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marissamayr:

So proud of the Tumblr team at the Nasdaq opening.  My job was just to go and take pictures to capture the occasion and cheer them on.  I didn’t know it but someone captured and created this cool animated gif of me. 

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Since unbroken after protest this is perhaps the best metaphor for how the future corp cops world is reaching back to the now via the highly regulated devices of Apple inc. In which you own nothing and have the right to protest… just.

Yes… the strike is over and nothing was won by symbolism. Especially since, attentive tumblerors, I never stopped updating the several other tumblrs I contribute to.

Now, if you want better timey wimey corporate police future now drama, catch up on transhuman time travel political tv that is Continuum. Thank you Canada!

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Attention: TUMBLR OVERLORDZ

I am going on strike until the following demands are met:

  1. you take a million dollars of the billion you made and implement Twitter status microblogging
  2. for $nothing you add a widget tool for embedding of tagged posts in wordpress blogs, or elsewhere.
  3. I return from hiatus
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Like the wire-frames of the Matrix, the present is built out of the invisible tension of secret histories and strange facts, and Robert Anton Wilson was more right than even he suspected, even if he was kidding most of the time. But George Bush, Sr wasn’t really the grandson of Crowley, conceived in one of the greatest rituals performed in the 20th Century.

If one thing is resolutely clear to me now, through all this ponderous, reflexive thought, it’s that the future isn’t a passive force that washes over us—much as it seemed as World War II ended, and the Space Age kicked off. The idea we inherited by osmosis. We didn’t get jetpacks precisely because we ceded our agency to a conjured narrative. We have met the enemy and he is us. But we did get more civil rights… for some.

If we’re going to succinctly summarise my futurist philosophy, we need to talk about Archery. Archery is very now, very zeitgeist, and an absolutely palaeolithic technology. Hawkeye in The Avengers, the eponymous star of Arrow, and the world of the successor to Tolkien, Game of Drones Thrones.

Think of the future as a target you want to hit. The further away it is, the more forces you have to consider—wind speed, politics, gravity, economics—and if it’s in motion, social change and the inertia of history, of course. Moore’s Law as the culture equivalent of Newton’s Second Law of Motion. Which gives us our poster girl for the future, the genetically engineered super girl, Hanna.

Raised in the wilderness to be more badass than the literary Starship Troopers, fluent in multiple languages, strong in heart and mind, and above all, resilient. An atemporal hero for the futurepresent. The Anarchist Futurist Exemplar. The woman you’d want to lead a new Knight’s Templar. In an inverted Game of Thrones, her direwolf companion would be the alpha from The Grey. And far more palatable than the purely techno-utopian, crypto-fascist Hitler Jurgen of Ender’s Game fame.

The future belongs to the mutants. That’s the future I’m fighting for. Mutants trying to climb the fractal of history. Updating themselves with every recursion. With only one motto: Adapt or die.

* Thus concludes my first series for TheState. More soon!

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