January 27, 2012
Here’s the future. Courtesy of Northrop Grumman. Navy Drone It’s an autonomous aircraft/drone that has a full weapons bay (4,500 lbs). Say that word again: autonomous. That’s the breakthrough feature. This also means: It can make its own “kill decision.” Again and again and again. That decision is going to get better and better and cheaper and cheaper (Moore’s law has made insect level intelligence available for pennies, rat intelligence is next). It isn’t vulnerabe to a pilot in Nevada directing it to land in Iran. Oops. It will eventually (sooner than you think) be the “Queen,” making decisions for thousands of smaller swarmed (semi-autonomous) drones it lays on a battle zone (aka “city”). In sum: It allows an unprecedented automation of conventional violence. (via The Future of Warfare - Global Guerrillas)

Here’s the future. Courtesy of Northrop Grumman. Navy Drone It’s an autonomous aircraft/drone that has a full weapons bay (4,500 lbs). Say that word again: autonomous. That’s the breakthrough feature. This also means: It can make its own “kill decision.” Again and again and again. That decision is going to get better and better and cheaper and cheaper (Moore’s law has made insect level intelligence available for pennies, rat intelligence is next). It isn’t vulnerabe to a pilot in Nevada directing it to land in Iran. Oops. It will eventually (sooner than you think) be the “Queen,” making decisions for thousands of smaller swarmed (semi-autonomous) drones it lays on a battle zone (aka “city”). In sum: It allows an unprecedented automation of conventional violence. (via The Future of Warfare - Global Guerrillas)

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January 27, 2012
"Jean Baudrillard always insisted that the Apocalypse had already taken place. Even if we hadn’t noticed it and can’t quite pin-point when exactly. There was no nuclear disaster, no viral epidemic, not even a disintegration of nation states or a spectacular shift of power towards mega-corporations. Yet, Baudrillard maintained that we are clearly living in a post-apocalyptic world. Just not the one we expected. Maybe this is why so many movies and videogames these days tell a tale of a dramatic end-of-the-world scenario. We have a nagging feeling of having missed something, a black spot in our collective memory where the Apocalypse should be. Our entertainers are trying to reconstruct our memories, our at least fill them up with a meaningful fantasy. Because there must be meaning! This post-modern post-apocalyptic black-hole that absorbs all meaning is too much for us to handle. It makes us almost wish for an all-out nuclear war."

— Fallout 3. The apocalypse that never happened. | Notgames blog

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January 21, 2012
Every day the same dream - molleindustria

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January 20, 2012
new-aesthetic: A foggy night in Odessa, Ukraine, when a digital billboard crashed and displayed a floating error warning in the night sky. : pics, via Tom A.

new-aesthetic:

A foggy night in Odessa, Ukraine, when a digital billboard crashed and displayed a floating error warning in the night sky. : pics, via Tom A.

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January 3, 2012
new-aesthetic: faketv: “The Barbie Video Girl Doll ($50, Mattel, for ages 6 and up) looks just like a regular Barbie, but a closer look reveals a camera in her pendant, and a postage-sized color screen on her back, peeking through her blouse.” — NYT […] mediology: Lights, Camera, Barbie? - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com

new-aesthetic:

faketv:

“The Barbie Video Girl Doll ($50, Mattel, for ages 6 and up) looks just like a regular Barbie, but a closer look reveals a camera in her pendant, and a postage-sized color screen on her back, peeking through her blouse.” — NYT

[…]

mediology:

Lights, Camera, Barbie? - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com

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January 2, 2012
The Food Police

“Why Michael Pollan makes me want to eat Cheetos”

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December 28, 2011
"Acupuncture is a slippery beast. It has been practiced for thousands of years in so many places, there are a multitude of different systems of practice, and they all work, despite the fact that some of them disagree with each other. I feel quite at ease with these contradictions, but western science doesn’t. I’ve read a few studies using randomly selected “sham” acupoints, by which they mean points not included among the hundreds mapped out by the Traditional Chinese Medicine system, which is the theory rewritten to accomadate the political, economic and logistic necessities of providing for the medical needs of China’s population during the 1950s. (Very interesting in light of “rebellious” qi diagnoses…but I digress.) But who’s to say that these “sham” points are not recognized and widely used in a different system less popular with Chairman Mao? Korean hand acupuncture, for example, or Master Tung’s acupuncture?"

— POCA

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December 26, 2011

Rooster in shoes! (by WoodstockSanctuary)

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December 20, 2011
(via Octopus Picture – Underwater Photo - National Geographic Photo of the Day)

(via Octopus Picture – Underwater Photo - National Geographic Photo of the Day)

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December 19, 2011
"

No CAPTCHA can survive a human that’s receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-wagedIndia CAPTCHA breakers human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of “data processing” while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA’s, I’m already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India’s major CAPTCHA solving companies. The consolidation logically leading to increased bargaining power, is resulting in an international franchising model recruiting data processing workers empowered with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA syndication web based kits, API keys, and thousands of proxies to make their work easier, and the process more efficient.

[…]

The service is among the countless number of franchises operated by several of India’s large data processing companies,India CAPTCHA breakers making it harder, but not necessarily impossible to establish connection between them. At the beginning, mom and pop CAPTCHA services seeking to expand start participating in the franchise business model offered by the big companies that are no longer capable of executing the projects on their own, and so in a win-win-win situation for the big company, the franchise, and the customers, India’s CAPTCHA solving economy is booming.

"

— Inside India’s CAPTCHA solving economy | ZDNet (2008!)

(via new-aesthetic)

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