There are few websites that can accurately be described as “dangerous,” and Verizon just fucked with one of them. For reasons that are sure to become clear in the next few days, Verizon’s decided to block 4chan. If you’re unfamiliar, 4chan’s the digital cesspool responsible, in equal parts, for the proliferation of LOLcats and child pornography across the world wide web. They also have a fairly hilarious war with the Church of Scientology.
On the one hand, in wartime the news media serve the government by passing along its message; on the other hand, the media need to tell people what’s really going on and what wars are about. Author Susan Brewer focuses on that dual role, and offers a line of questioning to help cut through the packaging.
via Nieman Watchdog > Ask This > Battlefields may change but propaganda remains constant.
Oh God. Say your prayers for the America of yore; we’re officially a full-fledged corporatocracy. Motherfucking Walmart, the prototypical, chthonic tyrant of the American economic landscape is teaming up with Detroit high schools to train students with job skills they’ll really get to use, like greeting customers, stocking shelves, and sobbing deeply in the break room. Students enrolled in the program get 11 weeks of “job-readiness training” during the day and an after school gig at Walmart.
via DETROIT HIGH SCHOOLS TRAIN FOR WALMART – ALEX DUNBAR | VBS.TV Blog.
Bob Biniak was someone I’ve known since I was probably twelve years old. You can read in my DogTown book how we first met–it would not be appropriate to include it here. But as his wife said in her note to some of his personal friends thursday afternoon: “Bobby loves Life and lived more in his short life than many us of can ever imagine to do.” From what I knew of Bob I can attest to this not being an exaggeration or a cliché.
via WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?: Bob “The Bullet” Biniakoriginal Z-BoyBad Ass Mother FuckerR.I.P..
I guess Congress is worried that they need this to protect themselves from us. After watching highlights of the televised healthcare debate on Thursday, I’m beginning to better comprehend the perspective that some of the esteemed members our bicameral legislature feel like they are part of an elite and privileged class that has begun to increasingly fear the masses that are their constituencies.
Well, I guess their little “gated community” is a little bit safer now.
Yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to renew three expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, after the Senate abandoned the PATRIOT reform effort and approved the extension by a voice vote on Wednesday night.
As the city explores ways to sell the operation of public parking garages to private companies for 50 years–the city council today unanimously approved a move to further develop these plans–a recent report listing the top debtors reveals that parking operators owe the city close to $100 million in uncollected taxes.
via Parking Operators Owe the City Nearly $100 Million – LAist.
Chilean earthquake fallout: MSNBC implies nature is “out of control” : Eruptions.
I’m happy to see someone else has noticed MSNBC is just as sensationalist as any other infotainment cable channel.
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