Posts Tagged ‘Rupert Murdoch’
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* CFP: Forming the Future.
* CFP: The Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces (Warsaw, December 2019).
* CFP: Decolonizing the Undead.
* CFP: Adaptation and Nostalgia.
* In Urging Faculty Not to Unionize, Marquette Cites Catholic Identity. Better doublecheck that citation.
* I went on a little tear about Slaughterhouse Five some people seemed to like.
* Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures.
* Science fiction and the path back.
* What Western Media Got Wrong About China’s Blockbuster ‘The Wandering Earth.’
* My point in observing that atmospheric carbon levels have gone up about about 14% while Game of Thrones has been a thing is that geological time is now faster than pop-cultural time. This has only ever been true before of earthquakes and volcanoes.
* Counterpoint: Climate change should be the subject of every DNC debate.
* There were just too many millionaires and billionaires here for a disaster on a great scale to be allowed to take place. Heaven or High Water: Selling Miami’s last 50 years. Louisiana’s disappearing coast. Housing policy is climate policy. Striking at the End of the World. Climate Change Drove Neanderthals to Cannibalism, New Research Suggests. Fascism and ecology. Fascism, ecology, and misogyny. Neoliberal catastrophism. The road to civilizational collapse. Sounds like a lovely place for the last 10,000 people alive to hold up. Now do I have your attention?
* It’s only going to get worse: Trump Just Purged DHS Because Its Leaders Weren’t Breaking the Law Enough. Trump told border agents to break U.S. law and defy judicial orders.They all belong in jail.
the cruelty is the point, yes, but it is also a means to an end: normalizing and legitimizing ever-greater cruelty as a sober and patriotic response to accelerated conditions of suffering which they and we all know are coming. it's a pedagogy in brutishness
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) April 5, 2019
I love how we're all just going about our 9-5 jobs and normal habits while the fact that–short of immediate, transformative action–a near-term mass die-off alongside the collapse of civilization is the most plausible scenario.
— syd🌹🌱 (@SydneyAzari) March 25, 2019
once this deleuzian I knew shared a reading of The Matrix about how "resistance" was an electrical engineering pun that also described how the movie's human body batteries functioned to power the system that enslaved them and I'd be lying if I said I didn't think of this often
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) October 15, 2018
* Trump Homeland Security Official Suggested Antifascists Were ‘The Actual Threats.’
* Hess told me that some people think there’s one kind of education within the purview of everyone willing to work to get it, the “embarrassing” kind, and then there’s another kind that is luxury goods, strictly for “elites” from “elite” institutions—however corrupt the latter may be—served tableside by an underpaid servant class.
* Huge, if true: Assessment Is an Enormous Waste of Time.
* Exciting new horizons in making student evaluations even worse.
* Teaching in the time of Campus Reform.
* ‘I started dreading going to class’: Women speak out about sexual harassment experiences at Duke. Elsewhere on the Duke beat: Duke to Pay $112.5M Over Allegations of Falsified Research. Duke’s Nursing School Failed Them. They Say Their Race Played a Role.
On James B. Duke whose "true “innovation” came not in the 1880s, when the cigarette machine transformed the production process" but in the expansion of corporate power, partially through the manipulation of the 14th Amendment to protect corporate interests https://t.co/Sug2Vl8scf
— corinne blalock (@corinneblalock) April 5, 2019
* The death of an adjunct. This is how you kill a profession. How to talk to NTT faculty. There’s a lot of pain in academia today. So many workers/scholars are feeling left behind in the job market. If you are, too, you’re not alone. I talk to 8 working-class scholars who have been pushed out of the academy in this special Working episode.
* Academic travel culture is not only bad for the planet, it is also bad for the diversity and equity of research. Reimagining the Annual Meeting for an Era of Radical Climate Change.
* How America’s College-Closure Crisis Leaves Families Devastated. What happens to faculty after a college closes?
* A Jesuit University Without History or Philosophy?
* The Militarization of Johns Hopkins Exposes a Nationwide Trend.
* I tell my students, “Look, we’re here to discuss the meaning of life.” The meaning of life is that I’m alive for the time being. I’m in a world which is making contradictory demands upon me. What do I do?
niche tweet: I re-wrote the opening of Never Let Me Go for VAPs pic.twitter.com/Fzx9M4J55y
— Jacquelyn Ardam (@jaxwendy) April 4, 2019
* Amazing coincidences happen every day.
