Thursday, October 30, 2014

tweets

Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You. - The Intercept - Late on...http://t.co/Vi6hGSiHL7

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/527220929928384512


Trust in a Complex and Shifting World of Learning: Interview with Sonia Livingstone | HASTAChttp://t.co/UkimNBOt8O

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/CathyNDavidson/status/527224775274278913


http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/28/microsoft-finally-killed-cloud-storage-whats-next/


Ben Tremblay (@bentrem)
10/28/14 11:02 PM
@toughLoveforx @ddrrnt "Dialogic listening" fm earlier psy'therapy work involving active listening i.e. active attn. 
colorado.edu/conflict/trans…



New Scientist (@newscientist)
10/29/14 6:49 AM
Even a killer plague or a global one-child policy won't save us from over-populationow.ly/DvF07

That's an impossibly small target, but it shows where the real problem is. "Human behaviour is more important than human numbers," says Lutz. "It's not just the head count that matters, but what is inside the heads."

Peter Callstrom (@PeterACallstrom)
10/28/14 9:25 AM
Great panel on skills @steve_partridge @BraveNewTalent @LucianT @degreed #CloseItSummit@WellsFargo #HireVeterans pic.twitter.com/xkgFiw0z74

Stirling Newberry (@SSNewberry)
10/29/14 12:45 AM
@TheyKnowNotWhat @priyankaboghani check the list of who is running the military.


Daily Dot Politics (@DotPolitics)
10/28/14 3:57 PM
Verizon is launching a tech news site that bans stories on U.S. spying: trib.al/KTKxISm by @chobopeonpic.twitter.com/LWJ5UuYEwW


Jeff Plaman (@jplaman)
10/29/14 6:19 AM
@Larryferlazzo: "HeatMap News" Is A Visually Engaging Current Events Site larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/10/29/hea…” pretty cool for humanities

connect to kid doing milleneal crib sheet..?

Michael Ebeling (@MichaelEbeling)
10/29/14 6:57 AM
"designing networks that could influence how the Internet itself works" Now that's pretty cool.chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcam…

The new clouds for scientists are the kind that store data on servers, as part of a trend known as cloud computing. Consumers use the commercial variety to store documents, photographs, and music. Researchers use those too, but they sometimes need more control over and information about cloud systems than host companies, such as Apple and Amazon, provide.
don't we all need that access.. ?

Advances in network architecture aim to deal with the problem. On Tuesday the nonprofit organization Internet2 announced developments that will let researchers create and connect to virtual spaces, within which they will be able to conduct research across disciplines and to experiment on the nature of the web.

?

“What this does is allow computer-science researchers to look at new ways of potentially designing networks that could influence how the Internet itself works,” said Richard Ricci, a research assistant professor at the University of Utah’s School of Computing.
if so.. open it...  no?

Internet2 provides a network for members, including more than 250 American colleges and universities, as well as corporations, research groups, and government agencies. The group also facilitates research by connecting campuses and transmitting large amounts of data at a faster speed than commercial networks offer. New software developed by the group partitions the Internet2 network into private slices, while two projects, CloudLab and Chameleon, provide frameworks for the creation of clouds connected by Internet2.

closed ...
won't cut it..
how is this good? how is it not unsmart.. today.










I thought that having plans was more important than making sure they were the right ones. - latest posthttp://t.co/BSfAo6ktL7 via @zaktracy

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ExpInstitute/status/527527900049055744


How Peer to Peer Communities will change the World – Interview with Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation  Meedabytehttp://t.co/p8MznLAHa7

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/527628554646069249


Timelapse Reveals How Efficient Oysters Are At Filtering Gross, Murky Water http://t.co/KsO8N1hN8w via @Digg

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/KevinBuecher/status/527658027063599104


The Titans of Modesty. They never put a ©®™ on any of it. @vgcerf & @timberners_lee http://t.co/VlPw4IKY8C

