Poppy, the mildly unsettling YouTube sensation-turned-bestselling pop singer, released her newest album on January 10th. It’s called I Disagree, and it’s an apt title — much of this record is a violent, abrasive eschewing of both Poppy’s previous work and the rules that govern music in general, much like the hyperpop sensibilities of breakthrough act 100 Gecs or veterans of the deconstruction genre like Grimes, (more…)
Tag: the internet
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In recent years, White Nationalists and identitarians have been the most censored people in the world. But lately, one other group has been trying to steal our thunder as free speech martyrs: sex workers.
Prostitution has operated fairly openly on the internet for many years on adult dating websites and even in personals sections of otherwise respectable websites. (more…)
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In our increasingly consumerist society, there is a growing desire for all things to become more quick, predictable, and satisfactory. This is perhaps most obvious in the development of fast-food and fast-food culture. (more…)
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Dominic Frisby
Life After the State: Why We Don’t Need Government
Unbound, 2013Dominic Frisby
Bitcoin: The Future Of Money?
Unbound, 2014Within traditional, mainstream politics the assumption is that free trade is the preferred tool of the Right, and the state the preferred tool of the Left. (more…)
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You may or may not be old enough to remember when the Internet was a new thing, but for a long time, web pages were not considered “credible” sources. If you were a serious person trying to make a serious point, you cited books, academic journals, established magazines and venerable old newspapers. (more…)
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Transcendence marks the directorial debut of Wally Pfister, Christopher Nolan’s cinematographer. Nolan is also the executive producer so the expectation is that this sci-fi project could aspire to the heights reached by Nolan’s Inception. Sadly, it fails to live up to the comparison.
Johnny Depp stars as Dr. Will Caster, a leading researcher in artificial intelligence (AI). His work is opposed by a terrorist group known as RIFT (Revolutionary Independence From Technology) (more…)
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January 22, 2014 Andrew Hamilton
Censorware gegen den Ersten Verfassungszusatz
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November 30, 2013 Matt Parrott
Militantti ateismi ja uusi kritiikin kulttuuri
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Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay has taken a clear stand in opposition to technical solutions to government oppression in a recent Wired interview, “You can’t beat politics with technology.” (more…)
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For centuries, technological progress has poured from the First World fountainhead of innovation, eventually trickling down to the Third World. People in Shanghai, Tel Aviv, and San Jose get to play with the prototypes, then the rest of us get to be the early adopters, and it eventually finds its way to the Middle Eastern bazaar, Indian village, and African jungle. (more…)
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In theory, anarchy is against hierarchy and obedience to authority while traditionalists embrace these unfashionable principles. (more…)
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February 5, 2013 Matt Parrott
Die Protokolle der Weisen von Google