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Listening to the debate, I also can’t help thinking that perhaps the key enabling social technology for autonomous vehicles was the creation of the concept of corporate personhood. Because robotics companies need corporate persons to accept the legal responsibility for the work algorithms do. They told us the future would be weird. What If a…
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buttonpoetry: Amir Safi – “Brown Boy. White House.” (NPS 2013) “A boy approaches me in a high school hallway and says, If you were from Afghanistan, I’d beat your ass. The three words I should’ve said were, I love you. Instead, I said, Wish you would.” Performing during semifinals at the 2013 National Poetry Slam. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Comcast Says It’s Going To Slap All Of Its Customers With Data Caps, Makes Half-Hearted Attempt To Walk Back Earlier Statements When Backlash Kicks In | Techdirt
Comcast Says It’s Going To Slap All Of Its Customers With Data Caps, Makes Half-Hearted Attempt To Walk Back Earlier Statements When Backlash Kicks In | Techdirt wilwheaton: wilwheaton: Comcast, perhaps feeling a bit too confident about its chances to swallow up Time Warner Cable, is talking about rolling out data caps to all of…
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teenally: mansfrombelow: canadian-communist: Where the World’s Unsold Cars Go to Die Above are photos of thousands and thousands of brand new, unsold cars in various locations from the U.S., Italy, U.K., Spain, Russia, and elsewhere. Millions of unsold cars are left to deteriorate in old airports, parking lots, and new tracks of land being bought…
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Alien: A Film Franchise Based Entirely on Rape
Alien: A Film Franchise Based Entirely on Rape mildlyamused: Oh, we’re not joking. Our goal isn’t to paste a bunch of out-of-context shots or lines of dialogue to make some spurious case. We’ll let ‘Alien’ screenwriter Dan O’Bannon spell it out himself: “One thing that people are all disturbed about is sex… I said ‘That’s…
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This paradox of Schrodinger’s cat is a paradox in the older interpretation of quantum physics, the one which I do not subscribe to. I subscribe to the Everett, to the many universes or multiverse interpretation, and in that interpretation it is not true that the cat is either alive or dead; what is true is…
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prostheticknowledge: elevenplay dance performance with drones at Spiral Hall Japanese dance group Eleven Play perform a piece choreographed with both dancers and drones together – video embedded below: [Link] (Related – a previous PK post with the same team in an impressive performance combining precise projection mapping onto the dancers – Link)