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thingsmagazine: Control Room, 2013, by Roxy Paine (via Coudal)
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Private companies are building their own spy agencies
technoccult: Klint Finley Here’s the description of a talk that happened at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs: In today’s world, businesses are facing increasingly complex threats to infrastructure, finances, and information. The government is sometimes unable to share classified information about these threats. As a result, business leaders are creating their own intelligence…
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Notes from “MaddAddam” by Margaret Atwood
Floating World There was a group of street acrobats who did torch-lit high-wire acts on ropes strung across the flooded streets, and sometimes fell and broke parts of themselves, such as their necks. The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up,…
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Notes from “MaddAddam” by Margaret Atwood
Deeper into the Pleeblands Also, most of those riding it still believed in the legality of law and the orderliness of order, and might report anything suspicious, as they were constantly being nagged to do. Excerpt From MaddAddam Margaret Atwood
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Notes from “MaddAddam” by Margaret Atwood
He could sense words rising from him, burning away in the sun. Soon he’d be wordless, and then would he still be able to think? No and yes, yes and no. He’d be up against it, up against everything that filled the space he was moving through, with no glass pane of language coming between…
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Academic Torrents
Academic Torrents Welcome to Academic Torrents! Currently making 1.68TB of research data available. Sharing data is hard. Emails have size limits, and setting up servers is too much work. We’ve designed a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets – for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with…
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brucesterling: With the BionicOpter, Festo has technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Just like its model in nature, this ultralight flying object can fly in all directions, hover in mid-air and glide without beating its wings. —— Mit dem BionicCopter hat Festo die hochkomplexen Flugeigenschaften der Libelle technisch umgesetzt. Wie sein…
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nevver: “The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.” William S. Burroughs on creativity
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Notes from “MaddAddam” by Margaret Atwood
There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. Then there’s what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too. Excerpts From MaddAddam Margaret Atwood
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Notes from “MaddAddam” by Margaret Atwood
She has to cut out these daydreams in which Zeb performs decisive leadership acts that she ought to have performed herself. She needs to get up, go outside, join the others. Repair what can’t be repaired, mend what can’t be mended, shoot what needs to be shot. Hold the fort. Excerpts From MaddAddam Margaret Atwood