patterns and High Tea: CN: discussion of microaggressions, gendered expectations, transphobia, transmisogyny There is a thing cis people often do when trans people come out to them. They say something like, “I just love you for you” which might sound good in theory, but allows the…

  • A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like

    Whatever happens in Washington, we can start building an internet that respects our rights on the local level. What would be the best route for creating community broadband in your community? In cities and towns, it’s probably through a municipal government, or even neighborhood mesh networks, which can swell across…

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  • Impacts and Insurance: Climate Change Risk Transfer

    Is a creeping catastrophe insurable? Eberhard Faust, climate risk researcher at Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies, and disaster historian Scott Knowles talk about the instruments and scale-problems involved in calculating and transferring the costs of climate-change-related events on the ground. Source: Technosphere Magazine: Impacts and Insurance:…

  • Anarcho-Syndicalist Comedy

    From Monty Python and the Holy Grail  

  • Whiteness is Dead | The Wild Hunt

    Highly recommend a read through of this… Whiteness is dead. James Baldwin proclaimed it back in 1972, prophesying ominously that there would be “bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come.” The holding actions have gotten bloodier and bloodier with the rise of Trump and the self-described…

  • Infrared Photography Captures the Neon World of Colorblind Islanders – Creators

    On a small island in the Pacific called Pingelap, a high percentage of the population sees the world in only black and white. A startling number of island’s inhabitants suffer from achromatopsia, or total color-blindness with an increased sensitivity to light. Photographer Sanne De Wilde, who heard about the unusual…

  • Mindfulness colouring sheets

    Great series of coloring pictures for mindful detachment. Take a look and choose your favorite. Source: Mindfulness colouring sheets

  • The solitude of the inner citadel: the epoché of suffering | Preludes and Refrains

    …the situation of philosophy today is one in which we can no longer pretend that we are innocent of reproducing the same violence that the philosopher has suffered at the hands of the sophist and the misologist. Since Kant, philosophy’s suspicion of the supersensible has nevertheless not stifled the desire…

  • AnarchoCynic as Queer or recognizing the gravity well of domination

    We are forsaken to our existential condition. We can simply make-do with what is already underway, or we can accept responsibility for having the power to explore in a fashion otherwise than tradition teaches. Anarchocynicism only works so long as it adopts a queer praxis. Queer means inhabiting the world…

  • Iceberg Detaches from the Larsen C Shelf 

    The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, with average temperatures that have risen about 3°C (5°F) over the last half century. The increasing size and poleward shift of the Larsen calving events over the last 20-plus years would seem consistent with the warming effect of human-produced…

  • 8 years of suffering under Barack Obama

  • Picasso and the Spanish Civil War

    The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University acquired some sketches by Picasso that concern the Spanish Civil War: “The Dream and Lie of Franco.” All above works captured here by my photography may be under copyright and are being posted for educational purposes.  Goya’s depictions of war definitely had their influence…

  • Existentialism Course, Summer 2017

    Existentialism Course, Summer 2017

    When I do lectures in this class, I will post the audio files here. Doing this lets students be a little more free to engage in the lecture without worry that they will miss taking notes on something important. It can be revisited. Students know I am taping the lecture,…

  • Freedom, Choice, and the Death of Us

    Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: “they did not stop to think they died instead” “‘next to of course god america i,’” e.e. cummings Over the course of a couple hours after my mother was discovered comatose, the ER doctor offered us a choice: airlift my mother to a…

  • AnarchoCynic Praxis, Faith and Sacred Tradition

    What makes our praxis specifically AnarchoCynic  concerns how we take on none of the authority to be gained from established hierarchies, seek to take no privileged position for ourselves, and specifically engage folks about the customs that hold most currency in our community. An AnarchoCynic cannot afford to be non-praxical. Through praxis, the…

  • ExxonMobil Still Funding Climate Science Deniers

    ExxonMobil executives repeatedly claim their company supports a federal carbon tax and the Paris climate agreement. The company’s checkbook ledger, however, tells a far different story. Recently, the company released its annual list of its “public information and policy research” grantees, which shows that it spent $1.65 million in 2016 on a…