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The people I make websites for look at me funny when I tell them my goal as a technologist is to make myself obsolete.
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"MIT Students Can Get 'Credit for Reddit'" http://t.co/nIOabiElRt
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 Autodesk Foundation (@AutodeskFdn)8/26/14 6:50 AM Are cities ready to host their own crowdfunding platforms? @Citizinvestor weighs in f-st.co/ATyt25Ypic.twitter.com/FtglewHfiv |
"It's going to take a handful of cities doing a significant number of projects [before it really takes off]. If you only have two or three projects per city, it's hard for it to grow quickly in that geography. It's going to take a city doing 25 or 30 projects in one year, so you can give citizens more choice."
 WikiLeaks (@wikileaks)8/27/14 6:36 AM UK extradition act changes as a result of abuses in #Assange and other extraditionsjfhcrime.co.uk/extradition-ac… More: parliament.uk/search/results… |
Previously an application for asylum submitted after the issue of an EAW would stop a person being extradited until it was decided. Now, extradition cannot take place until any asylum application has been determined, no matter when it was issued.
Again, it is difficult to know how these provisions will be interpreted, and it is likely to be some time before a sufficient body of case law is built up to enable anyone to predict the outcome of an individual argument with any degree of certainty.
isn't this part of the problem.. older data leading to assumption
MIT Media Lab (@medialab)8/18/14 1:35 PM
Labbers @natematias, @erhardt, & @peteyreplies are fellows in the new DERP initiative, researching online social data ow.ly/Arkrw
So honored and excited: Walkable City is Cleveland State's 2014 Campus Read! 1500+ freshmen reading it. Can't wait to visit.
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70% of my s's know someone killed due 2 violence-s's believe is true in all schools. Is this true in ur S? Please share #edchat #ferguson
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"We had a lot of trouble with western mental health workers who came here immediately after the genocide and we had to ask some of them to leave.
They came and their practice did not involve being outside in the sun where you begin to feel better. There was no music or drumming to get your blood flowing again. There was no sense that everyone had taken the day off so that the entire community could come together to try to lift you up and bring you back to joy. There was no acknowledgement of the depression as something invasive and external that could actually be cast out again.
Instead they would take people one at a time into these dingy little rooms and have them sit around for an hour or so and talk about bad things that had happened to them. We had to ask them to leave."
~A Rwandan talking to a western writer, Andrew Solomon, about his experience with western mental health and depression.
Learning is a Conversation http://t.co/V1m37D1eWe
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80 percent of organizations are turning to citizen developers to drive innovation http://t.co/91QvAOp7iU via @physorg #ibmbluemix #bluemix
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White House brings in CMU comp sci professor to advise staff (via @dexter412) http://t.co/LYf20wsZUn
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just released: Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’ w/ my collaborators @lrainie @helloinyoung @kristenpurcellhttp://t.co/nGVeKWwt4E
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An informed citizenry depends on people’s exposure to information on important political issues and on their willingness to discuss these issues with those around them. The rise of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, has introduced new spaces where political discussion and debate can take place. This report explores the degree to which social media affects a long-established human attribute—that those who think they hold minority opinions often self-censor, failing to speak out for fear of ostracism or ridicule. It is called the “spiral of silence.”
Self-segregation on social networks and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story: http://t.co/SDJ7HsNruB
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http://cryptome.org/2014/08/
World Economic Forum (@Davos)
8/28/14 6:25 AM
The human right to access the internet is only enjoyed by a minority: @AFJellema, WWW Foundation #wef#NETmundial wef.ch/XVbkkJ
Wall Street Journal (@WSJ)
8/28/14 6:26 AM
Breaking: Vivendi says it will enter exclusive talks with Telefonica to sell Brazil unit GVTon.wsj.com/1tYlSJo
Syamant Sandhir (@syamant)
8/28/14 6:48 AM
A Handcrafted, $7,500 Yurt That’s Far Cooler Than Your Housewired.com/2014/08/a-hand…
The realisation that data produced by everyday appliances, smart toothbrushes or smart toilets, can be monetised has produced an interesting resistance against the data-hoarding attitudes of Silicon Valley giants, who mint billions while we only get free services.
