January 2011
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dennishopper:
That Futuristic Announcer Guy from...
“In Egypt this week, the Mubarak regime shut down Internet and cell phone...”
– SaveTheInternet.com | Egypt’s Internet Crackdown (via radicallyhottoff)
“Dazed Digital: Do you think there are certain things one can reach for in music...”
– Dazed Digital | Saul Williams: Explain My Heart Video Exclusive (via kathleenjoy)
“Red Dawn 2, the forthcoming sequel to the nineteen eighties B-movie about a...”
– Guernica / Detroitism - ‘What does “ruin porn” tell us about the motor city, ourselves, other American cities?’ (via sneak046)
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“Who owns the words? Who owns the music and the rest of our culture? We do. All...”
– William Gibson [ via myserendipities ] (via samsaramotel) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via xn—7xa) (via theonlyadventureleft)
CLU_: “At that moment, when I had the TV sound... →
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“At that moment, when I had the TV sound off, I was in a 382 mood; I had just dialed it. So although I heard the emptiness intellectually, I didn’t feel it. My first reaction consisted of being grateful that we could afford a Penfield mood organ. But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing…
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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense...”
– Martin Luther King 1967 (via claytoncubitt)
Yes, The Singularity Is The Biggest Threat To... →
“Some folks, like Aaron Saenz of Singularity Hub, were surprised that the NPR piece framed the Singularity as “the biggest threat to humanity”, but that’s exactly what the Singularity is. The Singularity is both the greatest threat and greatest opportunity to our civilization, all wrapped into one crucial event. This shouldn’t be surprising — after all, intelligence is the most powerful...
18 Disturbing Things We Wouldn't Know Without... →
wilwheaton:
So far, WikiLeaks has released less than 3,000 cables from the 251,000-document cache, but already the media, politicians and the public are questioning the value of the leak. “It’s important,” Mitchell writes, “to review a small sample of what we have learned thanks to WikiLeaks since April and the release of the ‘Collateral Murder’ US helicopter video, which showed the killing...
Hacker Pleads Guilty To Cyber 'Sextortion' →
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
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The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
Wonderful.
(via therealkatiewest)
fingers forever on the fast forward button, we ride shockwaves of change, from transformation to transmigration.
i am trying to discover my place in all...
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guynoren:
Cyberpunk documentary from 1990!
Sweet industrial soundtrack and cg, Interviews with William Gibson in his earlier days as a writer as well as Timothy Leary and others, highly recommended for fans of the writing or the culture.
Anybody play Snatcher for Sega CD? :) :) :)
AWESOME. Definitely watching this over the weekend.
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“— July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how “liberals” are...”
– Eighteen examples of right-wing domestic terrorism detailed by freelance journalist and author David Neiwert (via Digby)
I remember many of these. But of course each one happened in its own convenient vacuum. No need for society to turn a critical eye to itself, no siree.
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