* The digital humanities debacle.
* Unsilencing the writing workshop: creative writing heresy from Beth Nguyen.
* Chinese schools are using facial recognition on students. But should they? I say teach the controversy.
* Start school later! This is the lowest hanging fruit for educational improvement there is.
* A Note From Your Colleagues With Hearing Loss: Just Use a Microphone Already.
* Love to live in an apartheid state: “GOP leaders criticize Gov. Tony Evers’ lead pipe replacement plan, raising concerns that too much money would go to Milwaukee.” And a flashback to October: As the tax dollars paid to the state rose 19% between 2009 and 2015, an increase of more than $400 million, the amount of revenue the state shared with the county did not grow, according to county officials.
Every urban area in America gets looted three times: first by city officials redirecting resources to wealthy white residents, then by county officials outflowing money to the white suburbs, then by state officials outflowing money to other, whiter regions of the state.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 10, 2019
…which doesn’t even factor in the way the federal payments system loots densely populated Democratic regions for the benefit of tiny populated Republican regions.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 10, 2019
* Buzzfeed returns to Baraboo, Wisconsin, site of the infamous Nazi prom photo.
* ‘Disgusted by it:’ Whitefish Bay High School students accused of using racist language.
* Make Milwaukee Socialist Again.
* Abigail Nussbaum’s Us link roundup.
* In the history of gaming there are just 14 playable black female characters.
* Real Native history in a video game: An Indigenous take on The Oregon Trail.
* The Suprising History of the Ball Pit.
* All the absolute worst people in the world, working together and on the same page.
* Bidenwatch: when the cool uncle becomes the creepy uncle.
the real stakes of the Democratic primary are not about policy or about winning the election but about which group of crooks, scammers, and amoral hangers-on get cushy jobs with a tremendous amount of power and influence for the next decade, so you can see why people care so much
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 2, 2019
* The Senate having another extremely normal one.
actual quote from the Senate floor today: "You'll notice … important features here: First of all, the rocket launcher strapped to Pres. Reagan's back & then the stirring, unmistakeable patriotism of the velociraptor holding up a tattered American flag." https://t.co/mv4h6oSKd0
— Rex Santus (@rexsantus) March 26, 2019
* Give the Nobel Prize in Literature to dril. Give it to Bill Watterson, too!
* Teen boys rated their female classmates based on looks. The girls fought back. ‘Think of the mothers of sons’: Notre Dame mom begs female students to stop wearing leggings, sparking protests. Sports-Bra Outrage.
* “New bills would ban pelvic exams without consent.” You mean they aren’t already — what?
on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown
and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
tell that its sculptor well those passions read
which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things
the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed- pic.twitter.com/rbYadoG4Dn— matt lubchansky (@Lubchansky) March 29, 2019
* The US government is holding Chelsea Manning in solitary confinement again. It’s a vindictive, unconscionable attack on a brave truth teller.
* The changing face of homelessness in America in 2019.
* The Actuality of Marx’s Immiseration Thesis in the 21st Century.
* Minimum wage increases are associated with reduced numbers of suicide deaths.
* Using Chosen Names Reduces Odds of Depression and Suicide in Transgender Youths.
* 13% of the world’s companies are ‘zombies.’ That’s not healthy.
* Today in the richest society in human history: Why I Am Stockpiling Insulin in My Fridge. The absurdly high cost of insulin, explained.
* Epilepsy patient refuses to leave Vancouver hospital until her health needs are met.
we write "Millenials Are Killing The [X] Industry" because when you write "Unsustainable Profit-Driven Systems Are Crumbling Around A Wage-Suppressed Global Populace Serving Roughly 2000 Aging Billionaires" people get too depressed to click through & watch our hair cream ads
— regular gem (@Choplogik) April 5, 2019
* The keeper of the secret: one man’s devotion to uncovering the details of a single lynching case from the 1920s.
* A majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, new study finds.
* They tried to warn us: Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers’ libraries.
* The Joker trailer legitimately seems like an SNL digital short about trying to make a prestige, Oscar-bait comic book movie. I can’t believe it’s real.
* The Deep Space Nine Anniversary Documentary Is Hitting Theaters for One Day Only.
* Fossil found from the day the dinosaurs died? Seems hard to believe, but wow.
* Click this link if you dare, but remember that some things that are learned cannot be unlearned.
