the faint hum

The sound of the machines that never goes away, the last thing I hear at night and the gentle breath that greets me when I wake up before anyone else. Like the sigh of the wind through ancient tree-bound mountains, with flashing leds and un-set clocks.

Brendan Peveril, freelance writer of fiction, non-fiction and comics.

10 million people contacted Congress, Wales said. “That’s not an abuse of power, that’s democracy. [Dodd] had best get used to it.

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, responding to MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd’s claim that SOPA blackout was “an abuse of power.” (via wilwheaton)

Better yet, Mr. Wales, that is free speech, something not even Mr. Dodd has the power to alter.

(via nefariousnewt)

Show me one creative person, one person who creates something worth stealing, or more importantly, worth paying money to see, read, listen to, who is still worried about piracy. The people who push for this kind of legislation, who pay a lot of money to shoehorn this bullshit into law, are the people pushing papers around to make money from the labors of creative people. Why do we give a shit about what they think?

(via stfuconservatives)

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