2017: the year we become ungovernable

Kali Akuno, an organizer with Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement talks to Alternet about the first stirrings of the mass-scale civil disobedience we must practice to resist trumpism.

I find great inspiration in Akuno’s ideas, and find them an excellent counterpoint to the idea of “not normalizing” Trump. The reality is that we always normalize everything – read the accounts of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps or Americans tortured for years in the country’s solitary confinement wings and you’ll find that, to a one, their terrible situations become normal. All constant stimulus fades to a background refrigerator hum that we can only notice when it ceases.

But Akuno is talking about normalizing resistance, becoming habitual monkeywrenchers and refuseniks, people whose first response to any trumpist outrage is “no way,” and whose fallback position is “hell no.”

My great aunt Lisa was an engineering foreman in Leningrad during the Soviet era, bossing a crew of surly, drunk, ungovernable men. Her stories about how these men featherbedded, foot-dragged, monkeywrenched and twiddled their days away were always told with a mixture of frustration (at the way they made her life difficult) and admiration (at how good they were at it).

From the Department of Energy bureaucrats who refused to turn over the names of workers who believe in climate change to the California lawmakers pledging to use state apparatus to replace anything Trump removes (up to and including climate-observing satellites), the next four years will require all of us, at every level to do our bit to make trumpism stumble and to nurture the spark of hope for a better world.

As John Scalzi wrote yesterday: “You are more important than you know, if you don’t give in to despair, to complacency, or to apathy. Add to the moral weight that bends the arc toward justice. You can’t do it alone, but without you the work becomes that much harder.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/2017-the-year-we-become-ungov.html

2017: the year we become ungovernable

Kali Akuno, an organizer with Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement talks to Alternet about the first stirrings of the mass-scale civil disobedience we must practice to resist trumpism.

I find great inspiration in Akuno’s ideas, and find them an excellent counterpoint to the idea of “not normalizing” Trump. The reality is that we always normalize everything – read the accounts of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps or Americans tortured for years in the country’s solitary confinement wings and you’ll find that, to a one, their terrible situations become normal. All constant stimulus fades to a background refrigerator hum that we can only notice when it ceases.

But Akuno is talking about normalizing resistance, becoming habitual monkeywrenchers and refuseniks, people whose first response to any trumpist outrage is “no way,” and whose fallback position is “hell no.”

My great aunt Lisa was an engineering foreman in Leningrad during the Soviet era, bossing a crew of surly, drunk, ungovernable men. Her stories about how these men featherbedded, foot-dragged, monkeywrenched and twiddled their days away were always told with a mixture of frustration (at the way they made her life difficult) and admiration (at how good they were at it).

From the Department of Energy bureaucrats who refused to turn over the names of workers who believe in climate change to the California lawmakers pledging to use state apparatus to replace anything Trump removes (up to and including climate-observing satellites), the next four years will require all of us, at every level to do our bit to make trumpism stumble and to nurture the spark of hope for a better world.

As John Scalzi wrote yesterday: “You are more important than you know, if you don’t give in to despair, to complacency, or to apathy. Add to the moral weight that bends the arc toward justice. You can’t do it alone, but without you the work becomes that much harder.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/2017-the-year-we-become-ungov.html

2017: the year we become ungovernable

Kali Akuno, an organizer with Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement talks to Alternet about the first stirrings of the mass-scale civil disobedience we must practice to resist trumpism.

I find great inspiration in Akuno’s ideas, and find them an excellent counterpoint to the idea of “not normalizing” Trump. The reality is that we always normalize everything – read the accounts of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps or Americans tortured for years in the country’s solitary confinement wings and you’ll find that, to a one, their terrible situations become normal. All constant stimulus fades to a background refrigerator hum that we can only notice when it ceases.

But Akuno is talking about normalizing resistance, becoming habitual monkeywrenchers and refuseniks, people whose first response to any trumpist outrage is “no way,” and whose fallback position is “hell no.”

My great aunt Lisa was an engineering foreman in Leningrad during the Soviet era, bossing a crew of surly, drunk, ungovernable men. Her stories about how these men featherbedded, foot-dragged, monkeywrenched and twiddled their days away were always told with a mixture of frustration (at the way they made her life difficult) and admiration (at how good they were at it).

