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Monday 31 December 2012
Exile's End of Year List
2012
My top 5 albums:
#5-2
(in no particular order)
Swans: The Seer/Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers/Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral/Scott Walker: Bisch Bosh
#1
Bvdub: All Is Forgiven
Best Box: Can's Lost Tapes
Best 12": Burial - Kindred
Embarrassment of the year:
Dexy's Midnight Runners comeback
Cover version of the year:
Dim Stars - Monkey/The Night Is Coming On (Live 1991)
Richard Hell - Thurston Moore - Don Fleming - Steve Shelly
Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib (2007)
Award winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy explores the human and
political consequences of one of the most bitter scandals of the war in
Iraq in this feature. In the 1960′s, a prison was built in Abu Ghraib,
an Iraqi city west of Baghdad, and during the regime of Saddam Hussein
it became a center of torture and abuse where political dissidents were
subjected to agonizing punishment or death.
Following the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, the prison was taken over by American military authorities, and was used as a holding facility for prisoners of war and suspected terrorists captured by U.S. forces.
The prison's reputation as a site of widespread abuse rose again when journalists discovered photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and humiliated in an ugly variety of ways by American soldiers, a scandal which had a major impact on international thinking about the war.
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib offers an in-depth look at the story behind the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, featuring interviews with observers on both sides of the national divide. Ghosts of Abu Ghraib received its world premiere in 2007.
Following the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, the prison was taken over by American military authorities, and was used as a holding facility for prisoners of war and suspected terrorists captured by U.S. forces.
The prison's reputation as a site of widespread abuse rose again when journalists discovered photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and humiliated in an ugly variety of ways by American soldiers, a scandal which had a major impact on international thinking about the war.
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib offers an in-depth look at the story behind the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, featuring interviews with observers on both sides of the national divide. Ghosts of Abu Ghraib received its world premiere in 2007.
RIP Nirbhaya
Via
Bollywood films sanctify pestering and stalking of women
10 reasons why India has a sexual violence problem
The gatekeepers?
...These figures present Israel (and the world ) with a very disturbing and frightening picture. It is no longer only Israel's detractors who are comparing the Israel Defense Forces with the Nazis. Now, albeit with certain reservations, Avraham Shalom is doing so as well. No longer is it only Israel's despised leftists who brandish the prophecies of philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz about the corrosive effects of the occupation and its power to turn Israel into a "Shin Bet state"; now, with certain reservations, Yuval Diskin admits it as well - and both Shalom and Diskin ignore the fact that they were among the parties who were responsible for the transgression.Via
#FucktheNRA
Via
Sunday 30 December 2012
Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements
Over the The Replacements' 12-year existence, the band's live sets were
magical. Gorman Bechard's remarkable history of the 'Mats takes us from
their first show and everywhere in between. He relies solely on the
fans; memories of their albums and antics. Material from Husker Dü,
Babes in Toyland, The Decemberists, The Hold Steady, Archers of Loaf,
Titus Andronicus, and Goo Goo Dolls is included.
Go here to read an essay on the last best band ever: noisey.vice.com/blog/the-replacements-are-awesome-and-if-you-dont-like-it-you-can-go-to-hell
Go here to read an essay on the last best band ever: noisey.vice.com/blog/the-replacements-are-awesome-and-if-you-dont-like-it-you-can-go-to-hell
Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk
December 30, 2012
I’m sorry that you took my comments as having sexist undertones. That certainly wasn’t intentional and I apologize.I was trying to address the fact that human society overall seems to degrade *all* people who try or even express that they might want to try to improve things. Often when a hacker wants to build a thing, we see people only telling them that they shouldn’t bother or when they want to learn, a similar negative pattern emerges. I was merely trying to address that kind of generally oppressive attitude that is a quite prevalent subtext in our community. We beat up on ourselves and others too often.
I think you’re generally right about the issues of sexism in the community and it generally reflects the world at large. There is far too much hateful shit in the air – it comes from a lot of places and it would be great if we could resolve it overall.
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As far as the Crypto Party/PrivateGSM stuff goes – I was trying to experiment with a new device that only supported PrivateGSM (ie: no redphone, textsecure, etc – iOS for the loss); sadly, PrivateGSM did not work on the platform that I was using and I simply ran out of time before the event. I thought I had apologized previously but well, obviously that wasn’t conveyed properly — so, I’ll repeat by saying that I’m sorry for not being able to participate after accepting your invitation.
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I think I should add that I was quite surprised to find myself as an example in your blog post. I personally wonder why you hadn’t mentioned this harbored resentment to me during the private conversations we’ve had lately. It really feels disrespectful and I hope that in the future, if you’re upset with me or with something I have or haven’t done, that you’ll talk with me directly.