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/JPBarlow/status/527656933608550400




"@lawatmargins: "We need to be sensitive to the fact that a large number of Black community cannot vote"- @BlackBrownVote 's @IfyIkeEsq"

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/IfyIkeEsq/status/527303502834724865





NewCitiesFoundation (@newcitiesfound)
10/29/14 10:14 PM
"There are only a few people in the world who are trying to do something different"bitly.com/1COsjnA




Saba Gul (@sabagl)
10/20/14 10:25 PM
Currently teaching myself to stop being a snoozer by reading things like this:newyorker.com/tech/elements/… #snoozerslosers

social jetlag.” It’s a measurement not of sleep duration but of sleep timing

Wittmann have found that the chronic mismatch between biological and social sleep time comes at a high cost: alcohol, cigarette, and caffeine use increase—and each hour of social jetlag correlates with a roughly thirty-three per cent greater chance of obesity. “The practice of going to sleep and waking up at ‘unnatural’ times,” Roenneberg says, “could be the most prevalent high-risk behaviour in modern society.”


This Jessica Williams segment on catcalling is the perfect rejoinder to Michael Che http://t.co/pKeq77aSWEhttp://t.co/Yfp0DZDeAv

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Salon/status/527840690546688001






http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/why-teenagers-cut-and-how-to-help/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-NYTMotherlode&seid=auto&_r=1&


posted on fb by carol
Something about the way we're raising children in the US is causing them to do this. What is it? Why is this happening? And why do we think that other cultures should follow in our footsteps? Not all kids who cut are abused; many come from nice, stable, middle-class families.

Kids who cut themselves are either jumping out of their skin and use self-injury to calm themselves down, or are numb and empty and use self-injury to feel something. A small percentage use it for avoidance, to create a distraction, and an even smaller percentage use it to get attention. Some, a very small group of kids, use it to punish themselves; kids who feel they don’t deserve to live, breathe or take up space may cut themselves, usually in the context of an extreme emotional situation.
Kids who self-injure tend to be particularly emotionally sensitive and vulnerable and suffer from what Dr. Hollander calls “emotional illiteracy.” They can’t name their feelings, let alone formulate a plan for managing and coping with them.




Tuesday, October 28, 2014

tweets

http://rt.com/business/198928-china-world-bank-rival/


Check out @johncusack book review of Assange's book, “When Wikileaks Met Google”: http://t.co/kPXtHwdBVM

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/526557544215773184


http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_collier_shares_4_ways_to_help_the_bottom_billion
oh my.
this is awful.
schooling the world ness



http://fee.org/the_freeman/detail/live-like-youre-free

posted on fb by john h







on following your why/whimsy/curiosity - http://t.co/PCBoisWNoB - @selinjessa

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/monk51295/status/526769131790827520






@bfeld Get pulled over with marijuana in Philly, & you pay only a $25 fine. Get pulled over driving for UberX, car is impounded + $1K fine.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/joshk/status/526842580370460674


ACLU Calls Schools’ Policy to Search Devices and ‘Approve’ Kids’ Web Posts Unconstitutionalhttp://t.co/JxKAXDYBVR by @kimzetter

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/526865874985037825


Take away the descriptors #oldaily http://t.co/lEx9izjU8H

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/oldaily/status/526866786898030592


EXCELLENT new book abt tech, media, spirituality, mindfulness by @ablaze http://t.co/t9JWkH0NdE  highly recommend informed tech crit

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/526875829322543104



Fwd: This App Teaches Millennials About the World Before They Try to Change It | WIRED






"Exploding wealth inequality in the United States" - nieuwe data Saez en Zucman
http://t.co/Q7dF8JxfRy http://t.co/qYY2RUw78W

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/rcbregman/status/527009037008003072



http://www.thenation.com/article/186129/snowden-exile-exclusive-interview#

posted on fb by uk basic income:
"As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production—year after year after year—some of that needs to be reinvested in society. It doesn’t need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that. I’m not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed." 


