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Knotty Objects

Medium – MIT Media Lab – Jul 8, 6:38 AM – Knotty Objects is the inaugural MIT Media Lab Summit focusing on design. Co-organized by the three of us–Paola Antonelli, Neri Oxman, and Kevin Slavin–the event will be held on July 15 and 16, 2015. We're convening designers…
Joi Ito RT @medialab: Celebrating the chimeric nature of #design with 4 antidisciplinary #knottyobjects: brick, bitcoin, steak, and phone t.co/0CDm93gKCJ

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Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit's Chief

nytimes.com – Mike Isaac – Jul 10 – Ellen Pao, the interim chief executive of Reddit, resigned from the online message board on Friday after a week of ceaseless criticism from scores of angry users over the handling of an employee departure. Ms. Pao will be replaced by Steve Huffman…
J. Nathan Matias RT @MikeIsaac: Our story, with interview with Ellen Pao, is here. t.co/RyLo16AIOy
The New York Times Ellen Pao is stepping down as Reddit's chief after a week of ceaseless criticism t.co/r4DGaFfpil t.co/MBkzfocxaF
Halley Suitt Tucker RT @VanessaNKing: If Ellen Pao was a man, this situation would have a different ending. Thanks for paving the way for women in tech: t.co/zi6m7yogKt
Nick Bilton "Ms. Pao's abrupt downfall in the face of a torrent of sexist and racist attacks, many of them on Reddit itself." t.co/PHOQIBK0hE
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Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds

nytimes.com – James Risen – Jul 10 – WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency 's health professionals repeatedly criticized the agency's post-Sept. 11 interrogation program, but their protests were rebuffed by prominent outside psychologists who lent credibility to the…
Jennifer Granick RT @CJSprigman: Amer. Psychological Assn. report details shrinks' role in Bush torture prgrm. Will ABA do similar report for lawyers? t.co/c4cyS75ChM
Jay Rosen American Psychological Association adopted ethics policies that made it look like torture had the blessings of APA. t.co/8i7zzV724l
The New York Times C.I.A. health professionals repeatedly criticized the agency's torture program, but their protests were rebuffed t.co/KYr2P8PZaU
moskowitz t.co/bqr4x2sD7D Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds [when plausible deniability fails, call the shrinks?]
Declan McCullagh Psychologists secretly OK torture conducted secretly by U.S. government and secretly approved by U.S. politicians. t.co/i3PKLdHoGk
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Japan's New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every Ten Minutes

nytimes.com – Derek Watkins – Jul 10 – Locked into a stationary orbit above New Guinea, the satellite takes 144 photographs of the entire planet a day, three times as many as its predecessor. The images show how weather systems evolve and help forecasters develop more nuanced models of…
The New York Times RT @NYTScience: We recommend that you look at these Japanese weather satellite photos on the biggest screen you can find t.co/6Bch9MrHcB
The New York Times A living portrait of the Earth, courtesy of the Himawari-8 weather satellite t.co/nOuHALqJ2w t.co/CF3pNhkzOp
Michael Parekh Beautiful: "#Japan's New #Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every 10 Minutes" t.co/c8uEUeZdpU
Steve Herman #Japan's new Himawari-8 sat captures amazing view of Pacific typhoons: t.co/yfwtYLTsiJ
The New York Times RT @kchangnyt: Seriously, the most amazing thing you can look at today. Views of Earth from a new Japanese satellite. t.co/GAOa9HdG5j
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Review: Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' Gives Atticus Finch a Dark Side

nytimes.com Michiko Kakutani (@ActualNYTMK) – Jul 10 – We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” as that novel's moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar of integrity who used his gifts as a lawyer to defend a black man falsely accused of…
Rex Hammock The Confederate flag is not a part of my southern heritage. But Atticus Finch is a racist? Can't process that. t.co/bpNyLHTAqU
The New York Times Harper Lee's newly discovered novel "Go Set a Watchman" points to her developing talents as a writer t.co/daUluVIq9m
The New York Times Atticus Finch was a moral conscience in "Mockingbird.' In "Watchman," he's a source of pain t.co/jCezqF9vAU t.co/vYdv258ki2
The New York Times RT @nytimesbooks: A Times review of Harper Lee's new novel, in which Atticus Finch has startling racist views t.co/k6vJEN5JJt
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Denmark's wind farms generated 140% of the country's electricity needs yesterday

qz.com – Svati Kirsten Narula – An unusually windy day gave Scandinavia another chance to show off its global superiority in clean energy yesterday. On July 9, Denmark's wind farms generated more than enough power to meet nationwide electricity demands—with a 16% surplus…
Ted Rheingold RT @joyce: Denmark's wind farms generated 140% of the country's electricity needs yesterday t.co/k9moshuLF3 t.co/NssyXlnDRz
joyce kim Denmark's wind farms generated 140% of the country's electricity needs yesterday t.co/k9moshuLF3 t.co/NssyXlnDRz
Gmc RT @qz: Denmark's wind farms generated 140% of the country's electricity needs on Thursday t.co/6XVoJtEgja t.co/mT561WZQPf
Robert J. Berger Denmark's wind farms generated 140% of the country's electricity needs yesterday t.co/aMKujXy6pZ #AbundanceNow
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EFF: Steve Jackson Games v. Secret Service Case Archive

