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• Bookmark Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’…

  Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Linda Hamilton Fled Hollywood, but ‘Terminator’ Still Found Her - The New…

  NEW ORLEANS — Linda Hamilton laughs the way Courtney Love sings, with great raspy bravado. It would be an intimidating laugh if it didn’t come easily, and if it weren’t so…

  September 4 2019, 10:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The Book of Prince | The New Yorker

  On January 29, 2016, Prince summoned me to his home, Paisley Park, to tell me about a book he wanted to write. He was looking for a collaborator. Paisley Park is…

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• Metafilter MeFi: The Book of Prince "Now, let me stop you right there," Prince said. "Why did you write that?" It occurred to me that he might have flown me in from New York just to tell me that I knew nothing of his work. "The music I make…

  September 3 2019, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark The music of all time is a duet between order and disorder…

  The Buddhist monks from Namgyal monastery in India engage in a ritual that involves the creation of intricate patterns of coloured sand, known as mandalas.

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• Bookmark What is Called Thinking in the Anthropocene? — The Revealer

  This is a piece about failures. My failures, mostly, as a thinker and a scholar, but also the failure of my field and the failure of all of us to think…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | 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…

  August 10 2019, 1:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

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• Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline

  As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

  July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments

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  I predict this is the year where "fucked" officially becomes a scientific term.

  

  July 27 2019, 4:55pm | Comments

• Reddit Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter on the planet: 4.5 trillion are littered each year. New research… submitted by /u/ratterstinkle to r/science [link] [comments]

  July 19 2019, 7:30pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art - Momus

  We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily, that access to a gun doubles and…

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• Bookmark Coral found to prefer eating microplastic to natural food

  Astrangia. Credit: Stephen Cairns et al. An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary, ZooKeys (2012). DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.227.3612. Creative Commons…

  July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fungal Hallucinogens Send Cicadas on Sex Binges After Their Genitals Fall Off

  In latest gruesome nature news, scientists have discovered new details on a fungus that compels its cicada hosts to mate long after their genitals have gone and their bodies have turned…

  July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments

• 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

• Metafilter MeFi: A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Need some psychedelic music getaway, a blend of old and new, long mixes with separate themes? Back in 2008, Amorphous Androgynous / Future Sound of London decided to make the ultimate mixtape. A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Volume 1: Cosmic…

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• Reddit Cannabis may have had high origins, with a new analysis of ancient pollen suggesting it evolved some 3 kilometres above… submitted by /u/mvea to r/science [link] [comments]

  May 18 2019, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation

  Epistemology is the term that describes how we know what we know. Most people who think about knowledge think about the processes of obtaining it. Ignorance is often assumed to be…

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• Bookmark An open letter to Extinction Rebellion | Red Pepper

  This letter was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our groups came together to reflect on…

  May 7 2019, 11:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Day the Dinosaurs Died | The New Yorker

  If, on a certain evening about sixty-­six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky, you would have soon made out what appeared…

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• Podcast Cache Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation, Climate Change and Societal Collapse // Acceptance…

  “Getting busy with action can be a distraction from full acceptance of our predicament, where our predicament is that we don’t know. We don’t know what the best things to do are anymore and we don’t know whether…

  March 10 2019, 8:04am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Songs where the singer refers to their own name (and are called Steve) I have long admired the line in Stevie Wonder's 'Please Don't Go' where he sings: "Baby, please don't leave, don't leave Steve." I recently came across a song by Steve Monite, 'Only You', where he refers to himself (Steve) a lot, and it…

  February 27 2019, 4:05am | Comments

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• Bookmark No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime - The Atlantic

  At first glance, the hagfish—a sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped tail—looks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

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• Bookmark Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’…

  Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Linda Hamilton Fled Hollywood, but ‘Terminator’ Still Found Her - The New…