Liberationtech (@Liberationtech)
10/28/14 6:15 AM
As early as 2003, @google accepted funds from US @NSA_PAO to tune of $2 million to provide search tech wikileaks.org/google-is-not-… h/t @wikileaks



Tom Welch (@twelchky)
10/28/14 6:59 AM
Kids book: Harold and the purple crayon. Let's create thriving places in WV and our world.#createwv2014


Tom Welch (@twelchky)
10/28/14 7:01 AM
You don't wait for permission to demonstrate leadership.#createwv2014





http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/innovations-and-creative-power-adhd/

imagine being an explorer trapped in an educational classroom where the teacher is saying, ‘Pay attention to me and don’t explore,’” he says. “It drives them nuts.”


Sunday, October 26, 2014

Spent: Looking For Change (Documentary)

tweets


Embracing a digital mindset in museums http://t.co/l4E8DiwJ94 #musetech #digital #museum

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/deabuck/status/525721448565202944
As Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, stated in a recent New York Times piece, “We live not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.”


Tim Berners-Lee: "I'd hoped the web would provide tools…to break down national barriers" http://t.co/IkFo5VTLIKhttp://t.co/TMjgZuCWIH

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice/status/525778539451535360




Ebola, cholera, and information velocity—my thoughts on the anxiety of outbreak from today’s NYTimes:http://t.co/ug2PlfgZQC

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/stevenbjohnson/status/525858745675300864

We are vastly less at risk and at the same time we are more worried — for the same reason.


Fab thesis, but beware whether w/in big companies is where to be at all (!). "How Google Works”http://t.co/Bp0WWqimgu h/t @TomLaForge

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/aprilrinne/status/525858289720897536


This is what writing is. What it always is. http://t.co/emMyUZAzox

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/MrChase/status/526008573705605120



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAxL4TB6pmQ&feature=youtu.be
posted by april on fb· 
"Spent: Looking for Change" This documentary is distressing beyond words. It's about the reality of financial services in the US - a topic about which few know the gory details, and even fewer are able to speak persuasively.
70 MILLION Americans lack access to finance. The "poverty taxes" this entails - overdrafts, cashing fees, payday loans - are neverending. It's not about being a bad credit risk. It's about being dealt a weak set of cards in a game that's rigged and distorted.
Also, mind you, this isn't a zero sum game - it doesn't mean that 'rich' clients would have to give up something in order for 'poor' clients to gain access. It's simply about providing access to the same tools from the outset. That's it.
This reminds me so much of microfinance in the developing world, yet in some ways an even more atrocious playing field given the sophistication of the game-playing that's possible in more developed 


Department of Ed's "indiscriminate approach to hiring debt collectors" and a $1 billion annual contract up for grabs!http://t.co/zvaCJVp7Iu

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/astradisastra/status/526041690084499457



shared by kosta on fb








https://medium.com/message/how-white-people-got-made-6eeb076ade42

The situation is deeply miserable, even for those living slightly higher up on the shit pile. The biggest two indicators that someone will commit suicide in America are the two boxes they check on the census that are supposed to confer the most safety from misery, and the most advantage one could have in our society: white, and male. What could accuse privilege of failure more than seeking one’s own violent end?



This is about 9000% more interesting than actually attending CFR events. http://t.co/G0mGrrrouW

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Greg_Lindsay/status/526212820183289857


"By placing our online personas in a few centralized locations, we make them vulnerable to single points of failure."http://t.co/J9QJUBy8gH

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/willrich45/status/526350927079690240




Join @Seecantrill @poh @chadsansing as we talk about building & teaching the web -Live from #Mozfest in 1 hour! #nwp https://t.co/cyRQjh2gwm

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/anterobot/status/526350281354006528




Feld Thoughts:  Boulder Shouldn’t Municipalize Its Energy Utility System http://t.co/xisqHkLKOq

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bfeld/status/526404650321203200



We must stop capitulating! Quality work/making/learning takes time. Computing fluency requires depth. Structural change required! #fablearn

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/garystager/status/526419625735507969


Don't even know what @cnectr is, but their profile is very nicely designed. Follow them!

