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• Metafilter Ask MeFi: What would be the symptoms of a parasitic infection of the brain? Asking for fictional reasons. The parasite in question is T. Cruzi, which is the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Usually the little guy hangs out in heart muscle and causes heart attacks, but in this universe, the parasite now likes to live and…

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  Spread what has been destroyed: interview with Morehshin Allahyari, by Filippo LorenzinLate in February 2015 one news hit the ongoing stream of reports about ISIS attacks (or whatever we should call it). The fighters destroyed ancient artifacts at Mosul Museum, the second largest museum…

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  Between 2009 and 2010, Iran's nuclear program was the target of a devastating cyber attack. A virus, reportedly developed by the American and Israeli governments and known as Stuxnet, took control of…

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  228 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26. John Gray’s “Silence of Animals” is an attack on humanism. He condemns this widely accepted secular faith as a form of delusional self-flattery.

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• Metafilter MeFi: Well, here's your viewing for the week decided. Do you like Star Wars lore? Exactly how much do you like Star Wars lore? I ask because A Very Brief Analysis: The Phantom Menace is 12 hours long and is chock full of Star Wars lore. "This is not a defence of…

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• Bookmark What’s yr take on Evola? Some very late words on Nina Power’s…

  The aftermath of the Piazza della Loggia bombing, a 1974 attack carried out by the Evola-inspired group Ordine Nuovo. Debate is a cover-story: never having to be honest about your true…

  July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Is Toxic White Feminism? - When Feminism Is White Supremacy

  When I heard about the tragic murder of 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack in Oakland last month, I could feel my heart begin to…

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: What would be the symptoms of a parasitic infection of the brain? Asking for fictional reasons. The parasite in question is T. Cruzi, which is the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Usually the little guy hangs out in heart muscle and causes heart attacks, but in this universe, the parasite now likes to live and…

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• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

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• Additivism Spread what has been destroyed: interview with Morehshin...

  Spread what has been destroyed: interview with Morehshin Allahyari, by Filippo LorenzinLate in February 2015 one news hit the ongoing stream of reports about ISIS attacks (or whatever we should call it). The fighters destroyed ancient artifacts at Mosul Museum, the second largest museum…

  September 6 2015, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Spread what has been destroyed: interview with Morehshin Allahyari : Digicult |…

  Late in February 2015 one news hit the ongoing stream of reports about ISIS attacks (or whatever we should call it).

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• Bookmark A Cyberattack Has Caused Confirmed Physical Damage for the Second Time Ever…

  Amid all the noise the Sony hack generated over the holidays, a far more troubling cyber attack was largely lost in the chaos. Unless you follow security news closely, you likely missed…

  January 9 2015, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Hackers made Iran's nuclear computers blast AC/DC | The Verge

  Between 2009 and 2010, Iran's nuclear program was the target of a devastating cyber attack. A virus, reportedly developed by the American and Israeli governments and known as Stuxnet, took control of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

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• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

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• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

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• Bookmark Pecking Order - NYTimes.com

  228 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26. John Gray’s “Silence of Animals” is an attack on humanism. He condemns this widely accepted secular faith as a form of delusional self-flattery.

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of War

  The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools The…

  June 2 2012, 9:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

  Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer…

  June 2 2012, 9:39am | Comments

• Twitter

  Any minute now, attack outer-space

  March 11 2012, 4:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

  March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness

  February 29 2012, 2:37am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Rebellion Against Pluralism

  Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for the death of seventy six innocents, is undoubtedly a madman. But madmen can be spurred on by anything in their environment they are…

  July 27 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History

  On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

  July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

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• Bookmark Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell

  The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium parasite…

  January 24 2011, 2:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks

  So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of the…

  January 18 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

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