Google integrates data from different streams — self-driving cars, smart glasses, email — and its helpfulness is a function of its ubiquity. To get the best from it, we should let Google’s services fill in all the vacant areas of our digitised everyday existence. The size of Google’s data reservoirs makes competition unrealistic, a point not lost on smaller companies. The other option is to follow the populist calls of Pentland and Lanier and thwart Google’s ambitions by insisting that data automatically belongs to the users, or demanding that they at least share in Google’s profits.
the future offered to us by Lanier and Pentland fits into the German “ordoliberal” tradition, which sees the preservation of market competition as a moral project, and treats all monopolies as dangerous. The Google approach fits better with the American school of neoliberalism that developed at the University of Chicago. Its adherents are mostly focused on efficiency and consumer welfare, not morality; and monopolies are never assumed to be evil just because they are monopolies — some might be socially beneficial. For all its claims to innovation and disruption, the contemporary technology debate neither innovates nor disrupts: in assuming that information is a commodity, it operates firmly within a sole neoliberal paradigm.
As Fred Wilson, a prominent venture capitalist, put it recently, “when we reach a place where systems are truly self-governing and self-regulating, we will not need regulators”
Some technology critics, with their laments of cultural decline enabled by Twitter and e-books, are partly to blame. Instead of engaging with attention and distraction socio-economically — as was done with earlier media by Walter Benjamin and Sigfried Kracauer — we get Nicholas Carr, with his embrace of neuroscience, or Douglas Rushkoff, with his biophysiological critique of acceleration (8). Whatever the salience of such interventions, they end up decoupling the technological from the economic, so that we end up debating how the screens of our iPads condition the cognition of our brains — instead of debating how the information gathered by our iPhones conditions the austerity measures of our governments. To be critical of technology today should mean questioning how it and its boosters let the current system buy more time, and stave off an even more existential crisis.
Went on @HuffPostLive to talk about NSA's 'secret Google' & its significance: http://t.co/lgDdAthDUL Thanks to @AlyonaMink for having me.
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Gotta love that we're now being described as "The Intercept, the news website recently banned by the military."http://t.co/GKyxP7DQPB
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James Risen Case: Why Obama Wants This Journalist In Jail - Business Insider http://t.co/002jglbF6G
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Most Popular Physics Book Ever Written, Now Completely Online http://t.co/PQFUJPcVmx
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It'd be great if Twitter weren't such a sweet platform for abusers, but we all know the problem is bigger than one service's abuse policies.
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About | Ciudad Escuela 15muebles http://t.co/t0wmfHwB6i
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Duh. RT @justintarte: Google has figured out that grades and GPA are worthless... #sblchat http://t.co/fx9YXRjefk#edchat #unionrxi
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| MIT Media Lab (@medialab) 8/18/14 1:35 PM Labbers @natematias, @erhardt, & @peteyreplies are fellows in the new DERP initiative, researching online social data ow.ly/Arkrw |
Yet smaller is relative: Reddit may be a shrimp compared to Facebook, but with 115 million unique visitors every month, it’s still a sizeable community. And so Derp aims to offer “a single point of contact for researchers to get in touch with relevant team members across a range of different community sites.
“We envision that this will lower the friction to investigating these sites in more depth, and broaden the scope of research happening within the academic community,” the organisation says.
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| World Economic Forum (@Davos) 8/28/14 6:47 AM Outcome will be function of self-organising, critical mass, rough consensus: Richard Samans, #WEF Mg Dir#NETmundial wef.ch/XVeipl  Ana Maria Menezes (@anamariacult)8/28/14 6:48 AM How Open Badges Could Really Work In Education: Higher education institutions are abuzz with the...bit.ly/1sHCcNH via @Edudemic unless... credentials (as we know them) aren't what matters.. and are getting in the way.. unless... curricula (as we know them) aren't what matters... and are getting in the way.. we're living in a time we can (finally) unleash all this. let's not miss it with shiny..
 Richard Florida (@Richard_Florida)8/28/14 6:49 AM RT @GOVERNING: Unlike most mayors, L.A.'s is sweating the small stuff. Is his vision big enough?ow.ly/AN1kN For generations, ambitious mayors and governors all over the country have followed a common playbook: Pick a few key priorities and push to get them through early in the first term, while political capital remains high. That was the way Garcetti’s predecessors as L.A. mayor approached the job. Both Antonio Villaraigosa and James Hahn focused immediate attention on a single cause. For Hahn, it was expanding the police department; for Villaraigosa, it was gaining control of education. control. @brainpicker hey chica, would you be up for facilitating a little panel discussion amongst our lovely @Wisdomhackers in NYC in Sept? Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ Surrounded in the Key of B Flat Running like a fool. In a circle. The same circle Oh shit ... http://t.co/uNusE5uK5g Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/nicaskew/ |
Bob Price (Wall Street Journal (@WSJ)8/28/14 6:26 AM
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Syamant Sandhir (@syamant)8/28/14 6:48 AM
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According to Forget, the idea of a guaranteed basic income “seems to come back every 20 years … There has been perennial dissatisfaction with social programs,” she said. “Everybody is always looking for a better way of dealing with these issues.”