May 2012
30 posts
Quebec Explained →
5. So, yes, all the hullabaloo about tuition is pretty much exactly that. The Québec student does, now, pay a little more than they did when I started at McGill lo those many moons ago, though the number—$2,492—will not inspire much more sympathy among Americans. Though it’s true the increase projected will raise tuition by about 75%, it is to be stretched out over 7 years. That means your average...
May 31st
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Cake Shop  →
If Cake Shop goes under it will make me very very sad. 
May 31st
Obama the Warrior →
Glenn Greenwald on the NYT report re: Obama’s death panels. 
May 30th
May 30th
“Long lit up tonight/ And still drinking/ Don’t we have anything to live...”
– Japandroids - Celebration Rock
May 30th
WatchWatch
This is what two of the biggest names in popular music and Costa-Gavras’ son has to say. 
May 30th
May 27th
“Everyone burned down. House is fine.”
– Yale again
May 27th
“COME BACK WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE TEARS IN YOUR FACE”
– Drunk Yale is incredible
May 27th
“Whoopi Goldberg yes or no? Answer: PLANETARIUM”
– Yale, just now
May 27th
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“They’re not NAZIs they’re Italian fascists. They make the prisoners...”
– Mikey Litwack on Saló
May 26th
WHO IS ASHLEY STREAMERS
?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
May 25th
“Gather all the young ones and listen as we tell the days of old when the...”
– FUCK YEA THE SWORD 
May 22nd
Why you’ll be eating quantum dots twenty years... →
May 22nd
May 21st
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Good.  →
May 21st
WatchWatch
This is really powerful.  VINCE EMANUELE: My name is Vince Emanuele, and I served with the United States Marine Corps. First and foremost, this is for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Second of all, this is for our real forefathers. I’m talking about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. I’m talking about the Black Panthers. I’m talking about the civil rights movement. I’m talking...
May 21st
“Although gene by environment studies are typically based on the assumption that...”
– Simons et. al. - ASR December 2011 where to even fucking begin
May 18th
“How can one establish statistics? It can be established precisely by police, for...”
– Foucault - Security, Territory, Population
May 18th
datadatadatadata
I can’t stop writing about this shit To collect site-specific information, the center has algorithmic software developed to monitor social media like twitter. As media proliferates with relevant hashtags and key words, the center’s systems organize the data, sort it for relevancy and combines it with information flowing from other inputs in order to display levels of seriousness and...
May 17th
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May 14th
“It has something you don’t have, Max. It has a philosophy, and...”
– Videodrome
May 12th
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May 3rd
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“New York City, New York Malcolm Harris I’m standing in line at Duane Reade...”
– From the New Inquiry
May 3rd
http://m.io9.com/5907179/why-physicists-need-philos... →
This is certainly a limited argument but the idea that physics and philosophy need each other needs to be right now.
May 3rd
May 2nd
Are you serious →
May 1 is international workers day. Not loyalty day.
May 2nd
Police logic?
So apparently in Youngstown, police and firefighters marched with the Occupiers to protest a bill that threatened their collective bargaining agreement/rights. After the bill was defeated, they evicted the occupy camp. On the same day. 
May 1st
Free University is going on RIGHT NOW →
May 1st
This is what "democracy" looks like →
Police state much?
May 1st