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HERE BE DRAGONS: THE UNSTABLE LANDSCAPES OF GPS (by Will Gowland)

The world is now concealed and manipulated in ways that make answering the question of where am I an impossibility. Glitches in the big and fragile infrastructures of Global Positioning systems mean we are sometimes both here and there, as a pulsing blue dot locates us to within 500metres. What are the implications of a navigational system based solely on the virtual?

Will, in our Department of Landscape Glitches has jammed the GPS networks and revealed an alternative virtual topography, a territorial architecture of spoofed cartography. It is an emerging landscape that operates and exits in two parallel worlds, the physical and the virtual. 

Imaginary protest icebergs drift through the autonomously navigated oil shipping lanes. We get lost in a wilderness of illegal signal jamming formations and we glimpse the faint flicker of covert militarised GPS territories, super stable under a secret sky of black satellites. 

Some are landscapes of misdirection, others are navigational markers guiding one safely through unstable terrain. We now put our faith in a digital territory that is just as unknown and fallible as the physical.

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Another video from my favourite dashboard cam in the solar system.

Now, a fact:
The two moons were long thought to be asteroids that got captured in Mars’ orbit. However, some scientists believe they are actually chunks of Mars itself that broke off as the result of an ancient cosmic collision.

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Best dashboard cam video ever: twelve months of Curiosity roving around Mars condensed into two minutes.

This is your reminder that we are a spacefaring, global civilization in the midst of a paradigm shift, communicating within a juvenile noosphere.

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PBSNewshour tour of Fukushima site.

Not mentioned: rising sea temperatures affecting ability to cool reactors… which have been dumping hot, radioactive water back into sea. Heavy water and heavy weather in a feedback loop, dancing us to death.

Cut to them towing iceberg chunks or melted polar ice to the site for maximum Anthropocene Horror.

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“The trick, Will Scarlet, is not minding being beaten by everyone you recruit as you form a team.”

Just endured commercials to watch this. Some random thoughts:

* Merry ole England is the principal example of Uchronia, so nice example of that here.

* see also: Noblesse Oblige. Robin protects the little people from the Usurper until the return of the Good King.
* ergo it’s a tale of Counter Revolution, preemptive variant. Much talk of the people being free… without escaping the bounds of Feudalism.

* thus it’s a rebellious folk tale that only strengthens the defense of the Empire. Or: ontological warfare

* Marion something Privilege something Renaissance something Troubadours something French Viking Power

* folks who put on tights today and stand up for what’s right are Real Life Superheros (aka Reals).

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futurescope:

Self-Burying Robot Could Be Hiding in Your Backyard Right Now

From IEEE:

Bio-inspired robotics has been all over the place. We’ve got robots that walk, run, climb, fly, crawl, and swim. We’ve been kind of missing out on a big domain, though, and that’s animals that dig. You know, like moles. Unlike just about any other sort of robot (or animal), you could have a whole family of moles chillin’ within just a few feet of you (assuming you’re close to the ground, of course) and you’d probably have no idea. And that’s appealing for certain robotic applications:

“One use case is for this robot to drive or be air-dropped to a location close to a target, bury itself to be hidden, perform video surveillance, and send that video back to an operator.”

[read more] [Design of a Bimodal Self-Burying Robot]

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