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• Bookmark Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail

  Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday. A…

  April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried - Motherboard

  Human extinction. The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.

  April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments

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  I wish I was making this stuff up

  

  March 27 2018, 6:18am | Comments

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  Human-Octopus Hybrid From the Future Speaks During Accidental Alert at Elementary School, Prompts Lockdown https://t.co/tgibiQ2w1X

  

  March 22 2018, 2:35am | Comments

• Bookmark What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

  My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of…

  March 19 2018, 12:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future Of GIFs As Gallery Art, According To The Current Sea

  An episode of The Simpsons called “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes” sums up the turn-of-the-century internet quite well. Homer builds a website, dubbed “Mr. X's Web Page” and populates it with…

  March 17 2018, 12:09pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: What would be the symptoms of a parasitic infection of the brain? Asking for fictional reasons. The parasite in question is T. Cruzi, which is the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Usually the little guy hangs out in heart muscle and causes heart attacks, but in this universe, the parasite now likes to live and…

  March 14 2018, 11:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Google's solution to accidental algorithmic racism: ban gorillas | Technology | The…

  After Google was criticised in 2015 for an image-recognition algorithm that auto-tagged pictures of black people as “gorillas”, the company promised “immediate action” to prevent any repetition of the error.

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark This is fashwave, the suicidal retro-futurist art of the alt-right

  In the online art workshops of the white nationalist alt right, young neo-Nazis and neo-fascists trade simple aesthetic tips: Consider your color scheme in advance, build your image in sections of…

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand…

  How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific…

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Glitch Feminism: An Interview With Legacy Russell

  Legacy Russell is a writer, artist and cultural producer. Her first book Glitch Feminism is forthcoming from Verso. A version of this interview first appeared in the chapter “Distracted to Attention: On Digital Reading”…

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium

  A note on Making Meaning of “Decolonising” — and in relation to that I want to be clear that the original motivation behind the creation of this list was to address a land claim issue: the use of Maunakea by…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium

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• Bookmark Forensic Architecture: the detail behind the devilry | Art and design |…

  In 2006 a man walked into an internet cafe in Kassel, Germany, and shot dead Halit Yozgat, a 21-year-old member of the Turkish-German family who owned it. It was the ninth…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Director of the Scariest Movie We’ve Ever Seen Still Fears Nuclear…

  In 1984, the BBC aired a TV movie so disturbing it would only repeat the broadcast once, a year later, on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. That…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Black Atlantis - Viewpoint Magazine

  This review of Marvel’s Black Pan­ther is part of a forth­com­ing dossier on the polit­i­cal thought of Huey P. New­ton. It con­tains spoil­ers.

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Tourists are swarming Antarctica to see it before it’s gone | The…

  “Join our team on this special voyage that equips leaders with resources and actionable solutions to become a part of a global force of change.” This isn’t the description for Doctors…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding

  I lived in Atlanta for six years after college. I only went back to St. Pete twice in that time, and both times I stayed with my aunt Linda. Mom would…

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• Bookmark On Automation and Free Time - e-flux Architecture - e-flux

  In “Fragment on Machines,” Marx made the case that with investment in automated technology, which he called fixed capital, capitalism is able to reduce necessary labor time and increase both surplus…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark This Professor Has Documented 2,000 Soda Machines in Video Games - Waypoint

  In 2016, Marshall University professor Jason Morrissette was playing Batman: Arkham Knight. While sneaking around the shadows, Morrissette stumbled upon a soda machine. Like many games, Akrham Knight doesn’t feature any…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Classic Mario music but... cHAngED Super Mario Bros 2 with its music frequency table "reversed.". I'm not sure what that means exactly but it's certainly an, um, unique sound. The same thing done to Mario 3.

  March 12 2018, 2:34pm | Comments

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  In the future, everything will mine cryptocoins for 15 minutes.

  

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  it's everything time

  

  March 7 2018, 9:49am | Comments

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  I Am Sitting in a Room but cloning dogs over and over until they turn into hairy living blobs

  

  March 4 2018, 6:19am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

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  March 1 2018, 8:44am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Teaching the Intersection Between Classics, Anthropology, and Colonialism – Everyday…

  It is no scoop for anyone that many academic disciplines were born in Europe during the Age of Empires. It is certainly the case of Classics and other Antiquity-related specialities. It is, also, the case of Anthropology.

  February 26 2018, 9:09am | Comments

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• Bookmark Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail

  Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday. A…

  April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried - Motherboard

  Human extinction. The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.

