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2013-06-15 22:42:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Google has been experimenting with providing internet access via high-altitude (~80,000 feet) balloons. This could provide fast bandwidth to lots of parts of the world that don't have it. The latency would be much better than satellites, because the balloons are only ~15 miles up, while a satellite in geostationary orbit is 22,000+ miles up.

See +Steven Levy 's story for Wired below, or follow +Project Loon for more info!

2013-06-15 18:16:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

silly me to think that killing an ameircan kid was illegal ,immoral, odious,nefarious,disgusting,criminal, violating every ethic, principle and value i know...
http://www.gregpalast.com/the-drone-ranger-obamas-dirty-wars/

2013-06-15 17:46:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#NSA   #PRISM  mockery.

2013-06-14 13:14:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-06-11 17:26:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

"Memorization is not the antithesis of creativity; it is absolutely indispensable to creativity. Creative insights come at odd and unpredictable moments, not when you have all the references spread out on the table in front of you. You can’t possibly hope to have creative insights unless you have memorized all the relevant information. And you can’t hope to have really creative insights unless you have memorized a vast amount of information, because you have no way of knowing what might turn out to be useful."

-- Professor Steve Dutch at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

2013-06-08 08:06:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"A slide depicting the top-secret PRISM program.
The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.

The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says."

....

2013-06-04 19:55:24 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I was only 9 years old when this happened. But I have found this man inspiring. One person can make a difference.

2013-06-04 19:35:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-03 00:47:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

US State Department criticizes Turkey for its repression of free speech. It couldn't be more ironic. #OccupyGezi http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/01/1213118/-Without-Irony-the-U-S-Rebukes-Turkey-for-Cracking-Down-on-Protesters …

https://twitter.com/OccupyWallStNYC/status/341260565102080000

"We believe that Turkey's long-term stability, security and prosperity is best guaranteed by upholding the fundamental freedoms of expression, assembly and association, which is what it seems these individuals were doing.

"These freedoms are crucial to any healthy democracy," [Department Spokesperson] Psaki added.

... #Occupy

2013-06-03 00:43:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Occupy Flash Back

"The Global Block Collective has launched a follow up to its now-classic "Occupation Freedom." This new tune, "Occupy 2.0 - All Streets: The Bum Rush," features Occupy The Hood co-founder Malik Rhasaan and George Martinez, a founder of Global Block Foundation and a New York Congressional candidate who is forwarding an Occupy agenda. Occupy Wall Street fixtures, including Sgt. Shamar Thomas, Lauren DiGioia and the Tax Dodgers, make cameos."

+Hon George Rithm Martinez  #occupy  

2013-06-01 18:58:22 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Kickstarted: Documenting the Crowdfunding Revolution

Our 'Kickstarted' documentary is featured on +Mashable today. If you've got an interesting crowdfunding project going already, let me know. Jason and Jay are open to interviewing you.

2013-06-01 18:55:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Turkish Rebel in 90 Seconds

Message attached to video: "After a series of peaceful demonstrations for preserving a recreational area in Istanbul city center which is planned to demolished for the construction of a shopping mall, Turkish police attacked the protesters violently with tear gas and water cannon, directly targeting their faces and bodies. Dozens of protesters are hospitalized and access to the park is blocked without any legal basis. Turkish media, directly controlled by the government or have business and political ties with it, refuse to cover the incidents. Press agencies also blocked the information flow."

Message attached to video: "Please share this message for the world to become aware of the police state created by AKP of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which is often considered to be a model for other Middle Eastern countries. Turkish democracy expects your... mehr »

2013-05-16 06:06:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Former New York Times journalist Chris Hedges says that the U.S. government is setting a "terrifying" precedent with its intrusion into the phone records of the Associated Press. Hedges states, "I can't understand the inability of the traditional press to grasp that we are now in the last moments of an effort to effectively extinguish press freedom." 

