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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Loss of Rights/Martial Law/Domestic Spying
The US vs the US
Discourse.net
One of the nicer things about living where I do is that there is a first-class regional theater less than 10 minutes away. If you live anywhere near Coral Gables and you don’t go regularly to GableStage , housed in an intimate space on the grounds of the Biltmore Hotel, you are missing out. It never ceases to amaze me when there are any empty seats – and it wasn’t quite a sellout at last night’s performance of Time Stands Still , a four-hander by Donald Margulies.
I was astounded to see the misstatements and misapplication of math in a recent Atlantic blog post called “ How Much Is Your Data Worth? Mmm, Somewhere Between Half a Cent and $1,200 .” For his back-of-envelope calculations about the value of personal data, Alexis Madrigal writes, “User profiles — slices of our digital selves — are sold in large chunks, i .e. at least 10,000 in a batch. On the high end, they go for $0.005 per profile, according to advertising-industry sources.” The dollar value isn’t crazy—a CPM rate of about five cents is on the low end—but he has got the nature of the transaction precisely wrong. Advertisers place ads with content providers like Facebook, Google, and ad networks.
Technology Liberation Front — Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
International | The Investigative Fund
How sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, fueled Islamist terror, and could bankrupt the country.SOPA
USA & torture
freedom of the press/media/information
Police State
Privacy
Anonymity on the Web
US Government seizures - ICE
la privatisation de la guerre et de la violence
democratic government slippage
Censorship
Censure