Monday, June 15, 2015

tweets

Traumatized by 3 Years at Rikers Prison w/o Charge as Teen, Kalief Browder Commits Suicidehttp://t.co/tZ837u1YJs

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/608038459446558721


http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/the_charity_trap

posted on fb by sandy
"It seems to me that we need to make a choice. We should either expect an organization like the Red Cross to serve only a band-aid function, or we should allow it to build an organization that can grow and adapt to create longer-term change. We should either ask organizations like the Red Cross to simply deliver aid and move on, or we should stop criticizing them for the failures and costs of trying to do something more ambitious."




What bothers me about my 8-foot commute to the garage isn't loneliness (the green anoles keep me company) it's not getting out in the world.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/608268926581997569


One thing I loved about being in NYC last time was the *anonymity* — being able to observe all the city life while not being observed myself

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/608269319068217345


"The Art of Dissent" by @laurapoitras http://t.co/y0uu1GdORg with @aiww and @ioerror

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/DirtyWars/status/608297948607344640



Looking forward to #DML2015 Opening Plenary with @VanJones68 & @MariaTeresa1 talking about social change, equity, technology, and politics

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/scraigwatkins/status/608332082402754560


Suicide rate of female military veterans is called 'staggering' http://t.co/6FtCzwzboj #CAMH

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/dtapscott/status/608350597524398080


Working w/ Boulder Parks + Rec rethinking as 'places of learning' via nature + digital. #TVRSE15https://t.co/1IkyvrSwK5

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ChristianLong/status/608360800537989121


I am in Munster, in Germany. The quest to understand the drug war has taken me to surreal places. A long way from Juarez but strange echoes

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/johannhari101/status/608365420408655872


ICYMI: A former drug dealer who became a monk lives in the house at the top of this pillar.http://t.co/r9wEibFxBm http://t.co/MDma2sPiFL

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/608365601594216449


Thinking a lot these days about how technology is changing the face of work. "On demand" just the tip of the iceberg https://t.co/zE4yloMtB7

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/608380114729070592


About a week ago I got to interview my friends @jessicahagy and @elleluna about their work. Video here:http://t.co/kZg3tYBl9t

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/608379502079692800


"what kind of poetry do you write"
"idk what're the kinds"

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/thoughtsailor/status/608405480906567680


https://www.braindecoder.com/genetic-root-creativity-and-psychosis-1190440237.html

shared on fb by jason


When we put on the hat and coat of well-being we incline towards joy without special occasion.http://t.co/2NyObVvI5K

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/prettylikedeer/status/608608378017808384


@jaltucher's Fascinating interview with Rick Ross (the 2nd largest drug kinpin in US history)https://t.co/duov3gnTVd http://t.co/XLuIjDzToY

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/JaysonGaignard/status/608628381643440130


can't get it to play... ?




.@davidgraeber this Sci-Fi movie is precisely on this topic. Here the trailer:  https://t.co/KmOsyzW1LQ

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/maka_suarez/status/608678402829217792


Uplifting ways people have used @Neighborland to shape their communities: https://t.co/HOBgBgno69http://t.co/HlnY2r7k5O

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/candychang/status/608682796299759616


Regardless of how much they care, the average person doesn't feel much agency in changing the world. #DML2055

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/andrewslack/status/608696962188255232


To overcome this widespread crisis in agency, we needs to evolve a collective civic imagination. #DML2055

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/andrewslack/status/608697449948033026


Because locals rarely let themselves be tourists in their own towns, asking them for suggestions when visiting is often a terrible idea.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/608737579555377152


[Worth Reading] Enjoyed this insightful interview with @petertheil —> http://t.co/ybbiQjAOGF

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/608774012550979584

I wanted to be really clear that the job descriptions for everybody were different, so you would not have this endemic conflict. I think that was very powerful.

