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Awesome.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 10:28 pm |
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Awesome. |
I know, it's like why even apply then? |
Seriously.
Get down: stay down.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:41 am |
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This is refreshingly weird.
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An unemployed military veteran who raised no funds and put up no campaign website shocked South Carolina's Democratic Party leadership by capturing the nomination Tuesday to face Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint in November.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 7:28 am |
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ONLY 6 MORE DAYS!
I love the fact that the trailer leaves out the verses on the market from Kipling's poem. |
spoilers: it delivers |
so it is Atlus Shrugged, but somehow even worse? Wow. |
Book should have been authored by Kilgore Trout. At least then it would have fit a pre-existing literary framework in my brain.
This, though. This.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:42 pm |
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In jail for being in debt
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It's not a crime to owe money, and debtors' prisons were abolished in the United States in the 19th century. But people are routinely being thrown in jail for failing to pay debts. In Minnesota, which has some of the most creditor-friendly laws in the country, the use of arrest warrants against debtors has jumped 60 percent over the past four years, with 845 cases in 2009, a Star Tribune analysis of state court data has found.
Not every warrant results in an arrest, but in Minnesota many debtors spend up to 48 hours in cells with criminals. Consumer attorneys say such arrests are increasing in many states, including Arkansas, Arizona and Washington, driven by a bad economy, high consumer debt and a growing industry that buys bad debts and employs every means available to collect. |
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What a double-whammy for the unemployed, since credit records can be used as justification for refusing to hire a qualified applicant.
EDIT: So just to clarify, the cause of having a warrant served is a missed court appearance?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:03 am |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:04 am |
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| Jesus. That's such a nightmare scenario that I don't even want to think about it. |
Yeah. The oil "spill" (or, as would be more correct in description, "hemorrhage") has lately reached the same point as our two (+) wars and the magnitude of lobbyist bullshit in America. Everything that's happening at once right now is overwhelming.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:04 am |
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Man, I did this last week in my backyard with a garden rake, some crow feces, lighter fluid, and Boone's Farm merlot. I don't think the grass is growing back any time soon (or maybe ever again), but it was worth it.
As long as you're not too attached to material goods (by which I mean limbs, flesh, and probably teeth) you'll come through the eschaton just fine.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 7:34 pm |
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Policies sometimes have unintended consequences, news at 11.
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| Bank of America Corp. and other banks are preparing new fees on basic banking services as they try to replace revenue lost to regulatory rules, in a push that is expected to spell an end to free checking accounts for many Americans. |
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I'm more or less okay with this. I get that there's going to be some pissy (but probably ideologically defensible) "I'll just take my ball and go home" during the (hopefully effective) increase in regulation, so it's not too surprising. I wonder how many people this will effectively exclude from a relevant economic existence.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 7:36 pm |
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| Watch it there, Adi. Swimmy is a hardcore Austrian. |
Swimmy's a what now?
EDIT: By "more or less okay with this" I mean "I will have no impact on the decisions made here and have come to terms with it." It's not so much approval as it is "eh."
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:11 pm |
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| Anyway: I am very, very poor, and regularly have less than $1000 in my bank account. I also have never overdrafted my account. This sucks for me. |
You and me both. I'd heard that local banks and credit unions were more likely to pick up/continue the free checking account policy even though national banks will discontinue it. If so, I'll definitely be using my credit union account more regularly.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:33 am |
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| where is your god now? |
Oh, around.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:11 am |
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http://mbvc.tumblr.com/post/718078414/fifty-years-of-exploration
This is pretty cool. |
This always makes me happy in a few ways.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:43 pm |
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The White House's vision is perhaps a prelude to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which will go before Congress later this year. The bill would make P2P or BitTorrent client development a criminal offense if the distributed software was used for infringement. It also implements an interesting provision called "imminent infringement", which allows the government to charge people who they think might be about to infringe with a civil offense (for example if you searched "torrent daft punk"). This is among the first official "thought crime" provisions to be proposed by the U.S. government. The bill also makes it a criminal offense to bypass DRM.
