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2013/12/212013/12/21

Tom Atlee: The rapid growth of serious responses to climate disruption

The rapid growth of serious responses to climate disruption A LOT of developments are emerging around the climate issue – a nonviolent insurgency, offensive and defensive fossil fuel divestment efforts, insurance industry responses, new forms of agriculture, dark humor, a cross country march, municipal preparedness, US administration actions, and more. I also encourage action on …

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2013/12/212013/12/21

Rickard Falkvinge: Kopimism Primer

Good Midwinter Solstice! With A Kopimist Gospel Kopimism – Christian Engström: Today is the midwinter solstice, and a fitting day to present a Kopimist Gospel. Kopimism is a new religion for atheists, agnostics, and believers in other religions who want a new perspective on their current faith. Kopimism takes its starting point in the evolution …

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2013/12/202013/12/20

Jean Lievens: 7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives by 2020 — Comment by Robert Steele

7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives by 2020 TEXT SUMMARY: 1. Websites and Apps will be safer. 2. Everyone could have access to higher education. 3. Landing a job will become easier. 4. Roads will be safer. 5. We’ll predict the future for smarter business. 6. We’ll predict the weather and protect the …

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2013/12/182013/12/18

Anthony Judge: Big Data Reflections

My issue with any visualization, however brilliant, is that it assumes that it will engage consensus and action. Missing is the recognition that even if we had a hard data visualization that one million people were to die tomorrow somewhere — even in New York — the level of engagement would be low. Who says …

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2013/12/182013/12/18

SchwartzReport: Truths That Matter

More on climate change. The Alps, as this report spells out, are undergoing fundamental never before seen changes, just as the same thing is happening at Glacier National Park in Kalispell, Montana, and Glacier Bay, Alaska. Alps Warming At Double The Average Global Rate, New Study Confirms ARI PHILLIPS – Think Progress I know a …

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2013/12/172013/12/17

Stephen E. Arnold: Search is a Lost Cause — And Big Data Is Incapable of “Social Reflection”

View at Source: A Non Search Person Explains Why Search Is a Lost Cause Big Data: Is Grilling [A Steak] Better with Math? View Both in Full Below the Line

2013/12/162013/12/16

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Antibiotics in Livestock Arctic Ice Volume Bouncing Back Boston Globe on Tsaraev [Possible Disinformation] Conflict Foretold: America and China Conflict Monthly Interactive Map Counterterrorism in Pakistan: Lethargy Cyber-Intelligence Complex and Persecution of Journalists