January 2012
wilwheaton:
Hollywood Astroturf Group Releases Ad Saying It Needs SOPA To Shut Down Megaupload… Five Days After Megaupload Is Shut Down
CreativeAmerica, the astroturfing group that pretends it’s a “grassroots” operation — but which is funded by the major Hollywood studios and run by former studio/MPAA execs — is amazingly inept at communicating with the...
UN Hearing On AI Rights
jephjacques:
The subject of this debate is whether AIs are “people-” whether they possess the same degree of personhood as humans, and whether that entitles them to the same rights.
You have heard all the arguments for and against the consciousness, intelligence, free will, and cognition of artificial intelligence. To rehash them here would settle nothing, and my feeble attempts at summarizing...
“There may be severe problems of supply across the whole of London and the...”
– Peak oil preview: London motorists could soon be without gasoline | SmartPlanet (via stopkillingourworld)
It’s started.
(via lissuin)
The line that cracks me up is the one at the bottom of the article about the bus schedule. This refinery that’s closing because it’s owners are...
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BBC 'Sherlock' Producer Threatens Legal Battle... →
sadcomedian:
wassupdelaware:
omg this is ridiculous
he doesn’t own Sherlock
I hope this producer’s name is Arthur Conan Doyle, because otherwise I don’t understand his legal reasoning.
I don’t get it. The US has House as it’s modern retelling of Holmes right? We’ve got the Sherlock Holmes films with RDJ. Is CBS so lacking in original ideas that it has to try and remake...
lissuin:
the-face-of-broe:
I just realized the Mayans weren’t counting down to the end of the world. They were counting down to The Hobbit.
:D :D :D
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“An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum
As Catholic leaders who...”
– Catholic Leaders Challenge Gingrich and Santorum on Divisive Rhetoric Around Race and Poverty | Faith in Public Life
For the most part, I don’t pay too much attention to the whole democratic process in the US until you guys get to the choosing between one bloke and some other bloke part. The...
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“Today’s Conservatives rationalise everything by financial value. When I...”
– Will Cameron’s call for popular films mean more silent comedies? | Stewart Lee | Comment is free | The Observer
The X-Files (tv series)
panasonicyouth:
quicksummary:
Mulder and Scully try not to bone each other while they investigate the paranormal/supernatural. Scully refuses to believe in aliens despite seeing them every goddamn day of her life.
100% accurate. So accurate it hurts.
ON PRIVATE DANNY CHEN
thefuckingloudestazns:
In a six-month period, there were two alleged suicides of young US-born Chinese men serving in the US military occupation of Afghanistan.
Marine Lance Corporal Harry Lew died in Helmand province. Army Private Danny Chen died in Kandahar province. The first was from California. The second was born and raised in New York City’s Chinatown, the son of a cook and a garment...
Sweden keeps forced sterilization law for trans... →
lissuin:
lipstick-feminists:
Members of the Swedish government have announced they will not change the current law requesting transgender people to undergo sterilisation.
A majority of the Swedish Parliament is for an abolishment of the law but a small conservative party is putting a halt to the change. […]
The 1972 law being kept in force states that a person wanting their gender...
While I applaud all your theories, Tumblr, I have...
So… a team-up of Lulu and Cliff Richard is going to fix this one?
“No doubt piracy is costing the content industries something—or they wouldn’t be...”
– Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy | Cato @ Liberty
I am not a hacker.
stryker:
But in my recent research, I’ve talked with a lot of them. Not just the “lololol we r legion” kind either. The real deal. Guys who now work for McAfee or run their own security contracting firms. When I asked them about whether further government restrictions on internet behavior, like SOPA and PROTECT IP, would limit piracy, their response was unanimous:
“Fucking LOL.”
Clever pirates...
A little old lady on my plane, Bertie said to me
annlarimer:
syrupysweet:
i-ate-jims-crow-with-hot-sauce:
“When I was young, your age, we thought we weren’t going to live through the Great Depression. We thought our futures would be nothing, but it’s alright. We made it and we made something of ourselves. Every day, you’re making it. Your generation will be okay. Ignore them.”
I just thought you guys would like to know she said it too…
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