From the Department of Energy bureaucrats who refused to turn over the names of workers who believe in climate change to the California lawmakers pledging to use state apparatus to replace anything Trump removes (up to and including climate-observing satellites), the next four years will require all of us, at every level to do our bit to make trumpism stumble and to nurture the spark of hope for a better world.

As John Scalzi wrote yesterday: “You are more important than you know, if you don’t give in to despair, to complacency, or to apathy. Add to the moral weight that bends the arc toward justice. You can’t do it alone, but without you the work becomes that much harder.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/2017-the-year-we-become-ungov.html

2017: the year we become ungovernable

Kali Akuno, an organizer with Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement talks to Alternet about the first stirrings of the mass-scale civil disobedience we must practice to resist trumpism.

I find great inspiration in Akuno’s ideas, and find them an excellent counterpoint to the idea of “not normalizing” Trump. The reality is that we always normalize everything – read the accounts of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps or Americans tortured for years in the country’s solitary confinement wings and you’ll find that, to a one, their terrible situations become normal. All constant stimulus fades to a background refrigerator hum that we can only notice when it ceases.

But Akuno is talking about normalizing resistance, becoming habitual monkeywrenchers and refuseniks, people whose first response to any trumpist outrage is “no way,” and whose fallback position is “hell no.”

My great aunt Lisa was an engineering foreman in Leningrad during the Soviet era, bossing a crew of surly, drunk, ungovernable men. Her stories about how these men featherbedded, foot-dragged, monkeywrenched and twiddled their days away were always told with a mixture of frustration (at the way they made her life difficult) and admiration (at how good they were at it).

From the Department of Energy bureaucrats who refused to turn over the names of workers who believe in climate change to the California lawmakers pledging to use state apparatus to replace anything Trump removes (up to and including climate-observing satellites), the next four years will require all of us, at every level to do our bit to make trumpism stumble and to nurture the spark of hope for a better world.

As John Scalzi wrote yesterday: “You are more important than you know, if you don’t give in to despair, to complacency, or to apathy. Add to the moral weight that bends the arc toward justice. You can’t do it alone, but without you the work becomes that much harder.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/2017-the-year-we-become-ungov.html

2017: the year we become ungovernable

Kali Akuno, an organizer with Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement talks to Alternet about the first stirrings of the mass-scale civil disobedience we must practice to resist trumpism.

I find great inspiration in Akuno’s ideas, and find them an excellent counterpoint to the idea of “not normalizing” Trump. The reality is that we always normalize everything – read the accounts of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps or Americans tortured for years in the country’s solitary confinement wings and you’ll find that, to a one, their terrible situations become normal. All constant stimulus fades to a background refrigerator hum that we can only notice when it ceases.

But Akuno is talking about normalizing resistance, becoming habitual monkeywrenchers and refuseniks, people whose first response to any trumpist outrage is “no way,” and whose fallback position is “hell no.”

My great aunt Lisa was an engineering foreman in Leningrad during the Soviet era, bossing a crew of surly, drunk, ungovernable men. Her stories about how these men featherbedded, foot-dragged, monkeywrenched and twiddled their days away were always told with a mixture of frustration (at the way they made her life difficult) and admiration (at how good they were at it).

From the Department of Energy bureaucrats who refused to turn over the names of workers who believe in climate change to the California lawmakers pledging to use state apparatus to replace anything Trump removes (up to and including climate-observing satellites), the next four years will require all of us, at every level to do our bit to make trumpism stumble and to nurture the spark of hope for a better world.

As John Scalzi wrote yesterday: “You are more important than you know, if you don’t give in to despair, to complacency, or to apathy. Add to the moral weight that bends the arc toward justice. You can’t do it alone, but without you the work becomes that much harder.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/2017-the-year-we-become-ungov.html

2017: the year we become ungovernable

Kali Akuno, an organizer with Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement talks to Alternet about the first stirrings of the mass-scale civil disobedience we must practice to resist trumpism.

I find great inspiration in Akuno’s ideas, and find them an excellent counterpoint to the idea of “not normalizing” Trump. The reality is that we always normalize everything – read the accounts of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps or Americans tortured for years in the country’s solitary confinement wings and you’ll find that, to a one, their terrible situations become normal. All constant stimulus fades to a background refrigerator hum that we can only notice when it ceases.

