March 2012
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Court Releases Redistricting Maps →
They’re a long time coming, and they may be just as bad as everyone in Travis County expected. The San Antonio judicial panel has released its interim House, Senate and Congressional maps for the 2012 elections and, to all intents and purposes, Austin and Travis County may as well not exist.
Governor Rick (oops) Perry has refused to call an emergency session of the legislature to address...
February 2012
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Anonymous asked: On the page albatross-by-judy-collins-the-lady-comes-to you say "Albatross by Judy Collins" Judy does an amazing job on this song, but it was actually not written "by" her. at all. I in fact thought it was by Leonard Cohen like some of her other songs. But in fact no. It was actually written by Pete Green of Fleetwood Mac. Details at Wikipedia: if you search for...
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TransCanada to Build Texas Segment of Keystone XL... →
TransCanada Corp. will proceed with building a $2.3 billion segment of its Keystone XL oil pipeline from Oklahoma to the Texas coast so that it isn’t delayed by U.S. approval for the rest of the line.
The company, based in Calgary, expects the segment to begin carrying crude from the Cushing, Oklahoma, storage hub to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast as soon as mid-year 2013, according to a...
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Today's Markets: "Free" from competition and...
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It’s important to note that in today’s context, there is no way for a true “free market” to be established. Power has gotten so centralized, and economic influence so massive for corporations, that short of a radicalized restructuring/cataclysmic event, we’re stuck with the current model for the time being.
Through extensive protectionism and other legal measures massive...
Forgive my clumsy responses
My connection to Tumblr is really slow today. :-(
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“He’s wrong. He’s absolutely, 100 percent wrong. I think he’s playing to the...”
– Congressional Battle Ready: Iraq Vet Tammy Duckworth runs for office and has some words for Rick Santorum (via becauseiamawoman)
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ummm....
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sheelsandthemoon:
Lets see….
I was just informed by someone that I met here on Tumblr that they were told I HARASS people. Hmmmm…. what a horrible LIE that is to be spreading about me. If I have ever harassed any of you, PLEASE reblog this. I want to know who the hell is spreading this lie about me!
I DON’T NEED THIS SHIT!!!
You harassing people… that’s the funniest thing...
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“On the doctrinal side, I do not see that we are further along today than where...”
– W.V. Quine, Epistemology Naturalized, 1969.
My roommate hates Quine, but he honestly doesn’t seem like such a bad guy. He synthesizes Hume and Bentham and doesn’t afraid of anything. (via letterstomycountry)
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“In the interests of full disclosure, I do want to point out a genuine problem...”
– Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal – Telegraph Blogs (via infoneer-pulse)
I … can’t … breathe … bwahahahaha!
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Tolstoj on Self-Ownership →
anticapitalist:
This is a very interesting read, because his description of self-ownership is not the laughable “everything is voluntary’ idea of self-ownership that capitalists argue in favor of.
Read it.
“‘I have sons, I have wealth’: thinking thus, the fool is troubled. Indeed, he himself is not his own. How can sons or wealth be his?”
— Gautama Buddha
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“The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third...”
– Ludwig von Mises (via baseballlibertarian)
I’ve had just about enough of this brand of nonsense. Imagine starting a business in an area where contracts can not be enforced. Imagine the prohibitive cost of training your workforce to read and write. Imagine building roads to carry your...
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Cartographic Slight-of-Hand
anticapitalist:
How the government hides from us
In a fascinating detail from a long series of articles published two years ago in the Washington Post, recently expanded as a stand-alone book called Top Secret America, we learn about one way to hide classified government infrastructure in plain sight.
“[J]ust outside Washington,” authors Dana Priest and William Arkin explain, in...
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Reblog if you do not exist.
sinidentidades:
I’m transexistence. I identify with nonexistence.
I’m a talking frog. Of course I don’t exist.
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IntoTheContinuum probes this point on the...
intothecontinuum:
If for some reason the existential risks mentioned in the last post made you feel insignificant in anyway, let the following serve as consolation and reason to feel significant (and quite literally “central”) to the universe as human beings existing in this period of time. From a temporal perspective of the evolution of the universe, we live close to a point in time where...
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“An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more...”
– Charles Eisenstein (via azspot)
Economics can not be the zenith of four-billion years of evolutionary change, can it? ”
The World is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away,...
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Fractional reserve banking should be illegal. Not...
ourben:
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baseballlibertarian:
Even more reason why we need a currency backed by gold, silver, or at the very least something tangible.
Something tangible, like the sweat and blood of child laborers right?
How about we use Letterstomycountry’s idea: Use a currency backed by Anarcho-capitalists. Every time you reproduce, the currency depreciates and you contribute to...
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To give you an idea of Tumblr's massive scale,...
shortformblog:
500 million page views go through Tumblr every single day
40k requests added each second at Tumblr’s peak usage hours; and it’s growing, too
50GB of posts added each day; follower list updates are roughly another 2.7 terabytes daily
1M number of writes made through the dashboard each second, and 50,000 reads per second source
» It’s tough to scale, too: According to Blake...
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