w2.eff.org – On March 1 1990, the offices of Steve Jackson Games, in Austin, Texas, were raided by the U.S. Secret Service as part of a nationwide investigation of data piracy. The initial news stories simply reported that the Secret Service had raided a…
J. Nathan Matias RT @JPBarlow: 25 years ago yesterday, Mitch Kapor & I announced the existence of bothCyberspace and the EFF to defend it. t.co/SKRVOkyc2B
craignewmark RT @JPBarlow: 25 years ago yesterday, Mitch Kapor & I announced the existence of bothCyberspace and the EFF to defend it. t.co/SKRVOkyc2B
brianbehlendorf RT @JPBarlow: 25 years ago yesterday, Mitch Kapor & I announced the existence of bothCyberspace and the EFF to defend it. t.co/SKRVOkyc2B
John Perry Barlow 25 years ago yesterday, Mitch Kapor & I announced the existence of bothCyberspace and the EFF to defend it. t.co/SKRVOkyc2B
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Tennis's Top Women Balance Body Image With Quest for Success

nytimes.com – Ben Rothenberg – Jul 10 – WIMBLEDON, England — While most celebrities go incognito behind a hat and sunglasses, Serena Williams uses a different tactic to blend into a crowd: long sleeves. During an appearance on Home Shopping Network for her clothing line, Williams…
Jim Stogdill This article about Serena Williams is such BS. t.co/UvJIKna4Zt Really an unseemly acknowledgment of the economics of women's tennis.
The New York Times Tennis's Top Women Balance Body Image With Ambition t.co/qu0cg6o9n8
Dan Gillmor One suspects @Sulliview is already asking questions in the newsroom about this @nytimes piece on Serena Williams t.co/Lbif4YQKyX
The New York Times Serena Williams has a muscular frame. Her rivals choose not to emulate her physique t.co/IecMzg4AwV t.co/gEGHd3NI3z
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Some Iowa schools are asking their principals to wear body cameras

arstechnica.com – Megan Geuss – Jul 8, 10:50 PM – A school district in southeastern Iowa has purchased 13 small, clip-on cameras that principals and assistant principals will wear during their interactions with students and parents. The district is one of the first schools to encourage the use of…
Marc Andreessen RT @zephoria: Well, that didn't take long.. Iowa school district asks principals to wear body cams t.co/LZJvd8qdfN
Cory Doctorow RT @zephoria: Well, that didn't take long.. Iowa school district asks principals to wear body cams t.co/LZJvd8qdfN
Chris DiBona RT @zephoria: Well, that didn't take long.. Iowa school district asks principals to wear body cams t.co/LZJvd8qdfN
danah boyd Well, that didn't take long.. Iowa school district asks principals to wear body cams t.co/LZJvd8qdfN
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Terrifying proposal for airplane seating

boingboing.net Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) – Jul 10, 3:00 PM – What's worse than cattle-class? Cattle-class in a honeycomb of face-to-face seats where you're knee-to-knee with a sneezing stranger's halitosis. A French company called Zodiac has filed a patent for “Economy Class Cabin Hexagon,” a…
Sean Bonner Ⓥ FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS RT @xeni: Terrifying proposal for airplane seating t.co/uPfkeocjo6 t.co/wRu1sSceqT
Boing Boing Terrifying proposal for airplane seating t.co/f2W6fVbb6N
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The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá

nytimes.com – Susan Dominus – Jul 9 – They were two pretty young women in search of pork ribs for a barbecue later that day, a Saturday in the summer of 2013. Janeth Páez suggested that they stop by a grocery store not far from where her friend Laura Vega Garzón lived in…
Betsy Devine RT @CathyNDavidson: Swapped at birth Bogota twins story: Great way to teach privilege outside US but relevant to inequality here t.co/PJ2JxCZ0rD
Cathy Davidson Swapped at birth Bogota twins story: Great way to teach privilege outside US but relevant to inequality here t.co/PJ2JxCZ0rD
Cathy Davidson RT @susandominus: Take two identical twin pairs. Switch one from each pair at birth. Then reunite them 25 years later, by chance, and.: t.co/oYiwQBO9G8
The New York Times How 2 pairs of identical twins, switched at birth and raised as fraternal twins, reunited t.co/5OBSZbxoT7 t.co/SjLvhlBUfl
The New York Times How 2 pairs of identical twins, switched at birth and raised as fraternal twins, reunited t.co/xxFpj3scdu t.co/3kzRFBlB2v
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