December 30, 2012
Maybe I am disrespectful towards you nowadays. I apologise. You used to be one of the ppl I looked up to. The interactions we had around cryptoparty definitely undermined my respect for you.
The first paragraph of the article explains it’s not just a post about sexism and misogyny.
The post explains the small events over time that led to me quitting. Some of the interactions I had with you around Cryptoparty played into the outcome.
You have resources, freedom to move, networks to do things. Every few weeks you’re traveling to a new hacker space, meeting a celebrity, working on an international project.
Each thing I do – each tweet, each email, each response – is scraped from a situation with barely no time or space to myself, with limited resources.
I suspect it may be impossible for you to understand what I go through just to do things that for you seem simple and easy.
If you did, I suspect you wouldn’t have tested out PrivateGSM on me, 48hrs before Cryptoparty launched here in Melbourne, without testing it on yourself first.
I spent hours feeling stupid, not understanding why PrivateGSM wasn’t working, having put in hours of working on it, not wanting to seem like I wasn’t trying.
Reading your comments on LiberationTech’s email list questioning if I was willing to learn – I was livid.
Of course I’m teachable, but sometimes learning conditions are impossible.
You never admitted PrivateGSM wasn’t working for you either until now, by the way. You told me you were installing it. And then you cancelled.
I only guessed that you’d had problems, when I asked a bunch of people to try it out for me and a number of them had problems installing it.
I apologise for not bringing these issues up with you sooner. I always restricted my private comments to you, trying only to engage on a basis of ‘getting things done.’
Community means talking about stuff publicly, not just code and crypto. And that dialogue wasn’t fostered. The technical suggestions you made to me didn’t work, the projects you suggested were out of my ability and the comments you made on LibTech left me feeling two-inches tall.
I felt like my contribution was consistently under-valued, abused, and taken for granted.
I should have raised issues, with a number of people, but felt the working relationships were too fragile to push the card by saying anything.
Anyway, now I’ve said how I felt and I’ve been hacked, d0x’d and had every private affair since 2001 raised publicly in the last 24hrs.
Thank you for your response. I’ll keep in mind your comments.
December 31, 2012
Apology accepted, I hope the feeling is mutual but I have the feeling that it might be not entirely.I realize that the article is not just about sexism and misogyny; it doesn’t however feel great to be mentioned in the article as it conflates some non-sexist, non-misogynistic interactions we’ve had personally. Without our personal context, I think that people will read it as you calling me out for being a sexist, misogynistic jerk; a few people at the Congress here did actually ask me if that was the case. I found it to be utterly frustrating if only because our private context is entirely left out.
I understand that there are different things that challenge each of us and I have tried my best to support you in your efforts. I have also given my honest opinions and tried to be extremely understanding of the contexts. That is why I have tirelessly helped Nadim with CryptoCat, why I tried to give constructive feedback about CryptoParty, and of course why I offered you my full support in your other project that I won’t name here.
When you suggest that I travel freely, I feel that you downplay the issues that I have faced and still face. It feels extremely insulting and yet I don’t hold onto it. Just as I cannot know fully what your experience is and how much you struggle, I know that my life probably looks like a cake walk. Things are not as they seem and that is exactly why I stated in my keynote that conflict resolution, mutual aid and solidarity should be community goals. I think that working towards higher goals is a good idea!
I try my best to support your efforts and have put in quite a lot of time, energy and good will in solidarity with your causes. I try to give you the benefit of the doubt and harbor no ill will towards you; if I had an issue, I’d talk with you directly and honestly.
I didn’t “test” PrivateGSM out on you. I use it all the time – I simply had a new device and didn’t have my other normal device with me. As I said, I couldn’t install it properly. I was trying to hack it together to help you out – the issues you had on your end weren’t related to the fact that my setup wasn’t working. I’m sorry that the setup wasn’t a great experience but I hope you realize that in this case, we’re both users at the mercy of the software vendor.
I never at any point suggested that you didn’t want to learn – rather, I stated that the way you phrased things felt dis-empowering. Both in a self-deprecating manner and in a way that is all too common in our community. I was *trying* to be supportive with what I said and it doesn’t seem that even now my intentions are reaching you. I’m not really sure what else to say about the topic, so perhaps I’ll just stop trying to re-state my intentions.
I’m sorry you’re having a hard time and I think it i utter bullshit that you’re being attacked for having this dialog. I hope in the future that things will be more respectful all around.
Jacob Appelbaum: Not My Department (29C3 Keynote 27/12/12)
Enemies of the State: What Happens When Telling the Truth about Secret US Government Power Becomes a Crime
Blowing the Whistle on Spying, Lying & Illegalities in the Digital Era
Panel presented at 29C3 (29th Chaos Communication Congress), 27 December 2012. Speakers are Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, and William Binney
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