January 2012
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wolfandfox: Above:  Serge Gainsbourg: Vie héroïque (Sfar, 2010) Below:  Deneuve, Gainsbourg - Martine Peccoux
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Twitter Develops Fine-Toothed Censorship Tool →
futurejournalismproject: Twitter has refined its ability to block posts from appearing (read: censor) in user streams on a country by country basis. As explained on the Twitter blog: As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there....
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“We’re trying really hard to make things better. But most people would still be...”
– FORMER APPLE EXECUTIVE, quoted in this Times story examining work conditions inside a plant in Chengdu, China, where Apple products are made. I guess it’s true for most things.  But, relatively speaking, most things don’t cost as much as Apple’s products do. (via inothernews)
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Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America... →
giuseppecasey: I have problems with Adam Gopnik too but he did a really good job on this.
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“It’s true that website-seizures-without-trials are not quite as lawless as...”
– Glenn Greenwald on the Megaupload indictment and seizure. [Link] (via manicchill)
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“Laughter and orgasm are great bedfellows.”
– John Callahan (via your-flesh-shall-be-a-poem)
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“The joy of bourbon drinking is not the pharmacological effect of the C2H5OH on...”
– Walker Percy in “Bourbon, Neat,” quoted by Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Since I first read this essay, when I was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old, I have remembered that invaluable phrase precisely and used it on occasion: “hot bosky bite.” For some time, I supposed —stupidly— that...
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“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fragileribs)
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“The idea that anything goes on the Internet — where did that come from?”
– Internet victim RICK SANTORUM, at tonight’s GOP debate. To find out where that came from, please Google “Rick Santorum.” (via inothernews)
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