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maxistentialist: Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Lorain County Correctional Institution acknowledged Friday that pirated movies are being shown to prisoners there, even as inmates serve time for illegally downloading movies. Richard Humphrey, 26, of North Ridgeville was sent to the Lorain County prison in…
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takeovertime: Germany’s Iconic Designer: A Day with Dieter Rams Sarah Lonsdale, remodelista.com Dieter Rams is the demigod of everyday design, the man behind classics like the Braun alarm clock and the Vitsoe shelving system. He’s also the acknowledged inspiration for all products Apple. Before there was Jonathan Ive at Apple, the…
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Columbine happened when I was 15. American schools are driven by externals rather than root causes. After Columbine, guns didn’t kill people. Black trench coats did. According to David Cullen’s book on the massacre, Harris was a sociopath, but the media played the shooting as goths versus jocks. Suddenly, every freak was a future mass…
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notgames: Bounden – Gameplay Trailer (by Game Oven) Let’s get ELEGANT. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Data mining your children
Data mining your children The NSA has nothing on the ed tech startup known as Knewton. The data analytics firm has peered into the brains of more than 4 million students across the country. By monitoring every mouse click, every keystroke, every split-second hesitation as children work through digital textbooks, Knewton is able to find…
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Listening to the debate, I also can’t help thinking that perhaps the key enabling social technology for autonomous vehicles was the creation of the concept of corporate personhood. Because robotics companies need corporate persons to accept the legal responsibility for the work algorithms do. They told us the future would be weird. What If a…
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buttonpoetry: Amir Safi – “Brown Boy. White House.” (NPS 2013) “A boy approaches me in a high school hallway and says, If you were from Afghanistan, I’d beat your ass. The three words I should’ve said were, I love you. Instead, I said, Wish you would.” Performing during semifinals at the 2013 National Poetry Slam. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Comcast Says It’s Going To Slap All Of Its Customers With Data Caps, Makes Half-Hearted Attempt To Walk Back Earlier Statements When Backlash Kicks In | Techdirt
Comcast Says It’s Going To Slap All Of Its Customers With Data Caps, Makes Half-Hearted Attempt To Walk Back Earlier Statements When Backlash Kicks In | Techdirt wilwheaton: wilwheaton: Comcast, perhaps feeling a bit too confident about its chances to swallow up Time Warner Cable, is talking about rolling out data caps to all of…