Friday, December 12, 2014

tweets

“What happens when a 21st-century kid plays through video game history in chronological order?”https://t.co/zeL7BMHem0

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/rogre/status/542449038327435264

The @WashingtonPost has helpfully put all of Michael Hayden's lies to Congress about torture into one graphic: http://t.co/zuH0jmyh9m

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/trevortimm/status/542499911531372544

"Rectal feeding," threats to children, and more: 16 awful abuses from the CIA torture reporthttp://t.co/ft2vgVRp7R http://t.co/rzWqu5zsns

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/542382114139013120


Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande
My third BBC Reith Lecture on the Future of Medicine, which just aired this AM, is now online here: bbc.in/1yLznRs


1/The Senate CIA Torture Report reveals savage, immoral, utterly despicable practices by our govt. 1.usa.gov/1yzHywf



2/But the worst for me is to see the details of how doctors, psychologists, and others sworn to aid human beings made the torture possible.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Atul_Gawande/status/542647216075452416

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3/The torture could not proceed w/o medical supervision. The medical profession was deeply embedded in this inhumanity.

4/It was doctors who devised the rectal infusions “as a means of behavior control.” (p100)

5/Doctors suggested the water temperature for waterboarding and use of saline instead of free water to avoid water intoxication. (p86, 419)

6/Doctors watched as stress positions inflicted pain, lacerations, and only stopped them when producing, e.g., shoulder dislocation (70)

7/Psychologists, who were supposed to stop damaging interrogation, actually served as interrogators. (72)

8/The Office of Medical Services provided consultation on when fractures and wounds were healed enough to resume torture. (p113)

9/The Office of Medical Services wrote guidelines approving up to 3 waterboard sessions in 24 hours per prisoner. (p87)

10/When torture caused Abu Zubaydah’s eyes to deteriorate, MDs only intervened to insure ability to see was saved to aid interrogation.(112)

11/Doctors found prisoners with broken feet and still approved putting them into standing positions for up to 52 hours (p112)

12/Doctors were long the medical conscience of the military. The worst occurred because gov't medical leaders abdicated that role. (p87)


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Fox mocks torture in CIA report: "getting water splashed on his face" "loud music is called law school preparing for the bar exam"




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posted on fb by bonnie s
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced today that 18 states have been awarded grants, totaling more than $226 million, under the Preschool Development Grants program.
From the 36 applications the departments received, five states will be awarded development grants: Alabama, Arizona, Hawaii, Montana and Nevada. Thirteen will receive expansion grants: Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.

preschool... 226 million+ to start them earlier..



http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Anthropology_of_Economy.html?id=QMLEQgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

posted on fb by michel
"The Anthropology of Economy" by Stephen Gudeman
"On my view, the commons is the material thing or knowledge a people have in common, what they share, so that what happens to a commons is not a physical incident but a social event. Taking away the commons destroys community, and destroying a complex of relationships demolishes a commons. Likewise, denying others access to the commons denies community with them, which is exactly what the assertion of privateproperty rights does. The so-called ‘tragedy of the commons’ (Hardin 1968), which refers to destruction of a resource through unlimited use by individuals, is a tragedy not of a physical commons but of a human community, because of the failure of its members to treat one another as communicants and its transformation to a competitive situation. Often a community economy does not despoil the environment as rapidly as a market economy does, because in doing so it despoils itself."
(via Tim Waterman)


Rather than endless mentions like Twitter or articles like before, Fb Trending now sifts out posts by people involved http://t.co/zw9bRD4CRD

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/JoshConstine/status/542698367554289664


@jonathanfields  People get coopted by the majority because they believe that is the ONLY way to belong. This is, of course, a lie.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/nilofer/status/542697440521248768


“@dmlresearchhub: tribute to #BrotherMike from Connie Yowell (@Connie) got me… http://t.co/vTIyCfepCHhttp://t.co/U0EhLctytM

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/edgeq_/status/542719629466927104


There is no revolution without love. #BrotherMike taught me that.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/MalcolmLondon/status/542735638857256962


Finally finished reading the Torture Report. The footnotes are key. Man, are we a disturbed bunch of people...

