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Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint? It’s not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called “capitalism,” figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin.
David Graeber (via azspot)

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youmightfindyourself:

What happens when you pay two monkeys unequally?


Louis CK and the ridiculousness of Road Rage, “Oh My God” HBO Special (by MarieKathleen83)

anoncentral: Today in terrifying fake news The Associated Press’ Twitter account was hacked earlier today, sending out a false report of explosions at the White House. The tweet was swiftly debunked, no report was sent on the AP news wire and Twitter has since suspended the account. But that didn’t stop some from immediately believing the fraudulent tweet. Note the sudden plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the time the tweet went out: In the wake of the now-notorious tweet, and the outrage last week over a number of grassroots amateur detectives on Reddit working to solve the Boston Marathon bombings, it’s important to remember that not everything online should be taken at face value. Photos: Twitter, Google It feels like it’s been a while since I re-blogged my friends over at the LA Times, so here you go. (Chris Adams of the Financial Times quoted CNBC as saying, “All of a sudden, everybody started yelling.”)

anoncentral:

Today in terrifying fake news

The Associated Press’ Twitter account was hacked earlier today, sending out a false report of explosions at the White House. The tweet was swiftly debunked, no report was sent on the AP news wire and Twitter has since suspended the account.

But that didn’t stop some from immediately believing the fraudulent tweet. Note the sudden plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the time the tweet went out:

In the wake of the now-notorious tweet, and the outrage last week over a number of grassroots amateur detectives on Reddit working to solve the Boston Marathon bombings, it’s important to remember that not everything online should be taken at face value.

Photos: Twitter, Google

It feels like it’s been a while since I re-blogged my friends over at the LA Times, so here you go. (Chris Adams of the Financial Times quoted CNBC as saying, “All of a sudden, everybody started yelling.”)

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nevver: Atomic health

nevver:

Atomic health

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“An example of individual courage and conscientious objection.”

“An example of individual courage and conscientious objection.”

(audio) 13 Foucault lectures on "Truth, Discourse, and the Self," in English, UC Berkeley (1980-1983)
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was an enormously influential French philosopher who wrote, among other things, historical analyses of psychiatry, medicine, the prison system, and the function of sexuality in social organizations.

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Zygmunt Bauman.

Zygmunt Bauman.

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