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Whoa.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:07 am |
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What do SB's Canadians think about claims that the Black Bloc folks are undercover agents?
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| Toronto is right now in the midst of a massive government / media propaganda fraud. As events unfold, it is becoming increasingly clear that the 'Black Bloc' are undercover police operatives engaged in purposeful provocations to eclipse and invalidate legitimate G20 citizen protest by starting a riot. Government agents have been caught doing this before in Canada. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:09 am |
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I wish these people would run under their supervillain identities instead of what's on their birth certificates.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:17 pm |
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| As far as I know, there isn't much of it. Pretty much any cell phone uses the stuff, and companies may not be buying directly from conflict zones, but buy components made from conflict zone materials. Sony, Nintendo, Mac, Intel, MS...the list goes on. If it's got a microprocessor of any kind, it's probably involved. |
Yeah. This has been bothering me more and more as the day has gone by.
There's a letter-writing campaign available through a humanitarian website whose focus is to draw attention to violence in the Congo. I'm skeptical of how much good that will do, though, because the information available suggests that companies will distance themselves from the sources of their raw materials via proxy dealers, from whom they can buy conflict tungsten, tin, and tantalum and plausibly deny any knowledge of those minerals' sources.
There's also the (likely, I think) possibility that said companies will twist language to make it seem as though the minerals used in their microprocessors are conflict-free, much after the pattern that the agribusiness industry learned how to abuse the term "organic."
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:56 pm |
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urrrgh but did anyone else feel a serious late 80s/early 90s aesthetic time loop everyone looked like full house what is going on there oh god |
Flyover country is like Eastern Europe, it's always about ten years behind. |
Thanks, city slicker!
I'm curious where this was filmed. The accent nuances aren't clear enough to my ear to trigger an associated location.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:18 pm |
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| Dayton, Tennessee |
Oh hey, the narrator says "Dayton" in like the first five seconds. This is a few hours north of where I grew up for three years, and half a day's drive north of where I grew up for six years. My family in Tennessee is entirely transplanted from Georgia, Alabama, or SC, so I don't have much mountain dialect in my background.
I feel bad for what these kids are being denied in their education. I know the kind of environment they're growing up in, and a lot of them are parroting the kinds of things they hear at home or in church. The teacher's failing lies in his ascribing Creationism to his students' ideas, when, in most instances, teenagers have very few ideas that they haven't learned at someone else's lap. Chances are, though, that he's part of the same lap that those kids are learning from at home and church, so the stranglehold tightens.
I think it's unlikely that a teacher's insisting on evolutionary theory would immediately change any of the kids' minds, as those kids would probably just go home and have evolutionary theory scolded by their home communities. But the point of education, more broadly, is to sow the seeds of other ideas when the limits of what's learned at the lap become apparent. (Ironically, this has been my understanding of the purpose and approach to leading Bible studies for kids and teenagers.)
"How can I possibly marginalize these ideas that reflect my dominant cultural ideology?" he says, in effect.
Though I might be stating the obvious.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:22 pm |
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| "How can I possibly marginalize these ideas that reflect my dominant cultural ideology?" he says, in effect. |
Easily: because they are bad ideas. It's a teacher's responsibility to tell the truth. The real problem is that he thinks the students' ideas (however much not their own they may be) are correct. |
I think that's part of the problem, but not the entire problem. Someone who teaches a subject well will provide students with a variety of perspectives and must, in many cases, allow for the students' less defensible (or even indefensible) preconceived notions as a starting point for pedagogy. A good teacher will understand the value of leading a student to possess the skills to reach conclusions different from those opinions or ideas that the teacher owns. Being a Creationist isn't necessarily a problem for a science teacher, but being a Creationist who only sympathizes with Creationist ideas is a problem.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:45 am |
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From here. A bit old, but recently brought to my attention.