#pressfreedom   #journalism   #news  

2013-05-16 06:03:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Google Play Books now lets you upload your own eBooks and read them across devices | http://goo.gl/h9C3E

2013-05-14 13:35:27 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I've love this game
http://www.economist.com/node/3445214

2013-05-14 13:34:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

I've love this game
http://www.economist.com/node/3445214

2013-05-12 23:28:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Public Broadcast Should Be Public Domain
The video we shared was broadcast on Dutch public television in 1971. The production itself was paid for by Dutch taxpayers and made possible entirely by the creative input of two of the world’s most staunchly anti-capitalist thinkers, whose intellectual product was subsequently alienated by producer Fons Elders (a “professed anarchist” who also acted as the incapable moderator of the debate) and appropriated by international companies that did nothing to make the debate possible. Now the entire world is barred from seeing it just because this company owns an exclusive legal right to its distribution in North America.

Copyright hides and destroys culture.  

2013-05-10 09:26:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Yellowstone National Park

2013-04-26 22:08:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This is good for a laugh

2013-04-26 14:36:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm liking it so far

2013-04-26 14:06:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-26 13:26:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Sync files to your devices without using a 3rd party.  Sounds interesting.

2013-04-26 13:17:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-04-26 10:04:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Portland was a blast

2013-04-26 08:40:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"This is a victory for free speech" -- Julian Assange

2013-04-26 07:15:48 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

CISPA is Dead, Kinda

I'm testing out Google's new feature on Blogger that allows G+ comments to be added to the blogs. 

What better way to test it, than to say something about CISPA.

Basically, CISPA is supposedly dead in the Senate, but I'm not convinced that it will stay that way. Part of me wants to celebrate, but then I remember that this zombie is going to come back to life.

2013-04-26 05:19:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-23 17:50:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

NSA Whistleblower: Spy Agency Gathering Info on ‘Virtually Every US Citizen’

I've suspected as much.

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/07/14/nsa-whistleblower-spy-agency-gathering-info-on-virtually-every-us-citizen/

2013-04-22 00:07:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is a great game

#baduk  

2013-04-19 22:41:39 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia economist, has been meeting with Wall Streeters for years, and he doesn't have anything positive to say about them. 

In a speech this week, he spoke his mind. His words should reinforce our drive for reforming a system that is so corrupt as this.

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"I meet a lot of these people on Wall Street on a regular basis right now, and I'm going to put it very bluntly: I regard the moral environment as pathological. And I'm talking about the human interactions that I have. I've not seen anything like this, not felt it so palpably. 

These people are out to make billions of dollars, and "nothing should stop them" from that. They have no responsibility to pay taxes, they have no responsibility to their clients, they have no responsibility to counterparties in transactions. They are tough, greedy,a... mehr »

2013-04-19 21:23:26 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

We know the FBI has been coaching young muslim men and training them to perform terrorist acts. They then swoop down and bust them at the last minute to look like heroes. Could this Boston bombing be an FBI plot gone wrong? Where did these guys learn to make IEDs?

2013-04-19 14:21:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

#prayforboston #dosomethingforboston

2013-04-18 07:22:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-04-18 00:32:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-04-17 22:25:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

#atheist   #atheism  
Via google images

2013-04-17 21:36:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Obama supports the recount in Venezuala. I don't remember hearing anything about a recount in Mexico where the election was closer

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/15/white-house-backs-venezuela-recount/

Could the US be upset at a failed coup?

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/17/venezuela_accuses_us_of_plotting_coup

The difference seems to be-- In Mexico, the right winger won, but in Venezuela the left did.

2013-04-17 21:58:19 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 18 +1s)

This girl is getting attacked for standing up to principles

But it didn’t end with a simple difference of opinion among Campbell and her principal. The high school senior alleges that Aulenbacher threatened to call Wellesley College, where Campbell has been accepted to study in the fall, after she spoke to the press about her objections to the assembly. According to Campbell, her principal said, “How would you feel if I called your college and told them what bad character you have and what a backstabber you are?” Campbell alleges that Aulenbacher continued to berate her in his office, eventually driving her to tears. “He threatened me and my future in order to put forth his own personal agenda and make teachers and students feel they cant speak up because of fear of retaliation,” she said of the incident.

