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Calvin Harris (ft. Ellie Goulding) – I Need Your Love
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Tagged Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding, music, pop, video
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Pharoahe Monch – Stand Your Ground
This song is inspired by the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the murder of Trayvon Martin.
Posted in Soul Brother Presents
Tagged hip-hop, Lee Stone, music, Pharoahe Monch, protest, protest song, Trayvon Martin
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The Fifth Estate
Opening on October 13, 2013 is the story of Julian Assange and Wikileaks, “The Fifth Estate.” The movie stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Alicia Vikander, Carice van Houten, Laura Linney, and Stanley Tucci.
2013 Emmy Awards Nominees
(Photo credit: NASA HQ PHOTO)
Congratulations to all of the nominees!!!
DRAMA ACTRESS
Claire Danes (“Homeland”)
Vera Farmiga (“Bates Motel”)
Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”)
Robin Wright (“House of Cards”)
Elisabeth Moss (“Mad Men”)
Connie Britton (“Nashville”)
Kerry Washington (“Scandal”)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Anna Gunn (“Breaking Bad”)
Maggie Smith (“Downton Abbey”)
Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”)
Christine Baranski (“The Good Wife”)
Morena Baccarin (“Homeland”)
Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”)
DRAMA ACTOR
Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey”)
Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”)
Jeff Daniels (“The Newsroom”)
Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”)
Damian Lewis (“Homeland”)
Kevin Spacey (“House of Cards”)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Bobby Cannavale (“Boardwalk Empire”)
Jonathan Banks (“Breaking Bad”)
Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”)
Jim Carter (“Downton Abbey”)
Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”)
Many Patinkin (“Homeland”)
DRAMA SERIES
“Breaking Bad” (AMC)
“Downton Abbey” (PBS)
“Game of Thrones” (HBO)
“Homeland” (Showtime)
“House of Cards” (Netflix)
“Mad Men” (AMC)
COMEDY ACTRESS
Tina Fey (“30 Rock”)
Laura Dern (“Enlightened”)
Lena Dunham (“Girls”)
Edie Falco (“Nurse Jackie”)
Amy Poehler (“Parks and Recreation”)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Veep”)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Mayim Bialik (“The Big Bang Theory”)
Jane Lynch (“Glee”)
Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family”)
Julie Bowen (“Modern Family”)
Merritt Wever (“Nurse Jackie”)
Jane Krakowski (“30 Rock”)
Anna Chlumsky (“Veep”)
COMEDY ACTOR
Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock”)
Jason Bateman (“Arrested Development”)
Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”)
Matt LeBlanc (“Episodes”)
Louie C.K (“Louie”)
Don Cheadle (“House of Lies”)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Adam Driver (“Girls”)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (“Modern Family”)
Ed O’Neill (“Modern Family”)
Ty Burrell (“Modern Family”)
Bill Hader (“SNL”)
Tony Hale (“Veep”)
COMEDY SERIES
“The Big Bang Theory” (CBS)
“Girls” (HBO)
“Louie” (FX)
“Modern Family” (ABC)
“30 Rock” (NBC)
“Veep” (HBO)
WRITING FOR A DRAMA
George Mastras (“Breaking Bad”)
Thomas Schnauz (“Breaking Bad”)
Julian Fellowes (“Downton Abbey”)
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (“Game of Thrones”)
Henry Bromell (“Homeland”)
WRITING FOR A COMEDY
David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik (“Episodes”)
Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon (“Louie”)
Greg Daniels (“The Office”)
Jack Burditt and Robert Carlock (“30 Rock”)
Tina Fey and Tracey Wigfield (“30 Rock”)
DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA
Tim Van Patten (“Boardwalk Empire”)
Michelle MacLaren (“Breaking Bad”)
Jeremy Webb (“Downton Abbey”)
Lesli Linka Glatter (“Homeland”)
David Fincher (“House of Cards”)
DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY
Lena Dunham (“Girls”)
Paris Barclay (“Glee”)
Louis C.K. (“Louie”)
Gail Mancuso (“Modern Family”)
Beth McCarthy-Miller (“30 Rock”)
MINISERIES OR MOVIE
“American Horror Story: Asylum” (FX)
“Behind the Candelabra” (HBO)
“The Bible” (History)
“Phil Spector” (HBO)
“Political Animals” (USA)
“Top of the Lake” (Sundance Channel)
REALITY COMPETITION
“The Amazing Race” (CBS)
“Dancing With the Stars” (ABC)
“Project Runway” (Lifetime)
“So You Think You Can Dance” (FOX)
“Top Chef” (Bravo)
“The Voice” (NBC)
Putting Casual Racism on Trial
Trayvon Martin Rally Sit-In – Sanford (Photo credit: werthmedia)
By Aura Bogado
During her now-infamous CNN appearance, Zimmerman case Juror B37 made clear that, in her opinion, most people would have reacted the way that George Zimmerman did the night he shot and killed Trayvon Martin. If she meant that a good number of people would perceive the black male teenager being followed as the aggressor rather than an innocent kid walking home from the store, she might actually be right. That’s because most people unconsciously employ what’s called implicit bias—an automatic negative perception of some people, along racial lines.
