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thinksquad: Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay. The youth protest in the state’s…
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thinksquad: Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay. The youth protest in the state’s…
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Filamaker: turn misbegotten 3D prints back into filament [2013]
mostlysignssomeportents: Joris sez, “I interviewed Marek Senický about his Filamaker today. The device is a grinder and filament extruder that recycles waste plastic and turns old unwanted 3D prints into new ones. I think its amazing and will greatly reduce the cost of 3D printing. Effectively to zero if waste is used [Ed: that’s artistic…
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Filamaker: turn misbegotten 3D prints back into filament [2013]
mostlysignssomeportents: Joris sez, “I interviewed Marek Senický about his Filamaker today. The device is a grinder and filament extruder that recycles waste plastic and turns old unwanted 3D prints into new ones. I think its amazing and will greatly reduce the cost of 3D printing. Effectively to zero if waste is used [Ed: that’s artistic…
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Shoshanna Zuboff contemplating Big Data
for our first year grad students who have just read “The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things” and who are reading “Shaping Things” for tomorrow evening’s class: brucesterling: *Hmmm, there are some rather familiar sentiments here. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-debate/shoshan-zuboff-on-big-data-as-surveillance-capitalism-13152525-p2.html (…) “IV. ”BIG DATA” IS BIG BUSINESS "Let’s see if we can use these ideas to understand…
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The California Rare Book School invites you to join us for a 5 day course at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. Paul Shaw will be teaching History of Typography. This course runs from November 3-7, 2014, and is open to faculty, librarians, archivists, booksellers, graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, and any person with…
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The second leaky distinction [the first being the animal/human distinction] is between animal-human (organism) and machine. Pre-cybernetic machines could be haunted; there was always the spectre of the ghost in the machine. This dualism structured the dialogue between materialism and idealism that was settled by a dialectical progeny, called spirit or history, according to taste.…
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You have to remember that Star Trek exists in two contexts, and while race and gender discrimination supposedly doesn’t exist in the Star Trek world, it’s undeniable that it exists in ours and therefore manifests in the other. When 90% of the captains in the Federation are white dudes, one has to start wondering at…