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FEATURE: ‘Crumbs’ – “The First Ever Ethiopian Post-Apocalyptic, Surreal, Sci-Fi Feature Length Film”
FEATURE: ‘Crumbs’ – “The First Ever Ethiopian Post-Apocalyptic, Surreal, Sci-Fi Feature Length Film” Check out the trailer for new feature film ‘Crumbs’. The film is directed by Miguel Llansó (a Spaniard based in Ethiopia) and is the first Ethiopian film of it’s kind, centred on a sci-fi romance. Shadow and Act say the film “tells…
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Most design schools are built around the idea that the higher the quality of your work, the greater your long-term success. But I believe something that’s fundamentally different. I believe that your long-term success is more of a reflection of the size of your network. Gary Chou, on the importance of social networks. I think…
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Aibo owners call on Nobuyuki Norimatsu, a 59-year-old former Sony technician who has a shop in Chiba, another city near Tokyo. He fixes out-of-date electronic gadgets. Aibo repairs were added in 2011, when a customer begged him to repair her dog at any cost. She paid about $500. In Japan, Dog Owners Feel Abandoned as…
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Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not…
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zumzeig: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett.
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algopop: Twitter-bot death threats and the police Jeffry Van Der Goot had a twitter-bot that was a Markov-ebooks type, remixing his own personal twitter profile, “it takes all my tweets I’ve ever made, takes random chunks of it and tries to make new sentences that make sense”. The bot somehow rearranged his words in a…
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azspot: Naked statue of Bill Cosby with weeping Fat Albert genitals to be unveiled in Florida
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… Naturally, I decided to ruin the fun by asking almost everyone about Gamergate. Although Intel has started to make amends for its role in legitimizing the anti-woman harassment campaign in 2014, most of the gaming industry has remained mum. And as I heard from several DICE attendees, women in gaming — and, to a…
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“The erosion of the middle class,” he said, “has put a lot more pressure on parents and students to make it big in the world or the consequences are dire.” When Roth graduated from college, his father, who didn’t go to college, wasn’t concerned if his son ended up driving a cab for a while…
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Makers: economic manifesto
mostlysignssomeportents: Some months ago, Chris Anderson wrote to me to let me know that he was working on a book called Makers, and given that I’d written a well-known novel on similar themes with the same title, did I mind? Of course I didn’t — for one thing, having already published many stories with the…