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bastard.logic: The Future of Labour: Trapped In A Neo-Liberal Veal Pen
File under: we are all serfs/eventual anarchists: Consulting firm PwC recently published its outlook for work in 2022, based on interviews with 500 human resources experts and 10,000 others in the United States and several other countries. You probably won’t be surprised to hear that big companies could end up
Continue readingbastard.logic: White Suspects > Black Victims
This makes the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown so powerful. It's sad that some people have taken it to another level. http://t.co/oZnLDRRDhN — Sammie. ™ (@LordSWVP) August 11, 2014 ‘WELP: WHITE SUSPECT That’s how the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal chose to present the story of Amy Bishop, a former college professor who eventually pleaded guilty
Continue readingbastard.logic: Warrior Cops In Action: Radley Balko With Your #Ferguson Homework
Radley Balko is to #Ferguson as Nate Silver was to 2012: In depth: Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingbastard.logic: Hacktivists Out Alleged Michael Brown Shooter — Only It’s The Wrong Guy
Not at all helpful (quite the opposite, actually): On Thursday, a name released by the hacking collective Anonymous began circulating, but St. Louis County Police said that the name was inaccurate. The same kind of thing happened Wednesday, as another name began floating around and gaining traction. Ferguson police said
Continue readingbastard.logic: “You got me so that my nerves are breaking”
Late night Hump Day rawk out continues unabated: (h/t) Filed under: music, Uncategorized Tagged: music, Nervebreakers, power pop, punk, rock, Texas, The Troggs, video
Continue readingbastard.logic: Finnish Rock N Roll Represent
Bedtime rawkout in 3, 2, 1… (h/t) Filed under: music Tagged: bandcamp, Daggerplay, Finland, punk, punk n roll, rock, rock ‘n’ roll
Continue readingbastard.logic: Just Another Quiet, Peaceful Night In Sleepy Ferguson, Missouri
Via Charles Johnson: Cops in paramilitary gear are now pointing sniper rifles at peaceful black protesters in Ferguson, MO. NBD. Filed under: law enforcement Tagged: #michaelbrown, #mikebrown, Ferguson, Michael Brown, racism
Continue readingbastard.logic: How An Algorithim Caught The Ebola Outbreak
Science: this is why we keep you around: Nine days before the World Health Organization announced the African Ebola outbreak now making headlines, an algorithm had already spotted it. HealthMap, a data-driven mapping tool developed out of Boston Children’s Hospital, detected a “mystery hemorrhagic fever” after mining thousands of web-based
Continue readingbastard.logic: “You can’t win a person’s heart and mind when you are pointing a rifle at his or her chest”
Afghanistan War veteran Paul Szoldra: In Afghanistan, we patrolled in big, armored trucks. We wore uniforms that conveyed the message, “We are a military force, and we are in control right now.” Many Afghans saw us as occupiers. And now we see some of our police officers in this same
Continue readingbastard.logic: Afro-Punk (AKA The Story of My Life)
Pretty much sums up my adolescence/early adulthood/current state of existence (I’m so old I remember when being black and playing rock/punk/metal was a radical, disruptive act, etc): Bonus: Interview w/ James Spooner, director of Afro-Punk: The Movie: Also, too: Live performances (because AGGRO): Filed under: music, Uncategorized Tagged: Afro-Punk, music,
Continue readingbastard.logic: The Murder of #MichaelBrown And Why ‘Black Rage’ Is Entirely Justified
MSNBC, quoting Dorian Johnson, eyewitness to the shooting by Ferguson, MO police of Michael Brown: “There are two crowds. An older crowd that wants justice but there’s anger. Then it’s the younger crowd that wants revenge but there’s anger there, too… . What do you expect when something is steadily occurring
Continue readingbastard.logic: Questlove Remembers Robin Williams
Man. The smallest gesture can mean the world to you. Robin Williams made such an impact on me and didn’t even know it. He named checked all of us in the elevator during the 2001 Grammys. I know y’all think I do this false modesty/T Swift “gee shucks” thing to
Continue readingbastard.logic: RIP Father Raymond Gravel, Progressive Catholic Priest
Sad news via CBC News: “Father Raymond Gravel, a well-known Catholic priest, an advocate for Quebec sovereignty and a social activist, has died. […] “He served one term as the Bloc Québécois MP for Repentigny, before he was ordered by church authorities to choose between his priesthood or politics and
Continue readingbastard.logic: One More Time For The Night Train
Wouldn’t you have just hated to have been the poor shmucks scheduled to follow James Mother-Effin’-Brown that night? (h/t) Bonus: Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingbastard.logic: Trolling: Still An Art (Blues Rock Revival Edition)
Meanwhile, in Chicago… Filed under: frivolity Tagged: Black Keys, Dan Auerbach, Jack White, resting bitchface, The White Stripes
Continue readingbastard.logic: TGIF.
Now with extra WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA. Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingbastard.logic: Harnessed In Slums
Over 500 jhuggis (huts) destroyed in Vasant Kunj. Filed under: India Tagged: India, Vasant Kunj
Continue readingbastard.logic: Harnessed In Slums
Over 500 jhuggis (huts) destroyed in Vasant Kunj. Filed under: India Tagged: India, Vasant Kunj
Continue readingbastard.logic: #CancelColbert and ‘Radical Choices’ Re: Rhetoric
This: The #CancelColbert supporters have a very valid point in arguing that radical action and racial outrage should not require that people of colour temper our actions and reactions to appear more acceptable to the mainstream, particularly when this is in conjunction with needing to silence valid expressions of racial
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