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| Worker Biometric ID Under Consideration in US: Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham have proposed a new national identity card. The Senators would require that "all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs" obtain a "high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security card" with a unique biometric identifier. The card, they say, would not contain private information, medical information, or tracking techniques, and the biometric identifiers would not be stored in a government database. EPIC has testified in Congress and commented to federal agencies on the privacy and security risks associated with national identification systems and biometric identifiers. For more information, see EPIC: National ID and the REAL ID Act, EPIC: Biometric Identifiers, and the Privacy Coalition’s Campaign Against REAL ID. (Mar. 24, 2010) |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:40 am |
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I was a military brat and have had an ID card on me forever.
Reading that statement I immediately went, "Why NOT medical information?" |
You and I both! I think the ID Card idea would be great if I were sure that it weren't somehow Lawful Evil, also if it weren't tied into a pretty flawed way of looking at immigration.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:46 am |
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!
I had been active on this side of the debate to ordain non-celibate gay clergy several years ago, but had lost touch with the debate within the Presbyterian Church (USA) when my church involvement waned. This is fantastic.
I think this might actually get me going to church again.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 2:21 am |
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| Ha. Adilegian was right! |
A dubious honor, here.
So six months, eh?
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Perhaps if humanity is very, very lucky, some may find a way to avoid the mass extinction that follows and carry on the human race.
Perhaps. |
PERHAPS.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:43 am |
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| Or just stop using credit cards. |
This. I haven't had a real credit card since 1998.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 4:15 pm |
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Whatcha think about the US media's reaction to the Wikileaks story, Mr. Mech?
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| But how the American press tends to deal with government agencies prior to publication and the standards that we have and the standards the European press has, we don’t see that an organization that is—we don’t see, in the case of a story where an organization has engaged in some kind of abusive conduct and that story is being revealed, that it has a right to know the story before the public, a right to know the story before the victims, because we know that what happens in practice is that that is just extra lead time to spin the story. And we see some sort of pathetic attempts by the White House to engage in a bit of spin about whether we contacted them or not. In fact, we did contact them through the New York Times as a coalition. |
EDIT: This seems representative of the general reactions of mis- and dis-information surrounding the leaks in both intent and impact: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/07/brooks-and-marcus-talk-tax-policy-and-wikileaks.html
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 7:17 pm |
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| taboo in the ideology of today's journalists wrote: |
In Meacham-land “center right” is the right place for politics to be played not because the center-rightists have the best answers to the nation’s problems but because “the reality [is] that America is a center-right nation.” Now we’re near to the beating heart of the ideology that holds our political press together. That is when journalists try to win the argument not by having better arguments but by standing closer to a reality they get to define as more real than your reality.
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Thanks for this! Picking up my day. I drove back from Austin the other day (about 3.5/4 hours each way), and (as my previous posts somewhat indicates) I listened to DemocracyNow's headline roundup and focused interviews immediately before listening to NPR's coverage of the same news. I've been trying to pinpoint what remains compelling to me about DN.ORG's news hours, and I think that the fact that it follows a news ideology spectrum other than that described in the linked article best, right now, explains the difference.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:22 am |
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| Yeah Wikileaks is exactly the sort of thing I've been wanting to see happen for a while now. |
You and me both. The fascinating thing about WikiLeaks -- and the truth of the organization that gets glossed over in the government's counter-narrative -- is that it has arisen as a collaboration between the organization's technical staff as well as the whistleblowers (civilian and government alike). It is, on all levels, an expression of conscience, and conscience always upsets the equilibrium of the nationalist (and economically exploitative) narrative.
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| Assange doesn't seem like the type to cave in to pressure and stop what he's doing, and the government seems to only grow more hostile to whistleblowing in general. |
Absolutely. Obama's presidency has been atrocious for the protection of whistleblowers, and the measures taken against them are an aggressive claim on the consciences of individuals their communities.
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| It feels like it's going to come to a head at some point. I just hope he doesn't get "neutralized". |
You and me both. I'm really glad to see that Europe and Australia have resisted the requests for extradition of Assange, and I'm also glad to see that they've refused to shut down his organization's servers.
EDIT: How do you folks feel about the possibility that SB might be being monitored by the internet surveillance and archiving industry that's received more public attention lately?
