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Keep a list...
Week 10: Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember.
Amy Siskind posts her list each week on Fb and shares it on Medium. She is the Co-founder of The New Agenda, organization “dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls by bringing about systemic change in the media, at the workplace, at school and at home.”
If you’re not keeping your own list-- this is one of the best I’ve seen online that you can follow. Want to catch up on the other weeks? Amy has them all listed at the bottom of her post.
It’s pretty chilling.... but, even as: We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump
"Hoar frost on fence, Dunfermline, Fife - 1" flickr photo by SwaloPhoto shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license
STEM the Divide!
Thanks to Trump, Scientists Are Planning to Run for Office
Op-Ed: Why We Need Scientists to Run for Public Office Now
314 Action Issues, Want to Run? 314 Blog... Take Action!
Protesting this weekend 1/19/17
Your Guide to NYC Inauguration Weekend Protests:
1/19 Thursday Trump International Hotel 6pm rally at Columbus Circle
1/20 Friday Foley Square, 111 Worth St 5pm - 11pm visit the Facebook page for details on the route etc..
1/21 Saturday One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza 10:45am-5pm visit the Facebook page for details on the route etc... it's suggested to RSVP, staggered start times for groups... also see Human First Society
Also see the Gothamist's article, specifically for tips on what to bring....
Information about events in DC
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SIGNAGE!
Signs-- can protest without one! Well you can, but it's not as much fun ;)
Ideas:
Power to the People Love! Not hate! Makes America great! My body, my choice! No justice!” / “No peace! Choose to Be United by Love Not Divided by Hate The Power of the People is Stronger Than the People in Power No one is free when others are oppressed Girls Just wanna have fundamental rights! Power to the Peaceful Protest is Patriotic There is no planet B
Here's a Pinterest board with some more ideas... if you have any other ideas, let me know ;)
ROAR with the ♀ symbol forming from the “O”
Democracy
Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control the Media
The 15 Warning Signs of Impending Tyranny
via Robert Reich
5 Principles of True Patriotism:
Times are a changin’
and quicker than people think... It’s more important than ever to look to the future...
Think 2016 Was Crazy? Wait Until the Accountants Get Replaced by Robots
Why We’ll Need a Universal Basic Income Robert Reich
No Job is Safe, But These Skills Will Always Be Valued in the Workplace Alison Berman via Singularity Hub
"Future tense" flickr photo by kevin dooley shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license
Gotta keep positive...
Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency David Remnick via The New Yorker
Bernie Sanders: Where We Go From Here Matt Taibbi via Rolling Stone
A Mathematician's Perspective on the Divide Vi Hart via YouTube
(btw, see Parable of the Polygons: A Playable post on the Shape of Society by Vi Hart and Nicky Case)
Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump via The Washington Post
Talking Back to Hate Speech, Explained. via Bill Moyers & Company
IT Holiday Party Playlist
link to Spotify playlist for IT Holiday Party
“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.” -CS
Reading Stephen Hawking’s opinion piece in The Guardian today made me think again of Sagan... Specifically, the Pale, Blue Dot and his last interview with Charlie Rose... if you’re familiar with either then it will be no surprise why I had to choose a Carl Sagan quote as the title of this post...
There’s a lot to unpack in Stephen Hawking’s opinion piece in The Guardian today... his words tie together so many themes that you will find in my online collections and things I share...
“This is the most dangerous time for our planet”
Sounds pretty dire, huh? But at the end of the day I agree that there’s hope...
One Last Thought (via my page on space/perspective)
“I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed. That all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or Communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.” — Michael Collins, Gemini 10 & Apollo 11 astronaut
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Who is CS? Carl Sagan of course... I recently posted about him because it was Cal Sagan day a few weeks ago... funny enough, he also came up today in a discussion at work in reference to the recent post about his course notes, course materials, and more being available in an online Library of Congress collection... check out the links for more information and food for thought...
A major breakthrough.
Cognitive creativity is inspiring artists like Alex Da Kid to make music unlike ever before. He used the emotional insights Watson found in millions of data points to create an original song about heartbreak. Now it’s your turn to see what Alex was inspired to do.
Watch the lyric video for Alex Da Kid’s ‘Not Easy’. →
Happy Carl Sagan Day!
My favorite links about Carl:
Carl Sagan’s last interview with Charlie Rose (Full Interview) Carl Sagan Tribute Series (working my way through list) Neil deGrasse Tyson - Carl Sagan Experience LOVE THIS Symphony of Science - ‘We Are All Connected’ (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl Sagan
via my weebly page
For more great Carl Sagan content, visit the Carl Sagan Wakelet
Meet-up: Gurteen Knowledge Management NYC
I recently joined a meet-up group for the first time. And I’m so glad I did!
Prior to the invitation to the group “Gurteen Knowledge Management” I had heard of neither the name “Gurteen” nor the term “Knowledge Management”. From the description on the “About” page and the title of the next topic “Breaking Down Silos Through Working Outloud” I decided it looked interesting enough to attend a meeting and find out more...
About the group: 21,000 people in 160 countries are part of the Gurteen Knowledge Community. Help us create a strong core in New York City. After all, there is a lot of knowledge here to be shared! This is a group for knowledge management enthusiasts who like to share KM practices, learn from others and improve their organizations. Knowledge sharing practices can make a company run more efficiently and increase employee productivity. Join us in sharing practices of ways you share knowledge in your organization!
