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It’s only been, what? Four years since the last episode? I hope it was worth the wait!
DS #84: Pegatron and the Cult of Money
Top Links + Action
- Apartheid Regime Bomb Victim Father Michael Lapsley on Using Forgiveness to Heal From Tragedy
- Wal-Mart and The Gap refuse to sign worker protection agreement
- Simpsons food court at Universal Studios
- Take Action:Â Stop US government spying!
Current Events
- 200 killed in Bangladesh factory building collapse
- Different places have different safety rules and that’s okay
- Bangladesh collapsed factory owner arrested
- Blaze at locked Chinese poultry slaughterhouse kills 119
- Texas fertilizer company didn’t heed disclosure rules before blast
- Fracking drives potentially explosive demand for potentially explosive ammonia factories
- Q&A with Josh Fox: Gasland II
- Woman in Kuwait gets 11 years for “insulting†tweet
- News archive, 1994: MADD co-founder goes to work for liquor lobby
Economics
- How austerity kills
- “How austerity kills†co-author Stuckler on DemocracyNow
- Apple shifts production from Foxconn to Pegatron
- Pope: “cult of moneyâ€
- How many HFT firms actually use Twitter to trade?
- Twitter hack was the work of the Syrian Electronic Army
- How the robots lost: HFT’s rise and fall
- Are American taxpayers subsidizing Wal-Mart’s low wages?
- “The Low-Wage Drag on Our Economy: Wal-Mart’s low wages and their effect on taxpayers and economic growth†(pdf)
- Why ending extreme poverty is not enough
Education
- There are no D or F schools in Wisconsin
- “Pay for performance†pitfalls
- Common Core: Cutting edge or dull blade?
- Tea Party groups rallying against Common Core
- Be glad for our failure to catch China’s schools
- French teacher shows pupils horror movie “Sawâ€
- Why French kids don’t have ADHD
Killer Robots, Etc
- Summary of Obama speech on drones
- The Drone War: A comprehensive map of lethal US attacks
- Medea Benjamin on why she disrupted Obama’s speech
- UN report wants moratorium on killer robots
- Teaching robots to anticipate human actions
- Modelling scouts target anorexia patients
- The Tumblr bucket: Yahoo needs to make cash off it
- Reading literature makes us smarter and nicer
- “Urgent need†to remove space debris
Hip-Hop
Sir Mix-A-Lot:Â Swass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkaJoMicA04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR7mRC85C3c
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