tags: revolution
2000
August
2001
November
- 2001 Nov 15
- Brown Buffalo
¡Viva la Revolucion! Mabuhay ang Himagsikan! More and more, I’m believing that we’re fighting a common struggle that transcends race, religion, social class, or whatever axis you want to devise. Are you a cockroach or an exterminator? The conquered or the conqueror? In other words, are you for or against humanity?
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2003
September
- 2003 Sep 12
- 27 - Part I
Drunk blogging to “Piggy” by Nine Inch Nails on eternal repeat. One of these days, I hope to get through life better than just barely.
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2005
September
- 2005 Sep 13
- 29
Uugh. Hard drive crashes. Very sucky. My iBook lies on a Apple-certified repairer's workbench. The hard drive is actually no longer the problem, since I successfully tore open the plastic case, unscrewed 30-40 screws, popped off the aluminum shielding, took out the clattering 40 GB factory-installed hard drive, and popped in a fresh 100 GB 2.5" hard drive from (you guessed it) Fry's Electronics. The iBook actually works OK. The problem is that (1) I've managed to render the CD-RW non-functional and (2) the latch has snapped off, so that the laptop fails to close. I won't even mention the lack of audio. I had accidentally torn out the wires that connect to the built-in speakers. (I had also accidentally torn out the wires that connect to the power switch.) I managed to fix the power switch, but since I didn't want to go screwing around trying to figure out which wire was live and which wire was ground, I just remnants to the inside of the case and let it be. That's what external speakers are for, anyway.
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2008
October
- 2008 Oct 18
- reform vs revolution
It is 17 days until November 4th, which—one way or the other—is a day that promises to be epically historic. I predict that we will see record-high voter turn-out, that's for certain. And I won't say anything more than that. I can only hope for certain outcomes, but we all know where hoping has gotten me this year.
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2015
May
- 2015 May 7
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Baltimore
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Baltimore Is Just the Beginning • 2015 May 6 • Time
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- Cracked Predicting the Revolution
It’s kind of bizarre that Facebook has juxtaposed posts by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Cracked.com, both of whom are predicting chronic civil unrest in the U.S. #algorithms
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- Uber for Helicopters
Air Bus • The New Yorker • 2015 Jun 1
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July
- 2015 Jul 8
- Skynet deferred
I think it's going to be a while before all human manual laborers are going to be replaced by robots.
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October
- 2015 Oct 9
- Seeds
what didn’t you do to bury me
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but then you forgot I was a seed
2016
January
- 2016 Jan 18
- MLK, Jr.
MLK, Jr. may have advocated using non-violent methods, but nevertheless his agenda was quite radically progressive, even for today.
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March
- 2016 Mar 29
- Bringing Balance to the Force
On one hand, yeah, privileged people with lots of resources can probably survive a Trump presidency (assuming he doesn't declare martial law and line up all his critics against walls, constitutional or not.) It's not going to hurt them as much if Trump and collaborators in Congress and the SCOTUS start dismantling the social welfare safety net, continue weakening civil rights, send soldiers off on futile wars, start destroying the environment at an even faster rate, etc., etc.
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May
- 2016 May 9
- The Center Cannot Hold
The problem with being pragmatic is that you tend to underestimate other people's frustration and anger. Because you could never imagine wanting to wreck the whole thing, you have a deep and abiding belief that no one would ever desire such utter and complete wreckage.
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June
- 2016 Jun 10
- Ochlocracy and Autocracy
Mob rule is just as terrible as autocracy (they don't call it the tyranny of the majority for nothing), but when the system is failing, the people really have no choice but to form mobs.
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