The presentation at the meeting was fantastic!
view Joachim’s slides on Google Drive
connect with Joachim on google+
I had long been a fan of Jane Bozarth’s work:
Jazne Bozarth Website | @JaneBozarth | Show Your Work (on Amazon)
But Joachim mentioned many other pioneers and practitioners of the same philosophy to check out:
Dave Winer, “Narrate Your Work” Bryce Write, “Breaking Down ‘Work Out Loud’” John Stepper “Working Out Loud: The Making of a Movement” (TEDx video) Catherine Shinners “They Dynamics of Working Out Loud” Dennis Pearce “Working Out Loud Doctoral Thesis”
Besides a great presentation, I also really enjoyed the group discussion.
One of the topics that we talked about that I am particularly interested in right now is slack-
Slack results (from their website) My OneTab: Slack
One last link- WOL Week on Twitter
Say what now? #Snowden
Here's Why The Washington Post Is Wrong About Edward Snowden via Fortune
Why is this so surprising and/or controversial? Because theWashington Post was one of the primary outlets that worked closely with Snowden, published multiple stories based on his leaks, and in fact won a Pulitzer Prize for a story about the program that the editorial board says should not have been publicized.
In effect, the newspaper’s editorial board is arguing that the coverage that won it the Pulitzer also “disrupted lawful intelligence-gathering” and therefore was largely indefensible even by the standards usually applied to whistle blowers.
WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)
THREE OF THE four media outlets that received and published large numbers of secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden — The Guardian, the New York Times, and The Intercept –– have called for the U.S. government to allow the NSA whistleblower to return to the U.S. with no charges. That’s the normal course for a news organization, which owes its sources duties of protection, and which — by virtue of accepting the source’s materials and then publishing them — implicitly declares the source’s information to be in the public interest.
But not the Washington Post.
The Graphing Calculator Story
When His Project Was Canceled, an Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job via Mental Floss
The Graphing Calculator Story by Ron Avitzur
Why did Greg and I do something so ludicrous as sneaking into an eight-billion-dollar corporation to do volunteer work? Apple was having financial troubles then, so we joked that we were volunteering for a nonprofit organization. In reality, our motivation was complex. Partly, the PowerPC was an awesome machine, and we wanted to show off what could be done with it; in the Spinal Tap idiom, we said, "OK, this one goes to eleven." Partly, we were thinking of the storytelling value. Partly, it was a macho computer guy thing - we had never shipped a million copies of software before. Mostly, Greg and I felt that creating quality educational software was a public service. We were doing it to help kids learn math. Public schools are too poor to buy software, so the most effective way to deliver it is to install it at the factory.
It’s not aliens... but...
Not a Drill: SETI is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space
some of my related posts
Kardashev Scale (tumblr post)
Fermi (weebly page)
other old, related tumblr posts
http://krillion.tumblr.com/post/140353978285/aliens
http://krillion.tumblr.com/post/137384284965/update-aliens-maybe
http://krillion.tumblr.com/post/131250260930/aliens
Digital Citizenship
I’m working on organizing faculty/students/staff who would be interested in promoting awareness of Digital Citizenship elements.
I’ve created a wiki to organize resources and information about events.
I want to create a calendar where each month starting in September on of the 9 elements is highlighted. I thought it would be a good idea to see what kind of days/events are already “celebrated” and then match them up. For example, since National Cyber Security month already exists in October I would make October the month of “Digital Citizenship: Security” awareness.
The only problem is trying to find days/months that match up with all of them. It’s not quite working out! I found this great calendar with a listing of many, MANY events which I thought would solve my problem. When sorted, it seems to have made the problem worse. I’m worried that I’ve missed some. It’s also difficult choosing which topics would be best for which month since there are multiple days/weeks/months that would match.
Help! If you know of specific months/days that correspond to the 9 elements of Digital Citizenship, please share!
This is what I have so far. I’ve enabled commenting (shortcut key is Ctrl-Alt-M)
Highlighted Topics/Events are choices that I feel are a good fit.
Any help would be much appreciated! I will be updated the wiki with the plans for events and resources, stay tuned!
#Future
Is the Future Out of Date? via Plexus Institute
Why the Cost of Living Is Poised to Plummet in the Next 20 Years via Singularity Hub
Infographic by XKCD (creative commons license BY-NC)
#Fordham DLC was AWESOME today!
Check out: Digital Literacies Collaborative
Blog
Wiki
Agenda from the conference today
Tech Talk Bingo
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Bernie endorses Hillary: Does this really matter?
The Democratic Party has moved left after Bernie Sanders’s run. The platform is proof.
Commentators downplaying the platform’s significance note that it has no actual enforcement mechanism, and that there’s no guarantee a President Hillary Clinton wouldn’t jettison most — or all — of its main provisions.
Democracy?
Exit Polls are the Thing Wherein to Catch the Conscience of Elections
“Exit polls are the accepted international standard for indications of election fraud and vote tampering… When election results do not match exit poll results, we should not simply accept these results.”
GIVEN THE 1-IN-77 BILLION mathematical calculation that indicates fraud, all Americans should be experiencing a reasonable doubt about the secret, private computer code that has been used in this Democratic Primary. We’re either witnessing the mathematically impossible, or we’re witnessing fraud.
#ExitPollGate
Petitioning U.N. Electoral Assitance Division (EAD) U.S. Citizens Officially Request Emergency Electoral Assistance From The United Nations
#ComeyHearing
LISTEN: 7 Exchanges That Explain FBI Director's Decision On The Clinton Case
#PeopleShouldBeIndictedFor
#moretrustedthanhillary
#seeyouinphilly