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Cory Doctorow: On Little And Big Brother
| MP: | You said that you left the US because you didn't want to have to regularly subject yourself to biometrics...But in the UK there's even more surveillance. |
| CD: | Oh, yeah. You can't escape it anywhere. It's a race to the bottom all around the world right now. Canada, Germany, the US, and the UK, as well as the rest of the EU, are basically locked in a race to see who can implement 1984 the fastest. The US -- obviously now you've got indefinite detention for American citizens on US soil. In Canada we're on the verge of getting this lawful intercept bill that's as bad as anything anywhere else in the world. In the UK we have the Digital Economy Act and widespread biometrics. In Germany the police just got caught deploying what they've called the 0zapftis Trojan, the government trojan where when people cross the borders and they examine their laptops they covertly put spyware on their computers so they can watch them after the fact. I mean really, at every turn there's somebody doing this, so it doesn't matter where you live. It really doesn't at this point. That's one of the things that I've really come to realize, the fight is global. |
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Graeber vs Hedges on the Black Bloc
| Me: | This is an ongoing dialog between Chris Hedges and David Graeber over Hedges' use of inflamatory language calling out the Black Bloc in the Occupy Wall Street movement as "a cancerous tumor" |
| Hedges: | http://www.truth-out.org/black-bloc-cancer-occupy/1328541484 |
| Graeber: | http://nplusonemag.com/concerning-the-violent-peace-police |
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"plurality of the public (41%) believes young adults, rather than middle-aged or older adults, are having the toughest time in today’s economy. An analysis of government economic data suggests that this perception is correct. The recent indicators on the nation’s labor market show a decline in the unemployment rate. Nonetheless, since 2010, the share of young adults ages 18 to 24 currently employed (54%) has been its lowest since the government began collecting these data in 1948. And the gap in employment between the young and all working-age adults—roughly 15 percentage points—is the widest in recorded history.1 In addition, young adults employed full time have experienced a greater drop in weekly earnings (down 6%) than any other age group over the past five years."
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/02/09/young-underemployed-and-optimistic/?src=tumblr
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"Few individuals outside advertising know about the power of the new media- buying system: its capacity to determine not only what media firms do but how we see ourselves and others. They don’t know that that system is working to attach marketing labels to us based on the clicks we make, the conversations we have, and the friendships we enjoy on websites, mobile devices, iPads, supermarket carts, and even television sets. They don’t know that the new system is forcing many media firms to sell their souls for ad money while they serve us commercial messages, discounts, and, increas- ingly, news and entertainment based on our marketing labels. They don’t realize that the wide sharing of data suggests that in the future marketers and media firms may find it useful to place us into personalized “reputation silos” that surround us with worldviews and rewards based on labels marketers have created reflecting our value to them."
A Guide to the digital advertising industry thats watching your every Click
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(Source: occupywallstreet)
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Samsung’s superbowl ad was another disaster in their “make fun of people with iPhones” campaign. I get what they are trying to do, but it’s hard to convince everyone you’re ahead of the curve when your phone has a stylus.
They are trying really hard to show the world that Android is hip, so much so that the phone in the ad has a map of Williamsburg Brooklyn on it. Check out the above screen grab. The stylus is right over my old apartment.
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