Name calling - seth


http://www.hamiltonproject.org/blog/nearly_30_percent_of_workers_in_the_u.s._need_a_license_to_perform_the/

posted on fb by michael strong

Interesting that this initiative against excessive occupational licensing, co-founded by Jason Furman, Chairman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, uses electricians as an example of an occupation for which government licensing is necessary. Years ago Donald J. Boudreauxpointed me to a study showing that the higher the standards of occupational licensing in a state the more likely were home fires - presumably because the more costly the rate of hiring electricians, due to higher barriers of entry, the greater the probability that people would do their electrical work themselves.


post by skip right below it
ive always known my work is my work. it isnt for now. its for when its needed. it isnt disposable. its real work. but when a person says this about you... it reminds you. thanks Robert White III
Art is essential to every movement. Art has the capacity to reach people that would otherwise go unreached. Music should be more than social. Music should have a component that drives it to be sacred, spiritual, stimulating, stirring, soothing. Every movement should have an aspect of art that imitates life. I want to appreciate Brother Skipp Coon this morning for providing me with a thorough artistic analysis & challenge to get me in a certain zone this morning. The Sophomore Slump & that Miles Garvey albums got me right & ready to take on the challenges that I face today. Stay true to your principle & keep putting out the art that reflects that fam.
wow... just wow...

"There is no identity that is not social; the idea of a camera just allows us to technologize that reality"http://t.co/oDMIwZ1pmg

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/nathanjurgenson/status/608997498468716545
There is no time when we are not being observed, so we have no possibility to prepare for it, 
sounds like he's saying this is bad.. but is it? maybe it's good - to swim in improv.. no?
“Self-examination,” Mumford assumes, can only occur when we believe no one else is watching; only then can we see ourselves as we are and not in terms of our performance for others.
or - when we know they could be watching.. but most likely aren't .. no?
The development of a self doesn’t precede that quest for relevance; it may instead stem from it. 
the dance.


"With every byte the invisible city swells": How art is making the data-driven city more liveable --http://t.co/X8TpaaEkXn

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/datasociety/status/609030856464822272


@remiholden but also the questions asked aren't really "questions" either, so there's that.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/anterobot/status/609051812633686016


On #Blockchain technologies and their implication for the #Commons by @Rachelodwyer http://t.co/OuPl0U81cqcc @nathanairplane @rushkoff

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation/status/609081312641568769


RT @bitmindco: Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy @P2P_Foundation mbauwens #p2p  http://t.co/tzbHaQn0zP

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/609093119699763200


"The #microfinance craze persists in the face of one unfortunate fact: microfinance doesn’t work."  http://t.co/rX00xGXcbu #globaldev

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/608597792878112769




My #pdf15 talk is up if anyone wants to spend a few minutes geeking out on public meetings:https://t.co/uW46sRhA2r

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/cbracy/status/609125602336088064


Amsterdam is literally making new islands for new housing http://t.co/C9Zp9nfraf http://t.co/beymXiQXSy

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/CityLab/status/609159675347628032








http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33060450

shared on fb by carol
"My mum said, 'No,' to them twice. But they kept pushing her and said we think you should send Helene to Denmark, it's only for six months. And she'll get the chance of a bright future - so we think you should let her go."


.@Macfound Pres. Julia Stasch highlighting emergence of Cities of Learning as a new DML vanguard @citieslearn @DC_Learning #DML2015

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mwrobbins/status/609446738634637312


.@macfound announces plans for new grants to support teachers in & out of school, learning labs, school practitioners #DML2015 #CitiesLearn

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/dmlconference/status/609447732898582528


MacArthur Fdn announces DML spin off of neworg for Connie Yowell to carry on new field w/o Fdn constraint. It is the right time. #dml2015

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/cathycasserly/status/609448029855199234


Video: Juliet Schor on the goods and bads of sharing economy | P2P Foundation https://t.co/MoNs5x2WFn

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/KevinCarson1/status/609458385516302336


Want to know more about @austinkleon's latest? WATCH his chat w/ @BookViewNow at @thebookconhttp://t.co/9PA1sjSyHI http://t.co/NZ5xO4kDtL

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/PBS/status/609399958047997952


Jenkins: you cannot change the world unless you can imagine what a better world might look like #DML2015 @sangitacivics @henryjenkins

