Just to let you know, a few people (some of whom w… Anonymous, Two-Gun Mutualism & the Golden Rule (2011-06-02). Just to let you know, a few people (some of whom worked on "Property is Theft!") are working on the rest of "Confessions of a Revolutionary".Not much to report yet, but that's the plan.And if you want to publish bits of "Property is Theft!" as Corvus editions then that would…
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Why Context Matters. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2011-06-05). "The true life, the life eternal has been found – it is not merely promised, it is here, it is in you .... Everyone is the child of God .... As the child of God each man is the equal of every other man." – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist "There…
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Change the world. Phil, philwilson.org (2011-05-27). I work in Higher Education in the UK. Every day I see enterprisey systems which are awful, terrible, unfriendly, unusable, behemoths. The market for each niche system is more or less a monopoly. The market is prime for smaller, more agile, more user-friendly systems to come in and destroy them….
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The Octothorpe, part 2 of 2. Keith Houston, Shady Characters (2011-05-22). Bell Telephone Laboratories, one-time research subsidiary of American telecoms giant AT&T, has produced some of the 20th century's most influential developments in the worlds of science and technology. It boasts seven Nobel Prizes in Physics awarded for, among other things, a demonstration of the wave nature of matter, the invention…
(Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)
'Radical Mental Health Meetings' Address Problems at Grassroots. lilprole, Modesto Anarcho (2011-05-17). Stanislaus County Radical Mental Health is starting to organize weekly meetings for people looking to discuss mental health and depression issues in the Modesto area. The meetings are based off of the Icarus Project’s framework. They describe themselves as such:"The Icarus Project envisions a new culture and language that resonates…
(Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)
The Cloud. xkcd.com (2011-06-05). (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)
Shocking FBI Discovery: Austin Is Weird. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-06-01). From a New York Times profile of Scott Crow, an Austin anarchist who recently FOIAed his files from the FBI: Mr. Crow, a lanky Texas native who works at a recycling center, is one of several Austin activists who asked the F.B.I. for their files, citing the Freedom of Information…
(Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)
Planet Burma. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-06-03). "Around the globe, it is democratic meltdowns, not democratic revolutions, that are now the norm." Or so claims Joshua Kurlantzick, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations writing in the June 9 New Republic. From Venezuela to Russia, he argues, regimes are sliding toward autocratic rule. Polls show public opinion…
(Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)
Support the Allied Media Conference & Shawty Got Skillz. inciteblog, INCITE! Blog (2011-06-02). Stacey & Mia from To The Other Side Of Dreaming break down why it's critical to support the Allied Media Conference (June 23-26, 2011, Detroit), a movement building space for radical women of color/people of color organizing, disability justice, queer young people, and more! They urge everyone to support Shawty Got…
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Irrational, or responsive to incentives? Emily Washington, Market Urbanism (2011-06-04). In the Washington Post Brad Plumer editorializes on the choice of many Americans to accept longer commutes by car in exchange for larger homes far from their workplaces. He says that consumers are unable to accurately calculate the cost of their commutes, including time spent driving, leading them to make…
(Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)
Freedom and School Choice in American Education. Free Association (2011-06-05). There’s No Right Way to Manage a Subsidy (cont’d) (Linked Sunday 2011-06-05.)
feministhulk: UNFORTUNATE THING ABOUT ALL-CAPS: HARDER TO ADD SPECIFIC EMPHASIS. HULK WORK TO FIND VERBAL NUANCE IN HULK-SIZE LETTERS. Twitter / feministhulk (2011-06-01). feministhulk: UNFORTUNATE THING ABOUT ALL-CAPS: HARDER TO ADD SPECIFIC EMPHASIS. HULK WORK TO FIND VERBAL NUANCE IN HULK-SIZE LETTERS.
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