Sometimes they work out exactly as the malicious arseholes want them to, grinding people down until they feel the need to stop speaking out. But the technology that gives the bullies a megaphone to amplify their intimidation is a two-edged sword.
ethics & philosophy
ideals, breaches, disappointments and inspirations
Because we fail to notice that we fail to notice
A poem by R.D. Laing
#dataretention is worthless #securitytheatre – how-to guides for Tor, VPN and https
To show how easy it is for any punk kid (or middle-aged feminist blogger) who just doesn’t want to play along with Roxon’s plans for an expanded surveillance culture, please do some googling on the search strings below.
So, what’s everybody else doing to #destroythejoint?
Torey Maguire reckons feminists should just ignore Alan Jones, since he’s just a formulaic shock-jock troll, but I don’t agree. “Don’t feed the Trolls” is bad science, and we should feed the trolls if we need to. Creative mockery to underline the point that we are not “offended”, we are contemptous: that’s cathartic as well.
Detroit tests 150 rape kits from backlog of 11,000: finds 21 serial rapists (one also a murderer)
Twenty of the 21 serial rapists were identified from the first 153 rape kits officially tested for DNA and entered into the national database known as CODIS, or the Combined DNA Index System, this summer. In other words, these 20 men had been involved in at least one other rape case, according to the database.
Update on the Skeptic/Atheist Anti-Feminism Wars
Greta Christina’s latest post sums up the last few months pretty well.
Biology Fail and #legitimaterape apologism: Todd Akin
Todd Akin, US congressman and senatorial nominee claimed in an interview that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.
Torture was central to both the witch scares and the Inquisition
… under such duress, people confessed at length and in great detail to the fantastic and impossible, often also indicting others, in a spreading, spiraling cascade of fantasies. Remember also that terror regimes the world over use it delightedly to terrify and suppress dissidents within their populations. […] And they can do this only in an environment in which there are people naive enough to believe the absurd perjuries concocted under such conditions.
Don’t be one of those people.
Thank you Lara Giddings
…and the MPs of Tasmania who are willing to vote for marriage equality.
The Drawbacks Of A Healthy Eating Internet Education
I know you. We have a lot in common. You have been doing some reading and now you are pretty sure everything in the grocery store and your kitchen cupboards is going to kill you.
Hoyden About Town 