February 2012
Is BitTorrent Done? Major Torrent Sites Consider... →
infoneer-pulse:
News of raids, arrests, seizures, extraditions and jail time in the file-sharing world hasn’t gone unnoticed by the operators of major BitTorrent sites. Yesterday, the owners of BTjunkie decided to close their site because the stress became too much, and there are others who consider doing the same. While there are still plenty site owners who are determined to continue, doubt...
Men who explain things →
kurafire:
Classic article by Rebecca Solnit on the societal construct when men explain things to women. Worth a re-read if you’ve read it before; a must-read if you haven’t.
Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human...
Simply Statistics: Why in-person education isn't... →
simplystatistics:
A growing tend in education is to put lectures online, for free. The Kahn Academy, Stanford’s recent AI course, and Gary King’s new quantitative government course at Harvard are three of the more prominent examples. This new pedagogical format is more democratic, free, and helps people…
“The philosophy was simple. The task of an intelligence service, Smiley announced...”
– Highlighted by Tiff Fehr in The Honourable Schoolboy: A George Smiley Novel
Zuckerberg’s Big Tax Bill May Benefit Facebook -... →
When company options are exercised, they are generally treated as ordinary compensation, and the federal tax rate on such income tops out at 35 percent. The exercise of Mr. Zuckerberg’s options would therefore mean more than $1.5 billion in estimated federal income taxes and $500 million more in California income taxes.
The taxes Mr. Zuckerberg and other Facebook shareholders pay on exercised...
Waiting in the Wings, a Survivor of Three Decades... →
McSweeney’s Lists: NFL Players Whose Names Sound... →
Via @omniverse.
david-noel:
fiN | Once In a Lifetime (Orig. by...
“The next CEO is a big roll of the dice, as the gaming table shrinks. There’s...”
– The newsonomics of the next New York Times CEO » Nieman Journalism Lab
This is now less of a spectator sport for me.
“Many people are just waiting to be told they can fight back”
– A young professional from Homs sums up the mood on Syria’s streets. As the country’s civil unrest looks ever more like civil war, imams preaching non-violence may be the last barrier holding back a surge to arms. (via theeconomist)
The Onion Was First | Crossing Wall Street →
That’s not a particularly risky call on behalf of the Onion, really. But it’s still fun to see contrasted.
January 2012
Jaime Danehey › School of Femininity →
Awesome.
Syrian Troops Try to Retake Damascus Suburbs -... →
The assault on the suburbs seemed to be a sign of the growing presence of dissident soldiers closer to Damascus, and of the government’s rising concern about the situation. Although the tightly controlled capital has been relatively quiet since the uprising began, its outskirts have been the scenes of intense protests, and army defectors have become more visible and active in the past few...
Arab League Suspends Its Monitoring in Syria -... →
Sad. Also, nice slideshow feature at the top of the story.
CORPORATE PERSONHOOD
arewepayingattention:
Somehow “judicial activism” is associated with liberal judges, but conservatives were the ones who created ex nihilo a whole new life form, the corporate “fictional person” — and then gave these “persons” the freedom to impose their interests on real people like you and me. Pay attention to where the threats to democracy really come from.
Archivist challenges Kremlin in Wallenberg saga →
infoneer-pulse:
A former senior Russian archive official says he saw a file that could shed light on Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg’s fate — challenging the insistence of Russia’s KGB successor agency that it has no documents regarding the man who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary before disappearing into the hands of Soviet secret police.
Anatoly Prokopenko, 78, told The Associated...
A Nation No Longer On The Move (Part II) : Planet... →