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Don't miss @YongZhaoUO address at NPE conference. Well worth the hour: https://t.co/qlVI4FOvb2

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/GeneVGlass/status/593812309140602881


David Simon: 'My Country Is a Horror Show.' -- A speech about the divide between rich and poor in America -http://t.co/T4jJzbVisY

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/tobydownton/status/593851334987751424


"All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness." The best thing I've read in ages:http://t.co/AwKqAO8jH3

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/593852602846224384


.@seeblinkgo, an offshoot of spinoff @EyeNetra, brings a portable eye exam to you at your home, office, or anywherehttp://t.co/xeB8EGxNaH

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/medialab/status/593871280325185537


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/04/29/udc-defers-exams-for-law-students-helping-freddie-gray-protesters-in-baltimore/?wpisrc=nl_buzz


https://www.facebook.com/cbnnews/videos/10155593814245393/?fref=nf

israel - top disaster relief teams in the world.. usually first to offer relief

supplies, staff 122 drs nurses, operating rooms...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/16/who-millennials-trust-and-dont-trust-is-driving-the-new-economy/

http://dupress.com/articles/platform-strategy-new-level-business-trends/?id=us:2sm:3tw:dup1051:eng:cons:041615:jhagel:bt15:author

Curious how breaking news is effecting a page? 
Check out WikiWash to see page edits in real time: http://t.co/dyqSNQdPST

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/593904440236605440

My 2-minute take on @elonmusk http://t.co/r0BVqABCLE

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/TEDchris/status/593926094220197889

#Kozol: Once we lock a child’s spirit into silent stone, he may never dare again to speak with authenticity. @COE_UNI #UNISummit #edchat

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mcleod/status/593943658396803073

On this last day of National Poetry Month, @amandapalmer reads one of the loveliest poems ever http://t.co/sM95Z0Genohttp://t.co/DHh1cO75yZ

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/593950214207180801

The America I believed in as a child simply doesn't exist.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/deray/status/593957900835520514

I'll never forget these nights walking pass domestic armed forces, seeing the truth of American democracy. #BaltimoreUprising

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/deray/status/593959174435950592

In a real stigmergic network, all tasks, all research, are done by the self-selected individuals most interested, motivated and capable.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/KevinCarson1/status/593959286776016896

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/04/balt_teen_encouraged_to_turn_self_in_by_parents_held_on_500_000_bail_faces.html

This former cop is keeping track of police misconduct http://t.co/s1sHy8dyWk #WhatsWorking

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/HuffPostImpact/status/593985972804722688

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2015/0430/Atlanta-cheating-scandal-Why-the-judge-reduced-their-sentences

"Powerwall Home Battery" will allow consumers to store energy they produce with a solar array, and to even go off the grid if they want.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/adavies47/status/593993250400153601

Wearables at Work (@wearablesatwork)

4/30/15 4:29 AM
@validic receives $12.5M in VC funding from @KPShare. This is truly a great and sound investment as #wearablesgrow.
bit.ly/1EU9Iv2

Ethan Nadelmann (@ethannadelmann)

4/30/15 7:08 AM
The very Republican #Indiana state legislature just overwhelmingly approved #needleexchange. A lesson for#Congress? apne.ws/1ztttHD

Alec Couros (@courosa)

4/30/15 7:08 AM
Preparing for the Digital University: A Review of the History & Current State of Distance, Blended, & Online Learninglinkresearchlab.org/PreparingDigit…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/us/marilyn-mosby-prosecutor-in-freddie-gray-case-seen-as-tough-on-police-misconduct.html?_r=0

Hace unos dias, maestros en huelga en #Brazil lastimados por policias: http://t.co/okGIMwWQ5Z via @Pragmatismo_  #1demayo #mayday

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/reportedly/status/594251211861164032

5000 schools damaged in Nepal Earthquake. Thank heavens quake struck on a Saturday. http://t.co/YY9J9JyXUp

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/casinclair/status/594253141861773312

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/30/foreign-lives-matter-american-racism-foreign-policy-baltimore-ferguson/

posted on fb by david w

Foreign Lives Matter

"In late April, racism fueled the burning of the city of Baltimore, compelling U.S. President Barack Obama to call it a “slow-rolling crisis.” But many around the world understand it to be more than that.

What does it mean for the rest of the world when its most powerful nation struggles mightily with racism in its midst? For one, it contextualizes the often-heralded notion of American “exceptionalism.” At its core, that idea is an incredibly arrogant notion. It hints of racism and a barely concealed contempt of others, especially the non-Western world. But it is a doctrine that is still ruthlessly enforced in the carnival that is American politics.

The rest of the world sees this. It smells the hypocrisy in Washington when leaders resort to the old saw that America “is a nation of immigrants” while kicking unaccompanied children out of the country en masse.