In an era when overt racism is stigmatized, people are reluctant to admit to their prejudices, not only to one another but also to themselves. That stigma makes it even harder to grapple with the prospect of hidden racial bias. But research shows that denying or pretending that deep-seated racism doesn’t exist ultimately serves to intensify the problem
If you don’t believe it, try taking an implicit bias test. Created by scientists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington, this tool measures your automatic racial bias and preferences. The results of your individual test might surprise you; while many people honestly believe that they hold no negative associations based on race, it’s often untrue. And those negative biases don’t just rest on our minds—they can also forecast our behavior.
According to Rachel Godsil, research director of the American Values Institute and a law professor at Seton Hall, negative associations tend to flow from structural inequalities that are reinforced by media representations.
Godsil cites, for example, how drug use is evenly distributed among different racial groups but black people are more likely to be arrested and imprisoned for possession. “The media sometimes skews things in ways that overemphasize [the criminality] of a particular group,” she says. “There’s an echo chamber between structural inequality, media portrayal and individual implicit bias.”
When the Zimmerman jury was provided evidence that black men had previously been implicated in burglaries, it likely tapped in to an implicit bias that would render Trayvon Martin a criminal, despite the fact he was not the one on trial, he was unarmed, and he was walking around in the neighborhood he was staying in at the time.
Read More Putting Casual Racism on Trial – COLORLINES.
*** I challenge everyone to take the Implicit Association Test from Harvard University. It’s important for us to realize we all have some form of bias. It’s even more important for us to end those stereotypes that causes the bias.
Go here: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/ – SB****
Technology to Protect Against Mass Surveillance
The Supervision – Stop Mass Surveillance! (Photo credit: creative heroes)
By Seth Schoen
In the past several weeks, EFF has received many requests for advice about privacy tools that provide technological shields against mass surveillance. We’ve been interested for many years in software tools that help people protect their own privacy; we’ve defended your right to develop and use cryptographic software, we’ve supported the development of the Tor software, and written privacy software of our own.
This article is part one of a two-part series. In this part, we’ll take a brief look at some of the available tools to blunt the effects of mass surveillance. In the second part, we’ll discuss the big picture, reasons Internet users have been slow to adopt cryptographic software, and some limitations of existing technology’s ability to defend us against government snooping.
I. The things users want to keep private
There are many different kinds of electronic surveillance and many aspects of our communicative activities we may want to keep private. The online privacy landscape can be daunting in part because each different tool addresses different kinds of monitoring and privacy threats.
For example, most web browsers now include a “private browsing mode” which limits the web history kept on your own computer, preventing others who access your computer from learning about your browsing, but which has no effect on the data that’s transmitted over the Internet, and doesn’t try to stop, say, your Internet service provider from knowing where you went online.
Similarly, some privacy settings on services like Google and Facebook limit the display of some account history and information either to you or to your friends, but don’t do anything at a technical level to stop Google or Facebook themselves from accessing or recording the communications and activities you send through their sites.
Read More Technology to Protect Against Mass Surveillance (Part 1) | Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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