But Akuno is talking about normalizing resistance, becoming habitual monkeywrenchers and refuseniks, people whose first response to any trumpist outrage is “no way,” and whose fallback position is “hell no.”

My great aunt Lisa was an engineering foreman in Leningrad during the Soviet era, bossing a crew of surly, drunk, ungovernable men. Her stories about how these men featherbedded, foot-dragged, monkeywrenched and twiddled their days away were always told with a mixture of frustration (at the way they made her life difficult) and admiration (at how good they were at it).

From the Department of Energy bureaucrats who refused to turn over the names of workers who believe in climate change to the California lawmakers pledging to use state apparatus to replace anything Trump removes (up to and including climate-observing satellites), the next four years will require all of us, at every level to do our bit to make trumpism stumble and to nurture the spark of hope for a better world.

As John Scalzi wrote yesterday: “You are more important than you know, if you don’t give in to despair, to complacency, or to apathy. Add to the moral weight that bends the arc toward justice. You can’t do it alone, but without you the work becomes that much harder.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/2017-the-year-we-become-ungov.html

2017: the year we become ungovernable

Kali Akuno, an organizer with Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement talks to Alternet about the first stirrings of the mass-scale civil disobedience we must practice to resist trumpism.

I find great inspiration in Akuno’s ideas, and find them an excellent counterpoint to the idea of “not normalizing” Trump. The reality is that we always normalize everything – read the accounts of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps or Americans tortured for years in the country’s solitary confinement wings and you’ll find that, to a one, their terrible situations become normal. All constant stimulus fades to a background refrigerator hum that we can only notice when it ceases.

But Akuno is talking about normalizing resistance, becoming habitual monkeywrenchers and refuseniks, people whose first response to any trumpist outrage is “no way,” and whose fallback position is “hell no.”

My great aunt Lisa was an engineering foreman in Leningrad during the Soviet era, bossing a crew of surly, drunk, ungovernable men. Her stories about how these men featherbedded, foot-dragged, monkeywrenched and twiddled their days away were always told with a mixture of frustration (at the way they made her life difficult) and admiration (at how good they were at it).

From the Department of Energy bureaucrats who refused to turn over the names of workers who believe in climate change to the California lawmakers pledging to use state apparatus to replace anything Trump removes (up to and including climate-observing satellites), the next four years will require all of us, at every level to do our bit to make trumpism stumble and to nurture the spark of hope for a better world.

As John Scalzi wrote yesterday: “You are more important than you know, if you don’t give in to despair, to complacency, or to apathy. Add to the moral weight that bends the arc toward justice. You can’t do it alone, but without you the work becomes that much harder.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/2017-the-year-we-become-ungov.html

Disnerds, activate

So, if you’re not familiar with Father Nathan Monk on FB, you should be (https://www.facebook.com/fathernathan/). Below is an unsettling story he shared about a Samoan friend of his and Disney security. These are his words, not mine, but I think we know what to do here: 

“Everyone knows I’m one of the biggest Disney fans ever and I don’t like having to call them out. Especially because they’ve been working really hard on representation in all of their recent films. But something happened to my buddy Kyle Paala this week that really has me upset. Kyle is Samoan, he’s a tall brown guy with long curly hair and tattoos. He kinda resembles a certain demi-god. Kyle is an annual Passholder to Disneyland and when Moana first came out he was stoked to find out that his culture would be represented in film. Imagine his surprise when one of the main characters truly looked a whole lot like him! After the film was released, Kyle would be stopped literally everywhere he went, the mall, walking around downtown, and of course at Disneyland. Little kids stopping him and calling him Maui. Well, a few days ago he was approached by Disney security and told that he was being watched and he needed to consider even changing his appearance. It should be noted this isn’t coming from top Disney execs but just some nosy park security. However, it’s got Kyle pretty upset and he’s been trying to get the word out that people need to stop calling him Maui. But how are you going to stop excited children who don’t know better? He doesn’t dress like him at the parks, he doesn’t go by that name, he introduces himself as Kyle. He’s just Samoan. He is truly one of the most loving, kind, and generous people ever. He’s also a diehard Disney fan. It’s a real shame that he’s being shunned instead of embraced. Don’t kick Kyle out! Hire him or something. Because clearly, people love him. I sure know I do!”

