Tuesday, October 6, 2015

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There's reliable therapy for sex offenders. B/c it involves acknowledging their humanity, v. unpopular. @maggiekb1:http://t.co/H7XPK1BB6E

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/sethmnookin/status/650001219612712960


First efforts at a teacherless discussion in #philosophy12 this morning streaming live on #ds106radio http://t.co/HShK7taGt9

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bryanjack/status/650001238281490432
"If we can't define a word, how can we define existence?" #philosophy12

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bryanjack/status/650007554706173952
does existence want/need to be defined..?


A4. Largely because mass incarceration is a fiscal failure. Sadly, not bc mass incarceration has damaged communities #OACHAT

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/marlon_79/status/650021032494014464

Opportunity Agenda @oppagenda
Q4 Why do you believe there is more social & political will to end #massincarceration than ever before? #OAChat pic.twitter.com/UF8EKuRkvk


Mr. Rogers’ great advice on dealing with a tragedy.
http://t.co/6ng1L60DTu http://t.co/382QnAA7JT

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/good/status/650033236232376320


Too much time spent negotiating purchases of "solutions" and not enough time spend looking for better opportunities.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Todd_Conaway/status/650036680494215168


If we fail, let's not fail because of a lack of imagination. - @pahlkadot at #cfasummit

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/codeforamerica/status/650037246100312064


Open thread for night owls: Here's a documentary about juvenile injustice that you should watch http://t.co/9dJ8tsOcIl

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/dailykos/status/650149607935074304

MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, hit by bombing, at least 3 MSF staff dead & 30 unaccounted 4, my deepest condolences 2 dear colleagues.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bouckap/status/650179350550216704


NATO statement admits US air strike may be responsible 4 deaths & destruction at Kunduz MSF hospital, only functioning facility in city.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bouckap/status/650180256603766784


RT @JenniferSertl: #globlalview: Network Society & Scenarios for Collaborative Economy http://t.co/tzbHaQn0zP  (book)

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/650188040321802240


eric_mazur
New scheme to get every student prepared for every class when teaching a #flippedclass! So exciting! #staytuned
oh my.
prep for class..
that's what we do.

bouckap
Found this Syrian family this AM @ Assos, Turkey, swam out of sinking rubber boat & smugglers tried 2 force them backpic.twitter.com/V78L7ndl6t


jhagel
Reports of the demise of Moore's Law are premature - new developments in carbon nanotube-based integrated circuitson.mash.to/1QPcwuP


mrchase
For those thinking of community #connectivity, this is a must read. govtech.com/network/The-Ne… cc @scrawford
Given the importance of high-speed Internet access to everything from finding jobs and doing homework to e-commerce and entertainment, we asked representatives from government, industry and nonprofits why the broadband equity gap exists and how to fix it. Here’s who we talked to and what they had to say.
jobs, hw, commerce, entertainment..
those are our proclaimed choices..?
REPRESENTATIVES
Robert Bell / Executive Director, Intelligent Community Forum (ICF)
Bell leads research, analysis and content development at the ICF, a nonprofit think tank he co-founded focused on technology and broadband as enablers of economic development. Among his activities while at the ICF are the annual Intelligent Communities Awards program and economic development missions to cities around the United States and Asia.
ie and first of many listed.
focus matters... change focus.. from ie: Econ dev... and much of current energy consumption becomes noise/distraction/..irrelevant.... to what matters to a human. being.those thinking of community connectivity.. but with subtle focus of jobs.. money..school... how would this read if money were no object...?



The hidden conflict for control of economic policy 
https://t.co/ChWFrN1dRi http://t.co/hz1Z87tPyL

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Damn_Jehu/status/650283418513608705
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As someone recently said: "This is a political choice that we make, to allow this to happen every few months ....."  https://t.co/6TBj2ZOdkY

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/650322398269558784

The average length of a hug between two people is 3 seconds. But researchers have discovered something fantastic. When a hug lasts 20 seconds, there is a therapeutic effect on the body and mind. The reason is that a sincere hug produces a hormone called "oxytocin", also known as the love hormone. This substance has many benefits in our physical and mental health, helps us, among other things, to relax, to feel safe and calm our fears and anxiety. This wonderful calming is offered free of charge every time we have a person in our arms, who cradled a child, we cherish a dog or cat, we're dancing with our partner, the closer we get to someone or just hold the shoulders of a friend.

