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Leave – 52% Remain – 48%
Democrats in The United States House of Representatives sit-in.
NPR. Guardian.
The well of the House is packed with Democrats seated on House floor.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 23, 2016
C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras.
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 22, 2016
The well of the House is packed with Democrats seated on House floor.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 23, 2016
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What is at Stake in the Future? | Alex Williams & Nick Srnicek
May 16th, 2016. via DIS
#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek • 14 May 2013
Accelerationism pushes towards a future that is more modern, an alternative modernity that neoliberalism is inherently unable to generate.
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Verso Books.
Cory Doctorow explains :
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), once the force for open standards that kept browsers from locking publishers to their proprietary capabilities, has changed its mission. Since 2013, the organization has provided a forum where today’s dominant browser companies and the dominant entertainment companies can collaborate on a system to let our browsers control our behavior, rather than the other way.
This system, “Encrypted Media Extensions” (EME) uses standards-defined code to funnel video into a proprietary container called a “Content Decryption Module.” For a new browser to support this new video streaming standard — which major studios and cable operators are pushing for — it would have to convince those entertainment companies or one of their partners to let them have a CDM, or this part of the “open” Web would not display in their new browser.
This is the opposite of every W3C standard to date: once, all you needed to do to render content sent by a server was follow the standard, not get permission. If browsers had needed permission to render a page at the launch of Mozilla, the publishers would have frozen out this new, pop-up-blocking upstart. Kiss Firefox goodbye, in other words.
The W3C didn’t have to do this. No copyright law says that making a video gives you the right to tell people who legally watch it how they must configure their equipment. But because of the design of EME, copyright holders will be able to use the law to shut down any new browser that tries to render the video without their permission.
This W3C emphasis of Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act also threatens Netflix-like services.
via eff.
“Bodies in Plural: Toward an Anarchafeminist Manifesto” by Prof. Chiara Bottici
Keynote Lecture delivered at the 2nd Annual Thinking the Plural Richard J. Bernstein Symposium at Muhlenberg College on September 25, 2015, in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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Wark on Bottici’s Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014).
Problem : Police kills too many of the citizenry in America.
A proposal : Campaign Zero
a “state of conscious and permanent visibility [] assures the automatic functioning of power” – Foucault.
via MotherJones on Shannon Liss-Riordan taking on Uber. Liss-Riordan argues for the classification of their dependent labor as employees.