Last night, David Cameron gave a speech at a banquet calling for permanent austerity.
No Mr Bond, I expect you to starve…
Here’s David Cameron Calling For Permanent Austerity In Front Of All Kinds Of Ridiculous Gold Things
Read more "Here’s David Cameron Calling For Permanent Austerity In Front Of All Kinds Of Ridiculous Gold Things"The surveillance state is a nexus, undergirded by an ideology that sees every person as at least a potential threat and every communication as potentially worth surveilling. This nexus relies on Silicon Valley participation, intensive and expensive spycraft and, crucially, us. We live, always-already, as surveilled subjects as we live online, unwittingly handing over immense amounts of data about our lives, connections and affiliations.
Read moreUnderground shelters built in fear of a nuclear attack were usually cramped spaces with just enough amenities to survive a few months. When wealthy recluse Girard “Jerry” B. Henderson built his Cold War bunker in 1978, he decided to ride out the end of the world in style.
The subterranean paradise at 3970 Spencer St. in Las Vegas was built 26 feet underground. At ground level a 2-bedroom caretaker house sits on the property. In the backyard, ventilation and air-conditioning units jut up from the dirt. Rocks conceal stairways and an elevator that lead down to the AstroTurf-covered front yard of the home below.
With its own generator and fuel tank, the home could sustain life for a year with a fully-stocked pantry in the event of a nuclear attack.
Henderson’s underground retreat includes a pool, two jacuzzis, a sauna, an outdoor BBQ grill inside a large fake rock, a dance floor, a putting green in the garden, adjustable light settings to match various times of the day and a hand-painting 360-degree mural of locations familiar to Henderson. A one-bedroom guest cabana is located beside the pool.
A tunnel once connected the house to the office building next door where Henderson worked, but that property was sold separately after Henderson’s death and the tunnel was filled in. (via)
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“Artifact from the Future: Energy Wants To Be Free
The UN has teamed up with the global Pirate Party, a political party with a platform of open intellectual property (IP), to provide new disaster relief kits that use open-source components to build ad hoc infrastructures for everything from power to water to Internet access. At the core of the relief kit is the now famous Tesla Box—a 10-foot shipping container that can power a neighborhood by harnessing the sub-atomic Casimir Effect. What else will you find in the open-source kit? Wireless lightbulbs, mobile device chargers, rechargeable desalination straws, and an Internet-in-a-suitcase.”
Read moreThe âahaâ moment in Steelcaseâs investigation of workplace postures came when the researchers included smart devices and laptops in the study. The nine postures (left) and key movement zones (far left) they identified influenced the design of the Gesture chair, launched earlier this year. (via Ergonomics in the Digital Age)
The new science of sitting.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 