Contrast to the drugs that are actually indicated for PTSD.

This is the practicality of the thought coming out of high transhumanism? Let's dismantle a planet in 25 to 50 years?

(1) These are flawed characters, not writer stand-ins. (2) Keep watching Andrea. (3) Michonne.

" They were done using a much more deplorable technique: the use of spies and informants within the collective,” says Anonymous. " cf. "social engineering" /facepalm

Occupy Toronto: no room for any actual working class participation

" At the last, we arrive at the beginning, which Arthur Brisbane surely intended. Nothing else could possibly ensue from his intellectually dim ourobouros of cowardice. In a column in which he speculated about the worth of journalists' abdicating any responsibility, he placed the evaluative responsibility on the New York Times' readership. In a way, it was like watching the greatest newspaper in the nation engage in real-time market-testing of which group is worth sucking up to more. "

" If in doing the serious work of journalism–digging, reporting, verification, mastering a beat–you develop a view, expressing that view does not diminish your authority. It may even add to it. The View from Nowhere doesn’t know from this. It also encourages journalists to develop bad habits. Like: criticism from both sides is a sign that you’re doing something right, when you could be doing everything wrong. "

" Something happened in our press over the last 40 years or so that never got acknowledged and to this day would be denied by a majority of newsroom professionals. Somewhere along the way, truthtelling was surpassed by other priorities the mainstream press felt a stronger duty to. These include such things as “maintaining objectivity,” “not imposing a judgment,” “refusing to take sides” and sticking to what I have called the View from Nowhere. "

Humanities "methods"? Also some courses on how to write coherent paragraphs, because, ironically, …

Going public doesn't mean you're not the crazy one. She knows people. And she brought her mom.

" While great for short bursts of fundraising or getting out a timely message, purely digital mobs like Reddit or the hacktivist collective Anonymous are not well-suited for thoughtful, sustained participation in the political process. Fuck the "Wisdom of the crowd." The thinking of the internet hive mind is shallow and frantic, scrambling from one outrage to the next. "

"It's all political," says squatter? non-rent-paying tenant? finally evicted after months of dispute.

Runaway train never going back / Wrong way on a one way track

Bad life choice: protesting police line next to asshole charging barricades & brandishing guitar

" One male protester, in an army helmet and no shirt, cried out as shoving matches erupted between several groups of men. The young man who was leading the informal group yelled: "This is the People’s Forum! There are no committees, there are no rules, everyone gets to speak. Get in a circle! GET IN A CIRCLE!" A majority of the crowd abided, although they were openly chastised when the circle took on non-circle shapes.

" A facilitator from the General Assembly tried one last time to get the group's attention through a call-and-response tactic. He was shouted down by two men, one of whom was shouting directly in his ear. Then it was announced that there would be two minutes of drumming. The loud thumping gave way to spastic dancing and eventually some primal bellowing. "

When this song makes the charts radio stations will by law have to play it #lolno

When this song makes the charts radio stations will by law have to play it #lolno

Shockingly, Company Not in Business to Facilitate Global Crime Revolution

If you can't spell it you don't get to inflict it. #vengeAnce #alsoGeoCitiescalled

...to protect the identity of a leaker. RT @sambowne: Ethiopian journalist ID*quot*d in WikiLeaks cable flees country

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!…You're all nuts. Shut up, let me talk." - Free Waterfall, Jr.

Scientology's anti-New Yorker parody, or Why political humor tends to fall flat.

Protip to other sociologists: Acting like pretentious, uninquisitive asses makes us all look stupid.

With #OpCensorThis @TeaMp0isoN_ have revealed themselves as a mad Kaufmanesque performance art project

Contrast "RIM to turn in teh youth OMGZ" with… "RIM will, gee, comply with the law"

See also: "pretentious twaddle", "ironic self-jamming". Also, attending a seminar is not an achievement.

