After the revelations of the past week, the whole world has learned the shameful truth about modern Britain: that its leading politicians and policemen have been lining up to have their palms greased and images burnished by executives of a media empire guilty of deeply criminal – and morally repugnant – invasions of personal privacy.
Congratulations, Britain. Your transformation into America is now complete. What are you going to do to become your own country again?
A sound installation by Scanner. I think being there would be a thousand times more powerful but this video gives you a taste. On video the music overwhelms the environment; it doesn’t feel natural to me. But I think the installation must have been a transcendent experience.
Techcrunch TV Interview on the Future of Space – interview with tech entrepreneur / philanthropist Esther Dyson about the future of commercial space, and what differs between the current generation of commercial space ventures and the previous LEO launch efforts of Kistler, Roton, etc.
The statement that a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household is a boldfaced, ignorant lie, designed to tug at conservative white heartstrings and sucker in some African-American Christian conservatives. To wit, let me quote Frederick Douglass from his autobiography: “The practice of separating mothers from their children and hiring them out at long distances too great to admit of the meeting, save at long intervals, was a market feature of the cruelty and barbarity of the slave system… It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes”
I am really getting sick and tired of the conservative meme about saving marriage, and placing the shaky foundation of their argument on African-American single parent birth and wedlock rates. Conservatives idolize the founding fathers, yet they conveniently forget the legacy of slavery and its atrocities many of the founders acquiesced to. While conservatives tick off statistics about African-American babies born out of wedlock, Teen Mom is the MTV show where teenage white girls can get their cash on by being pregnant and beating up their boyfriends on TV. Bristol Palin is proof that being a pregnant, unwed white girl is enough for a memoir at 20 called Not Afraid of Life. Put this together with all the reproductive rights rollbacks on abortion and the like, and the schizophrenic hysteria of the right doesn’t hold up.
Read it all. And remember the famous line about the Romans not being able to stomach neither their vices nor their virtues.
Love this interactive artwork. It’s either sparking my creativity or massively sucking my time away from it, but it’s fun.
