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"The total wealth held by the world’s billionaires rose by 17 percent in 2016 to $6 trillion," writes Newsweek's Conor Gaffey, who notes that "the world’s richest people now control the highest concentration of wealth since the period known as the Gilded Age in the United States."

But everything isn't rosy with this group: according to Gaffey, "the uber-rich are concerned that growing inequality could lead to society turning against them."

Meet the billionaires who run Trump's government
In a 2016 report, Oxfam claimed that the richest 1 percent of people in the world control more wealth than the rest of the world combined.

the lost art of reading

Javier Jaén Benavides - Book Review : The Lost Art of Reading / http://www.javierjaen.com

Escape with me! BOOM!

"Glowing Shapes" Tutting Dance｜XTRAP

Mudbound | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix

spooky sky and muons

A more immediate hazard comes from muons.

These subatomic particles, created when high‑energy cosmic rays strike the upper atmosphere, constantly zip through our bodies and occasionally damage genetic material at the cellular level. They cause many of the spontaneous tumors that have been with us long before we started downing charred hot dogs.

Then there’s the remote possibility of a near‑enough supernova to zap our planet with lethal gamma rays. It’s a wonderfully weird catastrophe, worthy of these darkest nights. Orion’s famous star Betelgeuse is the nearest true peril. If it “goes supernova” the resulting radiation would increase earthly cancers and mutations. But at 400 lightyears, it’s too distant to wipe us out.

you CAN judge a book by its cover

I'd get them just for the covers! BOOM!

Appreciation Friday: Ursula Johnson: performance and installation artist of Mi’kmaw First Nation

Ursula Johnson was awarded the 2017 Sobey Art Award.

Ursula Johnson, “Hot Looking” (2014), durational performance-based installation with delegated performer and looped audio, variable dimensions (photo by Michael Wasnidge)

Ursula Johnson is a performance and installation artist of Mi’kmaw First Nation ancestry. Since graduating from NSCAD in 2006, she has participated in over 30 group shows and 5 solo exhibitions. Johnson has been exploring various mediums including performance art, sculpture, music and printmaking, while utilizing delegated performers as well as collaborative processes in the making of new works. Her performances are often place-based and employ cooperative didactic intervention. In Land Sings, Johnson used topographical terrain mapping to delineate a journey that she translates into a drawn line, and her collaborators use this line to score songs that are performed durationally.
Her website

little wind

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Misogyny 101

The Internal Logic of Misogyny

                  Sexism,  or the belief that men are superior to women, is morally bad. Misogyny,  or the aggression towards women who upset that worldview, is also bad.  But the problem, says Cornell philosophy professor Kate Manne, is that  misogyny is logical, and even to be expected, when your starting point  is predicated on male dominance. Manne illustrates how this plays out,  and why misogyny itself is so hard to stop. (The Brian Lehrer Show)

we the people

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WE -- Internet users and consumers -- can demand new, better design patterns. The Internet of Things can adopt an ethos akin to the early Internet: decentralized, open source and harmonized with privacy.
READ WHY

There are already sobering examples. Consider My Friend Cayla, the Internet-enabled toy that the German government labeled an "illegal espionage apparatus." Cayla is a seemingly innocuous, Barbie-like doll. But Cayla records conversations, hawks products to impressionable youngsters, and is vulnerable to hackers.

COMMENTER to the CNN story:
Misguided reaction. The problem is, if that misinformation says what people want to hear, many don't care. They'll pass it on anyway. That's not the fault of FB, or any foreign elements threatening us. Propaganda can only work if there is no dissenting opinion allowed. We don't have that problem.
Our problem is a mixture of bi go try
(That is, being intolerant of others opinions,) prejudice, and tribalism causing many people to be more than willing to accept and pass on misinformation if it advances their preconceived notions and/or agenda. Couple that with apathy from most everyone else and you have your root problem. What has to be done is for people to expose misinformation wherever they see it and not pass it on, even if the misinformation seems to agree with their position. If your position is so strong, you shouldn't need misinformation to sell it.