* Conspiracy Theories Can’t Be Stopped.
* It’s Rupert Murdoch’s world, we’re just all going to die in it. I hate what they’ve done to almost everyone in my family.
* The rent is still too damn high.
* Columbine Survivors Talk About the Wounds That Won’t Heal. This week in Hell World.
Nearly 20 years after the mass shooting at Columbine High School, students there are putting stickers on their ID & cellphones to indicate their desire for images of their bodies to be publicized & shared if they are killed by gun violence.https://t.co/Ynvy1oA0ml via @CNN
— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) April 1, 2019
* First photo of a black hole. An informative Twitter thread.
* How Animators Created the Spider-Verse.
* That’s me in the corner. Atheism and democracy.
* How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care.
* A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy.
* Depressing, yes, but also sort of comforting.
* Just going to go ahead and green-light this Goodfellas sequel.
* I assume this is already a CBS procedural.
* Putting academic knowledge to real world use: Experts Determine Whether Tyrion And Sansa Are Still Married On ‘Game Of Thrones.’
In the 1960s a woman lived in a house with a dolphin, tried to teach him English, and jerked him off daily. The experiment failed because the lead scientist was obsessed with giving the dolphins LSD. The experiment shut down and the dolphin killed himself https://t.co/VgikyScg4c
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) April 4, 2019
* About ten years too late, it’s a start: How Good Are FiveThirtyEight Forecasts?
* The Avengers: Endgame theory that Ant-Man kills Thanos by expanding inside his butt, explained.
* Miracles and wonders: Unless I’m mistaken this is the first time gene therapy for Huntington’s disease has ever gone to human trials.
* It is amusing the Dungeons and Dragons- a game for small children- has a more accurate model of intelligence than the Quilette people do: it’s a minor bonus to an extremely noisy stochastic process that is easily swamped by situational advantage modifiers.
* Meet Leigh Cordner, Medieval Times’ creative director.
* Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski might have been a woman or intersex.
* The unexpected philosophical depths of the clicker game Universal Paperclips.
* Just kidding! There’s no plan for either problem.
* Great news from the elite world of comics podcasting.
* Coming Spring 2026: Fatigue: A Star Wars Story.
Written by gerrycanavan
April 10, 2019 at 12:24 pm
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Weekend Links
Are we seriously supposed to be talking about invading THE UKRAINE now? Can’t you horrible fantasists just play Risk or something?
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 1, 2014
“Breaking news tonight, another country exists. How should we invade it? Our team of deranged nihilists reports.” -American media
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 1, 2014
But if we wait a turn Obama can turn in cards and get bonus armies RT @DavidKaib: @gerrycanavan If we don't Russia might invade Germany.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 1, 2014
* By allying us with its protagonist, Gravity universalizes its image of exploited female labor, sells it back to its entire audience, men and women alike. Gravity shows a contemporary ideal of femininity still more sinister than the pinup. It presents woman as an intricate machine, strapped to dozens of wires, working her ass off with the goal of appearing weightless.
* We were born too late: …in the early universe, as Loeb speculates in a paper published in Astrobiology late last year, everything would have been a habitable zone.
* Terry Gilliam thinks he could have screwed up Watchmen waaaaaaay worse than Zack Snyder.
* Another day, another Title IX class action against a major university.
* Students Joke About Raping Student Union President, Then Threaten to Sue Her.
* Objectification, Humiliation and the Liberal Arts.
* Surprising minimum wage jobs.
* Wisconsin income gap widening faster than nation as a whole.
* New Study Confirms It: Breast-Feeding Benefits Have Been Drastically Overstated.
* Man Wakes Up In Body Bag At Funeral Home. Wow.
* Chomsky on academic labor. Life off the tenure track at Boise State.
* Polynesian seafarers discovered America long before Europeans, says DNA study.
* Watch Six Colorado Senate Candidates Deny Climate Change Exists In 18 Seconds.
* Man, the rich are different.
* “While the entire U.S. population has increased about one-third over the last 30 years, the Federal prison population has increased at a staggering rate of 800 percent, currently totaling nearly 216,000 inmates and currently operates at a 33 percent overcapacity. One-half of those Federal prison populations are drug offenses. While some of them are truly dangerous persons, as Deputy Attorney General Cole said, many of them are first-timers, and by possession only, wound up under Federal laws, the crack cocaine laws, in the Federal system”, she said.
