the files of nukirk
Inside my mind lies a beautiful chaos.
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Why the #TwitterBlackout is Pointless
Everytime there’s talks about Internet companies’ policies and such, talks of censorship and privacy will surely follow. However, it seems that there is more confusion about the latest about the #TwitterBlackout. I hope to speak some sense into some people. *ahem* Here it goes.
First off, Twitter is a for-profit global company. Let’s think about the word “global” for a minute. They have to comply with the rules and requests of other countries, especially since they are opening physical offices in other countries a list that includes the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, and soon Germany.
When you are trying to grow in other countries, well, things can be a little tricky. You have to follow THEIR laws, no matter how silly they may sound to you in America.
It’s like coming setting up office in an Arabic country and asking the women with the head coverings to remove them upon entering the office. That’s a sure culture clash.
Last thing you want to do in these countries is put your workers at risk for disobeying the local laws, right?
So, they put protections in place to protect themselves and their employees. Now, if you want to read exactly what this entails, you can go to EFF and read the article.
You’ll see that the protest is really pointless.
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Before Kinect
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Don’t Know What “Yolo” Is…
So I decided to listen to the song. My first thought… why didn’t anyone told me Ma$e was on the track?
Wait… this isn’t Ma$e?
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core control at it’s best
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Which is correct?
- “That song is IN my iTunes .”
- “That song is ON my iTunes .”
Imma have to go with “In” only because its being stored .
On doesn’t make any sense…
in my iTunes,
on my iPod…
simple.
I will have to say “in” because it have to be entered in either by the user or the program. “On” says that it’s attached to it, which it isn’t.
(Source: liquordreams)
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Well, this is a powerful image.
“Cognitive Thought” by Cliff Vestergaard | RedBubble
I may have posted this before, but does it really matter? A very creative study on thought and the human.
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Paulo Coelho on Luck, Coincidence, and Faith (by harperonevideo)
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Hahaha the last three xD
I died.
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“I grew up on the coast of England in the 70s. My dad is white, from Cornwall, and my mom is black, from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people. But nature had it’s wicked way and brown babies were born. But from about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn’t fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly. And myself was rooting around for definition trying to plug-in. Because the self likes to fit. To see itself replicated. To belong. That confirms it’s existence and it’s importance. And it is important, it has an extremely important function. Without it we literally can’t interface with others, we can’t hatch plans, and climb that stairway of popularity, of success. But my skin color wasn’t right. My hair wasn’t right. My history wasn’t right. Myself, became defined by Otherness, which meant that in that social world I didn’t really exist. And I was Other before being anything else, even before being a girl. I was a noticeable nobody.” —Thandie Newton (Ted Talks: “Embracing otherness, embracing myself”)
Oneness
(Source: bridgetvonhammersmark)
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Reintroduction…
Short News: I renamed the blog.
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If you’re using tumblr, you can’t tell. It’s “Nukirk” in there. But if you’re outside of tumblr, it’s thefilesof.nukirk.com.
Why I changed the domain name… or better yet, why is it a subdomain name?
Promotional prep reasons. I rather save that news for later.
Why go with that domain name? Sounds cool.
What does nukirk.com leads to? For now, it redirects the about.me/nukirk page (maybe not right now, but eventually, depending on when your ISP starts to act right).
Anything else you should know? *thinks* Not at this point of the game.
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I’ve been asked before, so I’ll post it here and now. This is me.
These pictures was taken in Sept 2008 during one of my live performances. I no longer own the top, but it’s nothing for me to recreate, which I will.
To show you the difference, the last picture is of me present day in November 2011.
If you must know how old I am… I’m 33. In the past pictures, I was 30.
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Why Black History Month Is STILL Relevant (even if I disagree with it)
As Black History Month approaches, I decided to reblog something that I blogged about a year ago.
Back story: This is a comment that turned into a full-blown response on Wayne Sutton’s blog about a friend of mine, Faydra. The comment made by a fellow black man was trying to kill the mood. Without downtalking to him, I responded and later, he understood what I want Black History Month to accomplish.