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/laurelfelt/status/609430664518180865


Hmm..@hrheingold reminds us to challenge ourselves to move beyond what works #DML2015 #colearninghttp://t.co/u86Vi1cpPI

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/amyburvall/status/609504294639935488


so @lennonflowers-didn't ONLY blow my mind. She stole my heart. Here is one of the most courageous and visionary leaders that exist #DML2015

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/andrewslack/status/609535688241876992




Of course democracy can be reinvented.It's a design problem. http://t.co/GEXyVHWiKk How do we move past entrenched views of govt?  #cdnpoli

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/HeidiSiwak/status/609721931806416896


The Pres & Members of Congress don't have to fill out a SF-86, right? They have clearances, but don't submit sensitive info. Must be nice.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/609733524522946560


Kids w/ resources get art school, kids without resources are told their art is illegal, wrong and unwanted.   @fabiandebora  #DML2015

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ashalaura/status/609769167466565632


Request a NodeXL social media network map & report for topics that matter to you from:http://t.co/X1s40eBPie  #SNA http://t.co/dABUR95dZi

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/marc_smith/status/609844666691899392


Social media’s politics of circulation have profound implications for how academic knowledge is discovered.http://t.co/kNMKdBQPfG

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/LSEImpactBlog/status/609846229770633216


How Tesla Will Change The World http://t.co/qHQfgj2Xij

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/609864125854842881


#Berlin to double refugee money to states http://t.co/5z1z6nxJSm

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/AJStream/status/609948673708040192




http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614.html

posted on fb by sandy



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posted on fb by bonnie b s


“Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.” Wisdom from Simone Weil on how to be a complete human being http://t.co/B59QDWnqio

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/610054370890264576


Valuable lesson from Bro Mike: the value of informal learning ecologies continue to be missed within many schooling environments. #DML2015

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/anterobot/status/609401056754139136






http://www.futureofwork.com/article/details/could-googles-soli-transform-the-way-we-interact-with-tech

shared on fb by dale d

Soli is a small chip that would enable users to control their devices without making physical contact with them. Using radar signals, the chip picks up certain hand gestures and converts them to actions on the device. For instance, the volume on a device can be controlled by sliding the forefinger back and forth across the surface of the thumb, while touching the tip of the forefinger on the thumb would equate to a 'click' or pressing of a button


What we’re doing *for* kids doesn’t matter one bit if we’re impeding their natural development, their growth & happiness. #sudburyschooling

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/numbalum89/status/610199418520768512


Everyone should read the brilliant blog, Sardonick, by Karen Carcia.
http://t.co/xZVKhf3oB4 http://t.co/jjZPyPli0Q

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/HenryGiroux/status/610282019139010560


This is a very smart post. Brain plasticity is going to come up a lot in the #wearables era. https://t.co/rPpjpnOX16

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/610286201963085824


My first stab at podcasting. The stunning, moving story of @DuaneJackson's journey from prison to business success. https://t.co/KtpM6FQIIu

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/thisiskyramaya/status/610446915960971264


Pittsburgh's #RemakeLearning Network launches Playbook for #connectedlearning educators @TheCLAlliancehttp://t.co/An5WgIGbRw

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mizuko/status/610523545400020993



Monday, June 8, 2015

tweets

http://www.neuroscientistnews.com/research-news/missing-link-found-between-brain-immune-system-major-disease-implications

In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist. That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance of the discovery lies in the effects it could have on the study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer's disease to multiple sclerosis. 
[..]
The discovery was made possible by the work of Antoine Louveau, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Kipnis' lab. The vessels were detected after Louveau developed a method to mount a mouse's meninges - the membranes covering the brain - on a single slide so that they could be examined as a whole. "It was fairly easy, actually," he said. "There was one trick: We fixed the meninges within the skullcap, so that the tissue is secured in its physiological condition, and then we dissected it. If we had done it the other way around, it wouldn't have worked."
After noticing vessel-like patterns in the distribution of immune cells on his slides, he tested for lymphatic vessels and there they were. The impossible existed. The soft-spoken Louveau recalled the moment: "I called Jony [Kipnis] to the microscope and I said, 'I think we have something.'"
[..]

