 From poptech:
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks. This peer-to-peer special edition of the film is unique: it is preceded by an EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of the Yes Men impersonating the United States Chamber of Commerce. Because the Yes Men are being sued for this stunt, p2p is the only way that this film will get seen.
The Yes Men Fix The World, Peer-To-Peer Edition (via laughingsquid)
The Yes Men are masters at impersonating business leaders and smuggling stories to the public to expose big business wrong-doing. In 2006 the The Yes Men gave us a behind the scenes look at their special flavor of activism.
Wow—so they’re getting sued for a stunt that isn’t in the movie which is resulting in the movie not getting a regular distribution deal? I’m not sure I follow that logic, but what the hell? FREE MOVIE!
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fuckyeahglasgow:
Apple Launches New Product in Glasgow
The ibusker. Waiting lists are filling up all over Eastern Europe.
via- pietrach
This just made me laugh…
…in a sad, disdainful way, at the decay of the western world.
^_^
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#WTFObama: Indirect Ban Limits Abortions by Women in High-Risk Insurance Pools
Gotta love this kind of shit—the USG decides it’s OK to allow insurance companies the ability to deny certain people with certain types of pre-existing conditions. For a black man, Obama really doesn’t seem to get how economics and race work.
stephanieleroy:
Obama bans abortion for women in high-risk insurance pools
welcometomanhood:
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whyinthehell:
“We need you to act immediately to undo a disturbing decision from the Obama administration. Remember all the hard work you and other ACLU activists did to defeat Rep. Stupak’s draconian abortion coverage ban during the health care debate?
Well now, the White House has decided to voluntarily impose the ban for all women in the newly-created high risk insurance pools. What is disappointing is that there is nothing in the law that requires the Obama administration to impose this broad and highly restrictive abortion ban. It doesn’t allow states to choose to cover abortion and it doesn’t even give women the option to buy abortion coverage using their own money.”
Ask President Obama WHY his administration is restricting coverage for vulnerable women.
So, once again, it’s OK to kill people in other countries to protect our freedom, in general, but killing unborn babies is NOT OK in order to protect our individual freedom.
Face-palm.
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Moral Majority co-founder Tim LaHaye tells Mike Huckabee that we are living in the End Times and that Obama is bringing us “closer to the apocalypse”
Jesus. Feck.
Holy Christ. Why do we let people like this on TV, but swear words and sex are not. Mike Huckabee actually asked that man if we were living in the End Times.
Just think about that for a second.
It’s things like this that make me wish it were true.
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4 Types of Bloggers (via nevver)
shooshee: it’s funny because it’s true
I love statements like this because I’m almost always proof of them NOT being true.
I’ve been blogging since before it was called “blogging” (that’s 1997/8ish). Somewhere around 2000, I started using GreyMatter to blog with. Before then I was just editing raw HTML on a weekly basis. I stuck with GreyMatter up to November of 2004. I switched to WordPress then and used it until last September when I got fed up with having to update the damn thing so many times a year, thus watching my layouts and plugins break, forcing me to do loads of extra work just to keep things functioning from one month to the next.
I’m on Tumblr not because I’m lazy, but because I’m tired of working so hard just to provide content I believe in. I’m not lazy and I’m tired of seeing myself and people like myself being categorized as such by a bunch of judgmental assholes who think they can determine why the people in the world do what they do.
It’s like people who think Twitter is just for people to post about when they take a dump. Or like people who think it’s right for them to decide what is interesting and what isn’t.
I’m pretty sure I understand why people do this—it’s out of a fear of uncertainty. This kind of judgmental behavior seems to make people feel more safe, more secure about themselves to be able to judge other people and other things as one way or another. It creates the illusion of a stable reality, when really, reality isn’t all that stable.
So, don’t call me lazy because I use Tumblr. I have over ten Tumblr blogs I do my best to post to on a regular basis. Does that sound like “lazy” to you? To me, it seems like I simply have different priorities. I’d rather work hard on content and than on keeping my site’s back-end up-to-date with the whims of code devs who insist on fixing things that aren’t broken and then force you to deal with nag messages until you do.
