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Hundreds of HDP executives detained as death toll reaches 44 in the latest Istanbul bombed attack….

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  HDP Executives Detained in Simultaneous Operations 118 people from the HDP have been detained during operations launched against HDP’s provincial and district executives in İstanbul, Ankara, Adana, Manisa and Mersin. HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş suffers heart spasm in prison: MP Bilgen Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş suffered a heart spasm in jail on Dec. … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: FBI, MI5 continues to create moral panic around Encryption software…

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FBI Keeps Telling Purely Theoretical Encryption Horror Stories  The Intercept by Jenna McLaughlin Federal law enforcement officials decrying the proliferation of strong encryption said Tuesday that the only reason they lack actual examples of how often it shields criminals is that they’ve done a “bad job” of collecting them. UK’s MI5 security chief warns that encryption is making … Read more

Literati roundup: “Franz Kafka’s Kafkaesque Love Letters…

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Franz Kafka’s Kafkaesque Love Letters  Open Culture by Josh Jones It’s easy to think of Franz Kafka as a celibate, even asexual, writer. There is the notable lack of eroticism of any recognizable sort in so much of his work. There is the prominent biographical detail—integral to so many interpretations—of his outsized fear of his father, … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: the Swiss Leaks Data…

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Explore the Swiss Leaks Data icij.org – Subscribe to our email newsletter and be the first to view our ground-breaking investigations and multimedia. The ICIJ is dedicated to ensuring all reports we publish are accurate. If you believe you have found an inaccuracy let us know. HSBC’s clients linked to dictators, arms dealers and tax … Read more

Nebula Award nominees… A literati roundup…

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Nebula Award nominees The 2013 Nebula Award nominees have been announced by the Science Fiction Writers of America; as always, it’s a great roadmap for some of the best science fiction published in the past year. Congrats to all the nominees! Castaway: Stuart Hall in his own words Listening again to the leading cultural theorist on BBC Radio 4’s … Read more

Anthropology roundup: Savage Minds Interview with Kristina Killgrove and more…

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Savage Minds Interview: Kristina Killgrove Kristina Killgrove is a biological anthropologist at the University of West Florida. Her research focuses on theorizing migration in antiquity and on understanding urban development and collapse through the analysis of human skeletal remains. She works primarily in the classical world, attempting to learn about the daily lives of the … Read more