Horrified that the U.S. bombed a @MSF hospital in Afghanistan. Just got done working with them for a week in Iraq. Selfless brave people

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/650328514269433856


‘Collateral damage’ what an abhorrent & dehumanising term http://t.co/Io1UCw0CJo

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/digitalmaverick/status/650348867125272576

“They are distractions from what is right in front of you and me and the victims of tomorrow’s shooting: people who need help.”

From: How We All Miss the Point on School Shootings
http://markmanson.net/school-shootings
from may 2014 - shared by amy w on fb oct 2015

They are distractions from what is right in front of you and me and the victims of tomorrow’s shooting: people who need help.

And while we’re all fighting over whose pet cause is more right and more true and more noble, there’s likely another young man out there, maybe suicidally depressed, maybe paranoid and delusional, maybe a psychopath, and he’s researching guns and bombs and mapping out schools and recording videos and thinking every day about the anger and hate he feels for this world.

And no one is paying attention to him.


One day after warning Russia of civilian casualties in #Syria, U.S. bombs a hospital in #Afghanistan. http://t.co/cPtfAJHLwL by @ggreenwald

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ASE/status/650390631811055616


Stephen #Wolfram on #Singularity 1on1: 2 Understand the Future, Explore the Computational Universehttp://t.co/PbShfQ9I9Y RT @stephen_wolf…

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/singularityblog/status/650402994463318016


Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey's 'secret billionaire fund' just backed a huge European startup http://t.co/5chVvlIcsb via @BIUK_Tech

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/matteorizzi/status/650221559093817344

a company to manage payments


"Patients who were unable to escape burned to death as they lay in their beds” http://t.co/DxWBt14O6C #MSF #Kunduz

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Anand_Gopal_/status/650416759946674176



http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/the-man-who-may-one-up-darwin/39217?utm_source=W1&utm_medium=pp&utm_campaign=pp

The 101 version of his big idea is this: Under the right conditions, a random group of atoms will self-organize, unbidden, to more effectively use energy. Over time and with just the right amount of, say, sunlight, a cluster of atoms could come remarkably close to what we call life. I
same for humans.. self-organizing ness.. toward potential energy
During his postdoc research on embryonic development, he kept coming back to the question: What qualifies something as alive or not? He later superimposed an analytical rigor to that question, publishing an equation in 2013 about how much energy is required for self-replication to take place. For England, that investigation was only the beginning. “I couldn’t stop thinking about it,” he says, his normally deep voice rising until eventually cracking. “It was so frustrating.” Over the next year, he worked on a second paper, which is under peer review now. This one took his past findings and used them to explain theoretically how, under certain physical circumstances, life could emerge from nonlife.


Why Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Save Twitter: http://t.co/h8t6GZofil < Save us Dorsey Wan Jackobi, You're Our only Hope!

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/tobydownton/status/650442963798097920


“Walkable City” is not about why or how cities work, but about what works in cities. And what works best in the best cities is walkability.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/JeffSpeckAICP/status/650483953426677760


Hard to see how the US airstrike on Kunduz hospital is anything other than a war crime https://t.co/ynbS3EoiS0http://t.co/GEbw0d1CO2

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/650414357080203264




#MSF nurse in Kunduz rescuing patients & staff: "There are no words for how terrible it was. In ICU 6 patients were burning in their beds."

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/MSF/status/650388101093818368


skippcoon
@samchaltain I was having this thought a couple days ago. Is poverty a disability? Like how people treat violence as a public health issue
samchaltain
@skippcoon Treating these issues as public health crises makes sense, IMO. See, eg, m.huffpost.com/us/entry/22504…


plthomasedd
"The notion of a neutral, objective education is an oxymoron" @HenryGiroux truth-out.org/news/item/3306…pic.twitter.com/Q7OPqYKJ0a
Politics has become an extension of war, just as systemic economic uncertainty and state-sponsored violence increasingly find legitimation in the discourses of privatization and demonization, which promote anxiety, moral panics and fear, and undermine any sense of communal responsibility for the well-being of others. Too many people today learn quickly that their fate is solely a matter of individual responsibility, irrespective of wider structural forces.
p as extension of war...


