I took part in an archeological dig for the first time today at Brunswicktown, North Carolina. It was a great time and extremely educational. I found quite a few pottery sherds, a lot of glass, and part of clay pipe stem. All in all quite a day!
where i was crouched for 6 hours
Saw this over at winrumors today. As much as I am skeptical of tech in a lot of ways and critical of it’s impact on our lives and our planet it is really difficult for me to not get really excited and giddy looking at gorgeous mock ups of what the future might look like. Microsoft’s latest attempt at just that is super cool, and according to winrumors “Microsoft believes that most of the technology in the video exists in some form or another today. “All of the ideas in the video are based on real technology,” explains Microsoft’s Office chief, Kurt DelBene, in a blog post on Thursday. “Some of the capabilities, such as speech recognition, real time collaboration and data visualization already exist today. Others are not yet available in specific products, but represent active research and development happening at Microsoft and other companies.”
Check it out!
Great post up on Neuroanthropology on David Graeber, and his new book Debt: the first 5000 years. I’ve been reading Debt and have been really, really enjoying it. The depth of his research alongside how accessible his writing is, makes a truly wonderful mix. I highly reccomend it.
O hai,
So today while following the local shenanigans on the tweeters I saw many posts about how the cops are on our side and part of the “99%” or some shit. What the shit kind of rediculous cognitive dissonance allows you to say that corporations own the government but that the armed members of the government who take their orders from the politicians you oppose are on your side. What the firey flying shit fuck is wrong with you. I especially love the folks who are adding troy davis hashtags to their occupy tweets and then posting this shit. I mean really? Hey maybe we should ask Oscar Grant if he thinks cops are on his side, lets ask Mark Duggan. Hell lets ask Fred Hampton, or the members of MOVE who were fucking bombed in their home. I mean lets atleast be honest and admit that the truth is that we all know cops aren’t friends but we can’t admit it cause that means going down the scary path that leads to maybe kinda admiting the deligitamacy of the State and Capital, and that makes us squeamish and feel weird so we pretend its all good. So to reiterate: PEOPLE THAT VIOLENTLY KIDNAP YOU AND THEN HOLD YOU FOR RANSOM ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS, especially those whose lifes are financed by people you don’t like and who don’t like you.
also you make me grumpy
with love,
some psuedo-anonymous asshole on the internet.
latest anon release about the antisec hack of az pd and the files included in the torrent chinga la migra 2
Just when you thought it was over, we’re hitting the Arizona police state with
our second round of attacks. In our first bulletin we dumped a treasure trove of
secret law enforcement documents. In this second bulletin, we’re dumping booty
pirated from a dozen Arizona police officer’s personal email accounts looking
specifically for humiliating dirt. This leak has names, addresses, phone
numbers, passwords, social security numbers, online dating account info,
voicemails, chat logs, and seductive girlfriend pictures belonging to a dozen
Arizona police officers. We found more internal police reports, cops forwarding
racist chain emails, k9 drug unit cops who use percocets, and a convicted sex
offender who was part of FOP Maricopa Lodge Five.
We also hit the AZDPS spokesperson Stephen Harrison who been bragging to the
news about how they are upgrading their security and how they will catch the
evil hackers who exposed them. Clearly not secure enough, because we owned his
personal hotmail, facebook and match.com accounts and dumped all his personal
details for the world to see. The same fate will meet anyone else who tries to
paint us as terrorists in an Orwellian attempt to pass more pro-censorship or
racial-profiling police state laws.
We also found details of Jeff Wilson, a former DPS officer and member of a
Navajo tribe, planning on suing the department for racial discrimination
charges. Amongst the civil rights violations occuring in AZDPS, Sgt. Jeff
Eavenson and others were illegally issuing tickets to Navajos in AZ state court
jurisdiction instead of tribal courts. When Jeff Wilson brought these charges up
to the department, they punished him and pushed him out of the police force. We
welcome Wilson’s attempts to expose his racist administrators and so we won’t we
releasing his info.
Yes we’re aware that putting the pigs on blast puts risks their safety, those
poor defenseless police officers who lock people up for decades, who get away
with brutality and torture, who discriminate against people of color, who make
and break their own laws as they see fit. We are making sure they experience
just a taste of the same kind of violence and terror they dish out on an every
day basis. Our advice to you is to quit while you still can and turn on your
commanding officers before you end up in our cross hairs next, because we’re not
stopping until every prisoner is freed and every prison is burned to the ground.
To other hackers: it’s time to set aside our differences and join the antisec
popular front against the corrupt governments, corporations, militaries, and law
enforcement of the world. We promise you much more bounty to come guaranteed to
bring smiles to the faces of all those who have hated the police. Unite and
fight, for the flames of revolution burn bright!
I just changed the oil in a car for the first time, and now I am drinking a beer. I feel like a proper man. Just thought the internet should know, now for sports or some such.
