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Sam’s death lit the fuse of a suicide epidemic that would take the lives of nine local students in under two years, a rate so high that child psychologist Dan Reidenberg, executive director of the Minnesota-based Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, declared the Anoka-Hennepin school district the site of a “suicide cluster,” adding that the crisis might hold an element of contagion; suicidal thoughts had become catchy, like a lethal virus. “Here you had a large number of suicides that are really closely connected, all within one school district, in a small amount of time,” explains Reidenberg. “Kids started to feel that the normal response to stress was to take your life.”

One Town’s War on Gay Teens | Politics News | Rolling Stone.

Get angry.

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As if this is even a question.

2012-01-27T05:55:11Z

It made me wonder what would happen if all the content-creation industries blocked access to all their products for a day to demonstrate what would happen if they couldn’t make any money from their work owing to rogue sites. There’d be no music, no television, no film, no books, no radio. What would you miss the most – culture or Wikipedia?

Behind the music: What if the culture industry shut down for a day? | Music | guardian.co.uk.

Wikipedia.

I’d miss Wikipedia, Tumblr, Dreamwidth, the AO3, random blogs, my own blog… All that stuff I’d miss a million times more than I would the “culture industry”.

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Internet killed the Hollywood star.

2012-01-27T05:54:30Z

Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they’re resorting to such tactics [as SOPA]. If movies and TV were growing rapidly, that growth would take up all their attention.

YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood.

What else is there other than Hollywood?

Well. Why don’t you go find out?

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It’s like Godzilla versus… Godzilla.

2012-01-27T05:53:45Z

In Piracy Bill Fight, New Economy Rises Against Old – NYTimes.com.

Make no mistake: “Citizen uprisings” had nothing to do with the drop in support for SOPA and PIPA. It was all about industry lobbying. The tech industry is bigger than the oldskool media industry, they’re just not as organised. Yet.

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Key Escrow 2.0

2012-01-27T05:53:23Z

Mozilla pushes browser-based alternative to passwords.

We need… something like this.

Just probably not this.

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… dear sweet jebus gog I want a Homestuck MMO.

2012-01-31T22:16:36Z

No, seriously. Someone needs to be getting on that shiznit and MAKIN IT HAPPEN right now.

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Foreign policy or domestic?

2012-01-27T05:53:14Z

“The United States is the next authoritarian state,” [Australian Greens] Senator Ludlum says, and the rest of the world needs to be aware that bills such as SOPA or PIPA will affect the world, not just the USA.

The Importance Of Anonymity On The Web.

Bring on the one-world corporatocracy.

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