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We Live in Public: Are We Surrendering Our Privacy--and Sanity--to the Internet? | Write-on | Fast Company
"We're being harvested. We are what we eat. It's common sense to me that we're not at the top of the evolutionary food chain," he says. "And what are we eating but Perdue chicken? We're caging ourselves. The more efficient we become, the better the harvest will be for whoever's harvesting us."
The Technologies of Cruelty at bavatuesdays
the internet. A space that has increasingly become an enclosure of corporate control, and while I desperately hold on to it as potentially liberatory, the ugly side of this technology is that a whole new horizon of surveillance and control is emerging all around us and we are so willingly submitting ourselves to it..
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As we see it through Equiano’s eyes, independence and the birth of a new nation of “free men” simultaneously made the institution of slavery, as well as the possibilities of free blacks, that much more oppressive and bleak. The other side of freedom was the increased barbarity towards slaves and the foreclosure of possibility for free blacks
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I was very much affrighted at some things I saw, and the more so as I had seen a black woman slave as I came through the house, who was cooking the dinner, and the poor creature was cruelly loaded with various kinds of iron machines; she had one particularly on her head, which locked her mouth so fast that she could scarcely speak; and could not eat nor drink. I was much astonished and shocked at this contrivance, which I afterward learned was called the iron muzzle. Soon after I had a fan put into my hand, to fan the gentleman while he slept; and so I did indeed with great fear. While he was fast asleep I indulged myself a great deal in looking about the room, which to me appeared very fine and curious.
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The Myth of Mars and Venus [book review] | Rabble
Biological and genetic arguments, as popularized by what Cameron refers to as 'soundbite science,' are also misused to confirm existing stereotypes.
BBC NEWS | UK | Education | 'Big brother' schooling predicted
"education in England could soon become "Orwellian" under a regime of targets, testing, tables, inspections and observation"
Dean Karnazes - ultramarathoner - training secrets
Talk about pushing yourself to the limit. If running 50 marathons in 50 days isn't crazy enough, Dean Karnazes' list of top tips is proof positive that he is superhuman.
The Economist: Something in the way he moves
Depressed people move differently? (something to do with power law distribution ... isn't everything?!)
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