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• Bookmark Simple equation shows how human activity is trashing the planet | New…

  Homo sapiens now rivals the great forces of nature. Humanity is a prime driver of change of the Earth system. Industrialised societies alter the planet on a scale equivalent to an…

  February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fake news is a red herring | World | DW.COM | 25.01.2017

  Watching the 2016 US presidential election was already a surreal experience, as dozens of qualified candidates lost out to a failed businessman and reality television star.

  February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 20 2017, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is the ‘Anthropocene’ Epoch a Condemnation of Human Interference — or a…

  Perhaps you’ve noticed, amid the hot invective and dry mockery of daily events in your social-media feeds, reports of the glaciers melting at each pole.

  February 16 2017, 3:08pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 16 2017, 11:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans Can Now "Print" Genetic Code and Engineer Life

  We have learned how to manipulate the code of life. Why this hasn’t received more attention is beyond me. Synthetic Biology is a multidisciplinary field that often defies definition. Yet despite…

  February 14 2017, 11:08am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Cyclonopedia is straight-up my favourite romance novel. https://t.co/VRzjGrvfFc

  

  February 13 2017, 9:16pm | Comments

• Flickr Rosa Menkman clipping from The 3D Additivist Cookbook

  February 9 2017, 12:55pm | Comments

• Flickr Rosa Menkman clipping from The 3D Additivist Cookbook

  February 9 2017, 12:55pm | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Instagram Thanks #Berlin and #Transmediale. Thanks all. See you again soon.

  February 7 2017, 12:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Is America Prepared for Meme Warfare? - Motherboard

  Memes, as any alt-right Pepe sorcerer will tell you, are not just frivolous entertainment. They are magic, the stuff by which reality is made and manipulated.

  February 2 2017, 10:53pm | Comments

• Portfolio Across & Beyond: Transmediale Reader

  February 2 2017, 3:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Exhibist Magazine Issue 11

  January 31 2017, 3:51am | Comments

• Additivism On the Far Side of the Marchlands (exhibition)

  January 28 2017, 11:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you…

  Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10…

  January 28 2017, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Abolition Of Man (No, Really) | The American Conservative

  My libertarian friend Conor Friedersdorf has stared into the abyss, and has been jolted by what stared back. He writes about it in a must-read essay with the deceptively anodyne title…

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans Mourn Loss After Google Is Unmasked as China’s Go Master -…

  BEIJING—A mysterious character named “Master” has swept through China, defeating many of the world’s top players in the ancient strategy game of Go. Master played with inhuman speed, barely pausing to…

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals Were People, Too

  Joachim Neander was a 17th-century Calvinist theologian who often hiked through a valley outside Düsseldorf, Germany, writing hymns. Neander understood everything around him as a manifestation of the Lord’s will and…

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Print on demand in ring binder format? Looking for print-on-demand services that offer a 'ring binder' option (a bit like this... A4 print bound with two or three of these). The book would be offered online, one click print, bound and shipped. Ideally with a cover and back cover of…

  January 6 2017, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Global Hoarding? Human-made Junk Now Outweighs Humans Themselves, Scientists Say | The…

  Human-engineered structures and gadgets from cities to cellphones now represent an enormous mass weight of nearly 30 trillion tonnes on the planet, or vastly more than the world’s forests or life…

  December 31 2016, 6:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Plastiglomerate - Journal #78 December 2016 - e-flux

  ­­The conditions that obtained when life had not yet emerged from the oceans have not subsequently changed a great deal for the cells of the human body, bathed by the primordial…

  December 31 2016, 6:38am | Comments

• Bookmark ​The age of humanism is ending| Opinion | Analysis | M&G

  There is no sign that 2017 will be much different from 2016. Under Israeli occupation for decades, Gaza will still be the biggest open prison on Earth.

  December 30 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Dogs know things humans cant comprehend. https://t.co/8UVgHmcFkF

  

  December 30 2016, 9:43am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Let there be monsters and chimeras, indistinguishable & incomprehensible for humans

  

  December 27 2016, 2:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Glitch art: Meet the artist who knitted Stuxnet into a scarf |…

  Glitch art resonates with the increasingly complex love-hate relationship humans have with technology. Errors, and by extension the changes, that can occur within software source code and data can provide a fertile…

  December 21 2016, 6:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Chatbots Are The New Skeuomorphism. How Do We Find Another Way? |…

  Pop culture these days is awash in tales of AI run amok, from machines that act like humans to humans in love with machines. The reason seems clear enough: We're anxious…

  December 10 2016, 2:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Your Echo Chamber is Destroying Democracy | WIRED

  On November 7, 2016, the day before the US election, I compared the number of social media followers, website performance, and Google search statistics of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.  I…

  December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The “technosphere” now weighs 30 trillion tons | Ars Technica

  We can now quantify how much humans have changed the surface of the planet.

  December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The 13 impossible crises that humanity now faces | George Monbiot |…

  From Trump to climate change, this multiheaded crisis presages collapse. And there’s no hope of exiting the ‘other side’ if political alternatives are shut down Please don’t read this unless you…

  November 29 2016, 12:16am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 21 2016, 1:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Humanity and AI will be inseparable | Verge 2021

  One of the big trends we’ve seen over the last five years is automation. At the same time, we’re also seeing more intelligence built into tools we already have, like phones…

  November 18 2016, 5:30pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Simple equation shows how human activity is trashing the planet | New…

  Homo sapiens now rivals the great forces of nature. Humanity is a prime driver of change of the Earth system. Industrialised societies alter the planet on a scale equivalent to an…

  February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fake news is a red herring | World | DW.COM | 25.01.2017

  Watching the 2016 US presidential election was already a surreal experience, as dozens of qualified candidates lost out to a failed businessman and reality television star.

