February 2010
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The De-Anonymization of the Internet Begins In... →
guerrillamamamedicine:
amandaw:
Ann Bartow:
From this article entitled “Start-Up Links 65 Million IP Addresses To Users, Readies Targeting Platform”:
… [T]he company ClearSight Interactive is getting ready to launch a form of targeting based on users’ IP addresses. ClearSight, which describes IP addresses as the bridge between users’ offline and online data, has spent the last 18 months...
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“1. Let Us Always Revere the Memory of Comrade Valentine and Put into Daily...”
– Official Slogans for Comrade Valentine’s Day, 2010 via brokensocial + clingtomymouth
Tooth-achingly self-parodic… hence, perfect for the day :)
happy <3 day y’all* - see also, via clingtomymouth.
*[<belated (for you {i’m celebrating mine tonite})> btw brackets rule]
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Affect Blog » (Geo)Politic{s} and its Love Affair... →
“There seems to be a definite propensity for academics in the field(s) of (geo)politics and critical/radical geographies to (bracket) up as many of the complex [‘general group identification words’] as possible. Is this a case of academic elitism that creates an ‘in-crowd’ by using a shared style of expression? Where the use of (brackets) allows the budding...
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The dynamics of effective corrupt leadership:... →
Abstract: This article introduces the notion of “effective corrupt leadership” to distinguish those in public office who engage in corrupt practice, who are more effective, and better for their people, than alternatives. The paper examines a case of such leadership by discussing the career of the late Rafik Hariri, the Lebanese Prime Minister who initiated and achieved the rebuilding of Beirut...
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what's in a name?
@F414 There is no such thing as “capitalism” #
@sdv_duras @F414 [..] are you going to explain why we cannot describe the dominant socio-economic system in a term ? #
@F414 @sdv_duras “capitalism”is based ona simplistic,monolithic view of reality that is in turn based ona simplistic,deterministic view of history #
@sdv_duras @F414 of course I disagree but then you...
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“As I see it, the whole point of pragmatism is to insist that we human beings are...”
– Richard Rorty: ‘Comments on Jeffrey Stout’s Democracy and Tradition’ (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
but what if they are & we just can’t hear them?
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Tweets of Interest: Facebook Edition
@1D4TW “FACEBOOK.COM: intelligence agencies’ espionage site” http://bit.ly/b0wtJW
@PhilippaBeeb RT @cward1e The sudden rise of facebook as portal for news is staggering. This data gives weight to my anecdotes about my students http://bit.ly/bqjSlv
@PD_Smith Five journalists have spent the last five days locked up in a farmhouse in France w/ only Facebook & Twitter to rely...
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Tryo - Apocalypticodramatic
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“..knowledge is not a result merely of filtering or algorithms. It results from a...”
– The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review (via wildcat2030)
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“The question of the archive is not a question of the past. It is not the...”
– Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever, University of Chicago Press, 1996 (via butterflyhunt)