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First they monitor, then they edit: DHS scours top internet sites looking for drama…
Since at least June 2010… List of sites being monitored…

NOT COOL: No Doubt, Nicole Scherzinger Twitter accounts hacked by Ron Paul supporters…

MEXICO SLAUGHTER: 47,515 drug-related killings since December 2006, and climbing…

Reddit vs United States Government: blacking out on January 18th from 8am–8pm EST…
GUY AT FORBES ABOUT TO GET FIRED: “Google and Facebook Must Follow”

Antitrust+

Most of the broader antitrust concerns against Google are bullshit in my opinion. You can argue that they have a monopoly on search, but it’s a natural one. They’ve earned it. They’re simply better at search than their competitors. This has always been true. It remains true.

But when they use that natural monopoly to start pushing into other verticals, things get gray. Travel, restaurant reviews, etc, etc. We see more of it each year.

But this, at first glance, seems decidedly worse. Google is using Search to propel their social network. They might say it’s “not a social network, it’s a part of Google”, but no one is going to buy that. They were late to the game in social and this is the best catchup strategy ever.

NH 2012 RESULTS: MITT 39%, RON 23%, JON 17%, NEWT 10%, RICK 10%… [100% reporting]
EXIT POLLS: Paul voters young, poor, independent; Romney voters older, affluent, contacted more…
Ron Paul to everyone but Mitt: DROP OUT…
Politico deems Ron Paul ‘gloomy’ when telling the truth about America…
LIBERTARIAN PARTY: Mitt Romney = Big Government…
VIDEO: Project Veritas asks NH poll workers for ballots… in dead peoples’ names!

Fidel Castro: ‘robot’ better than Obama, Republicans…

Cory Doctorow: The coming war on general computation… [transcript]

Freedom in the future will require us to have the capacity to monitor our devices and set meaningful policy on them, to examine and terminate the processes that run on them, to maintain them as honest servants to our will, and not as traitors and spies working for criminals, thugs, and control freaks. And we haven’t lost yet, but we have to win the copyright wars to keep the Internet and the PC free and open. Because these are the materiel in the wars that are to come, we won’t be able to fight on without them. And I know this sounds like a counsel of despair, but as I said, these are early days. We have been fighting the mini-boss, and that means that great challenges are yet to come, but like all good level designers, fate has sent us a soft target to train ourselves on — we have a organizations that fight for them — EFF, Bits of Freedom, EDRi, CCC, Netzpolitik, La Quadrature du Net, and all the others, who are thankfully, too numerous to name here — we may yet win the battle, and secure the ammunition we’ll need for the war.

UK: Worst possible way to fix an economy? Maximum work hour laws…

Robert Skidelsky, the Keynesian economist, who has written a forthcoming book with his son, Edward, entitled How Much Is Enough?, argued that rapid technological change means that even when the downturn is over there will be fewer jobs to go around in the years ahead. “The civilised answer should be work-sharing. The government should legislate a maximum working week.”

DIALOGUE VOLUME: Ron Paul finally most talked about candidate…
CBS POLL: PAUL HANDILY BEATING OBAMA AMONG INDEPENDENTS!
Percentage of independent/unaffiliated voters all-time high…
ಠ_ಠ Romney battered on all sides… “I like to fire people” reason: awww, lay off… HoT: caveat emptor…
SANTORUM SPLAT: Young people won’t stop asking him about gay rights…
HOT LIBERTARIAN GIRL: Nasty web video attacking Jon Huntsman might have come from Huntsman…
New Hampshire expectations game: Romney first, Ron Paul second, Santorum/Gingrich tossup third, much tighter race evolving…

Snoop Dogg arrested at same Texas checkpoint as Willie Nelson over a few joints worth of weed…
$500: GIVE US YOUR MONEY, RICH GUY NOT COMMITTING A CRIME…

Romney’s New Hampshire tour mobbed by unimpressed critics…
Christ Christie heckled, fires back with sly lewd joke…
“You know, something may go down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart.”
ROMNEY FLASHBACK: “I’m also unemployed.”
RAND PAUL: “The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values. Just any Republican won’t do. That’s what this primary is about.”
NH polls tightening… [entertainment purposes only]

Google+ is going to mess up the Internet (well, maybe just Google)…

Google used to be about organizing the world’s information. It was a service to the entire Web. But this social tangent is changing that. It’s turning the Web into a Google+ popularity contest. It’s making us labor to prioritize our Friends+ by how much they matter to us, or by other undefined criteria, while Facebook just sorts them for us. Google+ may have bought Katango to do the same. We’ll see when it ships.

Google+ is encircling our relationships, and it’s encircling our identities. It doesn’t care how we want to present ourselves; our Google+ profile is our identity as far as Google is concerned. No pseudonyms or alter egos allowed. Large swaths of the blogosphere and the Web at large think this is wrong. At Web 2.0 this year, Vic Gundotra said pseudonyms are coming to Google+. Again, we’ll see when it ships.

AW JEEZ: Candidate defeated for Boston Tea Party nomination accuses winner of falsifying resume…
Who is Tiffany Briscoe? “part of the Board of Trustees of the Howard Community College”
Nope, not there…
UPDATE: Briscoe responds…

I don’t know if this is genuine to the Howard Community College or, in general, to community colleges, but the fact of the matter is that all graduates with a memorable mention at their graduation are offered a title as being part of the “Board of Trustees”. This is like a honorary title, if you want. I receive no pay, I get no voting rights, nor do I attend most meetings. But I do receive a newsletter, have a parking space, and get occasional e-mails on this address provided by HCC. It’s no big thing, as you can see. And I will proceed to the removal of this from my website since it is causing so much “controversy”.

Vermin Supreme: “I’m a friendly fascist, I’m a tyrant that you should trust”

Legalizing marijuana now easily arguable as a ‘mainstream’ position…
BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS: “During Prohibition, juries often nullified alcohol control laws, possibly as often as 60% of the time due to disagreements with the justice of the law. This resistance is considered to have contributed to the adoption of the Twenty-first amendment repealing the Eighteenth amendment which established Prohibition.”

Sprint’s unlimited usage hokum exposed: they throttle TERMINATE if you use a lot…
FINE PRINT SPRINT: “Unlimited” means they will terminate your contract if you take them literally…

FTFY: Fracking will poison New York’s drinking water, experts warn…

REPORT: Pro-SOPA corporate media caught giving short shrift to Internet monopoly-enabling act on the television airwaves monopoly they’re already granted…

A dispatch from Springfield, Ohio: The unhappiest city in the United States…

SOPA/PIPA opposition digs in; Reddit founder says innovate, not legislate against piracy…
SOPA sponsor spits on reddit… ‘Not legitimate or large in number’
ACTIVIST GAMERS: MLG drops all domains from GoDaddy for their support for SOPA…
Twitch TV too..

Build your own open source rocket, NASA opens code to Internet…

The future of the GOP is libertarians… “the youngest active members of Iowa’s Republican Party overwhelmingly supported Ron Paul, the limited government, pro-freedom, anti-drug war, non-interventionist candidate. As the older voters die off (it may sound callous but it’s also an inevitability), the libertarian wing may very well take the place of the neo-con wing.”
DUCK AND COVER: Off camera war-reporter tells truth in Pentagon presser… “See this room? Two-thirds of us laid-off when Ron Paul is president.”
Santorum gets small bump in NH, Paul rounding second and the one actually surging…