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likeapairofbottlerockets: calling it now: the future is gonna involve a lot of dumb stuff on people’s faces
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hamykia: nenufair: Isn’t Spanish just beautiful Ojos de cordero degollado, I just realised don’t judge me
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Contrary to certain now popular narratives by latecomers, not everybody went gaga over ‘new media’ in that period, which stretches perhaps from the popularization of cyberpunk in 1984 to the death of the internet as a purely scientific and military media in 1995. There were plenty of experimental, critical and constructivist minds at work on…
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Like Ebert, you might consider Dead Poets Society “a collection of pious platitudes masquerading as a courageous stand in favor of something” and “shameless in its attempt to pander to an adolescent audience.” The thing is, though, if you’re a bookish 14-year-old girl, you haven’t yet seen a hundred “other stories in which the good…
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alexainslie: Honest, Brave, Compassionate
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Before we give doors and toasters sentience, we should decide what we’re comfortable with first
Before we give doors and toasters sentience, we should decide what we’re comfortable with first Well, as author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow explained to me when I interviewed him last year, imagine an Arab Spring-type situation in a country with very cold winters, universal Nest thermostat adoption and a dictator with no ualms…
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Writing the Artist Statement
ninedotarts: We can’t tell you how often we come across artist statements that trytoo hard to be analytical, clever, academic or progressive. It’s so often, in fact, that the majority ofus artsy types forego reading statements entirely. Art critic Roberta Smith says, “I think the work of art, whatever form it takes, is the artist’s…
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spacettf: Comet on 9 March 2015 – NavCam by europeanspaceagency on Flickr.
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p-dpa: The man who agreed-Apple EULA, Florence Meunier (2014) For this project we had to re-design and interpret the Apple ICloud EULA (End User License Agreement), perhaps one of the most overlooked and ambiguous agreement we make. By clicking “I Agree”, we accept rather odd conditions that we are not aware of because the very design of it…
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