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Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US | US news | The Guardian
Travelling in the stratosphere at altitudes of up to 65,000ft, the balloons are intended to “provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats”, according to a filing made on behalf of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, an aerospace and defence company. Source: Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the…
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How robots became a scapegoat for the destruction of the working class
Three papers in the last year — one by the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative, one from the Roosevelt Institute and Duke University, and another in development from Roosevelt — suggest maybe the automation we’re seeing now is little different from the technological advances we’ve seen in every other era. Instead, the problems of…
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(via 2018 Design Tools Cost Comparison Sketch – Automattic Design) In this blog post John Maeda investigates the dollar cost of ownership of software tools for drawing, prototyping, and presenting design ideas. He focuses on tools for interaction- and communication- design. His is not an exhaustive list and many of the the Free/Libre Open Source…
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We’ve submitted an application to host a site for International Tabletop Day. This will be kept purposefully intimate.
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Network thinking « Learning Change
Network thinking « Learning Change gfbertini: Curtis Ogden at The Interaction Institute provides a very good summary of the differences between network-centric and hierarchy-centric thinking, called Network Thinking: Adaptability instead of control Emergence instead of predictability Resilience and redundancy instead of rock stardom Contributions before credentials Diversity and divergence One…
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Technorati State of the Blogosphere survey
Every year, you help us make State of the Blogosphere the most comprehensive resource for bloggers, and about bloggers. The 2011 survey is live, and your input is critical. http://www.psasurveys.com/detect.aspx?I.Project=a18214 We’d love for you to share some information about blogging as your passion or your profession, that we can then share back with you, the…
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(via PDFmyURL.com – Free & Online: Convert and save PDF from any web page) malleable publishing.
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laughingsquid: 29 Years Ago, a Smiley Was Born 🙂