Marcus Aurelius: NYC Police State Blows Up Muslims
Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement
Angry over spying, Muslims say: ‘Don't call NYPD'
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and CHRIS HAWLEY, Associated Press 16 mins ago
NEW YORK – Fed up with a decade of police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to the police with their concerns about terrorism, a campaign that is certain to further strain relations between the two groups.
Muslim community leaders are openly teaching people how to identify police informants, encouraging them to always talk to a lawyer before speaking with the authorities and reminding people already working with law enforcement that they have the right to change their minds. Some members of the community have planned a demonstration for next week.
Phi Beta Iota: We have been saying for some time that the US Government no longer represents We the People. In NYC under Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a privatized CIA has flourished, and NYC is now a police state in every sense of the word. When the law becomes unjust, unethical, and plain nuts, it is no longer legitimate.
DefDog: Congress Exempt from Law on Insider Trading
Corruption, Government
Congress is sooooooo dirty.
Congress: Trading stock on inside information?
Steve Kroft reports that members of Congress can legally trade stock based on non-public information from Capitol Hill.
Real PR (public reality): Harsh Realities in “Call of Duty”
Civil Society, Commerce, Corporations, Military, TechnologiesCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Breaks Records, Makes $400 Million in One Day (video game)
Reality Sandwich: Three Consciousness Cattle Prods
Cultural Intelligence
American Materialism: The Elephant in the Middle of the Room
Our money issues are merely symptomatic. At issue is our collective karma about right use of power, which gets expressed through the way we use our resources.
Material wealth is not the origin of our power as a nation. But we think it is. That is the problem.
The Unsung Intelligence of Life's Web
The recent passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs elicited a host of public tributes attesting to his genius and highlighted how much we revere our gadgets and our smart communications technology. But it got me thinking about how we appraise our own engineering acumen in comparison with the engineering acumen of Nature.
Saturday's global rally in over 600 towns and cities worldwide was a momentous event. A month ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement managed to pierce the veil of the matrix. The puncture has now become an unsealable rip in the fabric of Empire. Gas is escaping rapidly from the balloon.
We are seeing the inception of a global insurrection that will not end until the dominant system is overthrown and replaced through a planetary metamorphosis.
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The technical genius of humanity needs to be redirected from creating state-of-the-art video games and stock trading programs to strengthening natural resilience, building self-sufficient local communities that grow their own food, and launching social technologies that support collaborative decision-making and nonviolent communication.
Phi Beta Iota: All three of these contributions are remarkable and merit a full reading.
Howard Rheingold: Crap Detection & Critical Thinking
04 Education, Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process, Movies
YouTube Library
Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies [6:09]
Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 1) [9:59]
Creating a Critical Society – Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 2) [4:49]
Determining Site Credibility – Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 3)
TED: Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration (19:34)
Selected Books on Thinking by Howard Rheingold
Net Smart: How to Thrive Online (Forthcoming March 2012)
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002)
Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (1986)
Howard Rheingold Short Pieces
Howard Rheingold: 10 Online Tools for Better Focus
Howard Rheingold: Mindfulness for Executives
Howard Rheingold: Finding Credible Social Information & Crap Detection
Howard Rheinigold: Cultivating a Personal Learning Network
Howard Rheingold: News Filters for the Future – Technical Services or Human Networks?
Howard Rheingold: Infotention Skills + Citizen Intel RECAP
Worth a Look: Pierre Levy Interviewed by Howard Rheingold on Collective Intelligence
A slice of life in my virtual community
Below the Line: Full Text Article and More Links
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Howard Rheingold: Finding Credible Social Information & Crap Detection
Advanced Cyber/IOFinding Credible Information Sources in Social Networks Based on Content & Social Structure
(PDF DOWNLOAD) “A task of primary importance for social network users is to decide whose updates to subscribe to in order to maximize the relevance, credibility, and quality of the information received. To address this problem, we conducted an experiment designed to measure the extent to which different factors in online
social networks affect both explicit and implicit judgments of credibility. The results of the study indicate that both the topical content of information sources and social network structure affect source credibility. Based on these results, we designed a novel method of automatically identifying and ranking social network users according to their relevance and expertise for a given topic. We performed empirical studies to compare a
variety of alternative ranking algorithms and a proprietary service provided by a commercial website specifically designed for the same purpose. Our findings show a great potential for automatically identifying and ranking credible users for any given topic.”
Phi Beta Iota: A lot of math–and not enough emphasis on bridging out of the online networks and into human direct contact. Still, a good demonstration of why social networks matter as a new level of citation analytics.
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