January 2012
64 posts
Recent research supports the idea that consciousness is a conversation rather...
– Signal for Consciousness in Brain Marked by Neural Dialogue: Scientific American (via myserendipities)
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman (via boxofoctaves)
December 2011
44 posts
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Our middle school is an art school? robertogreco... →
A transforming paradigm here:
… we regularly use the term colleagues to describe what others would probably refer to as students and teachers.
Play My Code | Play, Build and Share games online! →
Teaching kids to code.
It’s everywhere, it’s everywhere, this
sign of our times. Wherever I go, I...
– Late Dinner, James Sallis (via bbook)
Congress is on the verge of wrecking the greatest engine of innovation and...
– SOPA: Washington Vs. The Web (via azspot)
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The New Yorker’s James Surowiecki has a good column on the American Airlines...
– Audit Notes: Walmart Rewrite, AMR’s Strategic Default, Debtors’ Prison : CJR
With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60...
– Al Franken (via azspot)
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What the nation does is done also by each individual, and so long as the...
– Carl Jung
So, it may be possible to construct a coherent theory of the world, which does...
– I am learning to embrace confusion as a constant state — a state in which shape shifting truths appear and disappear. Where overthrow is possible, new combinations are seen and nothing is sacred.
Underneath all reason lies delirium, and drift. “ ...
Tumbling Old Women: A Journey Round My Skull →
I thought this was about me … it’s not but it is interesting. And, I guess I am really just older and not quite “old”.
Who wants to break the Internet? - The Domino... →
Hillary Clinton and Internet Freedom - Salon.com →
Lot’s of de-bullshitification here.
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Precarity is a condition of existence without predictability or security,...
– Precarity (Social Christianity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When a community is always building, and enlarging, and embellishing, which is good in itself, there is nothing left over for the poor. We have no right to do this as long as there are slums and breadlines somewhere.[1].
— ...
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Occupy
For and Against Precarity Judith Butler
(…) When people amass on the street, one implication seems clear: They are still here and still there; they persist; they assemble, and so manifest the understanding that their situation is shared, and even when they are not speaking or do not present a set of negotiable demands, the call for justice is being enacted. The bodies assembled “say”...
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A Journey Round My Skull: Can you believe it? →
OMG. I saw the new posts in my long dead Reader feed and I was totally discombobulated. I clicked. What? Am I hallucinating? Is there a quantum computer nearby … a space/time rift occurring? WTF?
For no reason, he rises from the grave in all his glory. Hallelujah!
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It’s more difficult to get publications to focus on issues that are more...
– James Nachtwey (via fotojournalismus)
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NO WAY!
Allison Halataei (former deputy chief of staff for House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas)) and Lauren Pastarnack (former senior aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee) have cool new jobs. Having written the Internet-destroying Stop Online Piracy Act for their bosses while drawing a salary at public expense, they’ve now accepted massive raises to go work for the entertainment...
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we must not let our excitement about new technologies blind us to the reality...
– Rebecca MacKinnon: Let’s Take Back The Internet!
Cello Wars, A Star Wars Parody Lightsaber Duel →
Very cute .. I’ve gone to the dark side.
Neoteny, one of my favorite words, means the retention of childlike attributions...
– The Internet, innovation and learning - Joi Ito’s Web
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Clandestino in Arizona - video from Manu Chao →
Can’t follow the Spanish but I get it. I went to Google translate for my comment: ¿Qué carajo está pasando es este mundo loco.
VIA NOTATIONAL
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Liberation Upon Seeing | Art at Integral Life →
Art by Alex Grey. I especially love The Net of Being (upper right image)
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Beep Beep! Big Rig Dance Collective News. →
Black Box Theater - performance Dec 16-17 in Denton, TX. I like this group.
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Sprint loaded spyware on its Android phones -... →