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Wealth & Inequality/Tech
Stephen Hawking’s replies to the questions that were submitted for an AMA on Reddit were just posted... So many great comments, this one in particular caught my eye...
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My Flipboard on Wealth & Inequality
My Weebly page on Futurism
Click here to view the rest of the AMA
As a new year approaches, the University of Notre Dame's John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values has released its annual list of emerging ethical dilemmas and policy issues in science and technology for 2014.
Bharara, Teachout, Lessig are all going to be here... and it's free and open to the public...
program here: http://calendars.fordham.edu/EventList.aspx…
register here: http://calendars.fordham.edu/EventRegistration.aspx…
Cuomo vs Bharara
Cuomo's Office Hobbled Ethics Inquiries by Moreland Commission
update... aliens... maybe
The Case of the So-Called Alien Megastructure Just Got Weirder
lol... we shall see....
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I need to collect all of the Bernie Sanders images/quotes I’ve collected from FB and turn them into an animated gif... #project
I’m still skeptical... but out of all of the politicians he sounds like the best bet....
some links
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-can-become-president-has-replaced-i-like-him-but-he-cant-win_b_7733476.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/almost-every-major-poll-shows-bernie-sanders_b_7937906.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
Talk about timing...
It's amazing that it's been a year since Glen met with Snowden and the NSA landed in the headlines for violating our 4th amendment rights to privacy, a cornerstone of democracy.
Last week the USA Freedom Act passed in the house- doublespeak from our government that allows this abuse to continue. This week Snowden gave his first American Network TV interview.
Why does this issue of privacy and democracy matter so much? After all, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide"?
----- excerpt from The Eternal Value of Privacy by Bruce Schneier-----
"Two proverbs say it best: Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? ("Who watches the watchers?") and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Cardinal Richelieu understood the value of surveillance when he famously said, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." Watch someone long enough, and you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with. Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time.
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.
and
"Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide."
For the link to a short collection of other related articles, visit http://americanvirtueproject.wikispaces.com/readinglist
He argues that rich nations should change their goal from one of economic growth to that of "increased happiness in a situation of stable income and declining population". This sentiment is echoed by both Graeme Maxton, leading economist and author of The End of Progress, while Charles Sturt University Professor of Public Ethics Clive Hamilton observes that in our developed economies, "people buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like".
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-population-growth-bodes-decline-standards.html
Get up, Stand up
Your Guide to the sprawling New anti-Trump Resistance Movement
These are some of the resources from this wonderful article along with other helpful resources I have found online.
Indivisible
A practical guide for resisting the Trump agenda... Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes, make 5 calls.Calling is the most effective way to influence your representative.
Resistance Manual
Open-source platform to harness the collective power of the people to resist the impact of a Trump presidency and to continue to make progress in our communities. Already, thousands of pieces of content have been contributed to the site from people all over the country, helping to keep communities informed and ready for the work ahead.
Also see
Pussyhat Project
Movement Match
#MarchforScience
#ResistTrumpTuesdays
Town Hall Project- Google Spreadsheet with upcoming events/town hall meetings of appearances made by representatives
What to do when you’re so overwhelmed by the Trump presidency you can barely move
It Seems to Me: What Young Women May Not Know
What the Fuck Just Happened Today
Week 12: Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember. (see links to previous weeks at bottom of the post)
My previous post: Science not Silence
I am now a published author!!!
I can’t believe it! I have been working for so long on this and it’s done! Well, there are some things I’d like to update (as well as working on the formatting so I can upload it to the Amazon and Google stores), but for the most part the first edition is done!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheEdTechBible.com Direct link to the ETB on the iBookstore
So grateful I have a lot of wonderful people that have supported me in this endeavor, but none more than my very dear friend Kim, who is also the editor of the book. I could not have done it without her. (btw, when you check out her website, click on her YouTube channel and subscribe!)
Some of what I come across on the web... Also check out my Content & Curation site: kristentreglia.com
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