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/kmk/status/526415121355390977


MT @MosesOkumu1 Curiosity: It Helps Us Learn, But Why?  http://t.co/2OKjlWyPEL #ccourses @RovingLibrarian @efilgo

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/GardnerCampbell/status/526420887629991936

oi.



Had just the best time presenting at #Mozfest with @jden415. If you're still around come find me to chat about web privacy!

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/SwartzCr/status/526431526968623104


Getting so close now to the final draft of the Designing for Social Flows book with @hermanwagter (and a couple dozen contributors!). Giddy.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/NurtureGirl/status/526432341170733056


every day a new palette

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/thoughtsailor/status/526437471924813824


Security Will Need Big Insight, Not Just Big Data http://t.co/KYrTZV5Mop

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/timekord/status/526451238901415937


The real cyborgs: forget wearable tech, these people are implanting technology in to their bodies and brainshttp://t.co/mcShm6JRIm

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/technoshaman/status/526452044207362048


Excited! Speaking tomorrow with @ioerror at Reina Sofia in Madrid http://t.co/akkqb1Vyfh

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/trevorpaglen/status/526459165997166594


Q & A with Laura Poitras, whose @Citizenfour film about Snowden and the NSA debuted nationwide this weekend: https://t.co/H73PVzS9yB

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/FreedomofPress/status/526461401217241088




Deb Roy@dkroy
The @medialab effect: Presented 1/4-baked@mitlsm research plan to ML community this am, got a ton of feedback in pm, now feels 1/2-baked!

Friday, October 24, 2014

tweets

The three constituent elements of the Decentralized Computing Revolution | P2P Foundation http://t.co/b30Kfc3PBX

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/KevinCarson1/status/524314747605237761


.@jhagel @nntaleb Deep gratitude for sharing: beyond agility to anti-fragility workshop http://t.co/ni6xCIfYjh Great interest in practice.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/SAlhir/status/524354804722970624


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2798923/north-korean-escapee-yeonmi-park-opens-harrowing-speech-raise-awareness-terrorised-populace-living-brutal-regime.html


Assuming that @audreywatters saw this paean to Behaviorism and MOOCs: http://t.co/YmVPHgxuIM (h/t @neurobongo )

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bjfr/status/524363324931465216


CityLab (@CityLab)
10/20/14 10:20 PM
In Berlin, a bold, new imagining of what a metropolitan river can betrib.al/O03K1W6



In 3 minutes, 6 seconds, @deborahamos sets us straight on Kurds of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Iraq. http://t.co/EltKRcDorL@MorningEdition

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/NPRinskeep/status/524545144955994112


Extra geld voor mensen met een laag inkomen. Wordt boodschap @rcbregman gehoord?  http://t.co/CwYAeybJ8p

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/RobertVermeiren/status/524598219578568704


Discovered to our shock that @JerryWeinberg writing in 1961 anticipated testing vs. checking & Collins' work on tacit knowledge.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jamesmarcusbach/status/524602399995232256


Breaking up Amazon would unleash a wave of innovation. https://t.co/K2MjiA5GPS

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/524605436792954881


Heads up @nickgrossman @agpublic @digiphile @osalazar @scrawford You're all in my latest, on Waze & civic engagement http://t.co/o8LTGxNopR

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Mlsif/status/524641498722103296


MT @MicrosoftNY: Last week @scrawford & @GoldsmithOnGov joined us to discuss #TheResponsiveCity. The night in tweets: http://t.co/9EDRloU5Ex

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/MSFTChicago/status/524661995745067009


http://www.chrismercogliano.com/education-revolution-in-south-korea/


An illustrated celebration of the little-known sidekicks who helped geniuses achieve greatness http://t.co/SgCj3q0xc8http://t.co/Zdpz2ku3Vt

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/524893243625205760


This revolutionary new fusion reactor could change civilization as we know it #STEM http://t.co/t2HLnKJOnp

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/GrahamBM/status/524894944017010689


Moonrise dawn in Cole Valley.

