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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
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What if 1st line of #SOTU was about something other than economy? What if the guaranteed standing O was for something other than military?
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Did the President of the United States just make a Divergent reference, @VeronicaRoth? #factions #SOTU
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Read President Obama's State of the Union address, as prepared for delivery. http://t.co/z1DUEhawjkhttp://t.co/REphx3W3pr
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(from Davos). For those keeping score at home, Mars got more bipartisan applause than 10 million getting healthcare. #SOTU
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Is Obama talking about training military forces in foreign countries while ignoring police brutality here?! #SOTU
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Shorter Obama: In Syria, we are arming people who will probably attack us someday.
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"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
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"As Americans, we respect human dignity... which is why I’ve prohibited torture." Except when we render prisoners to be tortured elsewhere
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"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
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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.
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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 #WEF15pic.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  Cory Doctorow (@doctorow)1/22/15 8:03 AM $1.6M for man who repeatedly anal-probed by NM cops who thought he had drugs [2014]boingboing.net/2014/01/22/1-6… (14 year old) Ella speaking at #CU5 rally in NH: #incredible_speech http://t.co/uP4uUbmfKF Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/lessig/ http://www.democracynow.org/ Al Arabiya: Saudi King Abdullah passes away http://t.co/RoneIvcpnZ Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia dies at 91 http://t.co/7UGOg9gjAt Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ Blessings on #KingAbdullah of #SaudiArabia. I wish he had succeeded in opening Mecca as it was in time of the Prophet. Maybe from above... Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ Most US networks are just gushing over how awesome the "reformer" Saudi King was. No sense of how atrocious his human rights violations were Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ President Obama statement on the death of King Abdullah http://t.co/ZohjTaUl3A Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ Bracelet Turns Skin Into a Touchscreen Display - Design Milk http://t.co/CgRX2GbbMH Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mollybob/ [Audio] “In 10 years, I’m hoping our cities are our classrooms.” - @eshlefoot http://t.co/PVAEFdfVpW#connectedlearning Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ #educon LIVE stream link from @TheFranklin https://t.co/IpnfuX4IBh #pennedchat @MCDPEL Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Joe_Mazza/ Patrick on davos panel. from an earlier ted..
cartoon of steve jobs. creating tech to organize jobs we never had to do before..
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