December 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Delusionists (12)
Texture (8)
Baron Samedi (7)
KROWNE (5)
Bl▲CK † CEILING (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Reasons I am anti-war, number 9000 in a series.
jogi-nachle:
Don’t you dare think “you” achieved something in Iraq
stay-human:
I’m honestly sick of the “OMG YAY WE’RE LEAVING IRAQ, OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
First of all you were never in Iraq- mostly army requiters targeted the poorer neighborhoods of America and enticed the youth with army “benefits” because America had already fucked them over to the...
A Hybrid Machine Joins 3-D Printing And Human... →
Joong Han Lee calls his master’s thesis at the Design Academy Eindhoven “a human prototyping system.” Which makes it sound like some kind of dystopian baby-making machine in a Margaret Atwood novel. In truth, Haptic Intelligentsia is both saner and stranger than that: It’s a 3-D printer that requires human hands to physically build the objects it spits out. Think of it as a rapid-prototyping...
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Things to do in the Digital Afterlife when you're... →
Excellent paper by Dan Buzzo which discusses the potential for creative uses of the digital afterlife.
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Weavrs →
“Weavrs are your alter egos crafted from the threads of the social web.”
After my last post regarding digital afterlife I was pointed in the direction of a web service called weavrs, which allows you to create avatars which crawl the social web blogging items of interest based on whatever filters or areas of interest you want. I have created one I named Sneakr earlier today, and it...
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“Suppose you wanted to create your own digital ghost to live for eternity in the...”
– Scott Adams Blog: Your Digital Ghost 01/17/2011 (via new-aesthetic)
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Five Years After Banning Outdoor Ads, Brazil's... →
Imagine a city of 11 million inhabitants stripped of all its advertising. It’s nearly impossible when the clutter and color of our current urban landscapes seem inextricably entwined with the golden arches of McDonald’s or the deep reds of Coca-Cola…..
….Five years later, São Paulo continues to exist without advertisements. But instead of causing economic ruin and...
“Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, via Reality tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OODA loop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The OODA loop (for observe, orient, decide, and act) is a concept originally applied to the combat operations process, often at the strategic level in military operations. It is now also often applied to understand commercial operations and learning processes. The concept was developed by military strategist and USAF Colonel John Boyd.
Black swan theory - Wikipedia, the free... →
The black swan theory…is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept that The event is a surprise (to the observer) and has a major impact. After the fact, the event is rationalized by hindsight. The theory was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain:
The disproportionate role of high-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history,...
“The normalcy bias, or normality bias, refers to a mental state people enter when...”
– Normalcy bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The Cassandra metaphor is a term applied in situations in which valid warnings...”
– Cassandra (metaphor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“A world constructed from the familiar is a world in which there’s nothing to...”
– Filter bubble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Do We Really Have To Prepare For The Fourth Box? -... →
The internal talk within the Swedish Pirate Party has long been that it’s our job to prevent Europe from descending into totalitarian fascism. The United States is lost; it is beyond help and repair and will descend. Our job is to prevent Europe from happily following suit, but instead break off the leash in time. This was apparent five years ago, and is screamingly obvious today.
Liberty...
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Open Letter from a Marine Tea Partier to All... →
The system we live under is a corporatist model rapidly deteriorating into a fascist police state. The reason I added “Marine” to the heading of this letter was to (hopefully) attract active duty servicemembers, veterans, and law enforcement. We took an oath to the Constitution in order to join. The oath clearly gives us not only the option, but the responsibility to disobey ALL illegal orders....
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Sahtyre (1)
Verbs (1)
Nocando (1)
Pistol Mcfly (1)
Always Prolific of E.Super (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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WatchAn 8 track mix I threw together this afternoon. Mainly downtempo electronic noises, with a little jolt at the end.
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Slightly Right of Centre: Notes and thoughts from... →
nevali:
I am yet to hear a convincing argument as to why lobbyists pushing corporate agendas at the highest level of government should not themselves be subject to some scrutiny. Why are so many corporations so afraid to speak openly and on the record?
Good question.
I’d say it should be quid-pro-quo for access to ministers.
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Universal files illegal takedown notice of music... →
As a prime example of why SOPA (and current legislation) is bad law, Universal Music Group have maliciously filed takedown notices to youtube for a video they claim is infringing their copyright, despite it being a original commissioned piece fully owned by third party altogether.
It happens to be part of a viral campaign by the RIAA-labelled Rogue online locker service Megaupload, which explains...
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No Copyright Intended →
dailymeh:
Andy Baio:
No amount of lawsuits or legal threats will change the fact that this behavior is considered normal — I’d wager the vast majority of people under 25 see nothing wrong with non-commercial sharing and remixing, or think it’s legal already.
Here’s a thought experiment: Everyone over age 12 when YouTube launched in 2005 is now able to vote.
What happens when — and this is...