As a former cast member I get why they did what they did in certain circumstances. Main one being if he was playing the part by saying he’s Maui, Disney will crackdown on that hard and fast for liability issues. Same if he’s dressing the part like when he was wearing the grass skirt, Adults dressing as the characters is a huge no-no once again for liability reasons.

But if he’s just dressed normally and isn’t playing with the kids security shouldn’t bother him. If they do he needs to go up the food chain cause the higher ups don’t fuck around and they’ll put a stop to it quick.

He’s Samoan. The picture of him in garb is not him portraying Maui.

Also, read what Father Monk said, Kyle never claims to be affiliated. He makes it a point to tell people his name is Kue. And I’d seriously like to know how you’d stop a child fr thinking this guy is Maui, even in street clothes, without infringing on his rights to be a Samoan dude in public.

DISNEY is in the wrong here.

"But if he's dressed normally and isn't playing with the kids security shouldn't bother him. If they do he needs to go up the food chain cause the higher ups don't fuck around and they'll put a stop to it quick."

Breaking it down: If he doesn't dress like Maui, doesn't act like Maui, security needs to leave him alone.

If security keeps bothering him he needs to go to city hall with that cast members name.

They'll contact that persons manager and put a stop to the harassment.

As you've pointed out they can't harass someone for looking Samoan, that's wrong.

The lack of reading comprehension is almost scary on this site. Then I remember it’s a thing on the Internet and it becomes truly scary.

You mean the way that you implied Disney park employees were justified in targeting a Samoan man who happens to look like a Samoan character on the basis of him being Samoan, even though the original post clearly said that he was not presenting himself as Maui nor was he introducing himself as or telling people his name was Maui? Cuz that was pretty wild how you did that. Gave me chills.

You mean when I said that if he wasn't doing those things that they weren't justified? My comment is still there to read if you'd like to read.

i can’t believe i fell for it

This was actually pretty clever

This is some next generation bullshit fuck me

some scat porn blog followed me and ??????

tumblr needs to do something about all these porn blogs

seriously what's with all this shit?

2017: the year we become ungovernable

Kali Akuno, an organizer with Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement talks to Alternet about the first stirrings of the mass-scale civil disobedience we must practice to resist trumpism.

I find great inspiration in Akuno’s ideas, and find them an excellent counterpoint to the idea of “not normalizing” Trump. The reality is that we always normalize everything – read the accounts of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps or Americans tortured for years in the country’s solitary confinement wings and you’ll find that, to a one, their terrible situations become normal. All constant stimulus fades to a background refrigerator hum that we can only notice when it ceases.

But Akuno is talking about normalizing resistance, becoming habitual monkeywrenchers and refuseniks, people whose first response to any trumpist outrage is “no way,” and whose fallback position is “hell no.”

My great aunt Lisa was an engineering foreman in Leningrad during the Soviet era, bossing a crew of surly, drunk, ungovernable men. Her stories about how these men featherbedded, foot-dragged, monkeywrenched and twiddled their days away were always told with a mixture of frustration (at the way they made her life difficult) and admiration (at how good they were at it).

From the Department of Energy bureaucrats who refused to turn over the names of workers who believe in climate change to the California lawmakers pledging to use state apparatus to replace anything Trump removes (up to and including climate-observing satellites), the next four years will require all of us, at every level to do our bit to make trumpism stumble and to nurture the spark of hope for a better world.

As John Scalzi wrote yesterday: “You are more important than you know, if you don’t give in to despair, to complacency, or to apathy. Add to the moral weight that bends the arc toward justice. You can’t do it alone, but without you the work becomes that much harder.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/2017-the-year-we-become-ungov.html

2017: the year we become ungovernable

Kali Akuno, an organizer with Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement talks to Alternet about the first stirrings of the mass-scale civil disobedience we must practice to resist trumpism.

I find great inspiration in Akuno’s ideas, and find them an excellent counterpoint to the idea of “not normalizing” Trump. The reality is that we always normalize everything – read the accounts of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps or Americans tortured for years in the country’s solitary confinement wings and you’ll find that, to a one, their terrible situations become normal. All constant stimulus fades to a background refrigerator hum that we can only notice when it ceases.

But Akuno is talking about normalizing resistance, becoming habitual monkeywrenchers and refuseniks, people whose first response to any trumpist outrage is “no way,” and whose fallback position is “hell no.”

