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things I'm excited about
Nov. 22nd, 2011 01:21 am- Occupy.
I'm amazed at the sustained protest, even in the face of police brutality and attempts to make it seem like the movement doesn't have any particular goals ("I have no idea what they want, it's so confusing!!"), or paint it as a bunch of confused hippie kids with too-fancy degrees looking for handouts. Apparently the idea originally came from AdBusters!
The national debate, it is shifting.
Zoe Lofgren, Bernie Sanders, Lawrence Lessig and Buddy Roemer are my current heroes.
I took the Obama bumper sticker off my car a few days ago; my trust, it is severely eroded. I was really hopeful. I was knocking on doors and driving people to the polls in Atlanta, November 2008. But his silence about Occupy and the surrounding police brutality, his failure to close Guantánamo, the "targeted killings" and continued drone strikes, the ACTA copyright treaty, his administration's apparent support for SOPA... it's almost like he's not exactly on the right side of things all the time. OMFG and the responses to all the petitions especially the Bradley Manning one.
- Fitocracy
Fitocracy is so rad. You should join it, so we can do fitocracy together. It's this lovely website where you write down your workouts, and people tell you how awesome you are for doing those workouts. You get charts and graphs! AND POINTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS. The community is really very supportive, and the software knows about a zillion different exercises, so if you did some lateral bodyweight dorsal chin-downs (wide-grip), you can tell the world how many reps. (also: you can say "I walked on the treadmill this many minutes", too)
And I will click the "give props" button.
- bandcamp!
Find cool music, listen to it online, buy it if you want! Wub wub wub, if you're into that sort of thing. (click on tags and find albums you might like better, too.)
- The Internets respond to SOPA.
Mozilla, the EFF, and Tumblr especially did amazing work to get the message out about terrible legislation. And we came out swinging! It's really beautiful how quickly we can organize and harass our terrible, terrible congress. They deserve it, jerks.
http://staff.tumblr.com/post/12930076128/a-historic-thing
http://americancensorship.org/
What are you excited about?
OK, but seriously, join Fitocracy and we'll Fitocracy together; my username is "alexrudnick" there.
I'm amazed at the sustained protest, even in the face of police brutality and attempts to make it seem like the movement doesn't have any particular goals ("I have no idea what they want, it's so confusing!!"), or paint it as a bunch of confused hippie kids with too-fancy degrees looking for handouts. Apparently the idea originally came from AdBusters!
The national debate, it is shifting.
Zoe Lofgren, Bernie Sanders, Lawrence Lessig and Buddy Roemer are my current heroes.
I took the Obama bumper sticker off my car a few days ago; my trust, it is severely eroded. I was really hopeful. I was knocking on doors and driving people to the polls in Atlanta, November 2008. But his silence about Occupy and the surrounding police brutality, his failure to close Guantánamo, the "targeted killings" and continued drone strikes, the ACTA copyright treaty, his administration's apparent support for SOPA... it's almost like he's not exactly on the right side of things all the time. OMFG and the responses to all the petitions especially the Bradley Manning one.
- Fitocracy
Fitocracy is so rad. You should join it, so we can do fitocracy together. It's this lovely website where you write down your workouts, and people tell you how awesome you are for doing those workouts. You get charts and graphs! AND POINTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS. The community is really very supportive, and the software knows about a zillion different exercises, so if you did some lateral bodyweight dorsal chin-downs (wide-grip), you can tell the world how many reps. (also: you can say "I walked on the treadmill this many minutes", too)
And I will click the "give props" button.
- bandcamp!
Find cool music, listen to it online, buy it if you want! Wub wub wub, if you're into that sort of thing. (click on tags and find albums you might like better, too.)
- The Internets respond to SOPA.
Mozilla, the EFF, and Tumblr especially did amazing work to get the message out about terrible legislation. And we came out swinging! It's really beautiful how quickly we can organize and harass our terrible, terrible congress. They deserve it, jerks.
http://staff.tumblr.com/post/12930076128/a-historic-thing
http://americancensorship.org/
What are you excited about?
OK, but seriously, join Fitocracy and we'll Fitocracy together; my username is "alexrudnick" there.