2013-04-17 21:56:00 (26 comments, 12 reshares, 21 +1s)

This girl is getting attacked for standing up to principles

But it didn’t end with a simple difference of opinion among Campbell and her principal. The high school senior alleges that Aulenbacher threatened to call Wellesley College, where Campbell has been accepted to study in the fall, after she spoke to the press about her objections to the assembly. According to Campbell, her principal said, “How would you feel if I called your college and told them what bad character you have and what a backstabber you are?” Campbell alleges that Aulenbacher continued to berate her in his office, eventually driving her to tears. “He threatened me and my future in order to put forth his own personal agenda and make teachers and students feel they cant speak up because of fear of retaliation,” she said of the incident.

Update: Her college tweeted: Katelyn Campbell, #Wellesley isexcited to... mehr »

2013-04-17 19:23:14 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Rep. Mike Rogers Claims That Opponents of CISPA are 14 Year Olds in Basements. Lets prove him wrong. - [1:07]

2013-04-17 19:22:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Rep. Rogers is adamant that no sensitive personal information or email content will be collected under the bill and then sent to the federal government. Under questioning from Rep. Polis, Rogers said "Again, zeroes and ones, hundreds of millions of times a second, in patterns. It has nothing to do with content. Nothing."

First of all, of course it's zeros and ones. That's how information is passed in the digital environment--whether it is content or not. If Rogers is going to propose fundamentally changing privacy on the Internet, he ought to know that the contents of email are transferred with zeros and ones in patterns.

Second, if Rogers really meant this, there is an easy solution. Exclude the content of communications from the bill. Voila! Companies would not be able to transfer the content of anyone’s email under the bill, whether in the form of zeros and ones,o... mehr »

2013-04-16 03:45:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-13 10:54:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"Who are the oppressors? The few: the king, the capitalist and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat." ~Mark Twain

2013-04-10 15:47:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.”
~Thomas Jefferson

2013-04-10 15:12:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Big Banks Merging Into A Corrupt Oligopoly.

One of the most frightening aspects of society today is how much control the banking giants have over not just America, but the world. Through a conservative scheme of deregulation, killing enforcement of regs, and ignoring anti-trust laws, banks have tightened their tyrannical grip over the financial system in the US. 

+Mother Jones (who designed the chart below) reports: The nation's 10 largest financial institutions hold 54 percent of our total financial assets; in 1990, they held 20 percent. All the while prosecutions for fraud by the #banksters  has been slashed to 1/3rd of what it once was. 

This isn't just an #Occupy  issue. This isn't just a #progressive  issue. This is a community and small business issue that everyone needs to be concerned about. Don't let the #banks  run our lives!
mehr »

2013-04-10 15:12:26 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

A little boy Kim Jong Un

2013-04-10 15:10:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Google+ dominates poll despite stacked deck!

Lifehacker is running a poll, asking "What’s Your Social Network of Choice?"

But they give Facebook and Twitter an unfair advantage: At the bottom are "Like" buttons for Facebook and Twitter. They're giving a tool to virally promote the poll on two of the social networks, but not the others. As a result, Facebook and Twitter have WAY more votes than Linkedin, Pinterest, MySpace and Instagram.

But Google+ is dominating the poll anyway, with (at the time I write this) twice as many votes as Facebook.

That's not enough.

Since Lifehacker decided to favor Facebook and Twitter, let's send them some Google+ love in the form of MASSIVE votes for Google+:

1. Share this post with all your circles.

2. Go here and vote for your social network of choice:mehr »

2013-04-10 14:52:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Here is the church 
There is the steeple 
Open up the door 
Corporations are people 
Wait what did he say? 
What the fuck did he say? 
...
Then the nine in black robes all went berserk 
This is a tale of robin hood in reverse 
Citizens united 

#citizensunited  

2013-04-10 12:16:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity

Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the ivory trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own cabinet booted her out. She gave the order to blow up The Belgrano even though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone—and was sailing AWAY from the islands! When the young Argentinean boys aboard The Belgrano had suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs-up sign for the British press.  

Iron? No. Barbaric? Yes. She hated feminists even though it wasla... mehr »

2013-04-10 10:01:59 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Google Fiber’s Next Stop: Austin, Texas. By mid-2014, our plan is to start connecting Austinites to gigabit Internet that’s 100 times faster than today’s average broadband performance. Read more on the Official Google Blog at http://goo.gl/ful89, and watch the video below.

2013-04-10 10:00:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Good resource.