Minutes ago, while the raccoons play feet away. http://t.co/SI4i0r6okF

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/craignewmark/status/524919251572776960


Read the new article in the New York Times about Dr. Ellen Langer's groundbreaking research into health and aginghttp://t.co/RXEeMJIB3C

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ellenjl/status/524934095361818624



Great post by @nilofer in @HarvardBiz about solving problems in a networked age. Features our work @CitizenUniv.http://t.co/9GhwQkdyoV

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ericpliu/status/523138678160654336


Into Cities & Development? Join @bill_easterly @nntaleb @paulmromer Glaeser, Freschi & Bertaud on Nov18 http://t.co/1pyJ8OlZYB @nyuniversity

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/fuller_brandon/status/524949855937265664


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/fashion/how-apples-siri-became-one-autistic-boys-bff.html?_r=2


Why drug research is under threat http://t.co/pDPPoobK9k

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Davos/status/525259123227885569


video/transcript of appearance on @democracynow today re: murder, #Blackwater & its neo-crusader founder Erik Prince http://t.co/fUFxnzBj6k

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/525443871661367297


Laura Poitras' Snowden documentary 'Citizenfour' opens nationwide this weekend: https://t.co/J0zXvEVKEi I encourage you to see it!

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/525477286749810688


"roughly the difference btwn the morning edition of The Times Of London & a tornado siren." we all need the reminder. http://t.co/qM5rvLldxB

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bonstewart/status/525477051135180800


http://linkis.com/dmlcentral.net/blog/WMkkS
doug - curate or be curated


Salvatore Iaconesi @xdxd_vs_xdxd ci parla dell'importanza di costruire un database mondiale di sognihttp://t.co/sl75QA8uKN

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Motherboard_IT/status/525227497651437569


“What I Learned Building Medium (So Far)” by @ev https://t.co/SSMRmZ7eKI

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/_amrita/status/525514663727878144


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqsFp0J22Hc
brand on newsnight


"@leashless: https://t.co/SU8TlbJcLf on infrastructure #innovation for 1 billion ppl - resource consumption & #Empire2014

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/singalongalilt/status/525554646858092544


http://thisisnotagateway.squarespace.com/2014-programme/
carol presenting



http://www.maravipost.com/201410197335/People/ebola-liberia-s-president-writes-heartbreaking-letter-to-the-world.html
It is the duty of all of us, as global citizens, to send a message that we will not leave millions of West Africans to fend for themselves against an enemy that they do not know, and against whom they have little defence.




platteforum@platteforum
What places do you have in life or community that allow for experimentation without judgement? #Imagine2020

TEDxRamallah Munir Fasheh منير فاشه Occupation of knowledge الاحتلال الم...

Monday, October 20, 2014

tweets

What @kinlane built today for Ada Lovelace Day: http://t.co/WHxfvoGVGp (You can add names via Github)

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/522228693049954304



http://www.fastcompany.com/3037098/fast-feed/eric-schmidt-the-next-google-is-out-there-in-a-garage-somewhere




http://www.salon.com/2014/10/13/north_america_is_a_crime_scene_the_untold_history_of_america/

