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President Obama admitted in August that “we tortured some folks.” Now one of those folks has published a graphic account of what it meant to be on the receiving end of the torture.

A new device could allow the deaf to hear through their tongues: http://t.co/JNyftwEpdp

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/notimposs/status/557628634614480897

What if 1st line of #SOTU was about something other than economy? What if the guaranteed standing O was for something other than military?

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/samchaltain/status/557722895099920384

Did the President of the United States just make a Divergent reference, @VeronicaRoth? #factions #SOTU

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/johngreen/status/557723334847528962

Read President Obama's State of the Union address, as prepared for delivery. http://t.co/z1DUEhawjk http://t.co/REphx3W3pr

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/557727163370442754

(from Davos). For those keeping score at home, Mars got more bipartisan applause than 10 million getting healthcare. #SOTU

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ariannahuff/status/557729817370845185

Is Obama talking about training military forces in foreign countries while ignoring police brutality here?! #SOTU

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/deray/status/557730871491698690

Shorter Obama: In Syria, we are arming people who will probably attack us someday.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/557730969319661568

"The American people expect us to only go to war as a last resort, & I intend to stay true to that wisdom." Except when I do so unilaterally

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/557732183566467072

"As Americans, we respect human dignity... which is why I’ve prohibited torture." Except when we render prisoners to be tortured elsewhere

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/557733343148924929

"If we're going to have arguments, let's have arguments --but let's make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country." #this

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/dlaufenberg/status/557735466318184449

Daughter watching #SOTU with me. "Why are there no girls there, Mommy?" I told her a group of men will explain that on TV tomorrow.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/557733954888151040

Wall Street Journal (@WSJ)
1/20/15 9:55 PM
Davos, by the numbers: how the World Economic Forum has grown on.wsj.com/1BzSJvp #WEF15 pic.twitter.com/rNDNwrt5Iz

Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens)
1/20/15 9:56 PM
gathering in Montreal in May 2015 is gathering momentum.
It would be great if folks from P2P could make it.facebook.com/events/1520402…

Maria Popova (@brainpicker)
1/20/15 10:00 PM
"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public.” Oscar Wilde, witty and wise as ever, on artbuff.ly/1BCVZWZ

And so Individualism exercises no compulsion over man. On the contrary, it says to man that he should suffer no compulsion to be exercised over him. It does not try to force people to be good. It knows that people are good when they are let alone.

back2thefuturepart c (@iroc)
1/20/15 7:41 PM
Abuser is not a role. It is not a character trait. It is not a binary state. It is a behavior pattern we are all capable of and must resist.

Jason Silva (@JasonSilva)
1/21/15 7:47 AM
Did you catch The Remix Revolution, itself inspired by @remixeverything -youtu.be/JGHEhybXvOs

Saul Kaplan (@skap5)
1/21/15 7:47 AM
So called “evidence” is increasingly used to rationalise decisions that are made by those in power.@zaidhassan

Jason Silva (@JasonSilva)
1/21/15 7:48 AM
Quantified Self, self-tracking, feedback loops and behavior upgrade;youtu.be/fXB5-iwNah0