Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Mother Jones: Stop Crime with Basic Income

09 Justice, 11 Society

mother jones masterOne City Tried Something Radical to Stop Gun Violence. This Report Suggests It's Working.

From 45 homicides to 11 in seven years.

Tim Murphy, Mother Jones

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Four times a year, the program's street team sifts through police records and its own intelligence to determine, with actuarial detachment, the 50 people in Richmond most likely to shoot someone and to be shot themselves. ONS tracks them and approaches the most lethal (and vulnerable) on the list, offering them a spot in a program that includes a stipend to turn their lives around.

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Steven Aftergood: CRS on Microbead Threat to Water Quality

12 Water
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

Microbeads: An Emerging Water Quality Issue

Claudia Copeland, Specialist in Resources and Environmental Policy (ccopeland@crs.loc.gov, 7-7227)
July 20, 2015 (IN10319)

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Microbeads are synthetic particles made of either polyethylene or polypropylene plastic. …  Because microbeads are so small, most wastewater treatment plant technology is not capable of removing them from the wastestream. Most microbeads do not biodegrade, as they require high heat processing to break down, which municipal sewage systems are typically unable to do.

Full report below the fold.

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Howard Rheingold: Networked Knowledge & Combinatorial Creativity

Advanced Cyber/IO
Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold

This beautiful meditation on the networked nature of knowledge and collaboration turns on the fulcrum of attention to information.

Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

How we choose to pay attention, and relate to information and each other shapes who we become, shapes our creative destiny and, in turn, shapes our experience of the world. And, in my mind, there’s nothing more important than that.

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Eagle: Economic Grace of Social Credit

#OSE Open Source Everything, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

The Economic ‘Grace' of Social Credit

Christian philosophy holds that it is a major sin to make an end of a means. The rational purpose and end of production is consumption, not to create work (a means). An economic system should provide goods and services for mankind as efficiently as possible with minimal trouble and effort for all concerned.

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Berto Jongman: Cell Hack of Air-Gapped Computers

IO Impotency
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone

Phi Beta Iota: It's a pity US and Israel did not join in 1994 to commit to secure open source communications and computing — if absolutely trustworthy they would dominate the world marketplace by now. This vulnerability joins the long-known Chinese ability to ride electrical power circuits into US national security and commerical computers not connected to the Internet.

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