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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.

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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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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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brucesterling:

http://magictransistor.tumblr.com/post/84385092271/ocd-approved-fall-out-shelters-family-radiation

*Civil defense in the fallout shelter, which may be seen someday as the precursor of the climate-crisis shelter.

Continuing on… what is to be done?

You know hurricanes are coming to an area completely unprepared to deal with their impact.

A PM from the former government has just been hauled before an inquest into a small scale green readiness campaign – home insulation of all things. So even if the new regime wasn’t set solely on an all stick no carrot radical economic restructure, they still might be a little shy to act. Cause politics. This despite their love of emulation of the US, their hugely militaristic mindset (BORDER FORCE ASSEMBLE!) and the US military being the only body taking climate threats seriously (solely to protect the interests of the Empire, not its citizens, but still…)

And there’s stories already of death-trap bushfire bunkers in the sunburnt country.

What do you do in this window of time available that isn’t prepperpunk cum live-on-the-set-of-MadMax LARPing? Or just Jane Suburban quietly digging a backyard bunker.

We, collectively, survived the Bomb, but we’re still afraid of the sky.

Maybe it’s a chance for new forms of community organization to emerge. Ya know, like the Scouts did from the horror of the Boer War. It doesn’t have to be all Doomsday Cults. It could be… like… underground barn raisings. Or something. But right now is the time to think about this.

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grinderbot:

Hurricanes have been moving towards the Earth’s poles, at a rate of about 30 miles each decade. As the storms move further northwards and southwards, the scientists caution that we could increasingly see hurricanes hit harder and more frequently in areas where the storms were typically sparse. Interestingly, they also note that the same time period has also seen an expansion of the tropics themselves towards the poles, into the areas that have previously been classified as subtropical.

Which is just awesome news if you live in the Southern Archonic Protectorate with its new “Infrastructure Prime Minister” in charge. Except that government is dismantling everything Green and doesn’t recognize or acknowledge the climate threat. So just keep building roads bro. And cutting funding to basic science. Just keep on truckin in a spy way.

I’m sure Melbourne will get hit last its cool bro.

PS – maybe we get our cool Hexagon from this. Nice space marker.

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