Freedom of What?

Speech, that is.

FYI

inothernews:

  • There are not “inconsistencies” in the reporting from the Oklahoma storms.  There are facts being updated by news organizations as they receive them from local officials.  Everything on this and other Tumblr news blogs links back to a source.  Journalism 101.

I’m just waiting for some asshat to call this a government conspiracy. Because that’s what happens after every disaster these days.

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

—Isaac Asimov (via politicalprof)

inothernews:

  • Do highly-engaged humans monetize eyeballs?

What does this even MEAN!??

Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, vows not to screw it up

(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said it is acquiring blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, a bold bet by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer to revitalize the struggling Internet pioneer by co-opting a Web property

Damn, Reuters is blunt today.


Ah hell, apparently Melissa Mayer ACTUALLY vowed not to screw it up. That’s a really good thing though.

Hank's Tumblr: Thoughts on the Yahoo! Thing

edwardspoonhands:

First, I love Tumblr and want to keep loving it. And yes, it is immediately terrifying to hear that Yahoo (which, from a lot of our perspectives, is a laughably backwards and culturally irrelevant company) is going to own Tumblr. I sympathize.

But there are a number of circumstances in which…

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

—

Clarice Lispector, A Hora Da Estrela

I’ve been reading Lispector for the past two weeks, and it’s been - she’d put it - full of splendor. 

(via jungjoo)

(via colonizedbywankers)

That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the ‘war on terror’ will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three of this week’s big media controversies (Benghazi, IRS, and AP/DOJ) combined. The military historian Andrew Bacevich has spent years warning that US policy planners have adopted an explicit doctrine of ‘endless war’. Obama officials, despite repeatedly boasting that they have delivered permanently crippling blows to al-Qaida, are now, as clearly as the English language permits, openly declaring this to be so. It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself. Not only is it the end itself, but it is also its own fuel: it is precisely this endless war - justified in the name of stopping the threat of terrorism - that is the single greatest cause of that threat.

todaysdocument: It’s bike to work day! ARIZONA, 05/1972 Terry Eiler, photographer.  From the EPA’s DOCUMERICA series.  (More items from DOCUMERICA are currently on exhibit at the National Archives:  “Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project”) Unfortunately the caption doesn’t tell us much, but we know this smart cyclist remembered his helmet! Did you bike to work?  Tandem? Recumbent? Bikeshare? Hell yeah bikes. I can get anywhere on Main Campus in about 5 minutes on mine, which is extremely useful when I can’t drag myself out of bed until 9:05 for a class at 9:10.

todaysdocument:

It’s bike to work day!

ARIZONA, 05/1972

Terry Eiler, photographer.  From the EPA’s DOCUMERICA series. 

(More items from DOCUMERICA are currently on exhibit at the National Archives:  “Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project”)

Unfortunately the caption doesn’t tell us much, but we know this smart cyclist remembered his helmet!

Did you bike to work?  Tandem? Recumbent? Bikeshare?

Hell yeah bikes. I can get anywhere on Main Campus in about 5 minutes on mine, which is extremely useful when I can’t drag myself out of bed until 9:05 for a class at 9:10.

grandpa-amjad:

Some girl just said “Israel/Pakistan region”

Brb. Gonna kill myself.