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Ello. The name is Shawn and I just post random things that evoke any emotion that come from my cranial cage. Things that tend to do this are pictures of nature, funnies and memes, politics and science.
Ask me anything SubmitParsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr
This is a fascinating cross-over between Science and the Occupied Wall Street movement, or, more specifically, the We Are The 99% Tumblr.
Basically it analyzes the written text (not the photo text) for information about those submitting to the blog. Pretty interesting stuff and worth checking it out.
(Source: rortybomb.wordpress.com)
Columbia University professor of economics Jeffrey Sachs stops by OWS for an explanatory chat
Okay, this is just amazing. This is a free and very clear Columbia University class right here, in socio and macro economics which, in addition, elucidates the Big Wall Street problem - the problem with the entire society - NAMING NAMES. What had passed for a Democracy has been entirely replaced. Here is how, and what WE ALL NEED to do about it. I mean: wow.
Beyond the laundry list of things which may come from what he’s saying about all of it, I hope and expect that many military families are among those who will praise Sachs for speaking out about how the corrupt government-by-corporate-money has led us through lies into groundless war, causing the deaths and maiming of thousands, for nothing. VERY HIGHLY-CHARGED WORDS, to be sure, but in this light, absolutely appropriate. Because it’s the Truth.
Awesome, awesome interview! Listen to this!
“No campaign contributions more than $100! [per person~]” - Definitely an awesome idea and one which the OWS movement should rally behind.
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From this awesome Anon video.
This gave me goosebumps. And it should, for it’s a fascinating point: This IS the first movement of its kind, with its use of the internet and smart-phones etc. This is a unique situation. We can document information like never before. We can share information like never before. And we can garner strength from supporters the world-over like never before.
“The whole world is watching.”
Sidenote: If this is still going strong by the Fifth of November (a Saturday, as fate would have it) - and I suspect it will be - things are going to get pretty damn interesting.
(via realcleverscience)
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