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• Bookmark Crapularity Aesthetics | Making & Breaking

  In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Memes are modern-day propaganda

  The framing of the term “fake news” orients you toward thinking whether a claim is true or false. By this logic, it assumes that people share things online because they’re 100%…

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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

• Bookmark Viewpoint: Why we still underestimate the Neanderthals - BBC News

  Prof Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, explains why some old assumptions about the intellectual capabilities of our evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals persist today. But a body of evidence is…

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• Bookmark Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why? - The New…

  It has eight arms, three hearts — and a plan. Scientists aren’t sure how the cephalopods got to be so intelligent. To demonstrate how smart an octopus can be, Piero Amodio…

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• Bookmark Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA | WIRED

  When biologists synthesize DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious disease.

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• Bookmark Washington Monthly | The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution

  Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…

  What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark How the JPEG Changed Everything | Frieze

  ‘Every two minutes, people upload more images to the internet than existed in total just 150 years ago’

  February 7 2019, 5:00am | Comments

• Bibliography The undercommons : fugitive planning & black study by Stefano Harney

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• Bibliography The weird and the eerie by Mark Fisher

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  I love it when you degrade my rich country

  

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• Bookmark America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’ - BBC News

  Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate. That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.

  February 4 2019, 6:52pm | Comments

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  I can’t do this anymore

  

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• Syllabus Cache Digital Bibliography

  AN EVALUATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY: DIGITAL CULTURE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, THE INTERNET, THE WEB By David Abrahamson Northwestern University Prefatory Note: What follows is a discursive compilation of more that four-hundred-and-fifty items, most of fairly recent authorship, united by a common…

  January 29 2019, 10:38am | Comments

• Additivism May 18 Transmediale 2017 In February Transmediale celebrated its...

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• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker

  The science-fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Lem was well acquainted with the way that fictional worlds can sometimes encroach upon reality.

  January 26 2019, 6:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Manifesto for Revolutionary Demonology |NERO Editions

  The doctrine of the Right-Hand Path is a theory of self-deification encompassing the entirety of the western hermetic tradition.

  January 26 2019, 6:56pm | Comments

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  I'M THE MEAT AND YOU CAN BE ONLY 1

  

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• Syllabus Cache Science, Technology, and Society Syllabus – Danya Glabau

  Course Description What makes something a scientific fact? What is the social impact of new technologies? Who in society benefits and who is harmed by the rapid development of modern science and technology? These are just some of…

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• Bookmark Portrait of a planet on the verge of climate catastrophe | Environment…

  As the UN sits down for its annual climate conference this week, many experts believe we have passed the point of no return by On Sunday morning hundreds of politicians, government…

  January 23 2019, 4:59pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Stoker-King model vs Rice model vs Harris-Meyer-Kostova model Here's How Long it Would Take for Vampires to Annihilate Humanity

  January 23 2019, 1:30pm | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: SPAM as part of artistic practice

  examples of artists using sPaM as part of their artistic practice. (thinking: jodi, constant dullaarts army of bots, horse ebooks, bestiary of Spam),,,

  January 10 2019, 3:49am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ezra Klein interview with N.K. Jemisin

  Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the…

  January 3 2019, 6:31am | Comments

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• Bookmark Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? - The Atlantic

  It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. One day last…

  December 28 2018, 6:27pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Internet of Evil Draft Syllabus - Google Docs

  HDCC 106: Internet of Evil Dr. Daniel Greene College of Information Studies Hornbake South, Room 4105D dgreene1@umd.edu Schedule office hours via https://calbird.com/daniel-greene/students Trevor Paglen’s Vampire (Corpus: Monsters of Capitalism), “Adversarially Evolved Halluc...

