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Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation“Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users’ ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace Facebook technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that Facebook is gaslighting users into believing that visiting the web is…

How OWS woke up our civil society

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation The violent response from authorities will only solidify the peaceful movement…   A year ago, no one imagined an Arab Spring, and no one imagined this American Fall — even the people who began planning for it this summer. We don’t know what’s coming next, and that’s the good news. My advice is just of…

UC Berkeley police give “Beat Poets” new meaning: poet laureate Robert Hass on his violent encounter – Boing Boing

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationOnce the cordon formed, the deputy sheriffs pointed their truncheons toward the crowd. It looked like the oldest of military maneuvers, a phalanx out of the Trojan War, but with billy clubs instead of spears.   The students were wearing scarves for the first time that year, their cheeks rosy with the first bite of real…

Cedar-Sinai takes cancer sufferer off transplant list for taking the medical marijuana its doctor prescribed – Boing Boing

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationNorman B. Smith was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer by his doctor at LA’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, who prescribed medical marijuana. Now, Cedars-Sinai has removed Mr Smith from the list of liver-transplant candidates…because he tested positive for marijuana, which their own doctor prescribed.   Hospital officials are insisting that Smith stop using marijuana for at least…

Occupy Lulz – Boing Boing

Via Scoop.it – Internet of the absurdTags: comedy, lol, LULZ, meme, occupy wall street, ows, photoshopVia boingboing.net

If Clarence Thomas Was Not Justice Thomas He’d Likely be Behind Bars

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation   Earl Ofari Hutchinson If Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was not Justice Thomas but an ordinary Thomas he’d be behind bars.   A cursory checklist of Thomas’s financial manipulations, abuse, and duplicity, and outright illegality complete with the legal statues and codes that he’s violated confirm his made man tag, meaning hands off from…