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Implicit Bias

Implicit Bias

Person Paper below from Hofstader, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, quoted by https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html (ie  Univ Virginia course on Programming Languages) Copy all the text in this post to your own post, then follow the instructions below. 1-Use strikethrough for every More

Logical Fallacies

Logical Fallacies

15 Common Logical Fallacies   1) The Straw Man Fallacy This fallacy occurs when your opponent over-simplifies or misrepresents your argument (i.e., setting up a “straw man”) to make it easier to attack or refute. Instead of fully addressing your actual argument, speakers relying on More

Wikileaks & Surveillance

Wikileaks & Surveillance

The Empire Is Not Done with Julian Assange As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding his global persecution. Chris Hedges  Common Dreams URL Shortly after WikiLeaks released the Iraq More

Tik Tok for Cancer

Tik Tok for Cancer

Hey, TikTok, what’s happening today?

New Phone Story

New Phone Story

…I realized that phones were basically cloud storage for happiness….

Writing Rubric

Writing Rubric

Below you will find the rubric I use to help you strengthen your internet writing.  This should help you craft good work for your portfolio.  Do not underestimate writing skills in landing a good job.  So use this time to practice ways to empower your More

Why WordPress?

Why WordPress?

2018’s Most Surprising WordPress Statistics by Brenda Barron Last updated: October 29, 2019 Disclosure: Your support helps keep the site running! We earn a referral fee for some of the services we recommend on this page. Learn more WordPress is a global phenomenon that has More

Amazon Climate Strike

Amazon Climate Strike

Wired Magazine reports on Amazon Climate Strike. Tech employees takes sides with youth demanding better future.

Panarchy

Panarchy

Panarchy – Paul B Hartzog Complexity + Networks + Connectivity => Panarchy “What makes political systems cross over the threshold into parameter transformations? Some breakpoints occur when a technological development enables individuals to engage in previously unimagined activities and collectivities to pursue previously inconceivable policy More

How Does the Internet Affect My Life?

How Does the Internet Affect My Life?

It’s hard for me to remember a time when the internet didn’t affect my life. One change or influence could be my patience. I feel like I have a shorter patience now… I am also used to constantly being entertained, so when I am not, More

Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer

Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer

by Wendell Berry  Like almost everybody else, I am hooked to the energy corporations, which I do not admire. I hope to become less hooked to them. In my work, I try to be as little hooked to them as possible. As a farmer, I More

Creativity in Art, Change and Survival

Creativity in Art, Change and Survival

Why is art linked to the survival of humans?

Technology Is Destroying Our Inner Lives

Technology Is Destroying Our Inner Lives

What would it mean if the species were to completely lose the need and/or desire for privacy, solitude, time and focused attention?

Generative Economy

Generative Economy

Living Enterprise as the Foundation of a Generative Economy Guest Essay in The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision, by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014). By Marjorie Kelly “What kind of economy is consistent with living inside More