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One day as I was working on this story, I received an email from TaskRabbit’s vice-president of marketing, Jamie Viggiano. “We saw your recent posting on Craigslist to interview Taskers about their experiences using our service,” she wrote. Well, that was weird, because I didn’t post anything on Craigslist (although I had posted on a…
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NYPD Is Sick of “Techie Brat” Protesters Using Dang Twitter to Organize
NYPD Is Sick of “Techie Brat” Protesters Using Dang Twitter to Organize spacemagus: swanjolras-archive: “They wore me out,” said one counterterror expert who monitored the protests. “Their ability to strategize on the fly is something we haven’t dealt with before to this degree.” While the NYPD actively monitors Twitter, Facebook and other social media for…
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More fundamentally, “The Imitation Game” is a parable of disruption. It not only provides an origin myth for the digital age, but it also projects the ideology of the present back into the past. Turing, an eccentric visionary stuck in an organization that is bureaucratic, hierarchical and wedded to tradition, is an apostle of innovation.…
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joshbyard: Princeton Researchers 3d Printing Bio-Electronic Parts Researchers at Princeton University have taken an important step toward expanding [3D Printing’s] potential by developing a way to print functioning electronic circuitry out of semiconductors and other materials. They are also refining ways to combine electronics with biocompatible materials and even living tissue, which could pave the…
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joshbyard: Princeton Researchers 3d Printing Bio-Electronic Parts Researchers at Princeton University have taken an important step toward expanding [3D Printing’s] potential by developing a way to print functioning electronic circuitry out of semiconductors and other materials. They are also refining ways to combine electronics with biocompatible materials and even living tissue, which could pave the…
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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. — Elie Wiesel (via lapitiedangereuse)
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massconflict: A peaceful rally over the presumed massacre of 43 missing students ended with violence and destruction in Mexico City, with protesters calling for the president to stand down.Thousands marched along Mexico City’s main boulevard, chanting for Enrique Pena Nieto to resign and waving blackened flags of the country in anger over the case of…
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ourrisd: Yesterday afternoon as students returned to classes after the Thanksgiving break, up the hill at Brown they were sidestepping their peers’ lifeless bodies strewn across the main green. The living corpses remained silent but held signs with the names of African Americans killed by excessive police force. The dramatic demonstration was part of a student-run…
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nprplays: Earlier this year, radicalbytes (aka Jonathan McIntosh, Feminist Frequency producer) wrote a piece for Polygon about some of the invisible benefits males enjoy while gaming — especially online. I interviewed McIntosh back then about the piece for NPR’s All Tech Considered blog. He said then that this is an issue everyone in the gaming…
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How a Wealthy California Town Makes Sure No Poor Kids Attend Its ‘Public’ School
How a Wealthy California Town Makes Sure No Poor Kids Attend Its ‘Public’ School Orinda’s schools are among the best in California – public schools that glean extra revenues from a local parcel tax (that required a two-thirds vote to pass) and parental contributions to the Educational Foundation of Orinda which “suggests” donations of $600…