Piracy has involved many nationalities over the centuries, but one of the prominent groups in the medieval and early modern periods was the French pirates, who terrorised the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean. French writers often preferred to use the term filibuster (filibustier) and corsair (corsaire) for pirates who operated as privateers, and here are presented ten such figures who have made their mark in the annals of crimes at sea.
Statuette (plastered and painted wood) of the Egyptian deity Anubis. Artist unknown; 332-30 BCE (Ptolemaic period). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Bourgeois political economy … never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a ‘science of people’ but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities.”
— Herbert Marcuse, “The Foundations of Historical Materialism”, Studies in Critical Philosophy (via philosophybits)
archived link because it’s on WSJ but jesus christ. just when you think it can’t get any worse. this excerpt in particular is fucking insane too.. hiring a queer woman of color and not paying her the same as her male peers IN RESPONSE TO A FUCKING DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT. jesus christ
new update: actiblizz workers are staging a walkout today in light of the news. as much as possible don’t open the bnet launcher as well as any other game from them today
