Via Tennyson McCalla “Wait,” you say, “Haven’t the complete works of Shakespeare been available on the MIT website for over 20 years now?” Yup. But this edition is better; the ridiculous legalities of copyright forced MIT to use a late Victorian edition and stonewalled for decades any attempt at catching up on the last 100+ years of textual scholarship on an author who has been dead for almost 400 years. Fortunately, under competitive pressure, Folger Shakespeare Library is actually doing something to get around the massive damage that copyright has done to the progress of science and the useful arts.

ALL/Center for a Stateless Society @ the BA(A)BF to-day at The Crucible.

Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, in Cleopatra (1963).

ICE vs. Caring Family, Responsibility, Compassion and Human Decency. #BordersAreStupid #Not1More #NiUnaMas

#Not1More #NiUnaMas #EndDeportation #BordersAreStupid

National borders are a military phenomenon, not a natural or a social or a cultural one. The “nations” they circumscribe are political lies, and the fortified frontiers they impose are bloody scars cut across the face of the earth. #AbolishBorders #DestroyAllNations

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http://ift.tt/1j0Zw9h No. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

Don’t call the police. #AbolishThePolice

Of course, “reaching into the past” actually means that they are recording everything in the present, and keeping it around until they decide to look at it later. You should assume that literally anything you say over an open telephone line is being recorded and can be retrieved at the pleasure of the U.S. federal government.