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“ When you love someone, you’ve got to trust them. There’s no other way. You’ve got to give them the key to everything that’s yours. Otherwise, what’s the point?
Robert De Niro, Casino (via julie911)
“ [La crise financière] enfonce la social-démocratie. D’abord parce que la crise et l’endettement des Etats affectent les politiques de redistribution, qui constituaient la rente électorale des partis socio-démocrates. Ensuite, parce que les socialistes ne veulent pas comprendre que la demande d’État a sensiblement changé de contenu. Elle ne porte plus seulement sur un rôle de régulation dans le secteur de l’économie, mais sur le renforcement des fonctions protectrices de l’État dans la société. Un exemple ? Face aux désordres engendrés par la mondialisation en matière de flux migratoires, le PS est partisan de “moins d’État” et tout une partie de la gauche ne veut pas d’État du tout : ni frontière, ni contrôle, ni principe de précaution. Tant qu’ils n’auront pas accompli cette révolution culturelle, les socialistes français resteront coupés du peuple. Les quadras du PS sont, comme leurs aînés, tributaires du même biotope : think tanks, médias et agence de communication, dont la principale caractéristique est d’ignorer ou de mépriser les attentes des catégories populaires. Autant dire que je ne vois pas un candidat transgressif sortir de ce languissant psychodrame. Les sempiternels débats sur les questions de procédure et les configurations d’alliance montrent qu’ils posent toujours leurs problèmes en termes d’arithmétique et non de dynamique électorale.
Interview de Patrick Buisson par Eric Mandonnet dans L’Express (September 3rd, 2009) (via c0wb0yz)
» Rupert Murdoch: We'll Take Our Sites Out Of Google's Search Index
If you need to know how old Murdoch is, then this ought to do it.
In the interview, he’s asked if the web is the most radical change he’s seen in the news business. His response — TV was a pretty big game changer.
Think about that. He’s old enough to remember when TV was the disruptor!
So, forgive him for not really understanding Google.
“ A particle’s existence is a continuous field of probabilities, which blurs the sharp distinction between is/is not. Yet this fundamental uncertainty resolves as soon as information is added (that is, as soon as it’s measured). At that moment of knowledge, all other possibilities collapse to leave only the single state of “is” or “is not.” Indeed, the very term “quantum” suggests an indefinite realm constantly resolving into discrete increments, precise yes/no states. Quantum wavicles, along with everything else in the universe, are mostly made of nothing but binary logic. The physicist John Archibald Wheeler (coiner of the term “black hole”) claimed that, fundamentally, atoms are made up of 1’s and 0’s. As he put it in a 1989 lecture, “Its are from bits.” He elaborated: “Every it – every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself – derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely from binary choices, bits.” All movement, all actions, all nouns, all functions, all states, all we see, hear, measure, and feel are elaborate cathedrals built out of bits. After stripping away all externalities, all material embellishments, what remains of the primeval “it” is the purest state of existence: here/not here. Am/not am. In the Old Testament, when Moses asks the Creator, “Who are you?” the being says, in effect, “Am.” One bit. One almighty bit. Yes. One. Exist. It is the simplest statement possible.
“Extropy” par Kevin Kelly sur The Technium (August 29th, 2009) (via c0wb0yz)
Reagan at Brandenburg Gate - “Tear down this wall”
“ I know you’re double-charging your advertisers for the same story by artificially inflating your pageview count. […] But it doesn’t really work as well as you had hoped because only a tiny percentage of viewers will actually read page two. You know that, but you don’t care, because you won’t give up a chance to make a few extra cents. Who cares if it annoys the crap out of that tiny slice of your audience? Who are they, anyway? The people who actually read your content thoroughly instead of skimming the headline and moving on? That can’t possibly be your most important audience segment — they’re just the most involved and attentive. Repeat customers. You already have their “eyeballs” that you can sell to your real customers. And these dupes get their eyeballs double-counted. What a steal! Keep up the great work, publishers.
“Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles” par Marco Arment (November 8th, 2009)
DAMN YOU MINDLESS PIECE SLICERS !
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“ In July of 1965 Greene had an audience with Pope Paul VI. He told the Pope that The Power and the Glory had been condemned by the Holy Office. According to Greene, the Pope asked, “Who condemned it?” Greene replied, “Cardinal Pizzardo.” Paul VI repeated the name with a wry smile and added, “Mr. Greene, some parts of your book are certain to offend some Catholics, but you should pay no attention to that.
Graham Greene’s Vatican Dossier - The Atlantic (July/August 2001)
“ The world Parker actually wants is not a world in which women make babies and men chop wood. It is merely a world in which one can walk down an average city street and not be confronted by a 4-year-old in a “Future Porn Star” T-shirt, a world in which most women do not own stripper poles, a world in which most people do not know that sex-equity experts even exist. It’s a world in which most people don’t say “vagina” in polite conversation, vice presidents are expected to know something about the country that elected them, abortion is stigmatized but not illegal, and racial profiling is permitted but not celebrated.
Constant Comment | The American Prospect
“ Parker has placed herself, in other words, in the role of anti-ideologue, a rhetorical platform that manifests itself not in the deferential moderation of fellow columnist David Broder but in a sarcastic, somewhat incoherent iconoclasm. There are the ideologues who think you should get upset when the Transportation Security Administration singles you out for a strip search and the ideologues who think you should be jailed for terminating a pregnancy. There are the smut-peddling Hollywood directors, and there are the moralizing popes. This kind of dogmatic anti-dogmatism fans out into distrust of any and all “experts,” a word Parker has trouble saying without a sneer, as in “alleged parenting experts” or “the usual array of crisis experts.” Parker is also fond of the locution, “I’m not an expert, but,” the implication being that university-obtained erudition is no substitute for rock-ribbed American judgment.
Constant Comment | The American Prospect
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In understanding the trajectory of Parker’s career, it is perhaps helpful to remember that even in 2009, the ratio of men to women on opinion pages heavily favors the former. (…) When Parker was offered her column in 1987, the editors told her it would be called “Women.” (…)
It was much weirder than that. There was the Oct. 9, 1988, column in which she went for a walk, was accosted by a beggar, gave the beggar $5, and concluded that $5 was not much to pay for a nice walk. There was the March 29, 1991, column completely devoted to women’s relationship to their hair. (“I also ran into the back of a man’s car while stopped at a traffic light. This happened because I hated my hair.”) There was the June 25, 1989, piece, prompted by a six-page pictorial history of the bra appearing in Life magazine, in which she set forth a parallel history of the jock strap. There was a June 12, 1992, column on sexist readings of scientific processes, which began, “Once upon a time, there was a sweet, helpless little egg named Ovie who lived in a dark dungeon waiting patiently to be saved by a fearless prince.”
Constant Comment | The American Prospect
“ Obama’s “trust” ratings among the Israeli public (have) sunk below 10 percent, compared with ratings in the 70 to 80 percent range for past presidents like Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
Don’t Take Netanyahu to the Woodshed | Foreign Policy
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Baba O’Riley - The Who
Forgive me for the back to back songs from The Who. But last night I saw Roger Daltrey and Simon Townshend rock the House of Blues in Boston. So many great songs, one after another. Roger blew us away with “Young Man Blues” and Simon’s “Going Mobile” was just awesome. But there was nothing like a large crowd singing at the top of their lungs:
“Don’t cry / don’t raise your eye / It’s only teenage wasteland ! “
Oh, that’s how… (from Codex Seraphinianus, via Zoya) Click for higher res.