posted on fb by carol
In the United States the legacy of settler colonialism can be seen in the endless wars of aggression and occupations; the trillions spent on war machinery, military bases, and personnel instead of social services and quality public education; the gross profits of corporations, each of which has greater resources and funds than more than half the countries in the world yet pay minimal taxes and provide few jobs for US citizens; the repression of generation after generation of activists who seek to change the system; the incarceration of the poor, particularly descendants of enslaved Africans; the individualism, carefully inculcated, that on the one hand produces self-blame for personal failure and on the other exalts ruthless dog-eat-dog competition for possible success, even though it rarely results; and high rates of suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, sexual violence against women and children, homelessness, dropping out of school, and gun violence.
These are symptoms, and there are many more, of a deeply troubled society, and they are not new. The large and influential civil rights, student, labor, and women’s movements of the 1950s through the 1970s exposed the structural inequalities in the economy and the historical effects of more than two centuries of slavery and brutal genocidal wars waged against Indigenous peoples. For a time, US society verged on a process of truth seeking regarding past atrocities, making demands to end aggressive wars and to end poverty, witnessed by the huge peace movement of the 1970s and the War on Poverty, affirmative action, school busing, prison reform, women’s equity and reproductive rights, promotion of the arts and humanities, public media, the Indian Self-Determination Act, and many other initiatives.
A more sophisticated version of the race to innocence that helps perpetuate settler colonialism began to develop in social movement theory in the 1990s, popularized in the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Commonwealth, the third volume in a trilogy, is one of a number of books in an academic fad of the early twenty-first century seeking to revive the Medieval European concept of the commons as an aspiration for contemporary social movements. Most writings about the commons barely mention the fate of Indigenous peoples in relation to the call for all land to be shared. 


Afghans resisting U.S. forces and others who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time were taken into custody, and most of them were sent to a hastily constructed prison facility on the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on land the United States appropriated in its 1898 war against Cuba.
Rather than bestowing the status of prisoner of war on the detainees, which would have given them certain rights under the Geneva Conventions, they were designated as “unlawful combatants,” a status previously unknown in the annals of Western warfare. As such, the detainees were subjected to torture by U.S. interrogators and shamelessly monitored by civilian psychologists and medical personnel.

[..]
Political scientist Cynthia Enloe, who specializes in US foreign policy and the military, observes that US culture has become even more militarized since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Her analysis of this trend draws on a feminist perspective:
Militarization . . . [is] happening at the individual level, when a woman who has a son is persuaded that the best way she can be a good mother is to allow the military recruiter to recruit her son so her son will get off the couch. When she is persuaded to let him go, even if reluctantly, she’s being militarized. She’s not as militarized as somebody who is a Special Forces soldier, but she’s being militarized all the same. Somebody who gets excited because a jet bomber flies over the football stadium to open the football season and is glad that he or she is in the stadium to see it, is being militarized. So militarization is not just about the question “do you think the military is the most important part of the state?” (although obviously that matters). It’s not just “do you think that the use of collective violence is the most effective way to solve social problems?”—which is also a part of militarization. But it’s also about ordinary, daily culture, certainly in the United States.
[..]
 Price, like Enloe, sees an accelerated pace of militarization in the early twenty-first century: “Today’s weaponization of anthropology and other social sciences has been a long time coming, and post-9/11 America’s climate of fear coupled with reductions in traditional academic funding provided the conditions of a sort of perfect storm for the militarization of the discipline and the academy as a whole.”

I review @NaomiAKlein's This Changes Everything, "both a celebration and a critique of existing political movements."http://t.co/TbPPlTtkQl




from 2012



Nigeria (!!!) got right the hell on top of Ebola http://t.co/b2WGLqGG4Q and currently has no active cases??? @lucasgonzalez

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/522549738366050305


Like the GIFs we've shared so far? See more on our @tumblr page as we post along w/ the broadcast!http://t.co/0166oHQ66u #HowWeGottoNowPBS

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/PBS/status/522564122895192064


How the flashbulb changed the face of urban poverty (one of my favorite stories from #HowWeGotToNowPBS):https://t.co/Q4eE9L7PXB

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This is a useful roundup on gamergate.  https://t.co/myMJPa0tBI