* Researchers Find CTE In A Soccer Player For The First Time.
* This Is What Discrimination Against Pregnant Workers Looks Like.
* Twelve Fixed, Eternal Commandments for Academic Job Candidates.
* The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from: Wachowskis prepping new Matrix prequel trilogy.
* And I think we should all just agree this is the true ending to Harry Potter now.
BREAKING: Climate change has just invaded class struggle! This could be make-it or break-it time for President NightmareOfHistory!
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 1, 2014
Written by gerrycanavan
March 1, 2014 at 1:42 pm
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Even Rupert Murdoch
Is Keystone Pipeline really good idea? Bringing lots of heavy, dirty oil across country, when fracked , cheaper, cleaner energy available
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) February 15, 2013
Yet, the existing portions of the Keystone pipeline saw fourteen spills in the first year of operation, and there have been more since then. Dr. John Stansbury of the University of Nebraska conducted the firstindependent analysis of the Keystone XL pipeline and found a likelihood at the high end of the State Department estimate—1.8 spills per year, or ninety-one over the next fifty years—but strongly contested the contention that it wouldn’t be harmful to the public.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 22, 2013 at 6:33 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Barack Obama, Keystone XL, oil, politics, Rupert Murdoch, tar sands
Wednesday Links
* …American University professor Allan Lichtman, “whose election formula has correctly called every president since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election,” says Obama is a shoo-in. My two-pronged election formula [(1) Is everything terrible? (2) Is one of the parties visibly insane?] put Obama’s chances at 50-50. I guess we’ll see.
* Crimes against the future: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost Humanity Perhaps One or Two Decades in Battle Against Climate Change.”
* ‘Overhyped’ Hurricane Irene Likely To Be One Of The 10 Costliest Disasters Ever.
* 25 Corporations Paid More To Their CEO Last Year Than They Paid In Taxes.
* Stephen King’s Under the Dome will come to Showtime.
In my book Post-Cinematic Affect (2010), I argue that American commercial filmmaking has, in the last decade or so, been increasingly characterized by what I call the stylistics of post-continuity. This is a filmmaking practice in which a preoccupation with moment-to-moment excitement, and with delivering continual shocks to the audience, trumps any concern with traditional continuity, either on a shot-by-shot level or in terms of larger narrative structures.
Written by gerrycanavan
August 31, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with actually existing media bias, art, Barack Obama, climate change, corpocracy, DARPA, ecology, film, Fox News, fractals, general election 2012, happy birthdays, hurricanes, interstellar travel, lies and lying liars, overpopulation, politics, post-continuity, Republicans, Rupert Murdoch, science, Stephen King, taxes, Under the Dome
Tuesday Night Links
* Scenes from the class struggle in Hogwarts: it costs at least $42,752 a year to get a proper wizarding education. UPDATE: Want more about the cost of attending Hogwarts? Misopogon at Dog Eat Crow World charges bravely into the weeds.
* Scenes from the class struggle in Cambridge: Reddit co-founder arrested for what amounts to an attempt to steal JSTOR. Reddit thread. MetaFilter thread.
* Contrarian watch: Naked Capitalism says Elizabeth Warren is too good, and too important, for the Senate. This all may be so, but I want her to run anyway.
* One down: Wis. Dem State Senator Wins Recall In Landslide.
* I’ve been trying to steel myself to the idea of a Mitt Romney primary win, despite my worry that he alone could actually beat Obama in 2012. (And maybe if Romney won he’d do something on the environment. It’s possible, right? UPDATE: Ugh.) Nate Silver puts an Obama-Romney race down at even odds. But TPM says I don’t need to worry: Mitt has already maxed out his donors. Chait concurs.
* The knives come out for Bachmann. More here, here, and here.
* Was Rupert Murdoch behind the CRU hack? Grist speculates. I’d also really like to know if there’s any truth to these several-years-old reports of a “black ops” room at Fox News. Related: Parliament determines News Corp. deliberately obstructed the investigation into the hacks.
* Ron Howard’s planned Dark Tower megaseries has collapsed.
* And a truly great find: An NPR adaptation of A Canticle for Leibowitz from 1960.
