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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 anymore. You have to prepare to sing and dance, which…
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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 Twitter? Well, here’s a thing that is posting EVERY word!…
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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
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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 flux but my sources have so far: May 2016 –…
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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 Party Platform that it supports “reparative therapy” for gay people.…
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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 new discovery makes the story even more mysterious. Keith Wayne…
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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 minority experience. I can always tell how quickly the conversation…
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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 was shot by Miller’s wife Amanda. Wilcox was a good…
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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
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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 Wayne Brown‘s insight: Woops! Let myself get taken in for…
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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 passed the Turing Test. See on gizmodo.com
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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 of his argument: What I mean to say is that…
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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, the free encyclopedia.
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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 podcast presented as a radio show for the fictional town…
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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 evidence that outsourcing leads to a downward spiral as that…
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A fuel cell for home? A miniature power station for home use is based on a solid fuel cell
It converts chemical energy directly into electrical energy. Still, there hadn’t been a market breakthrough for the fuel cell. The systems were too complex. Now, Fraunhofer and Vaillant have developed a simple device for home use. Together with the heater manufacturer Vaillant, the IKTS has developed a compact, safe and…
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Mega-Earth Discovered
There is a new class of planet out there that astronomers are calling the “mega-Earth”. It is an object with a hard surface like our own world but much, much bigger. The necessity for the new designation follows the discovery of a planet which has a mass some 17 times…
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