Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Police Departments Gearing up for War at Home
Congress created the military-transfer program in the early 1990s, when violent crime plagued America’s cities and the police felt outgunned by drug gangs. Today, crime has fallen to its lowest levels in a generation, the wars have wound down, and… Continue reading
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The Reality of College Statistics – UnCollege
Even if you do everything you’re supposed to, there are so many variables at play, many of which you can’t control… The influence of any one of them can void the value of college for you. What you can control… Continue reading
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Miss American Dream — Matter — Medium
Britney sat there with a polite, blank expression. This is the job, right? She knows there’s a lot she has to do so that she can continue to do the thing that she loves. You can’t just sing and dance… Continue reading
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What Matters to Adrian Chen This Week — Matter — Medium
The last word of @everyword Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: “It began as kind of a snarky stunt—a parody of (what I perceived to be) the needless verbosity of Twitter,” Parrish told me back in 2011. “’You like posting words on… Continue reading
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The Future of Technology Isn’t Just a Rich Man’s Game – SERIOUS WONDER
While many still fear of a wealth gap in technology, history shows a different story for our future! – B.J. Murphy for Serious Wonder See on www.seriouswonder.com Continue reading
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What Warner Bros/DC Comics Is Planning At Comic-Con In July – NikkiFinke.com
We know that Warner Bros Pictures is way behind Marvel Studios when it comes to making movies out of its comic book properties. But I have intel on what is coming up at this July’s Comic-Con from the studio. A lot of stuff remains in… Continue reading
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#DontNeedFixin, #DontNeedStonin
As I pointed out earlier today, Oklahoma Tea Party candidate Scott Esk favors stoning LGBTQ to death… you know, like God tells us to do in the Old Testament. Last week, the Texas Republican party decided to add to its… Continue reading
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Hubble finds mysterious disk of blue stars around a black hole
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Though the light has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade, the… Continue reading
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Freed from Gubment, Slaves to Gawd
Libertarianism is a form of anarchism. As an anarchocynic, I am fine with certain forms of American libertarianism. I’ve had very productive dialogs with more than a few very thoughtful folk who have deep libertarian convictions. Unfortunately, that is a… Continue reading
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It’s Really Hard to Be a Good Guy With a Gun
My wife and I got into an argument last night over a dead man. His name was Joseph Robert Wilcox. He was 31 on Sunday, the day he tried to stop cop-killer Jerad Miller in a Las Vegas Walmart and… Continue reading
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Does Fox News Cause Ignorance, or Do Ignorant Viewers Prefer Fox News?
Fox News viewers are not moderate Republicans. They’re right wingers. See on www.newrepublic.com Continue reading
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No, A ‘Supercomputer’ Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better | Techdirt
So, this weekend’s news in the tech world was flooded with a “story” about how a “chatbot” passed the Turing Test for “the first time,” with lots of publications buying every point in the story and talking about what… Keith… Continue reading
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A Computer Program Has Passed the Turing Test For the First Time
This is big. A computer program has successfully managed to fool a bunch of researchers into thinking that it was a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman. In doing so, it has become the first in the world to have successfully… Continue reading
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College: Class Warfare 101
It seems most are looking at this from the perspective of folks who are in the university rather than those who “need” the university. The piece is not an economic piece. It is a sociological piece. This is the crux… Continue reading
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▶ gradualmente, el hermoso universo by Daniel Grantham
A new piece from a dear friend. Continue reading
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Dorothea Tanning, Surrealist Artist
Dorothea Margaret Tanning August 25, 1910 – January 31, 2012 was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. She was also married to fellow Surrealist Max Ernst. via Dorothea Tanning – Wikipedia,… Continue reading
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Welcome to Night Vale
Listen to episodes of Welcome to Night Vale on podbay.fm. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: If you have not given yourself the pleasure, go listen to some podcasts from “Welcome to Night Vale.” From Wikipedia: Welcome to Night Vale is a… Continue reading
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New Report Documents How Privatization Steals Wages, Harms Communities
A new report from the nonprofit research group In the Public Interest shows that outsourcing public services hurts middle and working class communities as well as workers. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Habibi noted that there was a growing body of… Continue reading
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