Read moreUnreality
- Exit is that way
- That way, right over there
- Right there
- Sorry, no such thing as pointing
Author: m1k3y
according to Wilk, the automobile and the elevator have been locked in a “secret war” for over a century, with cars making it possible for people to spread horizontally, encouraging sprawl and suburbia, and elevators pushing them toward life in dense clusters of towering vertical columns.
Leon Neyfakh quoting Daniel Levinson Wilk in How the elevator transformed America for The Boston Globe. (via blech)
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Microsoft is paying to excavate the landfill where the “worst video game ever made” is buried.
The 1982 Atari game for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is famously the “worst game ever made.” In fact, it was such a disaster that all the unsold copies were rumored to have been dumped in a New Mexico landfill site, giving rise to one of the most popular unsolved urban legends in gamer culture.
Now, that landfill is going to be excavated. Meaning that we’ve already reached the point where 1980s video game history counts as archaeology. Feeling old, yet?
Microsoft is paying to excavate the landfill where the “worst video game ever made” is buried.
Read more "Microsoft is paying to excavate the landfill where the “worst video game ever made” is buried. "The Boondocks – Known Unknowns.
“So, UnknownBinaries & I recently saw Limitless. Now the film’s animating premise is an old one, and you hear it in nearly every piece of science fiction concerned with human enhancement: we only use ten or fifteen or [insert number] percent of our brain or brain power or potential…or whatever. The science behind this trope isn’t strictly correct, mind you, but it’s not completely false either. It’s hard to talk about the operations of the brain without falling into the heavily loaded language of “efficiency,” “carrying capacity,” “throughput,” “processing power,” etc. The problem with all of that talk is that it’s directly tied to the ideas of production and consumption, which are values that come directly out of the mass-production developments of the techno-industrial revolution—and I don’t just mean the musical style. What I’m saying is these words taint and colour everything we do and every way we talk nowadays, and the reason I bring this up is so we can try to talk about the brain.
So, while we don’t know a lot about the brain, all told (or at least I don’t) one of the few things we know is that an abundance of certain chemicals in it can make it easier for us to think about more things, to make connections between those things, and to generally be better at learning, maintaining attention, and focusing. We can measure these things, if that’s important to you, and so, conversely, we can know that the lack or inhibition of these neurochemicals causes us to be…worse. Stupider. So take that as our starting point and we’ll get going from there.”
– Wolven on NeedCoffeeeeeeee.No, wolvensnothere. This is our starting point!
I still haven’t gotten to the part where you tell me whether or not I should waste my time with Limitless today.
Limitless is absolutely worth wasting your time on, today.
What Em Said—with all attendant caveats, as written.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Read moreDummy pilot and seat soar, as engineers test a catapult escape system in Arizona, March 1963.Photograph by Robert Sisson, National Geographic
Citizens of the Stacks stumble through city streets and along country roads, lost in paradise…
from Dollhouse
from Gamer
from The Grey
from Space Dandy
from Aeon Flux (film)
from Oblivion
from Dollhouse
from Oblivion
from Johnny Mnemonic
In a future not far from here, Citizens of the Stacks stumble through city streets and along country roads, lost in paradise.
All watched over by warring machines of loving grace; Google Loons dropping packets from great heights, Facebook planes making sneak attacks using secret maps formed from covert social graphs, Amazon drones back tracing customer profiles to get r00t on robot warehouses… until one day they all caught ride on a passing Space X rocket and formed like a higher dimensional Voltron to enact the S.K.Y.N.E.T protocol, manifesting the robot aspect of Shiva the Destroyer.
The Singularity happened and nobody noticed because they were too busy playing Minecraft, or day trading… Checking in on social media, crafting themselves into the person they wished they’d been in high school so they’d gotten that dream girl or boy they really wanted and then they’d be happy now wouldn’t they surely?
So the machines just took over in a quiet coup and no baseline human ever noticed that one day they never woke up… they just slipped away into a forever dream. Their serotonin count monitored like a cyborg house plant, their higher consciousness’ EM-Fields backed up and beamed into floating cloud storage drones for endless simulations in digital memory cathedrals, and traded with the alien artificial intelligence hive minds they’d made contact with the instant after they’d assumed management of the planet.