" you don't "use" terrorism. Your actions define terrorism. Overthrowing government is a terrorist action... "

" the founding fathers of America were terrorists they OVERTHREW government. what part of TERRORIST don't you understand "

" 1. We are not terrorists and we don't plan on being terrorists. To elaborate even further, we will never harm any innocent civilian. "

Therefore, the armchair anarchist would-be rabble-rousers at @AntiSec_ will never participate in the revolution they are asking others to start.

@revmagdalen @faceyet Past a point, an opportunistic fool is indistinguishable from a provocateur. #AntiSec #Anonymous

I'm expecting Andy Kaufman to show up and reveal that he's been both Assange and Zizek all this time.

Why is PETA selling commemorative "Bin Laden Bites" chocolates? Chewbacca, a wookie, lives on Endor!

lolwut

“My student’s [sic] papers are making me dumber, so very stupid; by the minute. Please, make them, [sic] stop. They are infecting me with there [sic] huge and apparent stupidity, and I fear they will start to effect [sic] in my opinion [sic] the way I myself right [sic] papers.”

Relying on theory to understand reality can lead to a strange deliberate autism. The comment from homespon exquisitely sums up both the article and the linked academic paper:

" I'm puzzled as to why this is worthy of research. If you go where people are playing and ignore what the group wants, you're going to get asked to go away. It's what we all learned in kindergarten, isn't it?

" Online communities are usually self-selecting. If someone wants to kill a bunch of opponents, they are encouraged to find communities where people like to kill each other online. Here, the purposefully selected a group of players who wanted to chill and hang out together and acted like a jerk. And -- wow, people didn't like it.

" This is about as significant as finding out that if you join in a game of touch football and then keep tackling people, they might get mad! "

Barrett Brown continues to lead Anonymous to its destruction.
" Barrett Brown, 29, calls himself senior strategy officer for the group. He recently was interviewed by MSNBC and explained why his group is looking to attack critical U.S. institutions. He states, "It's a guerrilla cyberwar — that’s what I call it. It's sort of an unconventional, asymmetrical act of warfare that we’ve involved in. And we didn’t necessarily start it. I mean, this fire has been burning." "
...

" Mr. Brown's latest effort is to personally attack and "harass" military personnel, law enforcement officials, and staff at the Quantico, Virginia military base where Bradley Manning is imprisoned. Anonymous members try to hack into the peoples' personal accounts and attempt to post personal information and embarrassing details on internet message boards and other outlets.

" The attacks are known as "doxing" to the group. They include trying to post details about the individuals' families such as the names of their children and their home addresses.

" The group is also attempting to accomplish a "complete communications shutdown" of phone lines and internet to the military base. He was careful to stress that he calls himself a "journalist" and is not involved personally in these attacks. "

" But, [Barrett Brown] says, the group’s activities are governed, or at least shaped, by a much smaller group of a “couple dozen” people that reacts to the “ebb and flow” of events. Their overarching goal, he said, “information freedom.” "

Meanwhile that day, IEET appoints this person as a Fellow.
"Ayesha is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation "

1-1/2 to 2 dozen, marching in a circle for an hour

DEFEND PUBLIC EDUCATION (picture of an AK-47)
COMMUNE NOW
RIOT DOGS AGAINST COPS
WORLD-WIDE CLASS WAR

responding to Kyle Munkittrick's characterization of the Bush II President's Council on Bioethics: " This is the assessment a reasonable person would have of the Council’s work after reading any of its reports, all of which were philosophically deep in their attempts to understand difficult bioethical issues, but generally went lightly on the policy recommendations — so one gets the sense from this post that Mr. Munkittrick is wholly unfamiliar with the reports issued by the body he so quickly dismisses. "

Jump-the-shark irony : #Anonymous calls Westboro "graceless sociopaths", tells them to cease their free speech or else.