http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/10/03/prison-debate-team-beats-harvard-debate-team-in-national-competition-now-you-know-why-innocent-people-are-on-death-ro/

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Why people fall for the biggest hoax on Facebook by @reyjunco http://t.co/4YGZpKw8pB via @CNNMoney

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/suebecks/status/650591518332424192




http://library.fora.tv/2012/09/20/Architect_Frank_Gehry_The_Greatest_Ideas_Go_Unbuilt

fb by richard.. from www


Who May Use the King's Forest? The Meaning of Magna Carta, Commons and Law in Our Time | David Bollierhttp://t.co/4m84RwOJJR

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/650866346067120130


What if networked, faster learning was what big organizations were optimized for? (instead of efficiency)https://t.co/eKE5YCRDOp

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/marshallk/status/650818403427594240


Over the weekend I wrote for @the_intercept about the torture of solitary confinement at NYC's Rikers Island jailhttps://t.co/peo0AJkL2Z

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/togglecoat/status/651030795205918721


Congrats to the @BARDCollege Prison debate team who beat Harvard.  You program helps us all and we all should be grateful. #XONR8

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/JustinoBrooks/status/650702227665911808


"We've never had enough jobs for 7.3 billion people. Unemployment is the natural and basic state for man" @leashlesshttps://t.co/lHciAnJaPW

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/petrakramer/status/651058672349659136


Apparatus is a dynamic drawing tool by @mandy3284. A beautiful and important piece of work. http://t.co/XZIoFqIzcD
https://t.co/1nhkOTsWxY

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/651127831737462789


#TPP negotiations concluded- Big losers are patients in developing countries. Negative impact will be enormous.http://t.co/VvP8snPR3m

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/MSF_USA/status/651037594936078336


a GREAT David Graeber article from 2007: http://t.co/acsO7d8U3M (w/a couple of odd typos that likely come from scanning?) SO GOOD!

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/secretdoor/status/651118180731977730
When we are working for a living, or buying and selling things, we are rewarded with money. But whenever we are not working or buying or selling, when we are motivated by pretty much anything other than the desire to get money, we suddenly find ourselves in the domain of “values.”

[..]
At the same time, they are also seen as utterly unique; whereas money makes all things comparable, “values” such as beauty, devotion, or integrity cannot, by definition, be compared. There is no mathematical formula that could possibly allow one to calculate just how much personal integrity it is right to sacrifice in the pursuit of art or how to balance responsibilities to your family with responsibilities to your God.

[..]
One might put it this way: if value is simply what one considers important, then money allows importance to take a liquid form, by enabling us to compare precise quantities of importance and trade one off for the other. I

[..]
This is, of course, the secret of nobility. To be noble is to be generous, high-minded, altruistic, to pursue higher forms of value. But it is also to be able to do so because one does not really have to think too much about money.


Honored to be selected to speak at the US Nobel Conference.  It will be live-streamed on Wednesday....http://t.co/eMHDER5P38

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/drcarlhart/status/651175637537853442




Understanding mass shootings and gun violence as a public health issue: "Mass shootings and second-hand smoke":https://t.co/pHR4x6YIkz

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/EthanZ/status/651190349633712128


http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/10/05/445985671/never-leave-your-house-survival-strategies-for-el-salvador-s-15girls?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202505

okaikor fb


How a public art festival made a real change in a Detroit neighborhood @kabbeyl http://t.co/gfKk32FBgp

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ariannahuff/status/651212820353171456


There is no such thing as a "full" city. A manifesto: http://t.co/wgZWNzr23y http://t.co/ZL7TGui4H3

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/emilymbadger/status/651372826352615424


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/opinion/david-brooks-the-big-university.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-2&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article&_r=0

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w3c
@mpaluchowski @ralphtalmont We have a W3C Interest Group working on #WoT w3.org/WoT/ and our expert is@draggett


Our interview with acclaimed British concert pianist @JRhodesPianist is now live on TGD. https://t.co/meModwk8mJhttp://t.co/uIvP9l3gQ7

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/greatdiscontent/status/651385235763003392


We do not have a challenge of technology, we have a challenge of imagination @bigmediumjosh #DelightConf

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/dhunterdigital/status/651441294544252928


We are prioritizing data over insight. It's not about the data. It's not about the technology. It's about magic. @globalmoxie #delightconf

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/davegray/status/651440995779764224