[sudo-discuss] Unabridged Newspeak Dictionary

[danarauz at gmail.com]

Oh well, I fell for it. :)

Thanks Jake.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Torrie Fischer <tdfischer at hackerbots.net>
wrote:

> In fact, the point of this art piece is to get people to realize how
> pants-on-
> head stupid it is to call entire groups of people terrorists.
>
> :)
>
> On Friday, November 27, 2015 11:58:43 PM Jake wrote:
> > Daniel,
> >
> > it's not supposed to be taken literally - rather it's a direct reference
> > to a well-known book called 1984 written by George Orwell.
> >
> > please read the wikipedia page to get a better idea of what the book is
> > about:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
> >
> > and here is a text copy of the book if you want to read it.
> >
> > http://spaz.org/~jake/1984.txt
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, danarauz at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi Torrie,
> > >
> > > With good intention I downloaded and installed the Chrome extension so
> > > that I could check it out and possible give you some feedback.
> > >
> > > Well, when reading the extension information I was quickly shocked that
> > > the example shown says that the word "Terrorists" gets replaced by the
> > > phrase "The Nation of Eastasia".
> > >
> > > That is a big turn off for me, because at least in my mind it implies
> that
> > > all people in East Asia are terrorists. And that is a very awful thing
> to
> > > say or support.
> > >
> > > I deleted the extension.
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > >
> > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Torrie Fischer <
> tdfischer at hackerbots.net>
> wrote:
> > >       Hi, Sudo Room.
> > >
> > >       I've been super frustrated at world events lately, what with the
> US
> > >       government labelling everyone a terrorist, the NSA being so
> > >       pervasive, and white protestant males excusing other white
> > >       protestant males for shooting up planned parenthoods and such.
> > >
> > >       So here's a chrome extension I threw together that helpfully
> > >       translates the
> > >       web using The Unabridged Newspeak Dictionary:
> > >
> > >
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-unabridged-newspeak-d/
> > >       fiillclgkojaejeldlncpijkdmajhcph
> > >
> > >       Feedback and additions are welcome. Please share :)
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