  February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 20 2017, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is the ‘Anthropocene’ Epoch a Condemnation of Human Interference — or a…

  Perhaps you’ve noticed, amid the hot invective and dry mockery of daily events in your social-media feeds, reports of the glaciers melting at each pole.

  February 16 2017, 3:08pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 16 2017, 11:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans Can Now "Print" Genetic Code and Engineer Life

  We have learned how to manipulate the code of life. Why this hasn’t received more attention is beyond me. Synthetic Biology is a multidisciplinary field that often defies definition. Yet despite…

  February 14 2017, 11:08am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Cyclonopedia is straight-up my favourite romance novel. https://t.co/VRzjGrvfFc

  

  February 13 2017, 9:16pm | Comments

• Flickr Rosa Menkman clipping from The 3D Additivist Cookbook

  February 9 2017, 12:55pm | Comments

• Flickr Rosa Menkman clipping from The 3D Additivist Cookbook

  February 9 2017, 12:55pm | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Instagram Thanks #Berlin and #Transmediale. Thanks all. See you again soon.

  February 7 2017, 12:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Is America Prepared for Meme Warfare? - Motherboard

  Memes, as any alt-right Pepe sorcerer will tell you, are not just frivolous entertainment. They are magic, the stuff by which reality is made and manipulated.

  February 2 2017, 10:53pm | Comments

• Portfolio Across & Beyond: Transmediale Reader

  February 2 2017, 3:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Exhibist Magazine Issue 11

  January 31 2017, 3:51am | Comments

• Additivism On the Far Side of the Marchlands (exhibition)

  January 28 2017, 11:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you…

  Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10…

  January 28 2017, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Abolition Of Man (No, Really) | The American Conservative

  My libertarian friend Conor Friedersdorf has stared into the abyss, and has been jolted by what stared back. He writes about it in a must-read essay with the deceptively anodyne title…

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans Mourn Loss After Google Is Unmasked as China’s Go Master -…

  BEIJING—A mysterious character named “Master” has swept through China, defeating many of the world’s top players in the ancient strategy game of Go. Master played with inhuman speed, barely pausing to…

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals Were People, Too

  Joachim Neander was a 17th-century Calvinist theologian who often hiked through a valley outside Düsseldorf, Germany, writing hymns. Neander understood everything around him as a manifestation of the Lord’s will and…

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Print on demand in ring binder format? Looking for print-on-demand services that offer a 'ring binder' option (a bit like this... A4 print bound with two or three of these). The book would be offered online, one click print, bound and shipped. Ideally with a cover and back cover of…

  January 6 2017, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Global Hoarding? Human-made Junk Now Outweighs Humans Themselves, Scientists Say | The…

  Human-engineered structures and gadgets from cities to cellphones now represent an enormous mass weight of nearly 30 trillion tonnes on the planet, or vastly more than the world’s forests or life…

  December 31 2016, 6:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Plastiglomerate - Journal #78 December 2016 - e-flux

  ­­The conditions that obtained when life had not yet emerged from the oceans have not subsequently changed a great deal for the cells of the human body, bathed by the primordial…

  December 31 2016, 6:38am | Comments

• Bookmark ​The age of humanism is ending| Opinion | Analysis | M&G

  There is no sign that 2017 will be much different from 2016. Under Israeli occupation for decades, Gaza will still be the biggest open prison on Earth.

  December 30 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Dogs know things humans cant comprehend. https://t.co/8UVgHmcFkF

  

  December 30 2016, 9:43am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Let there be monsters and chimeras, indistinguishable & incomprehensible for humans

  

  December 27 2016, 2:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Glitch art: Meet the artist who knitted Stuxnet into a scarf |…

  Glitch art resonates with the increasingly complex love-hate relationship humans have with technology. Errors, and by extension the changes, that can occur within software source code and data can provide a fertile…

  December 21 2016, 6:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Chatbots Are The New Skeuomorphism. How Do We Find Another Way? |…

  Pop culture these days is awash in tales of AI run amok, from machines that act like humans to humans in love with machines. The reason seems clear enough: We're anxious…

  December 10 2016, 2:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Your Echo Chamber is Destroying Democracy | WIRED

  On November 7, 2016, the day before the US election, I compared the number of social media followers, website performance, and Google search statistics of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.  I…

  December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The “technosphere” now weighs 30 trillion tons | Ars Technica

  We can now quantify how much humans have changed the surface of the planet.

  December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The 13 impossible crises that humanity now faces | George Monbiot |…

  From Trump to climate change, this multiheaded crisis presages collapse. And there’s no hope of exiting the ‘other side’ if political alternatives are shut down Please don’t read this unless you…

  November 29 2016, 12:16am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 21 2016, 1:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Humanity and AI will be inseparable | Verge 2021

  One of the big trends we’ve seen over the last five years is automation. At the same time, we’re also seeing more intelligence built into tools we already have, like phones…

  November 18 2016, 5:30pm | Comments

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