Sorry to get off on a rant here, but generalizations like this hurt everyone who actually gives a crap about what they do on the web, regardless of where they do it. It belittles our efforts to help make the world a better place (whether through snarky frivolity or cogent commentary) and disrespects the time sacrificed by us to do so, most of the time, with little or no monetary benefit.
We do it because we are passionate for the work. So, please, we “Internet-types” take enough shit. Let’s not dump more on each other.
So, I’d rather believe in a world of “polytypical” bloggers—a world where bloggers all blog the way they do for various reasons of their own—some good and some bad.
Yes, I know the original post is just a joke, but I think it’s a mistake to say nothing while we bloggers become the butt of what used to be jokes making fun of the Polish or of lawyers.
Hey, we’re nowhere as bad as those guys.
;)
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We’ll increasingly be defined by what we say no to.
Paul Graham on addiction. (via gtmcknight)
This quote applies to every aspect of modern life in the western world, IMO.
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Target (the French Store) boycott being called for—but where will I get my cheap-ass socks?
stephanieleroy:
Target Donates $150,000 To Fund Anti-Gay Politics.
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sweetupndown9:
Welp. Looks like I’m boycotting Target.
A friend of mine posted this on Erika’s facebook. I’m really glad I saw this before I moved, so I can avoid there store when I shop for my new house stuff.
From the article.
Follow the money. At least, that’s the message delivered by an article at sfist.com by Matt Baume, who tracks $150,000 from Target’s coffers, through a political action committee (PAC) known as Minnesota Forward, all the way to Tom Emmer, who himself supports a Christian rock band in Minnesota that travels around the state saying that it’s moral and righteous for religious people to kill gays and lesbians.
For those into algebra, it looks a little like this: Target + Minnesota Forward + Tom Emmer = Support for a rather dangerous and radical political philosophy that diminishes LGBT people to pests that should be murdered. And Target is cool with this?
Sign the Petition demand answers for this.
Oh, HELL NO. What the FUCK, Target? You’re done.
seriously? the religious right was boycotting them a few years back because they were “pro-gay” - they’ve donated to gay rights causes and AIDS charities and such in the past too…now I’m just confused.
maybe instead of trying to be picky about which amoral-by-design corporations we consume from, we ought to switch to production instead. Swadeshi Movement style…
I think this might have more to do with bashing the founding family of Target and Emmers competition for governor, Mark Dayton. Either way, it’s pretty ridiculous.
OK, let’s boycott Target—but then where will we shop? Wal-Mart? K-Mart? Actually, there’s really no source for anything we buy that doesn’t eventually connect back to some sort of horrible thing. Whether it’s hating gays or paying pennies for hours of labor or buying conflict minerals or oil from terrorist regimes, there isn’t a dollar in our bank accounts that hasn’t paid for someone’s misery somewhere in the world.
If there was a source for every day items that sold products that are made entirely within the US with materials originated inside the US, I’d agree with a boycott. But boycotting Target just means you’re going to add support to some other company that is just as bad in the same or different ways.
We’re living in an era of extremist capitalism, where the shortest route to profits is the highway (or low-way) nearly every damn company takes.
In the end, which is worse? Hating gays or not caring about human dignity at all?
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How we may (or may not) be getting poisoned(ish)… you know, in our every day food.
Either ramblings of conspiracy theorists or .. we better watch what we eat. We really, really better watch what we eat.
coalspeaker:
And, as a population, we need to smarten up.. there are dangers in the chemicals we injest.. There are complications with too many articifial sweeteners..
Activity Post website details some of the ways we may be getting posioned.
Yeah, I don’t think it matters whether there is a conspiracy or not—all that matters is that there may as well be. Just keep your eye on the ingredients labels on the food you eat. Just do it and see if you don’t start to worry. Or hit the above link to ActivistPost.com and get really worried.
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Ignore the MSM—listen/watch/read Democracy Now’s coverage, including comments from Daniel Ellsberg—the Godfather of government leaks (he released the Pentagon Papers).
No wooshy graphics, no glitzy sets, no brain-dead anchors—Democracy Now.
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