Our pioneering new online interactive course, Zen & the Art of Saving the Planet, has limited spaces left for the May-July cohort.
Simply visit https://t.co/HkuJy81bxc to apply.
The course will run again from Oct to Dec this year.
#ZenAndThePlanet
@brspirituality It could be helpful to offer tiers of engagement. For example, for those just casually interested in learning more, only watch the live material (45 min/week). For those looking to go deeper and apply the practices personally and professionally, 2 hours/week.
Friends, an historic day with tech execs on Capitol Hill: the beginning, not the end, of a new fight for a democratic digital future. Honored to talk with the brave and brilliant @camanpour and former Amazon exec Tim Bray, a man who stuck with his compass. @davidcicilline
"Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data." -@shoshanazuboff warned us #BigTechBarons
This 4th of July weekend, please prioritize infection prevention. Our outbreak is headed in the wrong direction at top speed, which means there is a lot of virus circulating in many communities. Physical distancing, masks, hand hygiene.
There's a postmodern logic to this moment. After forcefully destabilizing, undermining and reshaping much of the world into its own image, from Central and South America to the Middle East and beyond, the only thing left for America was to invade itself.
Photos from downtown LA
Sen. Tom Cotton suggests "no quarter" for rioters and looters.
Historically, it means you kill people rather than arrest them.
It's a literal war crime.
In the last twenty four hours we have seen hundreds if not thousands of clips in which police forces across America appear to escalate violence on the streets for no legitimate purpose.
We literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored
And an office called the Pandemic Preparedness Office... that they abolished.
And a global monitoring system called PREDICT .. that they cut by 75%
Tonight #DeborahBirx stated that models anticipating large-scale transmission of COVID-19 do not match reality on the ground. Our modeling (done by @StephenKissler based on work with @ctedijanto and @yhgrad and me) is one of the models she is talking about.
📣CALLING ALL TECHNOLOGISTS📣
Social media is the only actor who can get 3 billion people to take transformative actions to defeat the 🦠.
Tech platforms offer 21st century ADVERTISING tools but 19th century PSAs.
Let's change that. We want to see your best ideas…⬇️
Getting to this late, but it’s #sarscov2sunday and that means that after a week of heavy-duty reporting, I’m asking you to help me out - help all of us out - by sharing any great idea you’ve seen or had to make this extraordinary period nicer for others or yourself.
To put the emerging tragedy in New York into perspective, New York State (with 15,783 #coronavirus cases) is now the country with the 6th most #COVID19 patients in the world behind only China, Italy, Spain, Germany and Iran. But yes, New York is just one of our 50 states.