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    He was more fun when he was in the pawn squad | Sport and leisure books | The Guardian
    How Life Imitates Chess, by Garry Kasparov
    March 16, 2022 at 9:16:51 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/22/sportandleisure.features
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    The Ukraine invasion is nothing compared to Iraq
    March 9, 2022 at 11:31:01 AM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://spectatorworld.com/topic/ukraine-invasion-nothing-compared-iraq-afghanistan/
    politics
  • Larisa Arap - Wikipedia
    Larisa Arap (Russian: Лари́са Ива́новна Ара́п; born in 1958) is a Russian opposition activist who became a victim of involuntary commitment in the psychiatric facilities of Murmansk and Apatity, soon after publishing her article about mistreatment of patients in the same hospital where she was committed in July, 2007. She was released after 46 days of confinement, on August 20, 2007.
    March 5, 2022 at 11:58:07 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larisa_Arap
  • John Pike - DavisWiki
    John Pike ("Pepper Spray Cop," "Pepper Spraying Cop" or "Casually Pepper Spraying Everything Cop") was a lieutenant in the UC Davis Police Department. He gained notoriety for pepper spraying peaceful, sitting protesters during the UC Davis protest on Friday November 18.
    March 1, 2022 at 1:38:07 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://daviswiki.org/John_Pike
    occupy police protest
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    ‘Completely predictable’: the Portland shooting and fears of escalating extremism in America | Portland | The Guardian
    February 28, 2022 at 12:37:28 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/27/portland-shooting-extremism-america-predictable
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    Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado (Queers, alpacas and guns)
    November 21, 2021 at 5:22:18 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.2/south-communities-meet-the-gun-toting-tenacious-unicorns-in-rural-colorado
  • The Jack T. Chick Museum of Fine Art
    See also the documentary "God's Cartoonist - The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick":

    https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/filmedia/play/2330/God-s-Cartoonist---The-Comic-Crusade-of-Jack-Chick
    November 9, 2021 at 8:07:44 AM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://www.monsterwax.com/chick.html
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  • Principles and Problems of Monistic Vedanta by George Bosworth Burch
    A readable summary of Advaita Vedanta theology and epistemology.

    [Philosophy East and West, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Jan., 1962), pp. 231-237.]
    November 3, 2021 at 8:12:13 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1397025
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  • A Look Back at 'Marjoe,' the 1972 Documentary About Evangelical Con Men
    An interview with Sarah Kernochan about making and later finding the negatives for the Marjoe documentary.
    October 28, 2021 at 10:51:19 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.vice.com/en/article/ppm45m/marjoe-director-sarah-kernochan-talks-about-her-incredible-doc-on-the-evangelical-conman-456
    religion video
  • The Complicated Nostalgia of Seeing My Evangelical Childhood on Film
    Putting all of these movies on my to-watch list.
    October 27, 2021 at 9:04:35 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://sojo.net/articles/complicated-nostalgia-seeing-my-evangelical-childhood-film
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  • I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything
    Check out this hipster doofus.
    September 19, 2021 at 3:47:35 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-am-an-object-of-internet-ridicule-ask-me-anything/
  • AOL Instant Messenger Eulogy -- AIM, Social Media & Millennials
    June 2, 2021 at 10:32:26 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/aol-instant-messenger-eulogy-aim-social-media-millennials/
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  • Vera Zasulich - Wikipedia
    Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (1851 – 8 May 1919) was a Russian revolutionary. She was friends with the nihilist Sergei Nechaev, tried to kill the governor of St. Petersburg, and co-founded the first Russian Marxist group.
    May 9, 2021 at 5:36:34 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Zasulich
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  • Young and Miserable and Right: Pat the Bunny, a Retrospective for the Apocalypse | PopMatters
    May 7, 2021 at 9:29:33 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.popmatters.com/pat-the-bunny-retrospective-apocalypse-2632981295.html
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  • Your Life Is Tetris. Stop Playing It Like Chess.
    Obviously chess and tetris are both very leaky metaphors for life, but I liked the comparison and the emphasis on inner life of tetris over external struggle of chess.
    May 7, 2021 at 9:26:57 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://medium.com/the-mission/your-life-is-tetris-stop-playing-it-like-chess-4baac6b2750d
  • Militarized Law Enforcement Don't Protect Us From Mass Shooters
    Police don't prevent mass shootings, though they do maintain a society where they regularly happen and then use them to try to justify their own existence.

    See also my article "SWAT Team Fife" that focuses on the Columbine response: https://americancynic.net/log/2018/6/7/swat_team_fife/
    April 1, 2021 at 8:18:57 AM MDT * - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://itsgoingdown.org/militarized-law-enforcement-dont-protect-us-from-mass-shooters/
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  • First Ever Chess Protest took place in Myanmar 🇲🇲 today!! : chess
    Chess players in Myanmar protest the military coup and arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi by playing without their queens.
    February 11, 2021 at 9:34:58 AM MST * - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/lhbkda/first_ever_chess_protest_took_place_in_myanmar/
    chess news protest
  • microRevolt
    microRevolt projects investigate the dawn of sweatshops in early industrial capitalism to inform the current crisis of global expansion and the feminization of labor
    February 5, 2021 at 3:39:03 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.microrevolt.org/mission.htm
    capitalism knitting
  • Understanding /r/wallstreetbets
    Cory Doctorow on GMErgate and why shorts are actually good.
    February 3, 2021 at 10:18:32 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/28/payment-for-order-flow/#wallstreetbets
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  • Robinhood Banning GameStop Proves the Free Market Is a Lie
    I think one reason the GameStop thing is fun is because it is apocalyptic in the sense that it reveals the hypocrisy and opt-in delusions of capitalism. I like this take:

    "And the Redditors said, “Who cares? I don’t care about your equations. I don’t care about your valuation models. I’m going to make the price go up because all it is to me is a number on the screen.” So they just stripped all the pretense out of Wall Street and used that to expose it and to screw it."
    January 28, 2021 at 5:06:56 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/robinhood-ban-gamestop-share-price-explained.html
    capitalism
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