A Victory for Recording in Public! | Citizen Media Law Project

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So this is really good news. A First Circuit federal appeals court has stated clearly and unequivocally that citizens have a right to videotape police officers conducting police activities in public. I hope the word of this spreads so that others refuse to be intimidated by police. (Actually, I would hope that police departments around the country would instruct their officers not to bother people who are videotaping public police activity unless they are actually interfering.)

Feminist Media Criticism, George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire, And That Sady Doyle Piece | ThinkProgress

I’ve written a great deal lately about the way that nerds can be less than progressive, whether by failing to establish anti-harassment policies and ethos at conventions or by relying on continuity and fidelity to text as a way to disguise an antipathy to diversity. But if we want the nerdosphere to be a more progressive place, I think it’s important to mount critiques that will actually be effective, rather than ones that can make the critics feel self-righteous, which is why I’m so dismayed by Sady Doyle’s condescending and willfully misleading critique of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series and the people who read it.

via thinkprogress.org

This is a fascinating piece. Click the pic for the column, and be sure to click the link in it to see the “Sady Doyle piece” it refers to.

NOTE: I originaly and unintentionally posted the entire column. I have shortened it and made the picture actually link to the whole thing.

PartiallyClips – One picture. Three panels. Twice a week.

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OK, this is pretty funny. It goes along with a recent discussion I was having about the use of “fucking” as a way to determine the stressed syllables in a word (e.g., you can say “un-fucking-believable” or “unbe-fucking-lievable” but you can’t say “unbeliev-fucking-able”)

And now it looks like I have another webcomic to add to my reading list. Out-fucking-rageous.