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• Bookmark Singularity and the anthropocentric bias | Svedic.org

  There is a small problem with that. When these thinkers say something can possibly happen, ordinary people start to believe that it will inevitably happen. Like in politics, constantly suggesting that…

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Facebook's Human-Powered Assistant May Just Supercharge AI | WIRED

  Face it: Siri sucks. So often, she has no clue what you’re saying. And when she does, there’s a pretty good chance she’ll respond with nothing more than a page filled…

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technologists control the world we live in — and artists are worried…

  In May, the New York-based art nonprofit Rhizome paired seven technologists with seven artists to create something over a 24-hour period. The artists get paid. The technologists do not.

  August 23 2015, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark "Means Well" Technology and the Internet of Good Intentions — Thingclash

  So, let’s talk about the color-changing condom.

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

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  August 18 2015, 8:42am | Comments

• Twitter

  the internet has everything going for it

  

  July 26 2015, 11:15am | Comments

• Bookmark How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill in History Changed Nothing at…

  A hulking rig is engulfed in flame. It’s sinking, spitting out a giant plume of smoke in the process. A firing squad of rescue ships are dousing it with ocean spray.…

  July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Can You Get Through These 17 GIFs Of Massive Zits Being Popped…

  The face at the end of this relief bringing squeeze says it all. 2. There’s just something soothing about watching these things get drained. imgur.com 3. Doesn’t this make you feel…

  July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark This is how computers see porn | Fusion

  A person sees this soon-to-be pornographic gif as an attractive blonde addressing the camera as she’s about to pull a man’s shorts down. A computer sees it as a portrait of…

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

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  June 10 2015, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Alexandra Lange on 3D printers versus the sewing machine

  In March, Slate Magazine's Seth Stevenson provided a public service when he borrowed a Solidoodle 4, pitched as the "accessible", "affordable" 3D printer, and attempted to print a bottle opener from…

  June 9 2015, 4:13pm | Comments

• Additivism ISIS vs. 3D Printing: On Morehshin Allahyari's 'Material Speculation: ISIS' project

  May 25 2015, 9:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Additivism Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 27 2015, 9:47am | Comments

• Bookmark St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene – The New Inquiry

  Since the 2011 publication of Eugene Thacker’s In the Dust of This Planet there has been an explosion in theoretical work on everything horrible and horrific.

  April 13 2015, 1:14pm | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 13 2015, 5:50am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Cleaning Up “The World’s Highest Junkyard” | GOOD

  A lot has changed since Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary first scaled the freezing peaks of Mount Everest in 1953. For one thing, attempting to summit Everest, though still perilous, has…

  April 1 2015, 3:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft

  The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…

  March 30 2015, 8:57am | Comments

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  March 2 2015, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark D-Accelerationism | Topical Cream

  Last month, Taco Bell tweeted “Taco Bae.” The cycle from early adopters to late-capitalist commodification from urban dictionary to corporate twitter seems to be accelerating at a quicker and quicker rate.…

  February 18 2015, 2:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Call of Things: Jane Bennett Talks About Hoarders at the Vera…

  “Les chose sont contre nous” ("Things are against us") is the wry slogan of Paul Jennings’ parodic philosophy resistentialism*. But Professor Jane Bennett of Johns Hopkins University doesn’t think so.

  February 18 2015, 2:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick's 1969 novel Ubik on the Internet of Things.

  Be careful about what you say in your living room if your new TV is on. News broke earlier this week that Samsung’s Web-connected SmartTV can listen to, record, and send…

  February 18 2015, 2:27pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 18 2015, 1:31pm | Comments

• Portfolio 'Ways of Something' curated by Lorna Mills

  February 4 2015, 2:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark 10 Bizarre and Horrifying Sex Patents (NSFW)

  Depending on who you talk to, the future of sex may be teledildonics. Or virtual reality. Or painfully hot fleshlights. But the one thing almost everyone can agree upon? The future…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space – The New Inquiry

  There’s nothing there already. We have been lied to, subjected to a cruel and chilly lie, one so vast and total it’s no longer fully perceivable but has turned into the…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments

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  January 26 2015, 12:26pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Art and Chance: A list I want to compile a list of art works that used chance operations and/or randomness in their creation. I am keen to incorporate pre-20th century, non-Western works, and lots of works by female artists, but anything you can think of will be super…

  January 20 2015, 10:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Thing set on survival | Anne Billson | Film | The…

  Antarctica, 1982. The first week of winter. Two Norwegians in a helicopter are chasing a sled dog, which flees through the snow to a United States science station, where the 12…

  December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Singularity and the anthropocentric bias | Svedic.org

  There is a small problem with that. When these thinkers say something can possibly happen, ordinary people start to believe that it will inevitably happen. Like in politics, constantly suggesting that…

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Facebook's Human-Powered Assistant May Just Supercharge AI | WIRED

  Face it: Siri sucks. So often, she has no clue what you’re saying. And when she does, there’s a pretty good chance she’ll respond with nothing more than a page filled…

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technologists control the world we live in — and artists are worried…

  In May, the New York-based art nonprofit Rhizome paired seven technologists with seven artists to create something over a 24-hour period. The artists get paid. The technologists do not.

