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rePost::UN Declares Internet Access A Human Right, But Fast and Cheap May Be as Important as Open | Singularity Hub
Whether or not it has any strong hopes of enacting real change, the UN’s report calls states to promote online freedoms in five key ways (paraphrased):
- Protect citizen’s rights to speak anonymously on the internet.
- Refrain from building, using, or enforcing real-name databases that link online activity to user identity (even those used by popular companies like Facebook).
- Acknowledge that national security and anti-terrorism concerns can’t be used to restrict freedom of expression except in the most dire circumstances where there is an imminent and legitimate threat.
- Take meaningful steps to ensure the privacy of personal data.
- Decriminalize defamation.
NBA Finals formula
ESPN Radio + ABS-CBN Coverage – ABS-CBN Audio = angol FTW !!!!
rePost::Facebook, Forever 21, and the Hidden Hypocrisies of Capitalism | Partial Objects
And when Horning says “And so we vacillate between anxious self-branding and the self-negating practice of seeking some higher authenticity: we have to watch ourselves become ourselves in order to be ourselves, over and over again” what he is talking about here is the “anxiety trap” that’s been discussed on Partial Objects since the blog started. Only here, rather than the producer setting the axiety trap through conventional advertising, they set up institutional structure in which we lay the trap for ourselves and each other. What is Facebook but a series of idealized representations of ourselves self-selected to make us appear more authentically happy than we are in real life? But Facebook pits our idealized representations against those idealized representations of others.
via Facebook, Forever 21, and the Hidden Hypocrisies of Capitalism | Partial Objects.
rePost:: My belief is that happiness is necessarily transient::Letters of Note: The human race is incurably idiotic
18. My belief is that happiness is necessarily transient. The natural state of a reflective man is one of depression. The world is a botch. Women can make men perfectly happy, but they seldom know how to do it. They make too much effort: they overlook the powerful effect of simple amiability. Women are also the cause of the worst kind of unhappines
via Letters of Note: The human race is incurably idiotic.
Learned Today :: Misguided Bravado [A Snippy NSA Leader] | Pinoy Everyman
Didn’t know that we had a pro baseball league. Hope you can read the whole article on hubris from the PABA president.
So our baseball athletes must have jumped for joy upon hearing Harbour Center owner Dr. Mikee Romero’s interest to shoulder expenses and to be involved in forming a national team that would compete in the Southeast Asia Games. It should be noted that Dr. Romero also owns a championship-winning team in our local pro baseball league.
via Misguided Bravado [A Snippy NSA Leader] | Pinoy Everyman.
Elink Video :: Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small
Ed Catmull
– Constant review.
– It must be safe for people to tell the truth.
– Communication must not mirror the organizational heirarchy.
– People and how they function are more important than ideas. (Give a great idea to a mediocre group and they’ll mess it up, Give a mediocre idea to a great group and they’ll make something from it.)
– Don’t let mistakes mask problems., Do a deep assessment.
Sports::SMART-Gilas loses heartbreaker to Iran in FIBA-Asia semis – Interaksyon.com
Bravo Team Pilipinas!!!! You played with heart and gave it your all, as a Filipino that is all that one can sometimes ask for.
“I’m proud of my players,” he added, expressing a sentiment shared by the 7,000-strong crowd who trooped to the arena to cheer on the national team. While the final scoreboard said that SMART-Gilas players were not winners, it would be hard to find anyone in attendance who would call them losers.
via SMART-Gilas loses heartbreaker to Iran in FIBA-Asia semis – Interaksyon.com.
Fiba Asia Champions Cup 2011 June 1
Was lucky enough to get good seats around great cheerers for the Smart Gilas during yesterdays game.
It was the loudest and raudiest bunch of supporters. It was reminiscent of Ginebra fans, although I still credit Ginebra for having fans across all economic stratas.
The whole game was a great experience, something I can scarcely believe I was a part of. The game was hard fought and I was beginning to have doubts that Smart Gilas would pull through because No.4 of ASU-Jordan seemed to be able to score at will.
THE FANS ARE HERE. Was watching for the last few days and I can say without a doubt this was the funnest crowd of all the games I’ve been fortunate to have watched(this tournament).
The cheering on my estimation was started by the tiu groupies but the red courtside people needed only a little prodding. It was fun watching the last 4 minutes or so of the game standing up because everybody was so hyped. I wish I was a better writer to convey how fun the game was. It was well worth the half-day I incurred between watching the NBA Finals at home arriving after lunch and leaving early to catch Smart GILAS make their countrymen proud!!!!!!!!!!
On a related note we need a two syllable chant to shout during offense the way we do with defense when Smart Gilas is defending. I say we can shout GI-LAS.
I’m irked that I don’t know whether I’d be able to get great seats for the quarter finals , the semi finals and God willing the Finals!!! That experience was just to damn good to not spread by word of mouth.
On a related note shame on GMA and ABS-CBN for not covering Smart Gilas with the same dedication they do the Azkals. I have nothing against football and I actually enjoy watching high level football, but damn even if the Smart Gilas people aren’t of the same artista caliber as the Azkals, and the game is featured in IBC13 we really need to set aside these petty rivalries for things that can create a sense of nationalism. We have a shattered cultural psyche and we need all the events and accomplishments, pseudo accomplishments we can muster to galvanize ourselves as a nation. A house divided falls, a nation divided crumbles.
Fiba Asia Champions Cup 20110531
Got great courtside seats Yeah!!! It was a hard fought game, which surprised me a lot. I expected our team to not roll over Duhok Iraq but at least not flex their muscles too much. It seems I’m over rating SMART GILAS. Lebanon and Quatar are now surely going to be problematic teams. I just hope they find it in them to get to the next level! The coliseum was probably 60-70 percent filled, I am probably not going to get good seats any longer for the coming games.