Author: m1k3y

Facebook and Google seem very powerful, but they live about a week from total ruin all the time. They know the cost of leaving social networks individually is high, but en masse, becomes next to nothing. Windows could be replaced with something better written. The US government would fall to a general revolt in a matter of days. It wouldn’t take a total defection or a general revolt to change everything, because corporations and governments would rather bend to demands than die. These entities do everything they can get away with — but we’ve forgotten that we’re the ones that are letting them get away with things.

Everything is Broken by Quinn Norton –
https://medium.com/message/81e5f33a24e1
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Media lets you clone pieces of yourself and send them out into the world to have conversations on your behalf. Even while you’re sleeping, your media —your books, your blog posts, your tweets—it’s on the march. It’s out there trying to making connections. Mostly it’s failing, but that’s okay: these days, copies are cheap. We’re all Jamie Madrox now.

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We all do this; we all use media every day to extend our senses and our spheres of influence. At some scale, sure, things gets weird, and you lose track of you, and suddenly you’re being choked to death by your own robotic arm. But way before you get to that point, you get these amazing powers:

The power to reach beyond yourself, outward in space and forward in time.The power to have conversations—really rich, meaningful conversations—with more people than you could ever break bread with.And, increasingly, the power to get reports back from your little platoon—to see how your media is performing.

We’re all media cyborgs now.

http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6262
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 Moon (2009)
“I hope life on Earth is everything you remember it to be.”

In light of the Deckard is Gaff theory, can we have a Moon/Bladerunner sequel please.

Clones are RepliCANS too man.

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hidden-writing:

`Cowboy 1: “What’s your scene, man?”
Cowboy 2: “Reification”
Cowboy 1: “Yeah? I guess that means pretty hard work with big books and piles of paper on a big table.”
Cowboy 2: “Nope. I drift. Mostly I just drift.”`

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{[andré bertrand—LE RETOUR DE LA COLONNE DURUTTI—détourned film stills & photographs/wheatpasted comic strip-1966{} <@&*%)>

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fuckyeahdarkextropian:

Interstellar — Trailer — Official Warner Bros

Oh my yes this film.

Interstellar space travel…

IT’S A RESCUE MISSION.

Preach Nolan bros.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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The first definitive observation of the spot in Earth telescopes was done by Samuel Heinrich Schwabe in 1831, so we know its been around at least that long, but it may have been observed as far back as the late 1600s. When Schwabe saw it, the Great Red Spot was gauged to be more than 25,000 miles across, large enough for three planet Earths to sit side by side within it.

But sightings since the 1930s have shown the spot shrinking. A recent Hubble photo (seen above) observes the Great Red Spot at its smallest size yet —- just over 10,000 miles across, barely big enough for 1.3 Earths to fit inside. Scientists are studying small eddies at the edge of the storm that may somehow be sapping it of its strength. Will this monstrous cyclone continue to downsize? Researchers can’t say for sure.

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new-aesthetic:

ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment, ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment NASAtelevision on USTREAM. Science

The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the ISS was activated April 30, 2014. It is mounted on the External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module. This experiment includes several commercial HD video cameras aimed at the earth which are enclosed in a pressurized and temperature controlled housing. Video from these cameras is transmitted back to earth and also streamed live on this channel. While the experiment is operational, views will typically sequence though the different cameras. Between camera switches, a gray and then black color slate will briefly appear. Since the ISS is in darkness during part of each orbit, the images will be dark at those times. During periods of loss of signal with the ground or when HDEV is not operating, a gray color slate or previously recorded video may be seen.

the simplest and most profound thing they’ve done up there.

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