Rent-seeking: “grabbing a bigger slice of the pie rather than making the pie bigger.” http://www.economist.com/news/international/21599041-countries-where-politically-connected-businessmen-are-most-likely-prosper-planet?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/planet_plutocrat
“Tag everything you can,” writes @dsearls. In other words, make human judgments that machines can share with others. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2014/10/01/want-influence-make-yourself-useful/
Took courses in the field but âthe first time I had ever read about a female programmer was in a Batman comic book.â
“Itâs no secret that people are often erased from the history of big-tech companies.” Women, for example.
Politics balanced “on a foundation of ignorance, in which the public has no idea what our society is really like.”
An open letter to @FoxNews about stupid sexist remarks, signed by five dozen representatives of the US military. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/an-open-letter-to-fox-news
For people who do something truly great, maybe this is true: “His only death is in biography.”–William Fense Weaver
A fifteen-word poem about seeing the world very differently than before. Text and .30 second audio. By yours truly. https://witness.theguardian.com/search?q=private+club
Scientists must “be out there defending the science, explaining the science and its implications” for public policy. http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/thepulse/item/72489-the-art-of-explaining-science-and-why-its-so-hard-to-do-
I’m a citizen, not a couch potato. I’m not watching. http://10x14s.smallpict.com/2014/09/23/#a1411479168