It’s Not Aliens... But...

The Panama Papers

Panama Papers:  The Secrets of Dirty Money

What are the panama papers?

What you need to know about the panama papers

Images from Tweets:

so, biggest corruption story EVER, and these were the front pages that reported on it in the United States on Monday:

Hmmmm....  what does that say about the media in this country?  What does that say about corruption in this country??

Panama Players:  The Power Players

400 reporters kept the Panama Papers secret for a year.  Here’s how they pulled it off

With over 2 GB of data...  11.5 Million documents....  this, is only the beginning...  there will be many, many more stories to come.... Not only that....  but:

The NSA Speech: Obama Accepts the Logic of Staying Terrorized

If the vision he laid out Friday prevails, mass surveillance on innocents will continue and we'll never enjoy pre-9/11 privacy again.

Have Humans Already Conquered The Threat Of Extinction?

The Great Filter theory suggests that all advanced civilizations eventually destroy themselves before acquiring the capacity to colonize space — a notion that could explain why we've never been visited by aliens. But there may be another reason for the celestial silence. Yes, the Great Filter exists, but we've already passed it. Here's what this would mean.

Times are a changin’

and quicker than people think... It’s more important than ever to look to the future... 

Think 2016 Was Crazy?  Wait Until the Accountants Get Replaced by Robots  

Why We’ll Need a Universal Basic Income Robert Reich

No Job is Safe, But These Skills Will Always Be Valued in the Workplace Alison Berman via Singularity Hub

"Future tense" flickr photo by kevin dooley shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.” -CS

Reading Stephen Hawking’s opinion piece in The Guardian today made me think again of Sagan...  Specifically, the Pale, Blue Dot and his last interview with Charlie Rose...  if you’re familiar with either then it will be no surprise why I had to choose a Carl Sagan quote as the title of this post...  

There’s a lot to unpack in Stephen Hawking’s opinion piece in The Guardian today...  his words tie together so many themes that you will find in my online collections and things I share...   

“This is the most dangerous time for our planet” 

Sounds pretty dire, huh?  But at the end of the day I agree that there’s hope... 

One Last Thought (via my page on space/perspective)

“I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed. That all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or Communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.” — Michael Collins, Gemini 10 & Apollo 11 astronaut

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Who is CS?  Carl Sagan of course...  I recently posted about him because it was Cal Sagan day a few weeks ago...  funny enough, he also came up today in a discussion at work in reference to the recent post about his course notes, course materials, and more being available in an online Library of Congress collection...  check out the links for more information and food for thought...  

Digital Literacy

SSSC Digital Literacy workshop

TEDxWarwick - Doug Belshaw - The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies

psychopath

I protected my privacy by ditching Chrome for Brave–and so should you

This web browser looks and works like Chrome–if Chrome were built to shield your data from prying eyes.

I’ve been reading about Brave, going to give it a go....

Wikipedia Event Header

header for fermi page of my weebly

I’ve been meaning to finish this page for a while...