My Net Neutrality Letter, Free of Copyright, and Fair Game for All

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Thursday January 22, 2015 · 11:04 PM PST

2015/01/22 · 23:04

Here is my own special letter to the FCC regarding Net Neutrality. Feel free to use bits as you see fit for phone calls, letters, translating into emoji or transforming into origami.

There are somewhat personal parts, specifically paragraphs 3-6, but it mostly is an expansive discussion about the importance of the internet to American society, particularly with regard to science and innovation. There is also a bit of legal history mixed in, as I am a scientist masquerading as an attorney.

I'm in Boston, so there's no reason for me to call my representatives, but not everyone lives down the street from MIT, and may exist in a less committed-to-technology political zone.

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Wednesday November 26, 2014 · 11:57 AM PST

2014/11/26 · 11:57

Unsere Datenrecherche zeigt: Diskriminierung und Polizeigewalt herrschen im ganzen Land. Grausamer Alltag im echten Amerika.

Our research shows: Discrimination and police violence rules the entire country. The everyday cruelty of the real America.

Killed by police since May 2013 in USA, 1709.
Killed by police in 2013 in Germany, 8.

But we must bear in mind that the US has about three times the population of Germany, so pretend that 8 is a 24.

Sorry, not much more to say.

Spiegel is a German equivalent of a Time or US News, except it assumes you have a brain.

http://www.spiegel.de/...

Democratic Defeat: Learned Helplessness, the Boy Who Cried Wolf, and Liberal Motivation

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Thursday November 13, 2014 · 7:48 PM PST

2014/11/13 · 19:48

While we are still conducting our postmortem on the reasons for the defeats suffered by the Democrats last week, let's take a view from the field of Cognitive Science. We will be hearkening back to ancient fables, to turn of the (19th to 20th) Century experimental research, and modern science on the political mind.

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Democratic Defeat: Learned Helplessness, the Boy Who Cried Wolf, and Liberal Motivation