I wonder, when terror as a concept, a practice, a question and a cultural strategy is being used to apply for a diverse range of activities. eg. contemporary egypt – are we talking about making terror a blanket perception of everything? If the peaceful protester and the militant islamist, and the desert robber are all […]
Tag: power
With the tories in power, and the bedroom tax in place, it suddenly occurred to me that we have an example of dealing activities of search for mass populations..(?) Tories ask themselves how to create more desperate groups of people – eg social renters, jobless, single parents, etc. – so they could be driven to […]
Noticed today the Fair Phone which supposed to be made of my mobile device wet-dreams.. I have a basic repulsive sense every-time I need to use my phone, because the 1st thing in my head is the question – How many people died for this to be an object of possibility? How many were spear-raped […]
Ex australian PM describes how losing the power hit her hard. Then she attempts to defend her time on that power high.. Wondering if that is a sort of equivalent to someone after LSD trip thinking the walls really did talk to them by multi coloured sweat..? (or something to that effect..)
Seems like japan “complained” to errr, france, that some weekly published satirical(??) cartoons re fukoshima. Is this like some muslims complaining to denmark that in a society of cultivating free speech, they ought to shut up about some things.. All this sounds a bit like a generalised attitude encapsulated in stuff like Hetalia, no?
NYtimes seems to critique surveillance by giving some prominence to this study: Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology Monitoring on Employee Theft and Productivity. While its pretty nice of nytimes to do that, I think the timing – public uproar re nsa – and the fact people thought a surveillance study was required are […]
I begin to notice a fair few capitalists – eg pheed – make a bit of a noise that They will not keep YouR data. Your content will be only yours, you just let us keep it, right? Is it not a bit like the money that is Yours and the banks let you keep […]
Heard somewhere someone saying stuff to the effect of “the 1st step of violence is to change dreams”/imagination(?). ie, say there is a cultural dream of telling people not to say certain “rude” words, if I imagine/dream of a culture where such words/terms will not be censored, then by default am being violent towards the […]
Noticed a newIsh twitter clone wonnabe riding the newly found interest in encryption. My interest here is how the capitalised mind seems to imagine a new found market, a group of people to colonise. Instead of viewing the privacy question as – how i think it is – an inevitable violation of power, the capitalist […]
Am wondering how come the question in media hacks minds seems to be Attacking syria rather than ICC measures: Why Syria Still Won’t be Referred to the ICC http://www.fidh.org/syria-the-international-community-must-act-now-horror-must-be-investigated-13865 Syria Spotlights Problematic International Law Obama Should “Resist the Call” to Intervene in Syria The ICC is not being considered despite It being controversial in itself – […]
I noticed some hebrew publications featured a story re turkey pm, erdogan, and his remark that turkey has some evidence that points towards israeli engineered coup in egypt. WOW! As the link to what erdogan allegedly said points out, the evidence is a jew. An intellectual jew. That person, the-intellectual-jew TIJ, was heared saying that […]
Sometime is the 90’s microsoft seemed to be pissing – or taking the piss – on users, developers, laws, etc. by monopolising internet explorer via means like: disabling other browsers, not letting other browsers be “main” one, etc.. With that kind of background, the young googlers came up with a promise they had to break. […]
Have noticed recently that devices like http://getpebble.com/ get more wide spread, or more main-streamly manufactured. Apple will have one, Samsung will as well, and that’s fairly main stream.. People think of these devices as watches. In fact, I think they are referred to as “smart watches”. However, I think, for me, the interesting bit is […]
Seems like the so called state of israel (otherwise known as Frankelinstine) has a problem, people just do not understand the jewish bit of events version. Hence, the state has an “explanation” unit (used to be ministry) known as “hasbara” – hebrew for explanation. However, the propagandas, errr, explanation efforts might come from people who […]
According to http://kottke.org/13/07/kuwaits-booming-instagram-economy – kuwaits slap images on instagram that declare stuff for sale and seemingly, it works. As Fatima Al Qadiri observes in this interview, all people need to do is declare that they are selling. I find it interesting that, perhaps unintendedly, the declarative business practice is talked on a power-based imagry site […]
People, like any organic and perhaps even non-organic network-switch-modes (NSM??), seek the optimum laziest way to be. You’d rather type YA than YACY, for the search engine webaddress to come up. Hence the heads in google and other profiteering organisations, figured hey, we can own one word and people’s minds at the same time. Why […]
I have been using ddk – duckduckgo – for a fair few years now. fugoo – is the verb for fuck-google and using other tools. (these are mostly tools, not services as people like to call them, because owned by few and for profit. Software, a tool, As a service = a n attempt to […]