Written by gerrycanavan
July 19, 2011 at 10:35 pm
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Tagged with A Canticle for Leibowitz, Aaron Swartz, academia, actually existing media bias, Barack Obama, class struggle, climate change, Dark Tower, Elizabeth Warren, Fox News, Harry Potter, Hogwarts, Information wants to be free, JSTOR, Massachusetts, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Nate Silver, politics, radio, recalls, Reddit, Republican primary 2012, Ron Howard, Rupert Murdoch, science fiction, Scott Brown, Stephen King, student debt, the CRU hack, the Senate, true crime, tuition, Wisconsin
Sunday Links
* Breaking Bad *and* Curb Your Enthusiasm tonight. I’m in TV heaven.
* Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was arrested Sunday in connection with British police investigations into phone hacking and police bribery, her spokesman told CNN. And there’s more: Ed Miliband has demanded the breakup of Rupert Murdoch’s UK media empire in a dramatic intervention in the row over phone hacking. UPDATE: And the head of Scotland Yard has now resigned.
* Class struggle: 11 states receive more in lottery revenues than they do in corporate taxes.
* Twitter Mona Lisa. Via zunguzungu’s always wonderful Sunday reading.
* Scadenfreudelicious: Sarah Palin hagiography The Undefeated currently has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
* Local color: Scenes from the pun contest at the Regulator Bookshop.
* And from Al Jazera: “Mass psychosis in the US: How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs.”
Written by gerrycanavan
July 17, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with actually existing media bias, America, Big Pharma, Breaking Bad, class struggle, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Durham, film, Fox News, hacking, lottery, minimalism, Mona Lisa, morally odious morons, pointillism, politics, puns, Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Palin, Scotland Yard, taxes, Twitter
Friday Afternoon About-to-Go-See-Harry-Potter Links
* Erick Erickson, cheering on apocalypse: Obama has a legacy to worry about. Should the United States lose its bond rating, it will be called the “Obama Depression”. Congress does not get pinned with this stuff. See also. Steven Benen on the reality gap. Ezra Klein: How default would harm homeowners, cities, businesses and everyone else.
* And then there’s Rick Perry.
I tell people, that “personal property” and the ownership of that personal property is crucial to our way of life.
Our founding fathers understood that it was a very important part of the pursuit of happiness. Being able to own things that are your own is one of the things that makes America unique. But I happen to think that it’s in jeopardy.
It’s in jeopardy because of taxes; it’s in jeopardy because of regulation; it’s in jeopardy because of a legal system that’s run amok. And I think it’s time for us to just hand it over to God and say, “God, You’re going to have to fix this.” […]
I think it’s time for us to use our wisdom and our influence and really put it in God’s hands. That’s what I’m going to do, and I hope you’ll join me.
* Osama bin Laden was working to assemble a team of militants to attack the U.S. on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, according to communications Navy SEALs seized from his Pakistani hideout when they killed the al Qaeda leader this spring. The article claims that the planned attack targeted the U.S. train system.
* Fox News is comparing the News Corp. hacking scandal to companies that were hacked. The only suitable reaction is awe.
* And local news now: Lawsuit filed over Duke basketball tickets.
A woman filed a lawsuit Friday against her sister, her sister’s husband and Duke University regarding the transfer of two tickets that once belonged to her father for games at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Katina Dorton is seeking unspecified damages and asking the court to invalidate the “fraudulent transfer” to Gordon and Sophia Caudle that occurred without the knowledge or consent of her father or other family members, according to the complaint.
“This is important and it’s valuable,” said Randall M. Roden, an attorney for Dorton. “She’s a graduate. She genuinely wants to support the Blue Devils and go to the games. But she was shocked by the way Duke handled this.”
Written by gerrycanavan
July 15, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with 9/11, apocalypse, Barack Obama, basketball, debt ceiling, Duke, Erik Erickson, Fox News, lies and lying liars, morally odious morons, national default, Osama bin Laden, politics, reality gap, reality is a hoax, reality's well-known liberal bias, reality-based community, Rick Perry, Rupert Murdoch, terrorism, the economy, the law
Thursday Night Links
* Sabotage accomplished: S&P warns there’s a 50 percent chance it will downgrade US credit rating within 3 months. This is really, really bad.
* One of the stranger features of the debt ceiling debate is the fact that Republican intransigence is the only thing saving us all from Obama’s neoliberalism. Ezra Klein tries to lay out the thinking, such as it is. And Matt Yglesias hopes the whole thing really is kabuki theater:
It’s generally wise to assume that the White House isn’t blind to that obvious potential political problem. Part of what they’re thinking is that a 2011 agreement to long-term spending cuts is the best way to avoid the need to reduce spending during the election season. How’s that? Well, it’s because the fiscal consolidation plans being discussed are for trillions of dollars worth of cuts over a 10-year horizon. Since you’ve got that horizon, it’s not strictly necessary for any of them to come between September 2011 and November 2012.
