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Bill Genereux

The 'Canonical' Image of a Drone Is a Rendering Dressed Up in Photoshop - Alexis C. Mad... - 0 views

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  • Bill Genereux on 20 Mar 13
     
    The most famous image of a drone attack exists only in Photoshop.
Bill Genereux

How 'dongle' jokes got two people fired and launched DDoS attacks (Wired UK) - 0 views

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    Sexist jokes at a tech conference get two people fired
Bill Genereux

The Technium: Pain of the New - 0 views

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  • Bill Genereux on 21 Apr 13
     
    The Hobbit looks too real. HFR is the CD of motion pictures and will take time for people to adjust to the new fidelity
Bill Genereux

Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us. - 0 views

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      Bill Genereux on 09 Feb 13
       
      This is happening already. Look at automated trading on Wall Street.
  • because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system.
  • exterminate the mass of humanity.
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  • reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct
  • they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race.
  • These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they will most certainly not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.
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Teen Magazine Solicits Advice from First Father - 0 views

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    Using Social Media to ask for the President's advice on many things.
Bill Genereux

The Library in the New Age by Robert Darnton | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 27 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • I did not know that crimes involving black people did not qualify as news.
  • Having learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of informatio
  • I think newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events themselves.
Bill Genereux

We, the Web Kids - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 09 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • our competition, our desire to be different, is built on knowledge, on the ability to interpret and process information, and not on monopolising it.
Bill Genereux

The Danger of Telling Poor Kids That College Is the Key to Social Mobility - Andrew Sim... - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 20 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • ean Anyon, an education researcher
  • chools teaching the children of affluent families prepared those kids to take on leadership roles
  • Schools teaching children from low-income families focused on keeping students busy and managing behavior.
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  • middle-class school deemphasized individual expression and in-depth analysis and rewarded the dutiful completion of specified rote tasks
  • Some students learn to take orders and others learn to chart a course of action and delegate responsibility.
  • “hidden curriculum”
  • When school environments casually yet consistently deemphasize the intellectual benefits of higher education, students become less imaginative about their futures.
  • College should be “sold” to all students as an opportunity to experience an intellectual awakening.
  • Access to higher education means that your values and interests can govern your choices.
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