  April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments

• Twitter

  I wish I was making this stuff up

  

  March 27 2018, 6:18am | Comments

• Twitter

  Human-Octopus Hybrid From the Future Speaks During Accidental Alert at Elementary School, Prompts Lockdown https://t.co/tgibiQ2w1X

  

  March 22 2018, 2:35am | Comments

• Bookmark What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

  My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of…

  March 19 2018, 12:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future Of GIFs As Gallery Art, According To The Current Sea

  An episode of The Simpsons called “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes” sums up the turn-of-the-century internet quite well. Homer builds a website, dubbed “Mr. X's Web Page” and populates it with…

  March 17 2018, 12:09pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: What would be the symptoms of a parasitic infection of the brain? Asking for fictional reasons. The parasite in question is T. Cruzi, which is the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Usually the little guy hangs out in heart muscle and causes heart attacks, but in this universe, the parasite now likes to live and…

  March 14 2018, 11:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Google's solution to accidental algorithmic racism: ban gorillas | Technology | The…

  After Google was criticised in 2015 for an image-recognition algorithm that auto-tagged pictures of black people as “gorillas”, the company promised “immediate action” to prevent any repetition of the error.

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark This is fashwave, the suicidal retro-futurist art of the alt-right

  In the online art workshops of the white nationalist alt right, young neo-Nazis and neo-fascists trade simple aesthetic tips: Consider your color scheme in advance, build your image in sections of…

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand…

  How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific…

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Glitch Feminism: An Interview With Legacy Russell

  Legacy Russell is a writer, artist and cultural producer. Her first book Glitch Feminism is forthcoming from Verso. A version of this interview first appeared in the chapter “Distracted to Attention: On Digital Reading”…

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium

  A note on Making Meaning of “Decolonising” — and in relation to that I want to be clear that the original motivation behind the creation of this list was to address a land claim issue: the use of Maunakea by…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium

  Thank me for my free labor maintaining this list by making a donation to The Offing via Paypal, Crowdrise, or a monthly donation at Patreon.

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Forensic Architecture: the detail behind the devilry | Art and design |…

  In 2006 a man walked into an internet cafe in Kassel, Germany, and shot dead Halit Yozgat, a 21-year-old member of the Turkish-German family who owned it. It was the ninth…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Director of the Scariest Movie We’ve Ever Seen Still Fears Nuclear…

  In 1984, the BBC aired a TV movie so disturbing it would only repeat the broadcast once, a year later, on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. That…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Black Atlantis - Viewpoint Magazine

  This review of Marvel’s Black Pan­ther is part of a forth­com­ing dossier on the polit­i­cal thought of Huey P. New­ton. It con­tains spoil­ers.

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Tourists are swarming Antarctica to see it before it’s gone | The…

  “Join our team on this special voyage that equips leaders with resources and actionable solutions to become a part of a global force of change.” This isn’t the description for Doctors…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding

  I lived in Atlanta for six years after college. I only went back to St. Pete twice in that time, and both times I stayed with my aunt Linda. Mom would…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark On Automation and Free Time - e-flux Architecture - e-flux

  In “Fragment on Machines,” Marx made the case that with investment in automated technology, which he called fixed capital, capitalism is able to reduce necessary labor time and increase both surplus…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark This Professor Has Documented 2,000 Soda Machines in Video Games - Waypoint

  In 2016, Marshall University professor Jason Morrissette was playing Batman: Arkham Knight. While sneaking around the shadows, Morrissette stumbled upon a soda machine. Like many games, Akrham Knight doesn’t feature any…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Classic Mario music but... cHAngED Super Mario Bros 2 with its music frequency table "reversed.". I'm not sure what that means exactly but it's certainly an, um, unique sound. The same thing done to Mario 3.

  March 12 2018, 2:34pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  In the future, everything will mine cryptocoins for 15 minutes.

  

  March 12 2018, 7:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 12 2018, 12:05am | Comments

• Twitter

  it's everything time

  

  March 7 2018, 9:49am | Comments

• Instagram #Fatberg Pilgrimage

  March 7 2018, 6:42am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 5 2018, 4:13am | Comments

• Twitter

  I Am Sitting in a Room but cloning dogs over and over until they turn into hairy living blobs

  

  March 4 2018, 6:19am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 1 2018, 8:44am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Teaching the Intersection Between Classics, Anthropology, and Colonialism – Everyday…

  It is no scoop for anyone that many academic disciplines were born in Europe during the Age of Empires. It is certainly the case of Classics and other Antiquity-related specialities. It is, also, the case of Anthropology.

  February 26 2018, 9:09am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 20 2018, 4:33am | Comments

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