"It's so close to the blood vessel, you just miss it," he said. "If you don't know what you're after, you just miss it." 



brian wilson - smile
20 ish - he saw the whole canvas - he could see it all at once

37 min  - he heard sounds no one had ever heard before.. i think because he had no rules

41 min - that gave us some sort of validation.. that what we were supposed to do was explore (bernstein)






http://www.thenation.com/article/208801/secret-origins-cias-torture-program-and-forgotten-man-who-tried-expose-it#

shared on fb by howard
A long time ago, a man tried to expose America's secret torture program. That his name has been forgotten is a tragedy. I knew him well. He was brilliant, tortured himself over what he had seen, and was hounded by the Nixon administration. His name was Tony Russo and you should read this.http://www.thenation.com/…/secret-origins-cias-torture-prog…#





A good short convo abt literacies of attention, crap detection, participation, collaboration, network know-howhttps://t.co/rSlSBayNsC

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/606153641578360833


I AM GOING TO DO THIS THING. RT @girlonabikedc touch their belly in return. It usually gets them to think twice. And its oddly satisfying

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/amandapalmer/status/606518038280728576




on neotony - retaining childhood characteristics for entire life.. what makes us human. - Lila Tretikov #PDF15

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/monk51295/status/606575288764342272


on internet dot org as walled garden in india - ie: competition, diversity - @sunil_abraham #PDF15

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/monk51295/status/606578495821606912




"...it’s not so much that [revolutionaries] have a vision, it’s that they are possessed by it. They are often difficult, eccentric personalities by nature, because they are stepping out front to confront a system of power [in a way that is] almost a kind of a form of suicide. But in moments of extremity, these rebels are absolutely key; and that you can’t pull off seismic change without them."


President Reif talks about "tell me about your day" a student response to suicide at @MIT in his graduation remarks.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/EthanZ/status/606847433759408128


College students spent 4.3 Billion dollars on text books alone last year... college is big business

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/DarcyBedortha/status/606879584622018560



shared on fb by tolu




Study lists #Longmont as top alternative to offshoring IT, other business process services: http://t.co/jF3I1drSn6via @bizwestmedia #STEM

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/MrsLauer/status/606942237855858690


Where *all drugs are fully decriminalized   https://t.co/cNFBqq9Y2E

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/606955806504980480


@cogdog It *was* civil. I quite enjoy Reddit as classroom.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/courosa/status/606981495316545536


"Syrian women tear off black garb as they flee ISIS territory" http://t.co/HgBNRuKv9k cc @courosa for your "pics that tell a story" file.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/kbhildebrandt/status/606961834122444800


University as "as an association of masters and scholars leading the common life of learning"http://t.co/Sm7SGADakk Those days are gone...

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/cogdog/status/607015219039240192

A great teacher like Socrates gave no diplomas; if a modern student sat at his feet for three months, he would demand a certificate, 4something tangible and eternal to show for it — an excellent theme, by the way, for a Socratic dialogue. 


So long as knowledge was limited to the seven liberal arts of the early Middle Ages, there could be no universities, for there was nothing to teach beyond the bare elements of grammar, rhetoric, logic, and the still barer notions of arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and music, which did duty for an academic 8curriculum. Between 1100 and 1200, however, there came a great influx of new knowledge into western Europe, partly through Italy and Sicily, but chiefly through the Arab scholars of Spain — the works of Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, and the Greek physicians, the new arithmetic, and those texts of the Roman law which had laid hidden through the Dark Ages. 


Historically, the word university has no connection with the universe or the universality of learning; it denotes only the totality of a group, whether of barbers, carpenters, or students did not matter. The students of Bologna organized such a university first as a means of protection against the townspeople, for the price of rooms and necessaries rose rapidly with the crowd of new tenants and consumers, and the individual student was helpless against such profiteering. United, the students could bring the town to terms by the threat of departure as a body, secession, for the university, having no buildings, was free to move, and there are many historic examples of such migrations. Better rent one’s rooms for less than not rent them at all, and so the student organizations secured the power to fix the prices of lodgings and books through their representatives.


