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Semaphore & Cairn

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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

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 2, 2014

“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/

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 2, 2014

Took courses in the field but “the first time I had ever read about a female programmer was in a Batman comic book.”

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 2, 2014

“It’s no secret that people are often erased from the history of big-tech companies.” Women, for example.

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 2, 2014

Politics balanced “on a foundation of ignorance, in which the public has no idea what our society is really like.”

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 29, 2014September 29, 2014

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

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 29, 2014

For people who do something truly great, maybe this is true: “His only death is in biography.”–William Fense Weaver

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 26, 2014September 26, 2014

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

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 23, 2014

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-

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 23, 2014

I’m a citizen, not a couch potato. I’m not watching.

http://10x14s.smallpict.com/2014/09/23/#a1411479168

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 23, 2014

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