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• Bookmark Extrapolation, not Acceleration | Public Seminar

  W. H. Auden, New Year Letter, 1941 It would appear that in the twenty-first century, we should probably relinquish a faith in a force external to capital, even if generated by…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark “Wow. Scare. Amaze.” — Matter — Medium

  Memes are viruses. In 1976, British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins defined the term as a “unit of cultural transmission” that will “literally parasitize” the brain, “turning it into a vehicle for…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark One Way To Make Some YouTube Videos Way Creepier

  The code that puts a first-person-shooter avatar and reticule on top of random uploaded videos doesn't appear to be publicly available. That's probably a good thing because it makes everything much…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Data as Culture

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• Furtherfield Contributions Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark David Deutsch – On Artificial Intelligence

  It is uncontroversial that the human brain has capabilities that are, in some respects, far superior to those of all other known objects in the cosmos.

  September 19 2014, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Perdition Days: On Experiencing Psychosis

  Let’s note that I write this while experiencing psychosis, and that much of this has been written during a strain of psychosis known as Cotard’s delusion, in which the patient believes…

  September 19 2014, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Snackwave: A Comprehensive Guide To The Internet's Saltiest Meme | The Hairpin

  Over the past few years, an aesthetic we like to call "snackwave" has trickled up from Tumblr dashboards. Now a part of mainstream culture, snackwave is everywhere: it's printed on American…

  September 17 2014, 1:35am | Comments

• YouTube

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• Instagram #Normcore

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• Bookmark The Anthropocentric Arrogance Of Classical Environmentalism | Big Think | Risk: Reason…

  I’m lucky to spend a couple weeks each August up at Moosehead Lake in Maine, where paved roads and power lines disappear and an endless blanket of rich green forests coat…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Deadly Algorithms | Radical Philosophy

  Algorithms have long adjudicated over vital processes that help to ensure our well-being and survival, from pacemakers that maintain the natural rhythms of the heart, and genetic algorithms that optimise emergency…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Who Goes There?

  Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Instagram Selfie with Doge

  September 8 2014, 7:53am | Comments

• Projects 'Ways Of Something' Episode 2 Premiere at Transfer Gallery

  September 3 2014, 6:07am | Comments

• Instagram Spontaneous geriatric combustion

  September 2 2014, 11:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Instagram 3D Printed Charles Darwin (cc @morehshin @aand_nota)

  August 29 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Twitter

  In my dream there was a gameshow called "Haiku Shitface"

  

  August 29 2014, 12:20am | Comments

• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated : NPR

  Since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, the National Cancer Institute has poured some $90 billion into research and treatments. Yet a cure remains elusive.

  August 27 2014, 12:08pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Or, as Plato once put it, "hair, mud, and dirt."

  

  August 27 2014, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

  August 18 2014, 5:12pm | Comments

• YouTube

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• YouTube

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• Bookmark Critical Theory After the Anthropocene | Public Seminar

  One does not have to look far to find intellectuals trained in the humanities, even the social sciences, who feel the need to ‘critique’ the concept of the Anthropocene.

  August 10 2014, 4:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Venter steals top scholar from Google | UTSanDiego.com Mobile

  La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has hired one of the world’s top computer scientists to help him try to prolong and improve people’s lives by deciphering hundreds of thousands of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Weird Philosophy | berfrois

  by Ben Woodard /0/ – Introduction I want to propose, as a trajectory into the philosophically weird, an absurd theoretical claim and pursue it, or perhaps more accurately, construct it as…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark » Interview with Thomas Ligotti The Teeming Brain

  Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Some books and authors come into your life at precisely the right moment.

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Uvula Audio: At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft : SFFaudio

  Uvula Audio‘s James Campanella has added a complete reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “quintessential work of horror” to his podcast feed. In China Miéville’s introduction to the Modern Library paperback edition of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 15 2014, 3:28pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Extrapolation, not Acceleration | Public Seminar

  W. H. Auden, New Year Letter, 1941 It would appear that in the twenty-first century, we should probably relinquish a faith in a force external to capital, even if generated by…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark “Wow. Scare. Amaze.” — Matter — Medium

  Memes are viruses. In 1976, British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins defined the term as a “unit of cultural transmission” that will “literally parasitize” the brain, “turning it into a vehicle for…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark One Way To Make Some YouTube Videos Way Creepier

  The code that puts a first-person-shooter avatar and reticule on top of random uploaded videos doesn't appear to be publicly available. That's probably a good thing because it makes everything much…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 7:37am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark David Deutsch – On Artificial Intelligence

  It is uncontroversial that the human brain has capabilities that are, in some respects, far superior to those of all other known objects in the cosmos.

  September 19 2014, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Perdition Days: On Experiencing Psychosis

  Let’s note that I write this while experiencing psychosis, and that much of this has been written during a strain of psychosis known as Cotard’s delusion, in which the patient believes…

  September 19 2014, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Snackwave: A Comprehensive Guide To The Internet's Saltiest Meme | The Hairpin

  Over the past few years, an aesthetic we like to call "snackwave" has trickled up from Tumblr dashboards. Now a part of mainstream culture, snackwave is everywhere: it's printed on American…

  September 17 2014, 1:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 10 2014, 12:08pm | Comments

• Instagram #Normcore

  September 9 2014, 5:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The Anthropocentric Arrogance Of Classical Environmentalism | Big Think | Risk: Reason…

  I’m lucky to spend a couple weeks each August up at Moosehead Lake in Maine, where paved roads and power lines disappear and an endless blanket of rich green forests coat…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Deadly Algorithms | Radical Philosophy

  Algorithms have long adjudicated over vital processes that help to ensure our well-being and survival, from pacemakers that maintain the natural rhythms of the heart, and genetic algorithms that optimise emergency…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Who Goes There?

  Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Instagram Selfie with Doge

  September 8 2014, 7:53am | Comments

• Projects 'Ways Of Something' Episode 2 Premiere at Transfer Gallery

  September 3 2014, 6:07am | Comments

• Instagram Spontaneous geriatric combustion

  September 2 2014, 11:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Instagram 3D Printed Charles Darwin (cc @morehshin @aand_nota)

  August 29 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Twitter

  In my dream there was a gameshow called "Haiku Shitface"

  

  August 29 2014, 12:20am | Comments

• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated : NPR

  Since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, the National Cancer Institute has poured some $90 billion into research and treatments. Yet a cure remains elusive.

  August 27 2014, 12:08pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Or, as Plato once put it, "hair, mud, and dirt."

  

  August 27 2014, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

  August 18 2014, 5:12pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 18 2014, 10:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 13 2014, 5:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Critical Theory After the Anthropocene | Public Seminar

  One does not have to look far to find intellectuals trained in the humanities, even the social sciences, who feel the need to ‘critique’ the concept of the Anthropocene.

  August 10 2014, 4:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Venter steals top scholar from Google | UTSanDiego.com Mobile

  La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has hired one of the world’s top computer scientists to help him try to prolong and improve people’s lives by deciphering hundreds of thousands of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Weird Philosophy | berfrois

  by Ben Woodard /0/ – Introduction I want to propose, as a trajectory into the philosophically weird, an absurd theoretical claim and pursue it, or perhaps more accurately, construct it as…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark » Interview with Thomas Ligotti The Teeming Brain

  Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Some books and authors come into your life at precisely the right moment.

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Uvula Audio: At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft : SFFaudio

  Uvula Audio‘s James Campanella has added a complete reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “quintessential work of horror” to his podcast feed. In China Miéville’s introduction to the Modern Library paperback edition of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 15 2014, 3:28pm | Comments

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