August 4, 2012
Ummm, this is so strange and amazing. huffingtonpost: Iran’s absolute ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been tweeting up a storm using the same handle for a while now, and it appears the Supreme Leader recently decided to branch out to the photo-sharing app Instagram. Israeli newspaper Haaretz pointed out the new account, which featured four photos and had amassed over 300 followers at the time of publication. Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei Is On Instagram

Ummm, this is so strange and amazing.

huffingtonpost:

Iran’s absolute ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been tweeting up a storm using the same handle for a while now, and it appears the Supreme Leader recently decided to branch out to the photo-sharing app Instagram.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz pointed out the new account, which featured four photos and had amassed over 300 followers at the time of publication.

Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei Is On Instagram

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June 13, 2012
"… as a media critic who does a lot of feminist work, I hate the fact that I’m grateful for the fact that I’m not harassed for doing my job."

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Alyssa Rosenberg for Think Progress

on Anita Sarkeesian, Video Game Rape Culture, and Why Online Harassment Is Not a Joke.

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Filed under: feminism media criticism video games rape internet harassment kickstarter 
April 3, 2012
"Our Sysop, who art On-Line, high be thy clearance level.
Thy System up, thy Program executed off-line as it is on-line.
Give us this logon our database, and allow our rants, as we allow those who flame against us.
And do not access us to garbage, but deliver us from outage.
For thine is the System and the Software and the Password forever."

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The Cyberpunk’s Prayer, by Bill Scarborough

first published: O’Leary, Stephen D. and Brasher, Brenda (1996) ‘The Unknown God of the Internet: Religious Communication from the Ancient Agora to the Virtual Forum,’ in Ess, C. (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Computer Mediated Communication.

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