When I first visited the University of Palermo I found it just recovering from a riot in which the students had broken the front windows in a demand for more frequent, and thus less comprehensive, examinations. A

What then is our inheritance from the oldest of universities? In the first place it is not buildings or a type of architecture, for the early universities had no buildings of their own, but on occasion used private halls and neighboring churches.



It is, then, in institutions that the university tradition is most direct. First, the very name university, as an association of masters and scholars leading the common life of learning. 

this part... these days are gone? or just beginning?

Characteristic of the 35Middle Ages as such a corporation is, the individualistic modern world has found nothing to take its place. Next, the notion of a curriculum of study, definitely laid down as regards time and subjects, tested by an examination and leading to a degree, as well as many of the degrees themselves — bachelor, as a stage toward the mastership, master, doctor, in arts, law, medicine, and theology. Then the faculties, four or more, with their deans, and the higher officers such as chancellors and rectors, not to mention the college, wherever the residential college still survives. The essentials of university organization are clear and unmistakable, and they have been handed down in unbroken continuity. They have lasted more than seven hundred years — what form of government has lasted so long? 

this part... good or bad that they might leave us... ?


Very likely all this is not final — nothing is in this world of flux — .... Universities are at times criticised for their aloofness or their devotion to vocationalism, for being too easy or too severe, and drastic efforts have been made to reform them by abolishing entrance requirements or eliminating all that does not lead directly to bread and butter; but no substitute has been found for the university in its main business, the training of scholars and the maintenance of the tradition of learning and investigation. 

?


The glory of the mediaeval university, says Rashdall, was “the consecration of Learning,” and the glory and the vision have not yet perished from the earth. “The mediaeval university,” it has been said, “was the school of the modern spirit.” 


Imagining the desperation to one get on that tiny boat, the open sea, no guarantee, to sail towards uncaring lands.  https://t.co/3ZT9sWBfHj

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/607193016382701569


@johncusack The story is in the music and it was there all along!

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Sadiesniece/status/607102649788342273






Perhaps we fear robots and robotics because we have marginalized our own human value. I mean, can't we hand off the banal & the menial?

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/goonth/status/607414788759523328


Love this quote from Slide 15 http://t.co/tlmAcRN0OM @dajbelshaw #onted #ontedleadershttp://t.co/3YUlCFNOYn

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/fryed/status/607367261729386496


The more your job helps people, the less you're paid (and vice-versa) http://t.co/11FQht50dXhttp://t.co/425KZQhsnu

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/606913519037095936


LIVE: Whistleblower Coleen Rowley now speaking at @CourageFound event on surveillancehttps://t.co/oG2nSJoT2m

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/607545446588928001


ICYMI: Neuroscientist @drcarlhart says drugs are not the problem: http://t.co/8LEPNZd6mv

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/CBCVancouver/status/607655903404408832


Congress requires ICE to lock up 34,000 immigrants to keep its funding | http://t.co/ihVZNI6m6F @ThisIsFusion #PrisonsForProfit

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/acluohio/status/607585602213695489




Helsinki’s free, city-wide Wi-Fi network is faster than your home internet http://t.co/AL9Y47wfGP

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jorgebarba/status/607974957000343552


Molly Ringwald and her 10-year-old watch The Breakfast Club http://t.co/cp8d8SqXYs http://t.co/y4fMN9rC4N

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/606890847825707008


Oscar Wilde's aphorism on punishment speaks to #KaliefBrowder tragic predicament https://t.co/cSYxjF4Nwe

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/BiellaColeman/status/607975717176020992


Here's the online streaming schedule for @DMLConference http://t.co/cEjBOpiNT2

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/TheCLAlliance/status/607979276474957825

2 Dismantle #rikersisland our nation has 2 dismantle its zest that sees jail as the only option. @KhaCumberbatch @MRFIVEINC  @bazdreisinger

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/marlon_79/status/607990379258871808