My great aunt Lisa was an engineering foreman in Leningrad during the Soviet era, bossing a crew of surly, drunk, ungovernable men. Her stories about how these men featherbedded, foot-dragged, monkeywrenched and twiddled their days away were always told with a mixture of frustration (at the way they made her life difficult) and admiration (at how good they were at it).

From the Department of Energy bureaucrats who refused to turn over the names of workers who believe in climate change to the California lawmakers pledging to use state apparatus to replace anything Trump removes (up to and including climate-observing satellites), the next four years will require all of us, at every level to do our bit to make trumpism stumble and to nurture the spark of hope for a better world.

As John Scalzi wrote yesterday: “You are more important than you know, if you don’t give in to despair, to complacency, or to apathy. Add to the moral weight that bends the arc toward justice. You can’t do it alone, but without you the work becomes that much harder.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/2017-the-year-we-become-ungov.html

Disnerds, activate

So, if you’re not familiar with Father Nathan Monk on FB, you should be (https://www.facebook.com/fathernathan/). Below is an unsettling story he shared about a Samoan friend of his and Disney security. These are his words, not mine, but I think we know what to do here: 

“Everyone knows I’m one of the biggest Disney fans ever and I don’t like having to call them out. Especially because they’ve been working really hard on representation in all of their recent films. But something happened to my buddy Kyle Paala this week that really has me upset. Kyle is Samoan, he’s a tall brown guy with long curly hair and tattoos. He kinda resembles a certain demi-god. Kyle is an annual Passholder to Disneyland and when Moana first came out he was stoked to find out that his culture would be represented in film. Imagine his surprise when one of the main characters truly looked a whole lot like him! After the film was released, Kyle would be stopped literally everywhere he went, the mall, walking around downtown, and of course at Disneyland. Little kids stopping him and calling him Maui. Well, a few days ago he was approached by Disney security and told that he was being watched and he needed to consider even changing his appearance. It should be noted this isn’t coming from top Disney execs but just some nosy park security. However, it’s got Kyle pretty upset and he’s been trying to get the word out that people need to stop calling him Maui. But how are you going to stop excited children who don’t know better? He doesn’t dress like him at the parks, he doesn’t go by that name, he introduces himself as Kyle. He’s just Samoan. He is truly one of the most loving, kind, and generous people ever. He’s also a diehard Disney fan. It’s a real shame that he’s being shunned instead of embraced. Don’t kick Kyle out! Hire him or something. Because clearly, people love him. I sure know I do!”

As a former cast member I get why they did what they did in certain circumstances. Main one being if he was playing the part by saying he's Maui, Disney will crackdown on that hard and fast for liability issues. Same if he's dressing the part like when he was wearing the grass skirt, Adults dressing as the characters is a huge no-no once again for liability reasons.

But if he's just dressed normally and isn't playing with the kids security shouldn't bother him. If they do he needs to go up the food chain cause the higher ups don't fuck around and they'll put a stop to it quick.

President Trump is expected to sign into law a decision by Congress to overturn new privacy rules for Internet service providers.

Passed by the Federal Communications Commission in October, the rules never went into effect. If they had, it would have given consumers more control over how ISPs use the data they collect.

Since it’s not socially acceptable to read a book while you’re at a party, I want to host a party where everyone brings a book or two, and just reads together in the same room. It will be beautiful, and everyone will have a lovely time. I will be everyone’s favorite hostess. 

Went to a party where we played board games, exchanged books, and read a paragraph from our new book. It was fun.

So let me get this straight

Congress voted away our privacy. 45 is lining his pockets with our tax dollars. EPA is defanged, FCC is helping the corps out, and everything is kinda going to hell.

And the only thing that’s standing in their way is women wearing pussy hats, park rangers, fucking PornHub, and Cards Against Humanity.

What the fuck is this dystopia?

I have no idea, but I’m surprised we haven’t seen Tri-Optimum show up yet….because at this rate, it sounds more and more like System Shock. Because “everything is going to hell” is a hallmark of that game series. XD

Which starts with a hacker trying to break into megacorporation systems…

well, I am studying machine/deep learning...

The Value of Privacy

(via wilwheaton)

Totalitarianism is when your public life and private life are the same. Privacy is what enables us to be individuals. Without it what distinguishes us from our neighbors disappears and we become nothing more than a mob.