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:55 pm |
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I regularly check out DemocracyNow.Org and have lately been using The Huffington Post a bit less. HuPo throw the occasional sensationalist element into their work, which turns me off, and their use of dynamic stock photos as though they were attached to the stories that they present is also disconcerting. DN.ORG is fantastic though.
Found this on HuPo today.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:56 am |
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WTF is this killer7 bullshit
AL Qaeida YAKUMO amirite
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 4:11 am |
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| Adilegian wrote: |
WTF is this killer7 bullshit
AL Qaeida YAKUMO amirite |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:48 pm |
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A few days old, but....
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Blackwater Owner Prince Moves to Abu Dhabi
The owner of the private military firm Blackwater, Erik Prince, has reportedly left the United States and moved to the United Arab Emirates. The New York Times reports Prince has set up shop in Abu Dhabi, where he hopes to win "focus on security work from governments in Africa and the Middle East." Independent journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill was the first to report Prince’s moving plans two months ago. Five of Prince’s deputies were indicted on weapons charges in April, and Prince put Blackwater up for sale in June. At the time, Scahill said Prince may have favored a move to the UAE in part because it has no extradition treaty with the United States. A colleague of Prince’s told the New York Times, "He needs a break from America." |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:16 pm |
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What
California Jail to Test Ray Gun on Prisoners
Authorities in Castaic, California, have announced plans to use prisoners as test subjects for a high-tech ray gun that fires an invisible heat beam capable of causing unbearable pain. The 600-pound, seven-foot-tall "Assault Intervention System" was built by Raytheon for the military, but it is now being introduced for domestic purposes. Raytheon is currently working on creating a hand-held version of the ray gun.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:41 pm |
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| http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/journal_retracts_article/ |
man you want to know about peer-review
i'll tell you about peer-review
As probably said elsewhere, I'm translating O. English metrical charms and recipes used to diagnose and treat illnesses, and one of the treatments for boils involves anointing the floor of the afficted's house, placing him in the center, and straightup beating him until the demon within gives up.
where's that in today's modern medical journals huh
I think that this journal article is a fine entryway into finally getting curative floggings approved by the AMA.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 1:51 pm |
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| And this is where I get uncomfortable, since the hard data currently forecasts a silencing of internet data in a couple of years, then a resumption at 1/1000th the activity that we consider normal. Since that 'data gap' is pre-commentary, I can't write it off the way I can write off what he says about it. Oh boy. |
Yeah this kind of has me worried as well. I don't really want to go back a world with little or no internet, whatever the reason may be that produces such an occurrence.
I think there definitely is something to his work, even if his interpretation of it regularly reverts to confirmation bias. |
I don't understand the source of this projection or the mechanisms behind it, though this sort of thing has been interesting me more over the past several months. Can you (or psiga, sup psiga) write about (or pass along links pertaining to) the way that this kind of conclusion is realized... and specifically what this is about the internet getting chloroformed?
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:51 pm |
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Found this an amusing read on geek entitlement and neo-liberal orthodoxy.
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The narrative whereby the nerdy loner makes a sack of cash and gets all the hot pussy he can handle is becoming a fundamental part of free-market folklore. It crops up in films from Transformers to Scott Pilgrim; it's the story of Bill Gates, of Steve Jobs, and now of Mark Zuckerberg. It's a story about power, and about how alienation and obsessive persistence are rewarded with social, sexual and financial power.
The protagonist is invariably white and rich and always male - Hollywood cannot countenance female nerds, other than as minor characters who transform into pliant sexbots as soon as they remove their glasses - but these privileges are as naught compared to the injustice life has served him by making him shy, spotty and interested in Star Trek. He has been wronged, and he has every right to use his l33t skills to bend the engine of humanity to his purpose.
This logic is painful to me, as an out-and-proud nerd. For a person with a comics collection, an in-depth knowledge of the niceties of online fanfiction and a tendency to social awkwardness, it is distressing to see geekdom being annexed by the mythology of neoliberal self-actualisation. |
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Hey, this is pretty good!
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