From New Scientist: The work, to be published in PloS One, revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships (see image). Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies, and on average they were connected to 20. What’s more, although they represented 20 per cent of global operating revenues, the 1318 […]
Read more "Big scary circles"Kutiman, the video remix artist best known for ThruYOU, changes it up a little on this video – he still pulls together disparate strains of YouTube musicianship into something that stands alone as compelling performance, now he adds other global street flavours to capture the visual mood of the day: There’s even a brief cameo […]
Read more "Kutiman kranks it"George Siemens has an interesting piece up concerning educational value, and it gets the wheels turning on the transitioning value schemes in higher education, the declining absolute value of “content” (a seemingly obvious observation, but one that has evidently not entered the collective consciousness of the academy yet), and the positioning of companies such as […]
Read more "Maybe the future is bleak, or maybe it’s here"ex- Limo shared CC by mikecogh There is no mystery, no comedy, only the constant reminder that Rebecca Black the respiratory entity intends to turn Rebecca Black the meme into a thriving industry of self, and the rest of the world can go fuck. It can’t help but crescendo in that most cardinal of late-capitalist […]
Read more "The wheels coming off"oH . . rHizoma dream . . shared CC by jef safi (writing) Kai Nagata, Why I Quit My Job Right now, there’s a war going on against science in Canada. In order to satisfy a small but powerful political base, the PMO is engaged in a not-so-clandestine operation to dismantle and silence the many […]
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