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Introducing Disorderly Conduct
by Nick Glossop on June 8, 2013
Perhaps you caught Alexis Goldstein on one of her several appearances on UP with Chris Hayes, where she named names and kicked ass on all matters related to Wall Street chicanery. Whether it’s the politics and legalese of financial nonreform, or the intricacies of derivatives trading, she seems to really know her shit. And now she and fellow OCCUPant and journalist Jesse Myerson are collaborating on a podcast; …
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OK Then, What DOES Buy You Happiness?
by Nick Glossop on December 20, 2012
Money And The Science Of Giving
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Daylight Savings ~ Six Of One, A Half Dozen Of The Other
by Nick Glossop on November 5, 2012
(Or a bit of both in Newfoundland)
In a seasonally apt new video, all-purpose explicator C.G.P. Grey lays out the cases for and against rolling the clocks back.
Other conundra explicated by Grey: how many continents? how copyright works (and doesn’t).
Grey on the Digital Aristotle after the break. …
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Steve Earle ~ Arson On His Mind
by Nick Glossop on October 11, 2012
Reposted for the Wal-Mart wildcats
March Against Wal-Mart in LA, June 30, 2012
As he does so often, national treasure Steve Earle plants his boot heel squarely down on the issue and gives eloquent voice to the sentiments of many.
The full song from a forthcoming album after the jump.…
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War With Iran: Policies Of Delusion
by Nick Glossop on October 7, 2012
Who wants a US/Iran war? Smedley Butler Lawrence Wilkerson addresses the question with the Real News Network.
There are elements, though, in all three places—in Washington, in Tel Aviv, and in Tehran—that want war. No question about it. The elements in Tehran want war because they see it as solidifying their hold, their revolutionary hold on the government for at least another decade or two, something that’s looking a
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Sapien Cinema: We Are Legion
by Nick Glossop on September 24, 2012
#anonymous,
#arabspring,
#/b,
#bandwidthrape,
#bradleymanning,
#chanology,
#ddos,
#hacktivism,
#julianassange,
#loworbitioncannon,
#lulz,
#moralfag,
#sevrynsten,
#trolling,
#virtualsitin,
#wikileaks
We’re from the Internet.
Presented here in its entirety, We Are Legion is a vastly entertaining history of hacktivism from Brian Knappenberg. (Featuring Aaron Barr as not-Sevrynsten.)
After the break he discusses the making of the film. …
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Julian Assange’s Full Address from the Ecuadorean Embassy
by Nick Glossop on August 20, 2012
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Don’t Starve The Trolls Either
by Nick Glossop on July 7, 2012
Trolls at large, searching for an angry fix
By way of pointing out the unworkable and patently silly aspects of New York state’s proposed ban on anonymous on-line commenting, Jay Smooth lays out the risks to public health and safety that are entailed in any measure that might disturb the trolls from their natural habitat. Feed them, just enough, and leave them to their bitter vocation.
Ill Doctrine: Why Trolling …
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Art In The Age Of Interface
by Nick Glossop on June 29, 2012
Aaron Koblin has seen the future and it belongs to Art that can be sorted, searched, zoomed, panned, crowd-sourced, personalized, contributed to, distributed, aggregated, granulated, and of course ‘Liked/Unliked’ whole or in part. Such art is Web-delivered and Web-enabled, much of it is also inconceivable outside of the context, capabilities and capacities of the Whole Wired World. It’s abundantly clear from the few examples Koblin describes in his TED talk …
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Microwavin and Turducken with Graham Clark
by Andrew Loewen on June 28, 2012
I’ve plugged comedian Graham Clark’s beard paintings and I’ve plugged Stop Podcasting Yourself, which he cohosts with Dave Shumka, but I’ve yet to plug the man’s stand up comedy. Like Vancouver compadre Charlie Demers, Clark (himself a Calgary native) has a new online comedy special taped at East Vancouver’s Waldorf Hotel which you can watch in full here. If you’re me, which thankfully for you you are …
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