Let’s discuss. If you’re not on tumblr, uses the comments below.
On Wayne Sutton’s blog, there was an article posted on a good friend, Faydra. It was all nice… and then I got to the lone comment:
Diversity kills unity. Acknowledging one race over another promotes an infeority complex. blackhistorymonthisajokeforallofamerica
SO… I decided to comment on this. What started off as a simple response turned into a blog post within a blog post. So… this is my response (Which I edited here because as usual, I can’t talk without making grammar errors. But lucky for me, it’s not a much):
My dear sir,
I disagree with the idea of the “present” black history month ideology. What you stated could be the present mindset that some black people have about this month. However, I think you missed the whole point of why “Black History Month” exist. Matter of fact, I think we all missed the point, so allow me to at least explain my idea of Black History.
We’re at a point in our present history where we should be unified. Black History Month gets replayed year after year because America doesn’t get it… or should I say “White America” doesn’t get it.
In schools all across the country, they teach American History, but omits important parts while toning down slavery and only highlighting the relevantance of Martin Luther King Jr… as if he was the start all and end all. My grandmother was alive during that time, so yeah… it was literally yesterday.
Literature is white-washed. They even republishing classic Tom Sawyer without the “n-word”. That’s like toning down the bible… ya messing with history.
Ever listen to “They Schools” by Dead Prez? How are we, as black people, suppose to relate to the current education curriculum? “They” want to teach us (how) to be machines to enter the work force in “they schools”. “They” don’t be inspire people to think. “They” schools not only brainwashed black people into being inferior, but make white people out to be superior. “They” want us to not feel empowered because they are not teaching about what Black people contributed in the past and still contrbutes present, other than “Obama is the first black President”.
Speaking of which, if Obama was a C+ student and had 5 failed businesses, we would not make him President. But we elected (some would say “gave him the Presidency” to) George Bush and he’s nothing special. What happened during the elections (in 2008)? They broke down how many white people (by class mind you) are voting for Obama. Isn’t that racism in a way?
Diversity in history can at least put some pride into young black minds. My education in the Virgin Islands is very different from my education here in the United States. I was instilled with a lot of values because I was being educated by Black Caribbean people. I was taught a different version of US History during high school that they would eventually teach you in college. It’s why I can write to you this long response about it.
But let’s get back to why Black History is important; in addition to pushing the history books to include an important references, it’s to diversiify the offerings to EVERYONE, not just blacks. If white people learned the history everyday instead of being forced to take it as “an elective”, they they can clearly see that black people are not just some outsiders, but people like you and me. We’re just a different color.
So, like you, I do hope that one day, we no longer need a month. But until then… push for education reform marches on.
(Source: nukirk)
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exactly
Story of my life concerning anti-racism.
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You are a stupid nigger, you know? You know very well we were talking bout the stupid girl you want to create chaos with. You and her got issues, nigger. We wish you'll just come out and say you like that bitch darkness!
Asked by Anonymous
What’s with all this anger, my dude? I deleted 12 messages from you. But apparently, I must entertained this. So, for the last time, here we go:
- Goddamazon is not my girlfriend. Nor my wifey.
- Goddamazon is not a bitch.
- The answer I gave you about “chaos” was dripped in sarcasm. We’re not a couple, we’re just two (now good) friends on the Net.
- Since I’m not dropping her, you seem to want to call me the n-word.
- What do I have to do with your hatred for her? There’s nothing logical about anything you said. There’s no connection between me and her other than me following her.
If anything, I should be thanking you for your hate.Since what I believe was to be your first message on Jan 22 to now, I got a couple of followers, I have talked to goddamazon a bit more, and we went from friends to really good friends. (don’t read too deep into that one)I don’t fully understand your hatred for goddamazon, but unlike her, who may entertain you with her endless supply of GIFs, I can’t keep this up. So what I’m going to do is end this. I’m going to suspend Anonymous Asks indefinitely until I feel alright with this.
Black. Poet. Hip-Hop Artist. Comic Writer. Thinker. New Media Evangelist. Designer. Shadowrun Decker.