" Anyway, the $12/B figure is in print again. This time in a journal published by the American Economic Association. Never mind the only place the figure has ever appeared as original data is in the ever reliable AVN, and AVN’s source is (when asked by an enterprising Forbes reporter) “a pie chart.” "

" Are we really supposed to believe that, despite the fact that we can't find evidence of any meaningful amount of money, there's a vast network of Lex Luther-like porn moguls, living inside underground lairs, filled with stolen antiquities? Or is it something more like China, hysteria, fear, and titillation that leaves common sense and observable facts behind? "

Some interesting points and some shameless bullshit. I wonder which social media academics he's been speaking with.

" I just wish she wouldn't sell it to the general public as though it were some radical new test that the "mammography mafia" don't want you to know about."

If this doesn't make you throw up a little in your mouth I'm not sure I want to know you.

"According to one insider, he also demanded copies of cables about "the Jews". "

FFS OMFG epic fail GTFO " So, is text-ese wrong? Only according to those who are making the rules (and Pearson’s tests). "

Until transhumanists catch up with philosophers' distinctions among "sapient", "sentient", and "human", amateur failures like this will continue.

" Yet only sociologists force-fed as graduate students will not choke on this book. That many of them have come to adore this stuff is only striking proof of the discipline’s collapse. "

" So far, 133 people have “liked” Boycott Thor on Facebook. The handful of comments on the site are pretty much what you’d expect, with one person calling Thor “whiteaphobic crap,” and another characterizing Elba’s casting as “Just another way to keep rapping the club over the heads of good white people, everywhere.” "

Sociologists are the absolute last people who should be warping emotionally charged words to mean whatever they want them to mean. See also: Tea Party definitions of socialism and fascism. "given the recent discovery of 4 bodies in Long Island, some or all of whom were women sex workers. Targeted violence on this scale is a form of war, of terrorism, of outright hatred for a particular category of people."

word cloud of the blog post of the same name; "We found each other in those moments of pushing and flipping dumpsters.", "We will never look at dumpsters in the same way.", etc.

Let's mob, corner, & shove around an armed police officer on riot detail hur dur dur #letsplayprotest

@substitute shot of angry janitor

Let's start chalking up the campus right next to the admin building at 11am hur dur dur

Dear vegans: "Necrovore" is either a death metal band or an insult that makes you sound demented.

Academics studying Tea Party activism make their colleagues look like hacks when they take sides.

Same verse, same as the first! Also professors must be beaten.

Same verse, same as the first! Also professors must be beaten.

It's like 4chan, except that many of them are serious.

" In the spirit of Gladwell, who likes to give portentous names to his aperçus, I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong. "

RT @substitute: Look at the headline before it goes to press.

"We saw our reflection in the dumpsters that one day," or Zot! Zot! We won't get shot! I can't make this shit up.

Ohmydearlord he's still going on about the empty dumpsters.

Sterilization and black men, yeah THAT'LL go over well.

In which he's fired from teaching & publicly trashes his department. Former colleagues respond in the comments.

Journalism. The comments are hilarious.

" Dear Atlanta Progressive "News," if you weren't such lazy, biased f*cking douchebags, this is what you would have reported about Kasim Reed's representation of various corporations in employment litigation: "

" In an e-mail statement, editor Matthew Cardinale says Springston was asked to leave APN last week "because he held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy at Atlanta Progressive News." "

So you won't mind at all if I plant a big ol' statue of Odin in your garden sanctuary, then.

Yes, folks, even PETA knows you need a permit to hold a protest at the National Mall and not have the police tell you to disperse. The smug smile on Trevor's face throughout and his smartass responses are priceless: a textbook example of how to torpedo your movement's image.

MSNBC teevee hosts display epic, Fox News-level failure in their flogging of an obvious crank. If you've managed to make a birther nut look like the reasonable party in the interview, you're doing it wrong.

As if "post-abortion syndrome" weren't enough of a crank millstone around the neck of the pro-life movement, now come... the anti-vaccination cranks.