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"The Matrix" is basically a sci-fi "Office Space"
"Office Space" is 'the Matrix' portion of "The Matrix" with every trace of the uncanny evacuated.Fri 22 Feb 2019 09:26:54 AM MST - permalink --
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https://www.salon.com/2018/07/15/the-matrix-is-basically-a-sci-fi-office-space/
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Syria from Revolution to Civil War
"In order to understand the nature of the Syrian conflict, it is essential that we remember the first years of the uprising, and, through remembering what took place between 2011 and 2014, dispel the myth that Syria has always been a proxy war or has always been a struggle between a secular government and jihadis. To ignore the years which lead Syria from a democratic uprising to a bloody proxy war is to read history backwards."Tue 19 Feb 2019 12:30:42 PM MST - permalink --
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https://communemag.com/syria-from-revolution-to-civil-war/
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No Place Left to Go: Business Districts Keep Homeless Populations on the Move
On how BIDs push for the criminalization of homelessness using Denver's urban camping ban and Downtown Denver Partnership as its primary example.Tue 19 Feb 2019 11:44:30 AM MST - permalink -
For a book-length treatment of this and similar issues, I recommend Randall Amster's _Lost In Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness_ (2008) which examines the role BIDs play in criminalizing homelessness using the struggles over the sit-lie ordinances in Tempe, AZ, as a case study.-
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https://nextcity.org/features/view/no-place-left-to-go-business-districts-keep-homeless-populations-on-move?platform=hootsuite
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Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains old angelfire page
"for the more lonely children of the revolution, who like their politics with a healthy dose of nihilism that alternately destroys and loves itself and the world."Mon 18 Feb 2019 02:11:41 PM MST - permalink --
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http://www.angelfire.com/alt/ihatepunk/band.html
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Meet The Colorado Man Who Killed A Mountain Lion With His Bare Hands | KUNC
The story of the Colorado trail runner who survived an attack by a juvenile mountain lion (the full 21-minute interview is at the bottom of the article).Fri 15 Feb 2019 07:16:51 PM MST - permalink --
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https://www.kunc.org/post/meet-colorado-man-who-killed-mountain-lion-his-bare-hands#stream/0
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A Night Out with an Anarchist [2012]
"I introduced my anarchist friend to my other friends. This proved to be awkward."Fri 15 Feb 2019 04:45:35 PM MST - permalink --
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dp4xbv/what-happened-to-crimethinc
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#120 INVCEL by Reply All [podcast]
"How a shy, queer Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet’s most toxic male communities."Tue 12 Feb 2019 05:27:20 PM MST - permalink --
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https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/120-invcel
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How a Man Killed a Mountain Lion with His Bare Hands
A young mountain lion attacked a trail runner in Colorado.Tue 05 Feb 2019 08:53:39 PM MST - permalink --
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https://www.outsideonline.com/2389231/how-man-killed-mountain-lion-his-bare-hands?fbclid=IwAR0Qo3SauxGDsEpkaHXObvs46ITjLpIveyBpZepqa-dSO5JDLyjaL_-e0jw
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The Two Faces of Suicide | The New Yorker
Really liked this short review, though I'll probably not read the book.Wed 30 Jan 2019 11:12:35 AM MST - permalink --
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https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-two-faces-of-suicide
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Left-Libertarianism Is Bunk Because It’s Still Libertarianism
I have a much more positive view of left-libertarianism, but I also always enjoy Alex Strekal's criticism.Wed 30 Jan 2019 11:01:51 AM MST - permalink --
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https://antilibertariancriticism.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/left-libertarianism-is-bunk-because-its-still-libertarianism/
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Crisis Cranks: Review of 'Radical Markets' by Posner and Weyl
Tim Barker's very good review of a book that seems interesting (especially the COST proposal) but that I'll probably not read.Tue 22 Jan 2019 05:39:34 PM MST - permalink --
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/crisis-cranks
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Jerry Rubin on The Phil Donahue Show in 1970 - YouTube
Jerry would later invest in Apple Computer and become a multimillionaire.Tue 22 Jan 2019 10:40:48 AM MST - permalink --
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1045&v=gdE04yrUIg8
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Three Months Inside Alt-Right New York • Commune
"An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno."Mon 21 Jan 2019 10:17:34 AM MST - permalink --
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https://communemag.com/alt-right-new-york/
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Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War-Draft - YouTube
I'm not gonna help nobody get something my negroes don't have. If I'm gonna die, I'll die now right here fighting you, if I'm gonna die. You my enemy. My enemies are white people, not Viet Congs or Chinese or Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. You won't even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs, and you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even stand up for me here at home.Thu 17 Jan 2019 08:49:57 PM MST - permalink --
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFMyrWlZ68