I’m not going to post everything that has been going on yesterday and today (yet) as the hackers are reading my Tumblr. I have to share some amusing and quite public links.
Meet my hacker “Isolate.” This is the person who hacked most of my digital life so he could try to sell @ruby for $80. I…
The Real @Ruby: Shits & giggles for the rest of us
Read more "The Real @Ruby: Shits & giggles for the rest of us"“James thinks it’s because all our tweets are being stored by the Library of Congress. He says the information density of that place warps space and time.”
Read more "Tweets out of Context"This article that has been making the rounds about how Google is somehow a state is straight-up idiotic bullshit, and it’s pissing me off.
The idea that “paying tax” is what defines a nation-state is a political conception somewhere between the most child-like sense of socialism and Tea Party…
Something I’m only now wishing I put into my piece on The State: when my mate and I went to drink the cool aid at the cult of the Long Boom, we wound up hanging back, chatting with McKenzie Wark. My mate now works at Google.
Interdome: “Who dares to dodge Google’s information tax?”
Read more "Interdome: “Who dares to dodge Google’s information tax?”"Abrupt climate change in Africa helped trigger technological and cultural advances in early modern humans, according to new research.
A quantum of hope.
Climate ‘spurred human innovation’ (BBC)
Read more "Climate ‘spurred human innovation’ (BBC)"Read more "Murmuration: Submit to Drones"This winter, we, Olivia Rosane and Adam Rothstein had a conversation about drones. We didn’t start the conversation; we were responding to a growing murmur of voices asking what it meant that flying killer robots were now very much a part of our world and how we should respond.
What we insisted…
Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick’s Feynman, a stupendous biography of Richard Feynman in graphic novel form that went to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, is out in paperback as of today! Here’s my original reviewfrom 2011:
Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick’s Feynman is an…
Untitled-1: Feynman graphic-novel biography out in paperback today
Read more "Untitled-1: Feynman graphic-novel biography out in paperback today"The fastest growth in internet use is in China’s poorer, more rural provinces, partly because of a surge in users connecting via mobile devices, which now outnumber those connecting from computers. The internet is no longer confined to an urban, educated and relatively well-off public. Most farmers are getting online to listen to music, play mobile games and check the weather, not blog dissent. But even casual users can be drawn into political debates online, and the internet is one place where people can speak their minds and criticise the government relatively freely. April 22, 2013 at 12:53PM
China’s internet: A giant cage (via The Economist)
Read more "China’s internet: A giant cage (via The Economist)"Read more "A Momentary Flow: Ice That Took 1,600 Years to Form in Peru’s Andes Melted in Only 25, Scientists Say"See on Scoop.it – Knowmads, Infocology of the future
Scientists say the rapid melting of the Quelccaya ice cap, the world’s largest tropical ice sheet, is the latest sign of global warming.
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Glacial ice in the Peruvian Andes that took at least 1,600 years to form has melted in just…
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Dark Theory is both new and old. But to elucidate, if not to illuminate the ongoing practices of Dark Theory, it would be useful to review a number of the areas where Dark Theory finds…
Technoccult: A Theory Of Darkness. Also: Archives
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 