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https://medium.com/future-participle/8075fe464ea4 Didn’t you know? You might be dangerous, so there is no maybe about tracking you completely. Surveillance of this dragnet sort translates to a creatively neutered society afraid and unable to risk change or dissent of any sort. Whose America is this?

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html If you’ve been confused about that gnawing sensation steadily closing in on the center of your spirit, I’m pretty sure this NYT article accidentally explains that feeling of doom while while revealing the pharmaceutical industry’s astonishing lack of sincere concern for a human being’s health. As the head of one company’s division hawking drugs … Read more

With the pace of information exchange on the Web, being competently knowledgable about one’s field requires constant study. Keeping up can be a full-time job. Yet how many employers program learning time for their employees? Yes, some will provide tuition assistance. But who gives you a half-day out of five to dig into the latest … Read more

If everyone is on/of the Web, then you need to know how to be on/of the Web, no matter what your business is up to. That doesn’t just mean figuring out a website. It means leveraging the communication tools and methods unique to the Internet; reconsidering what an obtainable, understandable and malleable dataset is; and … Read more

David Simon: There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show | World news | The Observer. I. “Labour doesn’t get to win all its arguments, capital doesn’t get to. But it’s in the tension, it’s in the actual fight between the two, that capitalism actually becomes functional, that it becomes something that … Read more

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html Protect keeping reading anonymous. Privacy is the same category of component of a healthy society as clean air and safe water. It is a pillar upon which the system stands. After reading this essay, read The Circle by Dave Eggers. Not my favorite read in terms of a fiction book, but a good way … Read more

http://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/promotion-pageviews/ Better horsepower metric.

Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans’ personal debt. So would this argue for one to not pay one’s debts, wait until it gets tossed into a secondary debt market, and then go buy it for…5 cents on the dollar? Hmm, sounds sneaky. Surely something that easy (minus the years of fighting original debt … Read more

If you can persuade that guy next to you who hates ham sandwiches to eat a ham sandwich, the world is your oyster.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/08/dianne-feinstein-nsa-intelligence-reform-bill Start writing those government folks and let them know which path this country prefers. And don’t buy the arguments about an inverse relationship between freedom and security.