Cited from https://hyp.is/go?url=http://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2018/mar/30/cynthia-nixon/do-most-children-outside-new-york-city-lack-full-d/

"Britain, what's that behind your back?"

"India, and a number of other countries."

This annotation refers to youtube.html?id=Avxm7JYjk8M from 2:51 to 3:26

Originally: "We are as gods and might as well get used to it."

https://pc.tedcdn.com/talk/stream/2017U/None/StewartBrandandChrisAnderson_2017U-320k.mp4#t=1443,1489

Advice from Christine Todd Whitman, on https://www.npr.org/podcasts/551791730/stay-tuned-with-preet, about dealing with detractors.

"The rule of law, civil liberties and civil rights, these are not our burdens. They are what make us better."

Garrett Graff quotes from a 2008 Robert Mueller speech to the FBI on its 100th anniversary.

Listen to segment from 23:42 to 24:30

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/381444908/582513233/npr_582513233.mp3#t=1422,1470

Source of the quote: FBI archive.

"The rule of law, civil liberties and civil rights, these are not our burdens. They are what make us better."

Garrett Graff on Fresh Air, paraphrasing a Robert Mueller speech to the FBI on its 100th anniversary.

Segment: 23:42 to 24:30

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/381444908/582513233/npr_582513233.mp3#t=1422,1470

From https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444908/fresh-air, a heartening take on Mueller's solid character from Garrett Graff, https://twitter.com/vermontgmg.

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/381444908/582513233/npr_582513233.mp3#t=1222,1263

Largest single act of terrorism in human history?

Not Hiroshima, not Nagasaki, not Dresden. The Tokyo firebombing. 80K - 120K killed in one night.

http://kuow.org/post/how-daniel-ellsberg-learned-start-worrying-and-hate-bomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

On EBT cards at the dawn of the modern surveillance state.

That's the moment when I realized that a lot of the most innovative, cutting-edge technologies in the United States are first tested on poor and working-class people.

Virginia Eubanks, on PBS, discussing Automating Inequality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avxm7JYjk8M&start=170&end=219

"They did have a device for dealing with the trenches. They bulldozed them."

"How do people come to do that, or plan to do that? Fairly easily. Humans are capable of being heartless toward other humans to a degree we deny to ourselves."

http://kuow.org/post/how-daniel-ellsberg-learned-start-worrying-and-hate-bomb

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/world/us-army-buried-iraqi-soldiers-alive-in-gulf-war.html

"We've got to hit the reset button."

Richard Florida, to his credit, is rethinking the creative class argument.

https://blog.jonudell.net/2009/12/08/stewart-brands-whole-earth-discipline/

On the surreality of interviewing Trump.

"The New York Times is the heart and soul of American conventional wisdom."

James Riser, with Christopher Lydon, http://radioopensource.org/an-inconsistent-truth, discussing the Times' suppression of Riser's scoop on the NSA's domestic spying in 2004, and its failure to properly investigate the weapons of mass destruction storyline used to justify the Iraq invasion.

"The Truth has a Voice" ... sometimes.

http://radioopensource.org/mark-blyths-state-union/

"Millennials (and beyond) outnumber boomers, they need to show up, they need to take control, and get organized."

Doug Engelbart's epiphany: the moment in his youth when he settled on augmenting collective intelligence as his life goal.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130729211315id_/http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail378.html

"The anthropocene has been proposed as a new epoch.."

But actually, David Grinspoon says (http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/sep/06/earth-human-hands/), it's arguably a new eon.

https://blog.jonudell.net/2017/09/25/welcome-to-the-sapiezoic/

When I listened to Unmasking Misogyny on Radio Open Source, a key takeaway for me was Danielle McGuire's version of the story of Rosa Parks. It provides a context for Parks' activism that I (perhaps many) had missed. I've ordered her book, At the Dark End of the Street, to learn more about the history. But McGuire's remarks on the podcast summarize the case in a compelling way. I wanted to share. Here's the clip.

What builds reading ability? Motivation and context. Here John Willinsky talks passionately about how people facing medical problems are motivated to dive into the medical literature and build their own context for understanding it.

Context: https://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/25/a-conversation-with-john-willinsky-about-public-participation-in-the-creation-of-knowledge/