  August 23 2015, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark "Means Well" Technology and the Internet of Good Intentions — Thingclash

  So, let’s talk about the color-changing condom.

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 18 2015, 8:42am | Comments

• Twitter

  the internet has everything going for it

  

  July 26 2015, 11:15am | Comments

• Bookmark How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill in History Changed Nothing at…

  A hulking rig is engulfed in flame. It’s sinking, spitting out a giant plume of smoke in the process. A firing squad of rescue ships are dousing it with ocean spray.…

  July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Can You Get Through These 17 GIFs Of Massive Zits Being Popped…

  The face at the end of this relief bringing squeeze says it all. 2. There’s just something soothing about watching these things get drained. imgur.com 3. Doesn’t this make you feel…

  July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark This is how computers see porn | Fusion

  A person sees this soon-to-be pornographic gif as an attractive blonde addressing the camera as she’s about to pull a man’s shorts down. A computer sees it as a portrait of…

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 10 2015, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Alexandra Lange on 3D printers versus the sewing machine

  In March, Slate Magazine's Seth Stevenson provided a public service when he borrowed a Solidoodle 4, pitched as the "accessible", "affordable" 3D printer, and attempted to print a bottle opener from…

  June 9 2015, 4:13pm | Comments

• Additivism ISIS vs. 3D Printing: On Morehshin Allahyari's 'Material Speculation: ISIS' project

  May 25 2015, 9:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Additivism Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 27 2015, 9:47am | Comments

• Bookmark St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene – The New Inquiry

  Since the 2011 publication of Eugene Thacker’s In the Dust of This Planet there has been an explosion in theoretical work on everything horrible and horrific.

  April 13 2015, 1:14pm | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 13 2015, 5:50am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Cleaning Up “The World’s Highest Junkyard” | GOOD

  A lot has changed since Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary first scaled the freezing peaks of Mount Everest in 1953. For one thing, attempting to summit Everest, though still perilous, has…

  April 1 2015, 3:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft

  The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…

  March 30 2015, 8:57am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 4 2015, 10:52am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 2 2015, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark D-Accelerationism | Topical Cream

  Last month, Taco Bell tweeted “Taco Bae.” The cycle from early adopters to late-capitalist commodification from urban dictionary to corporate twitter seems to be accelerating at a quicker and quicker rate.…

  February 18 2015, 2:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Call of Things: Jane Bennett Talks About Hoarders at the Vera…

  “Les chose sont contre nous” ("Things are against us") is the wry slogan of Paul Jennings’ parodic philosophy resistentialism*. But Professor Jane Bennett of Johns Hopkins University doesn’t think so.

  February 18 2015, 2:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick's 1969 novel Ubik on the Internet of Things.

  Be careful about what you say in your living room if your new TV is on. News broke earlier this week that Samsung’s Web-connected SmartTV can listen to, record, and send…

  February 18 2015, 2:27pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 18 2015, 1:31pm | Comments

• Portfolio 'Ways of Something' curated by Lorna Mills

  February 4 2015, 2:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark 10 Bizarre and Horrifying Sex Patents (NSFW)

  Depending on who you talk to, the future of sex may be teledildonics. Or virtual reality. Or painfully hot fleshlights. But the one thing almost everyone can agree upon? The future…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space – The New Inquiry

  There’s nothing there already. We have been lied to, subjected to a cruel and chilly lie, one so vast and total it’s no longer fully perceivable but has turned into the…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 26 2015, 12:26pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Art and Chance: A list I want to compile a list of art works that used chance operations and/or randomness in their creation. I am keen to incorporate pre-20th century, non-Western works, and lots of works by female artists, but anything you can think of will be super…

  January 20 2015, 10:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Thing set on survival | Anne Billson | Film | The…

  Antarctica, 1982. The first week of winter. Two Norwegians in a helicopter are chasing a sled dog, which flees through the snow to a United States science station, where the 12…

  December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments

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