Mitch Hedburg Jim GAffigan Richard Pryor Zach G. Louis CK Russell Brand Eddie Izzard Billy Connolly Arj Barker Bill Hicks is not a jukebox Anon in a very (more…)
A manifesto for change with specific points of action.
It’s sorta surreal – the tax disaster that will hit most of us shortly. But that’s 2013, and we can get non-partisan chaps up in the congress. Real change will have to be policy, and policy needs to be (more…)
Protected: Monkey is the Password; it always has been.
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The Collective Consciousness in relation to evolution and spontaneous protesting
Just a missive: I think this is interesting. Spontaneous protesting is akin to a collective consciousness, or mass community brain. It’s very future, and very cool. I wonder if we’re all just passengers (more…)
Occupy Wall Street, and the coming change…..
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/opinion/rushkoff-occupy-wall-street/index.html 99% vs 1% – occupy wall street people want our system to change. I would love to see a rational discussion about how to fix (more…)
Sunsets
This comment is in response to a wonderful friend’s musing on Sunsets and religious interpretation vs atheism……. —————— “You realize that the sun does not go down, it’s just an illusion (more…)
Idiot Burning Man Hater Virgin or Preconceptions bury our minds while living…….
A guy who hated on the event for a decade finally went. How many of your silent preconceptions have secretly thwarted your desire to live? He captured it perfectly… learning about the self, boundaries, (more…)
A letter to the Georgia Board of Pardons & Paroles prior to the state sponsored murder of Troy Davis regarding the evidence of his innocence
That sort of doubt demands proactive involvement…. we cannot allow another “accident” that further degrades our judicial system. There have been 273 post incarceration DNA exonerations: http://www.innocenceproject.org/know/, so it seems prudent, rational, objective, and forward thinking to have the flexibility enough to alter our flawed trajectories before they become ingrained and mechanistic. We need to have the leadership and objective humilty to recognize the past actions do not need to influence our current course. We have every opportunity to take control, recognize mistakes, and revisit Troy Davis’ case with strength and respect for the judicial system as it can be, versus what it may become.
So… are jobs obsolete?
Simply brilliant and thoughtful article. There’s PLENTY of jobs for high skilled people. Robots and tech is killing union jobs for unskilled labor, the internet has made thousands of types (more…)
This picture is why your privacy doesn’t exist anymore: Vancouver Canucks fans pre-riot plus facial recognition technology.
Culled from the web / not my words. All I want to know is what happens when facial recognition software is ubiquitous and automatic? Â For those very many of you with something to hide…. you might (more…)