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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/holder-secrets
Poitras says that there is nothing she’d “rather do than be behind the camera with people, in real time, confronting life decisions.”
Snowden wrote to Poitras, “You asked why I chose you. I didn’t. You chose yourself.” He was referring to films of hers that were critical of the war on terror—in particular, a short piece on an N.S.A. whistle-blower named William Binney.
“She’s been kind to me, but there’s something deeper in her,” Scoggin said. “It’s this urgency to tell stories, to be a voice that is crying out, saying, ‘Wait, look at what is happening.’ It’s not yelling, it’s not strident, but it’s done with great conviction and force.”
She was exploring the idea of a movie with no plot, something nonlinear and indeterminate—a “Zeitgeist” film. “Plot is so relentless,” she said. “It’s totally unforgiving, and it also can be simplifying. It can provide resolution where there should be none. It can provide false catharsis.”


love your writing, @GeorgeMonbiot. here you are, in context: https://t.co/VRqDdrenkt

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jerrymichalski/status/522604646439743488


“Re-imagining Cities” by @sverhulst https://t.co/aVfnjRHnHa cc @thegovlab

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I often get this question: “By sharing your ideas openly aren’t you afraid they get copied?” My answer:http://t.co/IlU3Zr69MP

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Mexico’s missing students: were 43 attacked by cartel-linked police targeted for their activism? http://t.co/8doIxvHvOy

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Not having early success on that one path messes with you. You get lumped in classes with kids with autism and Down Syndrome, and you look around and say, Okay, so this is where I’m at. Or you get put in the typical classes and you say, All right, I’m obviously not like these kids either. So you’re kind of nowhere. You’re just different. The system is broken. If we can streamline a multibillion-dollar company, we should be able to help kids who struggle the way I did.”

He’s so physically talented and good-looking and all that movie star stuff, but there’s a curiosity in him that originates in the fact that he really did struggle. Football didn’t stick. College didn’t stick. And yet he has the highest emotional intelligence of anyone I know. And he has the ability to teach others, including me, how to make decisions from that place.”

Pushing favorites—a non-secret but non-broadcast activity—to much higher visibility is not a great idea, @twitter. Violates expectations.

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The Chinese word for "crisis" is comprised of two characters: one indicating "danger", the other "opportunity"

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Liberia needs 110,000 plastic gloves.. It has 2100. It needs 5000 plastic buckets. It has 116. http://t.co/cVUcmNKeaGhttp://t.co/5wNIvGOUeR

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Solid nanoparticles can deform like a liquid: http://t.co/9rMXSjg3Qn http://t.co/YHscu1rKe9

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/MIT/status/523489995890253826






Was in audience watching @tedhope @SFIndieFilmFest panel when Ted asked if anyone had seen a short called @CainesArcade. I raised my hand.

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http://specialneedsparenting.net/challenging-waves/

look up documentary - just add water







Remarkable. RT @conradhackett: US has more women in prison than China India & Russia combined

http://t.co/yEUacEROjV http://t.co/WLY4YfS9Yh

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"Peoples' openness to radical change is outpacing our ability to respond." http://t.co/k6UmAvNgqz

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Henry Giroux on the Rise of Neoliberalism http://t.co/3QHvYZtsJa @therulesorg @naomiklein

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What is at stake here is the notion that thinking is dangerous.
create the formative culture globally that allows people to understand that their interests are being trampled on, that they live in a political system that has been constructed by human beings and can be overturned by human beings, but also, a political, economic, and social system that has nothing to do with their needs, that basically exploits their needs, then people will not be moved to think critically and act collectively.

What an amazing speech by @jackandraka about leveling the informational playing field. Totally in awe.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/MrMongillo/status/524197859487674368


My blog/video interview w. @Bali_Maha Connecting Learners Through Hashtags, Focal Pointshttp://t.co/BIaGKD6xX1 #ccourses

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