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• Bookmark You're wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories

  Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Why memes matter: our best shot to talk about the world in…

  We have entered a post-truth, post-authenticity era, in which dichotomies like true/false or real/fake no longer serve us very well, especially on social media platforms.

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• Bookmark Watch: Here Are All The Ways Your City Is Surveilling You -…

  If you live in a major metropolitan area, the odds are good you’re being watched and listened to at all times. And even if you don’t, that surveillance technology is still…

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• Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…

   THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

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• Bookmark John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought | Nerdist

  In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Brother’s Blind Spot | Joanne McNeil

  Netflix believes, algorithmically at least, that I am the kind of person who likes to watch “Dark TV Shows Featuring a Strong Female Lead.” This picksome genre is never one that…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Survival of the Richest – Future Human – Medium

  Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far…

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• Bookmark A groundbreaking study outlines what you can do about climate change. |…

  Researchers in Sweden examined the possible steps that people can take to help tackle the climate crisis. Although a lot of resulting news coverage focused on the most effective action (having…

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  Nobody... nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired.

  

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• Additivism Casting Code: Reflections on 3D Printing Blog The letterhead of...

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  My breakfast is haunted.

  

  July 3 2018, 5:03am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: cities in sci-fi and fantasy novels Looking for recommendations of science fiction and fantasy books (or short stories) in which the city settings are central or at least important to the story. Utopias, dystopias, segregated or in space, am looking for all kinds of stories.

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• Instagram In Portuguese, ‘atropelar’ is the act of running over something or someone - often in…

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• Bookmark Biologists Have Discovered an Underwater Octopus City And They're Calling It Octlantis

  At the end of last year, scientists discovered a small octopus city – dubbed Octlantis – a find that suggests members of the gloomy octopus species (Octopus tetricus) are perhaps not the…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet - The New…

  Here comes private space travel — with cocktails, retro-futuristic Philippe Starck designs and Wi-Fi. Just $55 million a trip!

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  Long before mastering the mechanics of spaceflight, men imagined sending other men into the cosmos.

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

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  Click here for transcript. Put this link in the video's caption field. Two years ago, Ars Technica hosted the online premiere of a weird short film called Sunspring, which was mostly…

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• Bookmark Memes Are For Tricksters: The Biology of Disinformation - Mondo 2000

  Back in 1990, when MONDO 2000 magazine promised Screaming Memes on its cover, it was more or less a secret argot winking at our technohip Mondoid readers.

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism - An interview with Henry A. Giroux…

  Theory, USA • June 18, 2018 • Henry A. Giroux and Mark Karlin Mark Karlin (MK): Why is it important to have an historical understanding of fascism to shed light on…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine -…

  A biologist enters mysterious territory on a mission to comprehend the incomprehensible. Together with three colleagues—an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor—she crosses an imperceptible border into a region known as…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing | VHS Revival

  In an era of countless reboots, we have come to regard the whole process as a cynical exercise whose primary goal is to slash expenditure, but that was not always the…

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• Facebook Cache list: food ethics books

  Good books about food and ethics?

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• Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List

  A Theory-Fiction Reading List:

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  Care pays attention to how we are known to ourselves and to each other. Care lingers at the ordinary: notices it, names it, creates it, inhabits it, pursues it, practices it.…

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• Bookmark The right-wing politics of the “Singularity” | Salon.com

  Silicon Valley is not a place known for its religiosity, yet a remarkable number of tech leaders and workers have an irrational belief in the Singularity.

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

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• Bookmark You're wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories

  Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Why memes matter: our best shot to talk about the world in…

  We have entered a post-truth, post-authenticity era, in which dichotomies like true/false or real/fake no longer serve us very well, especially on social media platforms.

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Watch: Here Are All The Ways Your City Is Surveilling You -…

  If you live in a major metropolitan area, the odds are good you’re being watched and listened to at all times. And even if you don’t, that surveillance technology is still…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…

   THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought | Nerdist

  In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Brother’s Blind Spot | Joanne McNeil

  Netflix believes, algorithmically at least, that I am the kind of person who likes to watch “Dark TV Shows Featuring a Strong Female Lead.” This picksome genre is never one that…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Survival of the Richest – Future Human – Medium

  Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark A groundbreaking study outlines what you can do about climate change. |…

  Researchers in Sweden examined the possible steps that people can take to help tackle the climate crisis. Although a lot of resulting news coverage focused on the most effective action (having…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Twitter

  Nobody... nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired.

  

  July 6 2018, 6:57am | Comments

• Additivism Casting Code: Reflections on 3D Printing Blog The letterhead of...

  July 4 2018, 8:17am | Comments

• Twitter

  My breakfast is haunted.

  

  July 3 2018, 5:03am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: cities in sci-fi and fantasy novels Looking for recommendations of science fiction and fantasy books (or short stories) in which the city settings are central or at least important to the story. Utopias, dystopias, segregated or in space, am looking for all kinds of stories.

  July 2 2018, 9:24pm | Comments

• Instagram "SPACE IS THAT WAY"

  July 2 2018, 1:47am | Comments

• Twitter

  Big hug energy

  

  July 1 2018, 1:46pm | Comments

• Instagram In Portuguese, ‘atropelar’ is the act of running over something or someone - often in…

  June 30 2018, 10:02am | Comments

• Instagram In a lava pool with the little fishes

  June 28 2018, 9:59am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  no longer fucking anyone who doesn’t go to therapy

  

  June 24 2018, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Biologists Have Discovered an Underwater Octopus City And They're Calling It Octlantis

  At the end of last year, scientists discovered a small octopus city – dubbed Octlantis – a find that suggests members of the gloomy octopus species (Octopus tetricus) are perhaps not the…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet - The New…

  Here comes private space travel — with cocktails, retro-futuristic Philippe Starck designs and Wi-Fi. Just $55 million a trip!

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space | The…

  Long before mastering the mechanics of spaceflight, men imagined sending other men into the cosmos.

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark This wild, AI-generated film is the next step in “whole-movie puppetry” |…

  Click here for transcript. Put this link in the video's caption field. Two years ago, Ars Technica hosted the online premiere of a weird short film called Sunspring, which was mostly…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Memes Are For Tricksters: The Biology of Disinformation - Mondo 2000

  Back in 1990, when MONDO 2000 magazine promised Screaming Memes on its cover, it was more or less a secret argot winking at our technohip Mondoid readers.

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism - An interview with Henry A. Giroux…

  Theory, USA • June 18, 2018 • Henry A. Giroux and Mark Karlin Mark Karlin (MK): Why is it important to have an historical understanding of fascism to shed light on…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine -…

  A biologist enters mysterious territory on a mission to comprehend the incomprehensible. Together with three colleagues—an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor—she crosses an imperceptible border into a region known as…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing | VHS Revival

  In an era of countless reboots, we have come to regard the whole process as a cynical exercise whose primary goal is to slash expenditure, but that was not always the…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Twitter

  We cannibals must help these Christians.

  

  June 19 2018, 8:47am | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: food ethics books

  Good books about food and ethics?

  June 14 2018, 4:42am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List

  A Theory-Fiction Reading List:

  June 12 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Let's fuck up forever.

  

  June 11 2018, 11:40am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 11 2018, 10:26am | Comments

• Bookmark black (beyond negation) – The New Inquiry

  Care pays attention to how we are known to ourselves and to each other. Care lingers at the ordinary: notices it, names it, creates it, inhabits it, pursues it, practices it.…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The right-wing politics of the “Singularity” | Salon.com

  Silicon Valley is not a place known for its religiosity, yet a remarkable number of tech leaders and workers have an irrational belief in the Singularity.

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

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