While Wall Street stocks won’t take a hit from the riots in Baltimore, the image of the United States as a free, fair, and prosperous land for all certainly does. Some 150 years after the end of the U.S. Civil War, the United States has not overcome its reprehensible domestic legacy of racism. And it is time that politicians, academics, and business leaders across the world pause before they readily embrace American ideals and interests.

The average American should know, too, that what’s happening in Baltimore or Ferguson reverberates thousands of miles away."

Crap detect tweets about breaking news:P https://t.co/aOGOULXhnp

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/594266629451751424

A new wave of coalition air strikes on #Sanaa targeting Alnahdain and Attan areas. #OpRestoringHope #Saudi #Yemen #Houthis

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/yemen_updates/status/594303263509385216

@johncusack Why Tesla’s announcement is such a big deal: The coming revolution in energy storagehttp://t.co/UUBVHQkOGu

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Sadiesniece/status/594347027745517569


Three crazy days in Beijing with 3 of the world’s most famous dissidents. It got weird. http://t.co/PcZGNGayULhttp://t.co/Fd28dk4AnK

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/594138099371880448


http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/02/technology/dave-goldberg-sheryl-sandberg-husband/index.html


A Burst of Delight and Recognition—EE Cummings,the art of noticing and the spirit of rebellion http://t.co/b25An2aJwhhttp://t.co/XI3cL6Smgi

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/594592771169714176


Watch Elon Musk unveil Tesla's Powerwall, a $3K battery for your home to 'change the world' via @BoingBoinghttp://t.co/0E1IMk1gK8

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/thecleversheep/status/594605190742986753


More moving and poignant than ever, @sherylsandberg's acknowledgment in #LeanIn of her husband @davegoldberg:http://t.co/p2rgXBddtt

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ariannahuff/status/594633413354721281


3:48 - intimacy is hard to mechanize.. violence is easy to mechanize


This debate about future of learning/education will take place in Trondheim AND online around the world.https://t.co/jPr095DHjg

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/594698790658936833


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/meet-the-lawyer-fighting-ubers-business-model.html


https://www.facebook.com/213407562018588/photos/a.213444315348246.68208.213407562018588/1149522071740461/?type=1&fref=nf

shared  on fb by sandy

"Hiding done properly is the internal faithful promise for a proper future emergence, as embryos, as children or even as emerging adults in retreat from the names that have caught us and imprisoned us, often in ways where we have been too easily seen and too easily named......

Hiding is creative, necessary and beautifully subversive of outside interference and control. Hiding leaves life to itself, to become more of itself. Hiding is the radical independence necessary for our emergence into the light of a proper human future."

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/30/an-earthquake-exposes-nepals-political-rot/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%252AEditors%2520Picks&utm_campaign=2015_EditorsPicks_Promo_ACAlliance2RS4%252F30

posted on fb by david

An Earthquake Exposes Nepal’s Political Rot

"For Nepal, one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in Asia, this catastrophe has laid bare its political dysfunction. Many of those left homeless or injured have been waiting in vain for any form of government assistance. There were no pictures of political leaders visiting stricken citizens, no words of empathy or consolation. Nepalis had to content themselves instead with TV appearances of officials like Communication Minister Minendra Rijal, who merely acknowledged “some weaknesses in managing the relief operation.”

While some foreign countries have already started supplying humanitarian assistance (albeit on a fairly limited scale), the corrupt government machinery is already reportedly seizing much of what they have brought.

While the country’s diversity has many positive aspects, it has also become a major obstacle to political development. The continuing absence of a constitution has stymied further moves toward democracy. Nepal had its last popularly elected local governments two decades ago.

The dismal response to the earthquake, including reports about the misappropriation of relief supplies, means that Kathmandu can no longer pretend the problem doesn’t exist."

To serve and protect. https://t.co/mz1mh4292f

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/AVAETC/status/594910393501265920

How far can we go in unifying p2p initiatives ? http://t.co/iHMTZP8QUC

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation/status/594917422068592640

The linearity of Stephen Downes. Or a tale of two Stephens. http://t.co/QaQJtuhqiR

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/gsiemens/status/594922058573688832

http://m.fastcompany.com/3045459/neil-degrasse-tyson-stomps-the-notion-of-left-right-brain-salutes-jon-stewart-and-explains-t

Many Americans tell me all the time: "Earn your citizenship."
To which I reply: "w/ all due respect, how did u earn yours? Being born?"

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/joseiswriting/status/594949914578157568

I love this comment from @cogdog on spending time with others: http://t.co/Dbz9G3c1z2

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/veletsianos/status/594952786216792064

LEAVING STATEMENT of the LSE Occupation @davidgraeber @rustyrockets @OwenJones84 @craig__guevara @craigjcalhoun http://t.co/lYdhUfhi8g

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/LSEOCCUPATION/status/594904680007864320

In the wake of #Baltimore, Margaret Mead and James Baldwin on race—timely wisdom from 1971 http://t.co/qLDcDhuIRRhttp://t.co/NOqS9RPBeV

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/595023410650021889