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/542765475181387777


Bittorrent proposes a decentralized peer-to-peer vision for the entire web. This is the future I want.http://t.co/xjwVtzcTbz @bramcohen

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/starkness/status/542765988693831680

mtaibbi's avatar
BitTorrent proposes to fix those problems by moving away from the longstanding internet behavior of users connecting to a server to view a webpage or access content. Instead, Klinker and the BitTorrent team set out to answer the question of "what if more of the web worked the way BitTorrent worked?" In this vision, web publishers could publish, distribute, and update an entire website through the BitTorrent protocol, and others visiting the page would automatically help share the site's content, just as anyone downloading a file over BitTorrent would also start sharing the file with other peers.
[..]
what if they weren't files? what if we put an HTML file inside of a Torrent and the browser just renders it?'"
[..]
For example, sites hosted by Torrent don't have an easy website address to remember; instead, they're identified by a mishmash of numbers and letters. "At the end of the day, we need a way to translate like DNS does, to make something more human-readable,"


“Being a mentor is loving what you do enough to pass that knowledge onto the next person.”http://t.co/9B3abliZJZ #BrotherMike

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/dmlresearchhub/status/542801078728028160


Everything changes.
Everything is connected.
Pay attention.
~ Jane Hirshfield

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/numbalum89/status/542835689516040192


Even countries with high growth like Poland refuse to expand minimum income. #eminetwork

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/stanjourdan/status/543040849190592512


Having heard both speak in meetings, I cannot believe that Berners-Lee & Putin could grok each other.http://t.co/2yjGD0WE5D

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/barrywellman/status/543049123298299905



quote about einstein



http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/undercover-cop-draws-gun-protesters-oakland-n266176






"the real deep down you is the whole universe."

—Alan Watts

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/thoughtsailor/status/543182985340534784



Next Thurs., @ggreenwald @PardissKebriaei & I host @DirtyWars film followed by discussion of CIA torture report https://t.co/516sp1UIsv

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/543187126092054529


(...and two songs that aren't eighties songs, they're my songs.....) http://t.co/cXdEKGAG2Z   @SOR_Chicago @SchoolofRockUSA @JBTV

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/amandapalmer/status/543202900483510273




http://ashevilleblade.com/?p=306

posted on fb by sandy


http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/badass-women-alert

posted on fb by mary beth


@KateMfD yes, this last post I wrote really crystallized that for me http://t.co/N3MOmwQ52C

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/543288264073814017


Congress gives the rich > authority to rectally infuse $$$ into politics and #torture democracy. @SenWarren

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/543397082581979136






Watch me debate Cheney's 'full of crap' defense on @hardball with @hardball_chris and @MichaelSteele #TortureReport http://t.co/4H9FnNs7Q2

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/RonSuskind/status/543431245217406978


obamacare


Oh, it rather helps if I send the link: "Thomas Jefferson and The Hundreds" http://t.co/4xf2b582dq cc @KevinCarson1

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/543468105222340608





Just heard an autistic 15 y/o say "I think 'normality' is just man-made" and it was so touching. Why are there still horrible prejudices?

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jsa/status/543493520192204800


The awkward secret of child pornography: that a growing proportion of it is made by young people | via @Telegraph http://t.co/GyY0cfoXug

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Livingstone_S/status/543502316591001600


My latest C4SS study:  The Anarchist Thought of Colin Ward http://t.co/6upr7pdOfS

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/KevinCarson1/status/543506432851603456


New blog post: The Danger of "Good Enough" http://t.co/R8yC6hBAam

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/budtheteacher/status/543454841381462016



Guest lecture by Moran Cerf today was one of the most amazing talks I've ever heard. Squarely in between several disciplines and concerns, fascinating work that ties together projects I had heard about for years never knowing it was one man behind them. Too hard to summarize but here's how it was billed: "[Today at noon] Talk with Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist and Bank Robber about topics ranging from the Science of Engagement to Projecting Dreams, and more..." and that's a really good description. Amazing.




Inside the near-future world where all our data and machines are in constant communication:http://t.co/RZHnbBckFy [Re-sharing my swarm]

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/chris23/status/543571866254721024


See, the space of/in protest has allowed people access to gifts that have laid dormant for so long. Protest has awakened so much. #Ferguson

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/deray/status/543581452143980544




Wow, Elizabeth Warren goes after Citigroup and cronyism in the executive branch. Watch. Wow.https://t.co/pSUAwUI1ac

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/543614645668704256




"I don't hack anymore bc it's wrong" Add this awesome 16min podcast to your #digcit libraryhttp://t.co/1sXKhIphqK #edtech #edchat

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/SenorG/status/543479191636045824


 
"One thing not scarce in the world, is imaginative ppl w possible solutions to intractable probs..." @davidgraeberyoutube.com/watch?v=IHAJiu…