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theatlasofbeauty: Peru
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kenyatta: kmikeym: CHAPPIE IS A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE, IMPORTANT MOVIE I liked this movie. best ironic quote: It’s not just Chappie either—the entire Johannesburg Police Force’s front line is composed of walking talking killing machines. These robots aren’t free-willed and thinking in the same way that Chappie is, but can be seen to make judgements about…
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The Art of David Lynch
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theimpossiblecool: “All punk is is attitude. That’s what makes it. The attitude.”—Joey Ramone.
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my favorite of andreblyth‘s reflective visualizations is #6 “Is It A Game?”
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moma: Member previews begin today for Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980, which features drawings, models, vintage photographs, and film clips alongside newly commissioned models and photographs. [Tomás José Sanabria. Hotel Humboldt, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956. © Fundación Alberto Vollmer]
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Jonathan Lukens’s study of visual artists who avoid using tools such as Photoshop for specific portions of their work demonstrates how non-use can require as much, if not more, conscious, deliberate, effortful action as technology use does. In this way, while non-use is often understood as the absence of a phenomenon or practice, something else…
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David Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
mostlysignssomeportents: Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber follows up his magesterial Debt: The First 5000 Years with a slim, sprightly, acerbic attack on capitalism’s love affair with bureaucracy, asking why the post-Soviet world has more paperwork, phone-trees and red-tape than ever, and why the Right are the only people who seem to notice or care. The Utopia…
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taikonaut: humanoidhistory: Fifty years ago today, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history when he stepped outside the Voshkod 2 spacecraft and became the first person ever to walk in space. As a small step, as a great leap, Leonov’s 12-minute spacewalk was an adventure for the ages — and it almost killed him. The BBC has…
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This thread is for the purpose of educating and disseminating information to combat the dubious or false information spread by ill inform and lazy posters (namely tzortz). It is acceptable to coil Ethernet cables when they are too long for a run. Coiling Ethernet cables will NOT create inductive currents that can blow devices on…