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Read moreI might call this “Orwell Chic.” Grim and utilitarian, yet subversive in the details.
Sarah Mower writes for Style.com:
One thing’s for certain: Miuccia Prada is not going to the eighties disco for Fall. Instead, her collection seemed to be a call for austerity measures, if that’s what you can read into boiled wool forties-style coats and suits, clothes that might have been appropriated from domestic upholstery fabric, and (possibly for women going back to the land for survival) kinky fishing waders. It was a bizarre take on utility even Prada found hard to explain. “I didn’t want to do anything about the city,” she said, “more something about sport and the outdoors in general—freedom and nature. But in the end, I realized I liked coats and suits. It was serious, in a way. It was about a need for feminine empowerment.” Prada’s women, with their violently frizzed-up hair, certainly had a disconcerting look about them as they advanced, with red-rimmed glitter-ringed eyes catching the light with a nearly malevolent glint. What they were wearing was constructed from substantial tweed and stiff leather, slit to reveal sexually incendiary flashes of naked leg and red knit underwear.
mediapathic: I am angry about what happened to Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz. aaronsw.
I didn’t know him. I should say that right off the bat. I think I met him, once, in the flurry of brilliant and bold people that happens when a community built on new communications methods explodes. But it seems that everyone I know did know him, in one way or another….
mediapathic: I am angry about what happened to Aaron Swartz
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Read more“The real maps of the great cities of the world are invisible. They’re underfoot, or they’re wi-fi fields, or they’re satellite links. On a global basis, the financial markets’ biggest problem is the speed of light. I read a paper last year that said, quite bluntly, that what was holding back the efficiency of the global financial system was most often light-propagation delays. I know a guy in Bonn who thinks he can make a killing by floating an artificial island in the Arabian Sea and putting an uplinked trading center on it, bypassing six different choked systems and the delays inherent in their light cones.”
—from Gun Machine
Read moreMy body is an electronic virgin. I incorporate no silicon chips, no retinal or cochlear implants, no pacemaker. I don’t even wear glasses (though I do wear clothes). But I am slowly becoming more and more a Cyborg. So are you. Pretty soon, and still without the need for wires, surgery or bodily alterations, we shall be kin to the Terminator, to Eve 8, to Cable…just fill in your favorite fictional Cyborg. Perhaps we already are. For we shall be Cyborgs not in the merely superficial sense of combining flesh and wires, but in the more profound sense of being human-technology symbionts: thinking and reasoning systems whose minds and selves are spread across biological brain and non-biological circuitry.
How an Internet of Drones will be Built: Think 2,400 baud
- The drones will be noisy.
- The payloads are going to be tiny (ounces) and the containers they are held in will be clunky.
- The distance drones travel will be short (less than a mile).
- There will be frequent failures (drones in trees and on rooftops).
- Hassles will occur (problems with government regulators, police, and nutty neighbors).
- It will seem like everything needs to be done by hand.
None of this matters. It’s actually kind of fun to experience this and solve (t)he problems presented.
How an Internet of Drones will be Built: Think 2,400 baud
Read more "How an Internet of Drones will be Built: Think 2,400 baud"“In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines.”
—George Dyson, Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence
Sci-Finance: The Great Cybernetic Experiment, Part 2 | Cris Sheridan | FINANCIAL SENSE (via wildcat2030)
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 