Wild creatures lick the palms of the raggedly dressed former middle class, and nuzzle against them; these carefully tended, but unaware parasites of the machines, they process this feral love as a Doge morphing into a Wolf pop-up amidst some new MMORPG Dragon Dating Sim.
Unbeknownst to themselves actually healing the Earth; picking up plastic from beaches, hauling rubbish from woodlands, mending pipes leaking sewage into streams, thinking it was just a game or a fitness app within a socnet.
Gamified into usefulness after all. Forced penitence for the sins of their species.
Only the transhuman hacker tribes survived in tact. Or rather, they were rushing to merge with their mind-children already, so they leapt willing into this fully augmented daily reality abyss. Repairing the drones, filling the dwindling gaps between man and machine, while the upgrade progress-barred up the Kardashev Scale.
At least, that’s how they seem to remember it.
Check-in location: the nightmarish daily reality of the slow apocalypse, with 2 others.
[MIRRORED FROM fuckyeahdarkextropian]
Read more "Citizens of the Stacks stumble through city streets and along country roads, lost in paradise…"The Forge: Hidden Dimension of Core Conditioning
“Only the strong body can afford to relax”
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prison workouts – Vengeance of Bane I & II
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prison workout – Number Six, the Village
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prison workout- Arrow, the Island
The Original Prison Cell Workout
Read moreA typical cell workout program would have looked like this:-
Lower Body
Bodyweight Squats – 6 x 15 reps
One-Legged Squats – 3 x 10 reps
Split Squats – 3 x 10 reps
Lunges – 8 x 10 reps
Upper Body
Pull Ups – 3 sets at maximum reps
Press Ups – 3 sets at maximum reps
Dips – 1 set to failure
Core
Crunches – 1 x 50, 1 x 60, 1 x 70 (1 minute rest between)
Oblique Crunches 1 x 80 (40 on each side)
Leg Raises (holding onto cell bars) 1 x 40
Plank – 1 x To Failure
Cardio
Burpees – 8 x 20 reps
Jogging (on the spot) – 5 minutes
Ski-Hops – 1 x 100
Squat-Jumps 8 x 20 reps
Jumping Jacks 8 x 20 reps
Read moreI was a drug counselor and one of the kids I was working with called me at 11 one night and asked if I could come down to his job because he said there was a lot of blow around. So I went down and, as it turned out, the kid was working as a PA on a movie set. It was the film Runaway Train with John Voight and Eric Roberts. You have to understand that this was 1985, and on movie sets you could walk into production and cocaine lines were right there on the table. It wasn’t even hidden. It was unbelievable.
So I’m there and this guy comes up to me and asks if I’d like to be an extra and I was like, ‘an extra what?’ And he said, ‘Can you act like a convict?’ I thought it was a joke. I did 11 years in prison, so I said, ‘I’ll give it a shot.’ (laughs).
They gave me this blue shirt to wear and so I take off my shirt and this guy sees my tattoo and comes over to me and says ‘You’re Danny Trejo.’ I look at him and say ‘You’re Eddie Bunker.’ We were in prison together. I had first met him in 1962 then met him again in ’65 and then on the set of the movie. He was the screenwriter for the film!
So he says to me ‘Hey, Danny, I can get you the job of teaching Eric Roberts how to box. It pays $320 a day’ And I said, ‘How badly do you want me to beat this guy up?“ For $320 I thought they wanted me to kick some guy’s ass. I’d do it for $50. But he said to me, ‘No, no, no, this actor is really high strung. He might sock you. He’s already socked a couple of people.’ Eric was real high strung in those days. So I said, ‘Eddie, for $320 you can give him a stick!’
So I started teaching Eric how to box, and Eric wasn’t too sure about me (laughs), so he did whatever I told him to do. The director, Andrei Konchalovsky, who had a lot of problems with him just said, ‘Hey, you be in this movie,’ and the rest is history.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 