FBI Software Contains Russian-Made Code That Could Open a Back Door for Kremlin Hackers, Whistleblowers Say

Author Chris Hamby with BuzzFeed is not a bad journalist but this is not journalism.  It is more likely industrial disinformation for political gain riding on the back of Russian fear mongering.  I know nothing of code and neither does Hamby, so correct me if I am wrong but little code is not derivative of other code, to the point that most experts don't really know  how computers and software works anymore, they just work. Using the democratic party committee email clients who used stupid passwords like "password" and the richly endowed but incompetent Department of Homeland Security and the TSA who do stupid shit that doesn't work all the time as example of spy detecting brilliance does not make me a true believer in this conspiracy theory. Neither does reporting a big corporations incestuous relations with other big corporations, using each others shit, demonstate a diabolical Russian conpiracy.  It may point to a big flaw in software integrity moving forward which is for coder to figure out.





Please any Coders out there...Give this article the smell test and see if you agree that its central  message is "Be very afraid ... the Russian hackers are coming" yet offers little else.

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7 Ways to Launch Your Own Anti-Plastics Movement

As I have consistently said...recycling is a hoax

As a culture, we have been duped into thinking that recycling is enough of a step in the right direction. Certainly, any plastic we can keep out of the landfills and oceans is great, for whatever time that item is reused or recycled. But it simply postpones the plastic's destructive path and does not mitigate the damage. It's estimated only 25 percent of plastic is recycled anyway. The U.S. has one of the lowest overall recycling rates of any developed nation.

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Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers

This is a bit of history

The Motherfuckers grew out of a Dada-influenced art group called Black Mask with some additional people involved with the anti-Vietnam War Angry Arts week, held in January 1967.[1] Formed in 1966 by painter Ben Morea and the poet Dan Georgakas, Black Mask produced a broadside of the same name and declared that revolutionary art should be "an integral part of life, as in primitive society, and not an appendage to wealth."[2] In May 1968, Black Mask changed its name and went underground. Their new name, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, came from a poem by Amiri Baraka. Abbie Hoffman characterized them as "the middle-class nightmare... an anti-media media phenomenon simply because their name could not be printed."[3]

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Would you like some tea?

Somebody sent this through facebook the other day and although I had seen it...it just never gets old so I thought I would save it and share it here.

The UK explained sexual consent in the most British way possible.
Got it? It's pretty simple.

The video is being used by Thames Valley Police courtesy of RockStarDinosaurPiratePrincess.com and Blue Seat Studios.
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The animation was created by RockStarDinosaurPiratePrincess and Blue Seat Studios. It is being used by police, not a creation by the police.

Will technology change everything? A talk by the MD of Daimler Benz

Uber replacing taxis while owning no vehicles, Airbnb replacing hotels while holding no property, autonomous cars, AI, cheap electricity, robot factories, computer medical diagnosis, IBM Watson's automated legal advisers, tricorders, 3D printed everything...

The source of this technologically star struck litany is an industry insider, Jonathan Brathwaite, with much corporate skin in the game. My inclination is to first ask underlying questions about the framework within which the questions are asked. I have said for decades "we are all going to hell in a hand basket". Although we have a choice as a species, there is really not much debate about this any more -- only denial. One obvious part of our fatal planetary direction is a vastly accelerating income inequality and growing poverty. I am just now reading a very old book by Murray Bookchin, "Post Scarcity Anarchism" (;1965-69) which colors my comments. In the context of growing inequality and the impending near annihilation of the human race and much of the planet, most of the items on this long list of technological changes are just irrelevant to everybody but the extremely rich -- such as which hotel to stay at or which taxi to call to dine out. Others on the list we should all be happy to hear about such as "Work: 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years". In the post scarcity world since World War 2 this should have happened a long time ago, yet scarcity is enforce by capital using monopoly control and corruption of state power in pursuit of profit. In balance the list point more clearly to the potentiality of a Utopian world of unhindered human self expression and actualization and the end of material need, not a problem for people. However power is not shared, hierarchical structures of domination are enforced with violence and coercion. Whether we take the path to Utopia or annihilation is a wide open question, much  more relevant than the details and speed of such marvelous technological change.





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Ta-Nehisi Coates Is the Neoliberal Face of the Black Freedom Struggle

I am  very glad to see this by Cornel West.  Liberals love there stars and Ta-Nehisi Coates is a preeminent star -- one that I have enjoyed reading and have learned from.  However I very much agree that Coates' viewpoint is way too narrow and fails to challenge the underbelly of power in this country.  Thank you Professor West for you willingness to call to task a black man, as it is hard to do as a white privileged man.



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What Doug Jones' Win Means for People in Poverty

Doug Jones is not a bad guy but he is a mainstream politician.  As this article points out large parts of Alabama is abjectly poor (I mean third world poor) and Doug Jones nor any other politcian is not going to fix the economic system that creates, perpetuates and benefits from that,  as that would be revolutionary.



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