• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations – The Intercept

    How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations – The Intercept

    …[T]hese agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, arecompromising the integrity of the internet itself. Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation…

  • Bastille // No Scrubs (live at RTL2) – YouTube

    Bastille // No Scrubs (live at RTL2) – YouTube

    Bastille playing No Scrubs live at RTL2

  • Gotta Serve Somebody

    Gotta Serve Somebody

    Via Star Wars Rebels Propaganda Posters Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.

  • The Question Concerning Technoscience

    The Question Concerning Technoscience

    A good show from the BBC. I begin the episode a bit of the way in. Worth watching the whole thing, but this gives you a taste of things to come in Humanity 2.0… Maybe.

  • Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company

    Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company

    Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few powerful media conglomerates to put profit ahead of the public…

  • Why Are We Striking?

  • Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

    Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

    The revelations of whistle-blowers such as Chelsea Manning, Jeremy Hammond and Edward Snowden about government lawlessness and corporate spying provide a new meaning if not a revitalized urgency and relevance to George Orwell’s dystopian fable 1984. Orwell offered his readers an image of the modern state that had become dystopian –…

  • Cambodia: Beauty of Angkor Wat

    Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: Angkor Wat is famous for a very good reason: it is stunning in its beauty as well as its mystery.  The largest religious temple (Hindu) ever built, almost a millennium ago, and hidden from all until just recently.  While photo opportunities lie…

  • A Vortex of Inspiration in the Depths of Winter

    Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: There are those who wake up each morning bathed in a glorious sunrise…steam rising off the hot springs outside their door as they gaze across the sky, admiring a rising sun and the beauty of nature.  A beauty whose only rival is…

  • Santa Maria dei Miracoli

    Santa Maria dei Miracoli

    [Santa Maria dei Miracoli] …known as the “marble church”… is one of the best examples of the early Venetian Renaissance including colored marble, a false colonnade on the exterior walls (pilasters), and a semicircular pediment… Built between 1481 and 1489 by Pietro Lombardo to house a miraculous icon of the Virgin…

  • Food Friends Family Faith–A Lost Dream

    Food Friends Family Faith–A Lost Dream

    Wonderful little article that reminds us that the American Dream once centered on working less and having the leisure to enjoy the things that actually matter: among them, food, friends, family, and faith. Now that lost dream shows the foresight that could make for a better world. Why did we…

  • My Man Godfrey

    My Man Godfrey

    An awesome little film with one of my favorite actors of the 1930’s, William Powell, and the beautiful Carole Lombard. Directed by Gregory LaCava. This is definitely a great way to spend part of your Sunday after you get back from a nice walk and brunch. A scatterbrained socialite hires…

  • Playfulness: the Point of Existence

    Playfulness: the Point of Existence

    “A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other…

  • Tears of Joy in my Life

    Tears of Joy in my Life

    When tears begin to flow in the moment of an ecstatic joy, I find an awareness of just how much the body–with all its pains and perturbations–is the necessary crossroads of possible Transcendenz. The feel of my gut contacting, my breath catching, tears falling down hot cheeks to quivering lips,…

  • It’s a hard world for little things

    It’s a hard world for little things

    Robert Mitchum terrorizes an orphanage defended by the faith and the gun of Ms. Lillian Gish in Charles Laughton’s brilliant, if often misunderstood, film Night of the Hunter. 

  • Feel like shouting!

    Feel like shouting!

    So much hatred and dread in this old world. So much love and joy. All is flowing… all this beauty and happiness punctuated with this every day struggle and frustration. To be in this wonderful flowing reality and not let the power of life reveal itself in each breath, each…

  • Textimony 20140208

    Textimony 20140208

    To say that we are on the ONE WAY is not to say there is only a single way. Get to it, now… EXPLORE!!!