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RIP, Aaron Swartz

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I think he could have revolutionized American (and worldwide) politics. His legacy may still yet do so.
Estimated reading time: 10 min

STOP SOPA, SAVE THE INTERNET

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Every site who has user-generated content, posts links or videos to anything copyrighted in it could face new legal threats.
Estimated reading time: 6 min

London Olympic committee says you're only allowed to link to their site if you have nice things to say

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Hey, LOCOG! I think you're a bunch of greedy, immoral corporatist swine who've sold out London to a bunch of multinationals and betrayed the spirit of athleticism and international cooperation. You're a disgrace. And I'm linking to you. In a most derogatory manner.
Estimated reading time: 2 min

The Day My Grandfather Groucho and I Saved ‘You Bet Your Life’

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you can imagine my delight when I happened to discover Netflix had added the legendary ‘50s TV show, “You Bet Your Life” to its streaming service. The reason for my delight? The host of “You Bet Your Life” was none other than my grandfather, the one and only Groucho Marx.
Estimated reading time: 8 min

Douglas Rushkoff: Present Shock, the Boing Boing interview

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They can't register emotions on their faces, which is why they never believe one another.
Estimated reading time: 13 min

Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student

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That protest ended with a march around the campus, which led us to the administrative building. Sort of spontaneously, we all decided to occupy an area on the grounds and we stayed the night. The administration allowed it. I had a wonderful conversation with Lieutenant Pike that night. I dialogued with him for a while. He was cordial to me. He knew me by name. We offered him coffee and food.
Estimated reading time: 10 min

Ending an endless game: an interview with Julian Gough, author of Minecraft's epic finale

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In games, we are creating worlds and environments, and the environment is the story, and it’s an infinite story: a hologram. Look at it from any angle, and it’s going to be different.


Estimated reading time: 17 min

Mind Blowing Movies: Groundhog Day (1993), by Ruben Bolling

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That a commercial movie like this could somehow flirt with and then explicitly reject the idea that romantic love alone is all you need -- instead using its metaphor to show that a connection to community and service are critical components to a fulfilling life -- was beyond a Twilight-Zone level shock for me.
Estimated reading time: 4 min

African voices respond to hyper-popular Kony 2012 viral campaign

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TMS Ruge, the Ugandan-born co-founder of Project Diaspora is pissed. He says he wants to "bang my head against my desk" to "make the dumb-assery stop."
Estimated reading time: 8 min

Senators behind PIPA are a bunch of copyright infringers

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If you're trying to find something, try looking right to left as opposed to left to right. Your eyes tend to skim over things if you search in the direction you are used to reading in, so skim the opposite way. It takes me a bit more effort to do this, but I notice more details.
Estimated reading time: 20 min

Black Mirror episode 2: White Bear and the culture of desensitization

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Now, you know that the world is full of upsetting and graphic things. You have seen communities form in dark little digital caves, faceless audiences forever upping the ante, worrying at a numb nerve ending that adapts, that wants ever more elaborate stimulation.
Estimated reading time: 4 min

Inside a mile-deep open-pit copper mine after a catastrophic landslide

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The landslide went off at about 9:30 in the evening on Wednesday, April 11. It was expected: like most modern mines, Bingham has redundant sensor systems (radar, laser, seismic, GPS) that measure ground movement down to the millimeter and give plenty of warning when a collapse is imminent. The mine was evacuated about 12 hours before the landslide, and nobody was hurt. But the scale of the landslide was a surprise. Approximately 165 million tons of rock shifted, causing a highly localized earthquake measuring 5.1 Richter.

Turtles killed, fossilized while doing it

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Teenagers, beware! Here is another very good reason to never, ever have sex. Like these 50-million-year-old turtles, you could get so caught up in the act, that you don't notice you are sinking into a bog full of toxic volcanic gasses. It's a real risk!
Estimated reading time: 1 min

An investment fund that makes trades based on superstitious beliefs

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The Superstitious Fund Project is an investment Fund that is run by a superstitious autonomous Algorithm. As a one year experiment it operates and trades purely on superstitious beliefs. Buying or Selling on Numerology and in accordance to Lunar Phases. For example it has the fear of the number 13 and a full moon. It also develops its own lucky ad unlucky values, just as we do all the time.
Estimated reading time: 2 min

Dread Cthulhu Leads His Cult to Milestone Year

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Mr. Cthulhu spearheaded a program to turn every House of R'lyeh into what Dagon Father Obed Marsh termed "Ideal Orgs."
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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