Leading neuroscientists believe that the UK Government may be about to sanction the development of nerve agents for British police that would be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical weapons.
“Investigating the rotation of data, these sculptures were made using graphs of the New York Stock Exchange (Composite 2004-2012) and the Dow Jones (Industrial Average 1980-2012). The crash of 2009 is clearly visible. The artworks were made to contemplate the meaning of the current global financial crisis and to consider different ways of visualizing data.”
Stock Exchange Sculptures | Luke Jerram, via Dan W.
Hackers could decide next year’s Oscar winners
Despite ‘military-grade encryption techniques’, next year’s electronic Oscar ballots may be at risk for corruption.
(via churchofcyberpunk)
If only the media and the political establishment vented as much anger at the police every time they murder an innocent Black man — or smash some peaceful protester’s head in — as they do when someone clad in black clothes smashes a Starbucks window, we might not even have a need for protests in the first place!
Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless antenna, the Transparency Grenade captures network traffic and audio at the site and securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where it is mined for information. Email fragments, HTML pages, images and voice extracted from this data are then presented on an online, public map, shown at the location of the detonation.
Someone on my twitter timeline posted or retweeted this and I can’t remember, who but the concept is mad, bad and dangerous. And I like it.
- Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson
I’ve been listening to undun a lot lately. It’s absolutely wonderful.
(via captainfuck)
It’s been a permanent fixture in my car CD-changer since I picked it up.
(Source: wordbk, via captainfuck)
