How to make capitalism work for people and the planet

10 Steps To Transform Capitalism For The Better
BY JOHN ELKINGTON AND CHARMIAN LOVE, fastcoexist.com

Our economic system could better serve people and the planet. These are the small pivots we can take to make it more equitable.

Editor’s Note

In this series of five sto­ries, Volans will high­light key pre­sen­ta­tions from the Break­through…

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Instagram captures drone strike maps

An Instagram Account Chillingly Documents The Sites Of U.S. Drone Strikes
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

The aptly named Dronestragram invites you to pause your visual consumption of your friends’ happy lives to consider a different kind of snapshot.

There are no embed­ded reporter fly-alongs dur­ing a drone strike—no live CNN cam­eras on the grou…

http://flpbd.it/KvVgM

Obama victory and tech industry

What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech
Brian Barrett, gizmodo.com

Barack Obama’s vic­to­ry last night has far-reaching fis­cal, social, and mil­i­tary impli­ca­tions, all of which are famil­iar to any­one who kept at least one eye open dur­ing any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech…

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Real political map of US

This Is the Real Political Map of America—We Are Not That Divided
Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com

This is the real polit­i­cal map of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca after the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. A fas­ci­nat­ing view, much dif­fer­ent from the maps you saw that night, which showed an arti­fi­cial, bina­ry divide. But these maps…

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Built to win: Deep inside Obama

Built to win: Deep inside Obama’s campaign tech
Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com

The reelec­tion of Barack Obama was won by peo­ple, not by soft­ware. But in a con­test as close as last week’s elec­tion, soft­ware may have given the Obama for Amer­i­ca orga­ni­za­tion’s peo­ple a tiny edge—mak­ing them by some mea­sures more…

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Romney’s orca system caused campaign meltdown

Which consultants built Romney’s “Project Orca?” None of them
Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com

In the wake of Mitt Rom­ney’s Elec­tion Day defeat, frus­tra­tion with the Rom­ney cam­paign’s get-out-the-vote effort led to reports of an IT melt­down. Project Orca, the sys­tem the Rom­ney cam­paign used to con­nect to an army of vol­un­teer…

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Obama tech crippled Romney campaign

How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust
Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com

Despite run­ning a cam­paign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial bid, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s cam­paign under-spent Rom­ney’s on IT prod­ucts and ser­vices by $14.5 mil­lion, putting the…

Obama wins election of the nerds

Obama wins the nerdiest election ever
By Spencer Ackerman, wired.co.uk

Politics

Con­grat­u­la­tions, Barack Obama: you have pre­vailed in the nerdi­est elec­tion in the his­to­ry of the Amer­i­can Repub­lic.

If 2008 was about hope and change, 2012 was about data and memes. The unem­ploy­ment rate. The effec­tive …

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Wallet tracker tracks your most precious stuff

Hands-On With The WalletTrackR, The Gadget That Keeps Tabs On Your Most Valuable Stuff For You
Colleen Taylor, techcrunch.com

When you’ve got a lot of things going on, it’s easy to lose track of where you left your mobile phone, key­chain, wal­let, or hand­bag — and the time you spend try­ing to find them just as you’re run­ning out the door can make the dif­fer­ence…

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Evolution is a thing

(via Evolution is a thing – The Maddow Blog)

Ohio really did go to the president last night.

And he really did win.
And he really was born in Hawaii.
And he really is -legitimately- President of the United States.
Again.

And the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not make-up a fake unemployment rate last month.
And the Congressional Research Service really can find no evidence
That cutting taxes on rich people grows the economy.

And the polls were not skewed to over-sample Democrats.
And Nate Silver was not making up fake projections about the election
To make conservatives feel bad.
He was doing math.

And climate change is real.
And rape really does cause pregnancy sometimes.
And evolution is a thing.
And Benghazi was an attack on us.
It was not a scandal by us.

And no one is taking away anyone’s guns.
And taxes haven’t gone up.
And the deficit is dropping, actually.
And Saddam Hussein didn’t have weapons of mass destruction.

And the moon landing was real.
And FEMA isn’t building concentration camps.
And UN election observers aren’t taking over Texas.
And moderate reforms of the regulations on the insurance industry
And the financial services industry
Are not the same thing as communism.

Listen.

Mitt Romney Facebook page loses fans

(via Mitt Romney’s Facebook page is losing fans by the minute.)