Meanwhile, Harry Reid continues his tireless life’s work stabbing his party in the back.
* What do we lose if we default?
* On the lighter side: the FBI has announced it will investigate NewsCorp. for alleged 9/11 hacking.
* Fall science fiction TV premiere dates.
* And Fox’s Eric Bolling can’t remember a single terrorist attack on U.S. soil between 2000 and 2008. This man is paid a salary to be a pundit.
Written by gerrycanavan
July 14, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with 9/11, actually existing media bias, America, apocalypse, Barack Obama, bipartisanship is bunk, charts, debt ceiling, Fox News, general election 2012, Harry Reid, lies and lying liars, national default, neoliberalism, Republicans, Rupert Murdoch, science fiction, television, the budget, the economy, thought experiments
Wednesday Links: Breaking Bad, Divine Justice, Fake Vaccines, and More
* Just got an email alert from CNN: there appear to have been another set of terror attacks in Mumbai. Very sad news.
* And the inevitable dark reflection of the previous link: The headline reads, “CIA used a fake vaccination campaign in hunt for Bin Laden.”
* Justice is sweet: News Corp. has lost $7B in the last four days, shareholders are furious, and Lautenberg is joining the call for DOJ and SEC investigations into Murdoch’s empire.
* ThinkProgress: Meet The Indonesian Workers Who Make Your Nikes.
* Reduce the deficit by stopping building pointless superweapons we can never use.
* Premature victory lap watch: Obama for America raked in $86 million for the last quarter, crushing the GOP. The bulk of the money came from small donors.
* Chuck Klosterman: Why AMC’s Breaking Bad beats Mad Men, The Sopranos, and The Wire.
* And RSA Animate explains why there’s no empathy in Heaven, or in Utopia:
Written by gerrycanavan
July 13, 2011 at 11:48 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Africa, Barack Obama, Breaking Bad, CIA, civilization, empathy, evolutionary psychology, Fox News, general election 2012, Heaven, HIV and AIDS, human nature, India, Mumbai, Nike, nuclearity, Osama bin Laden, politics, premature victory laps, Rupert Murdoch, sweatshops, television, terrorism, the deficit, Utopia, vaccines
The Other Shoe?
Written by gerrycanavan
July 12, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Fox News, politics, Rupert Murdoch, true crime
Shut It Down, Salt the Earth
The latest: Murdoch apparently hacked Gordon Brown. You’ve got to wonder what News Corp. has been doing in the U.S., and when news will start to trickle out.
Written by gerrycanavan
July 11, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with actually existing media bias, England, Fox News, Gordon Brown, politics, Rupert Murdoch, true crime
‘News of the World’ to Be Nuked from Orbit
Written by gerrycanavan
July 7, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Actually Existing Media Bias
Wow. No words.
Written by gerrycanavan
July 4, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with actually existing media bias, monsters, morally odious morons, Rupert Murdoch
Monday Links
* Legend of Zelda turns 25. More here.
* Trolling the troll-watchers: The Anonymous-Westboro Baptist feud (blogged here) could be a hoax.
* Wisconsin update: Josh Marshall thinks Scott Walker isn’t winning.
* Sam Lipsyte won’t play any version of Monopoly that won’t allow people to cheat.
* And Sarkozy has finally admitted the French language is a hoax.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 21, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Anonymous, cheating, feuds, French, games, hoaxes, labor, Mitt Romney, Monopoly, politics, right to organize, Rupert Murdoch, Sarkozy, Scott Walker, trolling the trolls, unions, Westboro Baptist Church, Wisconsin, Zelda
The Context of All Things
It would be more comforting if Murdoch were an ideologue, but what the Banksy Simpsons sequence points to … is less the desire to promote an ideology than to contain all ideologies for the purpose of profit, with entertainment being the preferred container. What Murdoch seems to want to be is the context of all things, the ultimate Manichean media shell. Inside, left v. right, tree hugger v. petrol head, local v. transnational. Outside, profit, the void, and Murdoch, looking down.
Written by gerrycanavan
October 13, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Banksy, ideology, media, Rupert Murdoch, The Simpsons