nevver:

True North, Reuben Wu

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Feel it. The thing that you don’t want to feel. Feel it, and be free.

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the-future-now:

This robot led people to their doom — and they still followed it

Researchers from Georgia Tech, backed by money from the Air Force, ran a test to see if people trying to escape from a high-rise building would trust a robot to lead them. Overwhelmingly, the sheeple followed the little droid to their simulated deaths. In the video, the researchers theorize why people obliged.

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Please read this. Researchers think that the reason the people in the experiment followed the robot, even when it led them into danger, is because they saw the robot as an authority.

Yep. A lot of research on his. Asch. Milgram. Zimbardo.

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Despite all my accomplishments — and my age is also an accomplishment — I felt minimized. …For me this is not personal. It is intellectual, ideological and legal. I think to myself, here I am, an older woman, educated, I’ve been around the world, and some guy can decide that I shouldn’t sit next to him. Why?

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SHE DROVE ME HERE

Everyone and everything in this outtake though.

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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

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thesociologicalcinema:

In an effort to put down militants who threatened Britsh imperial ambitions in Kenya, on October 1952 the British declared a state of emergency and began moving army reinforcements into the area. In organizing an aggressive counter-insurgency, the British targeted the Mau Mau fighters, who hailed from Kenya’s major ethnic group, the Kikuyu.

Officially the number of Mau Mau and other rebels killed was 11,000, including 1,090 convicts hanged by the British administration. Unofficial figures are much higher. The Kenya Human Rights Commission reports that 90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed. David Anderson, professor of African Politics at Oxford University, says he estimates the death toll in the conflict to have been as high as 25,000.

In addition to search-and-destroy missions against Mau Mau rebels, the British also placed the Mau Mau into concentration camps. As many as 160,000 were detained in such camps.

The state of emergency finally ended in 1960.

Remember when people tried to associate Obama with the Mau Mau? Keep in mind, that they were trying to say that he was “bad” by identifying him with a group of rebels who fought against a racist colonial system (not unlike apartheid in South Africa). Just remember that implicitly, such attacks defended British imperialism in Africa and all it symbolizes.

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