Twitter abuse - '50% of misogynistic tweets from women'

UK - Half of all misogynistic tweets posted on Twitter come from women, a study suggests. --Over a three-week period, think tank counted the number of uses of two particular words as indicators of misogyny. --It found evidence of large-scale misogyny, with 6,500 unique users targeted by 10,000 abusive tweets in the UK alone. --Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said that tackling abuse is a priority.

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VOA: Meet Your New Co-worker: The Robot

NEW YORK— At the RoboUniverse expo in New York City, robots of all shapes and sizes were being put to work. Companies showed off automated machines designed to perform tasks that many humans would consider less than desirable. --“There are certain tasks in our society… that will stay on and not be attractive for humans to do. And we cannot get rid of them if we want to live our lives in the usual fashion,” said Preben Hjørnet, founder and CEO of robotics startup Blue Workforce.

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The 2015 ITIF Luddite Award

Technological innovation is the wellspring of human progress, providing higher living standards, improved health, a cleaner environment, increased access to information and many other benefits. Yet despite all of these benefits, a growing array of interests—some economic, some ideological— now stand in stubborn opposition to innovation.

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The EPA's risky Clean Power Plant rule

t's a rare day that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not in the news as its tentacles reach far and wide, its issues span the policy grid and its rule-making can be relentless. One of its most recent scuffles involves the EPA's Clean Power Plant rule. It has struck a nerve in part because it fails to take into account the many risk factors involved. It's worth spending a minute on what the rule does, what's at stake and why it matters.

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Gingrich: How Smartphones Can Replace Bureaucracy

Follow the link for text and a video excerpted from the speech “Veterans and Their Smartphones: Creating a 21st Century Veterans Service System,” delivered by Newt Gingrich at the American Enterprise Institute, August 12, 2014.

EXCERPT: Take out your smartphone. You are holding the entry point for a massive information system. Every time you think the proposals in this speech are unrealistic look, at your own smart phone and the apps you already have installed on it. Which is more representative of our future? The current failing bureaucracies, or the smart phone in your hand?

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The scientific technological elite [Eisenhower's other warning]

 Republished 6/4/2012
AMERICAN THINKER, 12/7/2009 by Robert W. Ball - President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous 1961 farewell address contained more than an admonition about the danger of an expanding "military-industrial complex." That speech was also an early warning of the current unholy alliance between the government and a scientific community dependent on the government for its funding.

"...(In) the technological revolution during recent decades...research has become central...complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government...the solitary inventor... has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields...

...the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded....we must...be alert to the...danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite." [ii]

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