http://www.aljazeera.com/
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"Gentrification spreads the myth of native incompetence: That people need to be imported to be important, that a sign of a neighbourhood's "success" is the removal of its poorest residents. True success lies in giving those residents the services and opportunities they have long been denied.
When neighbourhoods experience business development, priority in hiring should go to locals who have long struggled to find nearby jobs that pay a decent wage. Let us learn from the mistakes of New York and San Francisco, and build cities that reflect more than surface values."
airline makes holidays
I am going to say something provocative. For a lot people f2f is overrated. People need to be heard, the medium is less relevant. #hcldr
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Guide for the holidays. TY @sarahLazarovic terrific! http://t.co/dLzgjBxUS4
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Let’s go somewhere that matters — not just somewhere that glitters.”
Terrific backstory from @StevenLevy on the origins of “information wants to be free” (entirely news to me):https://t.co/wjRHNoxZir
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http://www.technologyreview.
posted by monica on fb
"The software wasn’t programmed with any information on how to play".
Sounds like they are using Model Free Methods. This is the way forward.
Unintended industries: NYC bans cellphones in schools. Outside, vendors offer storage. http://t.co/uES4nRamXf
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from almost 90 years ago...
"Our real concern is with the fallacy involved in the attachment of an absolute value to literacy, and the very dangerous consequences that are involved in the setting up of “literacy” as a standard by which to measure the cultures of unlettered peoples. Our blind faith in literacy not only obscures for us the significance of other skills, so that we care not under what subhuman conditions a man may have to learn his living, if only he can read, no matter what, in his hours of leisure; it is also one of the fundamental grounds of inter-racial prejudice and becomes a prime factor in the spiritual impoverishment of all the “backward” people whom we propose to “civilise.”
- Ananda Coomaraswamy, The Bugbear of Literacy
http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx? article-title=The_Bugbear_of_ Literacy_by_Ananda_ Coomaraswamy.pdf
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I’ve always felt that a photograph deserves a life span. Nothing should live forever.
Deleting these images gives me a sense of freedom, of potentially shedding an old skin and developing a new one. It’s very liberating. I’ve taken this idea to the extreme and many of my close friends and in particular my wife have had to prevent me from permanently deleting the original files themselves.
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As students walk into the classroom, attendance could be logged automatically using a device such as the Nymi, a wearable “smartband” that uses the wearer’s ECG pattern to authenticate identity. When the students take their seats, a beacon might push a warm-up exercise directly to their smart surfaces. Teachers are freed from managing classroom procedures to focus more fully on students – and perhaps focus more incisively too. Neurosensors, akin to Interaxon’s Muse, could provide insight into students’ cognitive activity using EEG technology that measures the rate of brain waves like one might measure a pulse. Identifying which students are expending a higher amount of cognitive energy on an exercise would allow teachers to dedicate attention to students who need it – not just those who ask for help the loudest. And when it comes to classroom discipline, teachers could send a “haptic” vibration – similar to silent notifications on mobile devices – to a student’s wearable or tablet, redirecting her attention or behavior while helping to reduce the need for direct conflict.
holy.
and they're worried about sharing medical records.
while we've got compulsory cow prodding.. still leashed within a classroom seat. (how is that student focused?)
creating medical symptoms faster than any device could track.
dang. A therapist goes to middle school and tries to sit still and focus. She can't. Neither can the kids. http://t.co/Asax5pAQy3
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Mayor de Blasio has warned his son to take 'special care in any encounters with police officers' -- news conf. live:http://t.co/Rge87HlZEs
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Congratulations to the occupying students of Sheffield University. https://t.co/leUuMOgYPR
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NYC is investing $Millions in the .@CureViolence model. @JohnJayREC 's map shows the programs & gun violence data http://t.co/N0PCMcAL1q
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http://boingboing.net/2014/12/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/
All the people Twitter is recommending me to follow are ISIS members. I think this is the missing link in studying radicalization.
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http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/
One of my truly favorite things on the internet = @pbsideachannel by @mikerugnetta
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Eric Garner's death WAS captured on video. We all saw it. Body cameras for cops won't solve this problem. It's bigger than technology.
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Also, I don't know why y'all watch CNN and complain every night like we don't have options.
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.@micamaryjane I would follow you anywhere. Lead on.
