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Random Acts of Chaos: Five major scandals the media isn't obsessing about

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:40:07 -0400

Random Acts of Chaos: Five major scandals the media isn't obsessing about:

think-progress:

Are these things more important than edits to talking points? Judge for yourself.

1. Carbon pollution reaches historic highs, threatening human existence

2. The devastating impact of sequestration on kids, cancer patients and first responders.

3. Massive cuts to food stamps for the most vulnerable.

4. 1,100 workers die in a Bangladesh factory collapse, and American retailers continue business as usual.

5. 4,150 gun deaths from gun violence since Newtown.

Yes! To all of this. That is why I can’t be bothered with basic headline news.

thepeoplesrecord: President Obama prosecutes more...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:31:12 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

President Obama prosecutes more whistle-blowers than all previous administrations combined.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 11:57:35 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:55:51 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive

workingamerica: When workers don’t have a voice on the job,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:13:06 -0400

workingamerica:

When workers don’t have a voice on the job, they can’t speak up about unsafe working conditions. That’s why states with so-called “right to work” laws have more injuries and fatalities at the workplace.

SHARE, because when politicians propose these laws, we need to hear what they’re really saying.

Couple Refuses To Allow Police To Enter Home Without Warrant . . . Police Kick Down Door and Taser Couple | Jonathan Turley

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:36:00 -0400

Couple Refuses To Allow Police To Enter Home Without Warrant . . . Police Kick Down Door and Taser Couple | Jonathan Turley

"Who in the newsroom will speak up the next time there’s a story that produces that much racial..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:28:37 -0400

“Who in the newsroom will speak up the next time there’s a story that produces that much racial heat—the one black or brown person in an otherwise white newsroom? Who will speak up when working-class Americans are portrayed in patronizing and simplistic ways—the unpaid cub reporter/intern?”

- Farai Chideya, “How to Fix Journalism’s Class and Color Crisis” (via thenationmagazine)

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:22:48 -0400

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

barefoot-hooping: Awakening Our...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:15:12 -0400

barefoot-hooping:

Awakening Our Truth http://awakeningourtruth.tumblr.com

gregcohn: EFF: Who has your back?

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:36:11 -0400

gregcohn:

EFF: Who has your back?

"Even before Benghazi, the IRS and the Department of Justice controversies started heating up, the..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:30:33 -0400

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Even before Benghazi, the IRS and the Department of Justice controversies started heating up, the economy had consistently taken a back seat to issues such as immigration and gun control.

“The economy is by far the most important issue for voters,” says Karlyn Bowman, a polling expert at the American Enterprise Institute. “It’s not unusual for Washington preoccupations to be different than those of the public.”

She says that the public is skeptical that Washington can provide economic answers at this point. Politicians themselves seem a little dubious.

”

- Whatever Happened To The Economy? (via npr)

I frequently wonder about this.

(via stfuconservatives) Distract the masses…..oldest trick in the book (via jaison96)

What happened to the economy?? They got theirs so we can all fuck off, that’s what happened.

(via diloolie)

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Thu, 16 May 2013 07:06:47 -0400

teafortash: funeralformyfat: well now i feel bad for...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:38:26 -0400

teafortash:

funeralformyfat:

well now i feel bad for buildings!

this is so upsetting!

In first head-to-head speed test with conventional computing, quantum computer wins

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:31:00 -0400

wildcat2030:

See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future

(Phys.org) — A computer science professor at Amherst College who recently devised and conducted experiments to test the speed of a quantum computing system against conventional computing methods will soon be presenting a paper with her verdict: quantum computing is, “in some cases, really, really fast.”

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“Ours is the first paper to my knowledge that compares the quantum approach to conventional methods using the same set of problems,” says Catherine McGeoch, the Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society (Computer Science) at Amherst. “I’m not claiming that this is the last word, but it’s a first word, a start in trying to sort out what it can do and can’t do.”

The quantum computer system she was testing, produced by D-Wave just outside Vancouver, BC, has a thumbnail-sized chip that is stored in a dilution refrigerator within a shielded cabinet at near absolute zero, or .02 degrees Kelvin in order to perform its calculations. Whereas conventional computing is binary, 1s and 0s get mashed up in quantum computing, and within that super-cooled (and non-observable) state of flux, a lightning-quick logic takes place, capable of solving problems thousands of times faster than conventional computing methods can, according to her findings.

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See on phys.org

Lanzamiento del Skylab (NASA).

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:09:03 -0400

Lanzamiento del Skylab (NASA).

madebyabvh: Animated The Silver Surfer By Francesco...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:05:55 -0400

madebyabvh:

Animated The Silver Surfer By Francesco Francavilla

Original illustration By Francesco Francavilla

the shining sentinel of the spaceways.
in his majesty…

All together, roughly one-third of House committees are engaged in investigating some aspect of the Obama administration.

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:52:19 -0400

All together, roughly one-third of House committees are engaged in investigating some aspect of the Obama administration.:

wilwheaton:

This is a really good use of time and money. You’re fucking fantastic at governance, Republicans.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 18:59:38 -0400

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Tue, 14 May 2013 21:03:44 -0400

rosalarian: Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:40:49 -0400

rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.