A Momentary Flow: Could Human Enhancement Turn Soldiers Into Weapons That Violate International Law? Yes

wildcat2030:

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New technologies reveal ambiguities and hidden assumptions in international humanitarian law.

Science fiction, or actual U.S. military project? Half a world away from the battlefield, a soldier controls his avatar-robot that does…

Welcome to 2013

jaredbkeller:

Slavoj Žižek: Why Gangnam Destroyed Bieber

“If there ever was a pure ideological phenomenon today, this is it.”

Holy. Shit.

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I’m Not Really Here: Gabble Ratchets

wolvensnothere:

The idea is simple:

You do all of William Gibson’s Blue Ant Trilogy as a 78-hour maxi-series. I think Cayce, Hollis, and Milgrim would all appreciate that, for different reasons. Here’s how you do it:

39 Episodes. 13 eps over 3 seasons, at 2 hours per ep. The first season is ‘Pattern…

I’m Not Really Here: Gabble Ratchets

Yo welcome

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New Year’s Resolutions

me: I dunno man. Let’s just build a generator to create negative entropy, short circuit the singularity, and become trickster gods. M1k3y: Ra Men 🙂

The Mayan calendar did not resonate because most people expected an irate Mesoamerican god to knock on the front door with a jaguar hat and a flamethrower. Instead, collapse fantasies are an excuse to confront a visceral fear that, back in reality, we have created a civilization too complex to pilot and with limited time before it strikes the rocks.

http://boingboing.net/2012/12/29/test-driving-the-apocalypse.html (via zerosociety)