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April 2014

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The Fantasy and Abuse of the Manipulable User, by Betsy Haibel | Model View Culture

http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-fantasy-and-abuse-of-the-manipulable-user
Enthusiastic consent is not a legal rubric. Instead, it's a tool that reframes consent as active - as more about “yes means yes” than “no means no.” Sex educator Heather Corinna emphasizes that consent is an “active process of willingly and freely choosing” the activity consented to. via Pocket
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Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol: The Craziest Superhero Story Ever Told - Noah Berlatsky - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/doom-patrol/360616/
A quarter century ago, a young writer broke free of comic-book cliches by using sheer, brave goofiness. If only he, and the rest of the industry, had kept that spirit alive. For most superheroes, fighting for truth and justice means fighting for the status quo. via Pocket
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archive.org #31944

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol: The Craziest Superhero Story Ever Told - Noah Berlatsky - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/doom-patrol/360616
A quarter century ago, a young writer broke free of comic-book cliches by using sheer, brave goofiness. If only he, and the rest of the industry, had kept that spirit alive. For most superheroes, fighting for truth and justice means fighting for the status quo. via Pocket
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archive.org #24758

Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/12/capitalism-isnt-working-thomas-piketty
Suddenly, there is a new economist making waves – and he is not on the right. At the conference of the Institute of New Economic Thinking in Toronto last week, Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century got at least one mention at every session I attended. via Pocket
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archive.org #24756

The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale | Enterprise | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/novena/
Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross want to sell you a laptop you can completely trust. Earlier this year, the two Singapore-based engineers fashioned a laptop made almost entirely from open source hardware, hardware whose designs are freely available to the world at large. via Pocket
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