  December 28 2018, 9:09am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Weird Studies Episode 36: On Hyperstition

  JF and Phil talk hyperstitions, entities born in the realm of fantasy that slowly become denizens of the real. https://www.weirdstudies.com/36

  December 27 2018, 4:10pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Crapularity Aesthetics | Making & Breaking

  In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Memes are modern-day propaganda

  The framing of the term “fake news” orients you toward thinking whether a claim is true or false. By this logic, it assumes that people share things online because they’re 100%…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | 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

• Bookmark Viewpoint: Why we still underestimate the Neanderthals - BBC News

  Prof Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, explains why some old assumptions about the intellectual capabilities of our evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals persist today. But a body of evidence is…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why? - The New…

  It has eight arms, three hearts — and a plan. Scientists aren’t sure how the cephalopods got to be so intelligent. To demonstrate how smart an octopus can be, Piero Amodio…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA | WIRED

  When biologists synthesize DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious disease.

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Washington Monthly | The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution

  Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…

  What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark How the JPEG Changed Everything | Frieze

  ‘Every two minutes, people upload more images to the internet than existed in total just 150 years ago’

  February 7 2019, 5:00am | Comments

• Bibliography The undercommons : fugitive planning & black study by Stefano Harney

  February 7 2019, 4:56am | Comments

• Bibliography The weird and the eerie by Mark Fisher

  February 7 2019, 4:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 6 2019, 5:37pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  I love it when you degrade my rich country

  

  February 5 2019, 2:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’ - BBC News

  Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate. That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.

  February 4 2019, 6:52pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  I can’t do this anymore

  

  February 3 2019, 6:24pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2019, 8:30am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Digital Bibliography

  AN EVALUATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY: DIGITAL CULTURE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, THE INTERNET, THE WEB By David Abrahamson Northwestern University Prefatory Note: What follows is a discursive compilation of more that four-hundred-and-fifty items, most of fairly recent authorship, united by a common…

  January 29 2019, 10:38am | Comments

• Additivism May 18 Transmediale 2017 In February Transmediale celebrated its...

  January 29 2019, 2:43am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker

  The science-fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Lem was well acquainted with the way that fictional worlds can sometimes encroach upon reality.

  January 26 2019, 6:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Manifesto for Revolutionary Demonology |NERO Editions

  The doctrine of the Right-Hand Path is a theory of self-deification encompassing the entirety of the western hermetic tradition.

  January 26 2019, 6:56pm | Comments

• Twitter

  I'M THE MEAT AND YOU CAN BE ONLY 1

  

  January 26 2019, 6:09am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Science, Technology, and Society Syllabus – Danya Glabau

  Course Description What makes something a scientific fact? What is the social impact of new technologies? Who in society benefits and who is harmed by the rapid development of modern science and technology? These are just some of…

  January 25 2019, 9:09am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 25 2019, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Portrait of a planet on the verge of climate catastrophe | Environment…

  As the UN sits down for its annual climate conference this week, many experts believe we have passed the point of no return by On Sunday morning hundreds of politicians, government…

  January 23 2019, 4:59pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Stoker-King model vs Rice model vs Harris-Meyer-Kostova model Here's How Long it Would Take for Vampires to Annihilate Humanity

  January 23 2019, 1:30pm | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: SPAM as part of artistic practice

  examples of artists using sPaM as part of their artistic practice. (thinking: jodi, constant dullaarts army of bots, horse ebooks, bestiary of Spam),,,

  January 10 2019, 3:49am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ezra Klein interview with N.K. Jemisin

  Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the…

  January 3 2019, 6:31am | Comments

• Twitter

  God keep me from ever completing anything.

  

  January 2 2019, 9:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? - The Atlantic

  It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. One day last…

  December 28 2018, 6:27pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Internet of Evil Draft Syllabus - Google Docs

  HDCC 106: Internet of Evil Dr. Daniel Greene College of Information Studies Hornbake South, Room 4105D dgreene1@umd.edu Schedule office hours via https://calbird.com/daniel-greene/students Trevor Paglen’s Vampire (Corpus: Monsters of Capitalism), “Adversarially Evolved Halluc...

  December 28 2018, 9:09am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Weird Studies Episode 36: On Hyperstition

  JF and Phil talk hyperstitions, entities born in the realm of fantasy that slowly become denizens of the real. https://www.weirdstudies.com/36

  December 27 2018, 4:10pm | Comments

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