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August 25 2011
Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment
coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social
status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value. In
17th-century England, the social equality and merit-ocracy of coffee
houses was so deeply troubling to those in power that King Charles II
tried to suppress them for being "places where the disaffected met, and
spread scandalous reports concerning the conduct of His Majesty and his
Ministers". It was in the coffee houses that information previously held
in secret and by elites was shared with an emerging middle class.
They were held responsible for many of the social reforms of the
18th century, when English public life was transformed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/24/inside-secret-world-of-hackers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/24/inside-secret-world-of-hackers
July 23 2011
"If the fake vaccination campaign was a necessary part of the operation
to "take out" Osama bin Laden, it would have been better to leave Mr bin
Laden in. One more ailing ex-terrorist holed up in a ratty house in
remote Pakistan, watching old videos of himself; this was not worth
jeopardising global vaccination campaigns."
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/07/bin-laden-vaccine
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/07/bin-laden-vaccine
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“ ... It’s one of those things that you typically get to spend your whole life doing, telling the story of who you are. ... So much grief is spent on the words that never get spoken to the dead. ... I’m not sure if I had another eighty years I could say everything, think about all of the things that you leave stored in the recesses of yourself because they are too hard to say or too painful or risk too much but you don’t mind because you’ll always have another chance, there is a bird’s carcass wedged in the grill of the truck I can see the texture of the treads of its tires and the steam of its engine and oh god the shriek of its breaks ... I love the mole on the ridge of your left shoulder don’t ever remove it. ”— Charles Warnke
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“ Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way ”— Exodus 33:3
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maika rosa vogel
February 19 2011
" The need for privacy comes mainly from fear of what other people will think."
Stopped reading there. The need for privacy comes primarily because of unequal distribution of power within society.
Stopped reading there. The need for privacy comes primarily because of unequal distribution of power within society.
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