  NEW ORLEANS — Linda Hamilton laughs the way Courtney Love sings, with great raspy bravado. It would be an intimidating laugh if it didn’t come easily, and if it weren’t so…

  September 4 2019, 10:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The Book of Prince | The New Yorker

  On January 29, 2016, Prince summoned me to his home, Paisley Park, to tell me about a book he wanted to write. He was looking for a collaborator. Paisley Park is…

  September 4 2019, 10:35am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: The Book of Prince "Now, let me stop you right there," Prince said. "Why did you write that?" It occurred to me that he might have flown me in from New York just to tell me that I knew nothing of his work. "The music I make…

  September 3 2019, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark The music of all time is a duet between order and disorder…

  The Buddhist monks from Namgyal monastery in India engage in a ritual that involves the creation of intricate patterns of coloured sand, known as mandalas.

  September 3 2019, 4:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  ＃some fake credible evidence that the heap exists

  

  August 23 2019, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark What is Called Thinking in the Anthropocene? — The Revealer

  This is a piece about failures. My failures, mostly, as a thinker and a scholar, but also the failure of my field and the failure of all of us to think…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | 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…

  August 10 2019, 1:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

  August 8 2019, 5:56am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline

  As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

  July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments

• Twitter

  I predict this is the year where "fucked" officially becomes a scientific term.

  

  July 27 2019, 4:55pm | Comments

• Reddit Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter on the planet: 4.5 trillion are littered each year. New research… submitted by /u/ratterstinkle to r/science [link] [comments]

  July 19 2019, 7:30pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art - Momus

  We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily, that access to a gun doubles and…

  July 17 2019, 10:11am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 8 2019, 7:00pm | Comments

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  July 5 2019, 11:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Coral found to prefer eating microplastic to natural food

  Astrangia. Credit: Stephen Cairns et al. An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary, ZooKeys (2012). DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.227.3612. Creative Commons…

  July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fungal Hallucinogens Send Cicadas on Sex Binges After Their Genitals Fall Off

  In latest gruesome nature news, scientists have discovered new details on a fungus that compels its cicada hosts to mate long after their genitals have gone and their bodies have turned…

  July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments

• 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

• Metafilter MeFi: A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Need some psychedelic music getaway, a blend of old and new, long mixes with separate themes? Back in 2008, Amorphous Androgynous / Future Sound of London decided to make the ultimate mixtape. A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Volume 1: Cosmic…

  May 31 2019, 10:35pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 29 2019, 7:40am | Comments

• Reddit Cannabis may have had high origins, with a new analysis of ancient pollen suggesting it evolved some 3 kilometres above… submitted by /u/mvea to r/science [link] [comments]

  May 18 2019, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation

  Epistemology is the term that describes how we know what we know. Most people who think about knowledge think about the processes of obtaining it. Ignorance is often assumed to be…

  May 14 2019, 10:58pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 9 2019, 4:31am | Comments

• Bookmark An open letter to Extinction Rebellion | Red Pepper

  This letter was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our groups came together to reflect on…

  May 7 2019, 11:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Day the Dinosaurs Died | The New Yorker

  If, on a certain evening about sixty-­six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky, you would have soon made out what appeared…

  March 31 2019, 6:50am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 28 2019, 9:40am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 17 2019, 9:00am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation, Climate Change and Societal Collapse // Acceptance…

  “Getting busy with action can be a distraction from full acceptance of our predicament, where our predicament is that we don’t know. We don’t know what the best things to do are anymore and we don’t know whether…

  March 10 2019, 8:04am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Songs where the singer refers to their own name (and are called Steve) I have long admired the line in Stevie Wonder's 'Please Don't Go' where he sings: "Baby, please don't leave, don't leave Steve." I recently came across a song by Steve Monite, 'Only You', where he refers to himself (Steve) a lot, and it…

  February 27 2019, 4:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments

• Bookmark No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime - The Atlantic

  At first glance, the hagfish—a sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped tail—looks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

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