Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

DID YOU KNOW:
Different People + Same Search =
NOT SAME [Order/Results] AT ALL?


No matter what category -- news, books, shopping, whatever.  Even if you are in the same room.  Even if you use the same computer.  But wait, there's scarier. Watch:






Uploaded by  TEDtalksDirector on May 2, 2011

source:http://www.ted.com As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.

Read our community Q & A with Eli (featuring 10 ways to turn off the filter bubble):




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