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http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2014/11/ursula_k_le_guins_fiery_speech.html

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trying to get my answers questioned

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/thoughtsailor/status/538557397048893440

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This is really an insightful and well written article on the psychology of affluence by Philippa Perry

Skinner confuses "science" with terminology. He apparently believes that if he rephrases commonplace "mentalistic" expressions with terminology derived from the laboratory study of behavior, but deprived of whatever content this terminology has within this discipline, then he has achieved a scientific analysis of behavior. It would be hard to conceive of a more striking failure to comprehend even the rudiments of scientific thinking. The public may well be deceived, in view of the prestige of science and technology. It may even choose to be misled into agreeing that concern for freedom and dignity must be abandoned, perhaps out of fear and a sense of insecurity about the consequences of a serious concern for freedom and dignity. The tendencies in our society that lead toward submission to authoritarian rule may prepare individuals for a doctrine that can be interpreted as justifying it.

from Chomsky reference at end of Adams book

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Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/patrickmlarkin/status/539076917228744704

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVSAxLR16ko&feature=youtu.be&list=UU8UPN_mVOvy9E-G823Itz_w

http://www.citylab.com/work/2012/10/what-really-happens-when-city-makes-its-transit-system-free/3708/

An education prof. goes back to high school, finds technology is no longer a tool but a context | @hechingerreport http://t.co/1W1l9P8Lzt

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jordosh/status/539193449158021120

https://medium.com/emergent-culture/reinvent-everything-556860b63308

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/nov/07/radical-new-economic-system-will-emerge-from-collapse-of-capitalism

http://kansasexposed.org/2014/11/29/ku-journalism-major-shreds-case-against-mike-brown/

http://www.sun-gazing.com/physics-girl-unique-crazy-pool-vortex/

http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/preliminary-notes-to-a-diagram-of-occupy-sandy/

thoughtfully pre-cut and laid out on the desk. Even this seemingly very basic step had a certain ideological logic to it, though: people working with OS are universally known by their first name or nickname, and there’s something appealingly democratic about it. It’s kind of nice to find, amidst a process like this, that you’re Adam, and not Sergeant Greenfield. You wind up using people’s names a lot, which I belatedly realized that I’d gotten out of the habit of doing.

REGISTRATION desk. The form is straightforward, capturing contact information, availability, and whether the volunteer possesses specialized skills — i.e. medical, legal, construction or demolition experience; fluency in Spanish or Russian. When I first arrived, this was handled via three laptops all drawing from a mobile hotspot taped to the desk, but the details have

I believe that it’s entirely appropriate for a movement founded on core tenets of anti-oppression to ask would-be volunteers to understand those tenets, to explain that expressions of sexism, racism, classism or homophobia would not be tolerated, and to emphasize that people unable to let go of such viewpoints would most likely be more comfortable elsewhere. What I found somewhat more striking was the immediate insistence that what is happening at 520 Clinton and the other OS sites ismutual aid, and precisely not charity, followed by a brief discussion of what the difference implies for the longevity of relief efforts and the relations of power inscribed in them. I found this very moving, personally, and while like everyone I couldn’t wait to dive in to the real work, I stood through the orientation spiel with a shit-eating grin.

from Adam's diagram of occupy sandy