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Watch Out For The Bullets
safe haven for posting
and pontificating
with each other over
the global interwebs.
• WHY THE DUCK DIED
• WHERE THE DUCK DIED
Watch Out For The Bullets
My client “likes” these guys. Shall I kill myself now? Or later. Can’t decide.
So as part of a ridiculous law known as Bill 78, citizens involved with the Quebec Student Strike must provide police with all protest routes for the cops approval. Here’s the first one they handed in.
(via politicalcanuck)
Photos: Celine Dion’s opulent mansion is the most expensive home for sale in Quebec
Celine Dion and her husband Rene Angelil have listed their Montreal-area mansion for nearly $29.7 million, making the private island estate the most expensive residential property up for sale in Quebec.
The couple put the custom-built stone mansion on the market Friday because Dion’s “intensive performance schedule” will not give them much time to spend in it, according to the president and CEO of Sotheby’s International Canada, Ross McCredie.
“It took them a long time to make this decision,” he said. “It was a passionate thing for them to make. And in the end, they just haven’t been using it enough… They plan to purchase another home in Montreal that’s much smaller.” (Photos: Courtesy Sotheby’s Real Estate)
(via nationalpost)
Notes EM: My piece on the history of facial recognition technologies
The essay below runs in the April 5 issue of the London Review of Books. I post it here for educational purposes only!
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In Your Face
Evgeny Morozov
Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance by Kelly Gates
NYU Press, 261 pp, £15.99, March…
