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White House and Congress to propose plans to “end bulk data collection.”
Obama: US must ‘win back the trust of ordinary citizens’ over data collection
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Artist Peter Cook, grew this living garden chair using tree shaping methods, primarily training a living tree through constricting the direction of branch growth. The chair took about eight years to grow. (via 10,000,000 Artists & Artlovers
Oakland pays $4.5m to Scott Olsen, veteran injured in Occupy protest
Less-lethal weapons, also known as direct fired SIM, are not be used for crowd control in protests, according to an October 2013 OPD memo (pdf). “Direct Fired SIM may never be used indiscriminately against a crowd or group of persons even if some members of the crowd or group are violent or disruptive,” the memo states. However, these munitions may be used against “a specific individual.”
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“Despite the contrived premise to return the graduates to Greendale, the new season is an imaginative, zany surprise. It’s not often that a long-running show reinvents itself.”
22 others are also watching.
There’s an Ocean Deep Inside the Earth | Motherboard
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An online Magna Carta
Tim Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web
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I’m watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“#dejavu: Liam Neeson on TDS ridiculing any concerns about the welfare of the horses pulling NYC’s horse carriages – he did the same the last time I saw him on the show.”
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George Orwell: The Freedom of the Press
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His proposed preface to ‘Animal Farm’.
“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”