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xtianw: How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later And—and I say this as a professional fiction writer—the producers, scriptwriters, and directors who create these video/audio worlds do not know how much of their content is true. In other words, they are victims of their own product, along with us. Speaking…
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futurescope: This Robot Makes Its Own Custom Tools Out of Glue Humans are generalists. We’re adaptable. If there’s a task we can’t do on our own, we find ourselves a tool to help us. Robots aren’t usually like this, because it’s very hard to design a robot that implements all the different tools that might…
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towerofsleep: translatingtheprintempserable: I fought Nazism, I fought fascism, I hated Duplessis, I didn’t make it to 94 years of age for this. NO to bill 78! Source NICE
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“you’re not going to get tenure from it or anything, but”
In an interesting move, my institution now has a line item in our annual reports for “professional/academic blog contributions”. There remains a conservative hierarchy of valuation, though. karaj: today i had a really ecstatic discussion about tumblr with one of my favorite professors. we were talking about feminism and the theoretical really, really for real…
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, “You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I’m not your agent and I’m not your mommy. I’m a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?” And I really,…
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thenewinquiry: The transition from signs which dissimulate something to signs which dissimulate that there is nothing, marks the decisive turning point. The first implies a theology of truth and secrecy. The second inaugurates an age of simulacra and simulation, in which there is no longer any last judgment to separate truth from false, the real…
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Nokia Releases A Font Designed To Work In Any Language
Nokia Releases A Font Designed To Work In Any Language bmdesign:
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pbsarts: Are Hologram Tupac and Hologram Freddie Mercury Nostalgia or New Aesthetic? Everyone has already heard about the Tupac Hologram that played at Coachella earlier this year. But with Queen’s recent announcement of a Hologram Freddie Mercury and TLC’s plans for a Hologram Lisa Left Eye Lopes, it looks Hologram pop stars are here to…
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mightyflynn: Peanuts #1, ca. 1953 cover by Charles M. Schulz
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“hire me! even for free!”
karaj: cocothinkshefancy: Fair Pay For All Work: Why Unpaid Internships are a Feminist Concern It’s that time of year—across campus, students are checking email and voicemail messages in anticipation of what seems like the golden ticket to success: a chance to commit three months of summer to a low- or unpaid desk job. As we…