February 2012
3 posts
New startups stealing
Pinterest, Path, Hipster accused on the same day stealing info / generating hidden revenues without user consent.
This can’t be random.
The upcoming quantified self era is about teaching the machine about all humans — either with consent or hidden as Google, Facebook, Tumblr & co already does.
“WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept...”
– Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones - WSJ.com, via Toby B. (via new-aesthetic)
January 2012
24 posts
One hundred Brooklyn community members and... →
…approximately one hundred people peacefully and powerfully disrupted a foreclosure auction by bursting into song. At 3pm the foreclosure auctioneer attempted to start bidding on homes that had been foreclosed upon. When the bidding started, the courtroom burst into song:
“Mr. Auctioneer All the people here Are asking you to stop all the sales right now We’re going to survive, but we don’t...
Helge Peters: One Nation Under Tesco →
helge:
Reading this excellent, and quite exhaustive, analysis of the British zustände I came across this wonderful observation:
In August, in the Pembury Estate in Hackney, one person climbed the lamppost to disconnect the CCTV cameras. After clambering up, he found himself without the…
Napstering Capital
Napstering other industries / institutions in the past was about redistribution of profit and eliminating middlemen. Things got cheaper, brokers went bankrupt, huge corporations lost extra revenues, lean and agile startups flourished. The same will happen to capital and all its institutions. And it is already happening with Simple.com, Y Combinator, Kickstarter, bootstrapping. But one thing...
“Yet surely having something wrapped right around your mind is different from...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker (via wiredvanity)
“Today most data is born digitally. It’s not about the transition from analog to...”
– The Pirate Bay - Evolution: New Category, via Dan W (via new-aesthetic)
“In what authorities have called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever...”
– 7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site - NYTimes.com (via new-aesthetic)
“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge...”
– –Nikola Tesla, 1926
(via History of the Internet of Things | Postscapes)
“Everything built by man is more boring than nature”
Major Bloomberg Will Learn To Code →
Yes, that’s how PR works. Hackers did not protest with Occupy. So they’ve become a political toy
#occupywallstreet: MEMO TO THE #OCCUPY MOVEMENT (A... →
cultureofresistance:
The growth-seeking political-economic system has failed us. Today that system is dominated by Wall Street. “Goldman Sachs rules the world,” trader Alessio Rastani told us in a now-viral BBC interview. I met people like Rastani in researching my book, The End of Growth. At one lavish conference, 800 global investors packed a hotel ballroom to consider climate change. There...
Presentation is Everything →
frentecostas:
“Due to the call to reach wider audiences, museums are giving designers ever greater roles in presenting their exhibitions. These experts in communication have become so influential that they seem even more important than the curators.”
Occupy Wall Street's Livestream Operators Arrested... →
theamericanbear:
Freedom of the press:
Occupy Wall Street is in the middle of one of its day-long marches in New York Tuesday, protesting the National Defense Authorization Act, but for those following along on the Global Revolution livestream, the real action is happening in the broadcast studio itself. That’s because police have apparently just raided the Brooklyn studio...
“Like a muscle, the brain strengthens the part of itself that it uses the most....”
– ESPN - OTL: Test of Time - E-ticket
(The Internet is really just a sophisticated hammer.)
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Nature.”
– – Karl Schroeder, The Deepening Paradox
Through Bruce, of course. With a big pointer to @plugimi’s work, which is good, ‘cause I wanted to talk to him anyway. (via wiredvanity)
Saving Humanity from Homo Sapiens →
Saving Humanity from Homo Sapiens SHfHS is dedicated to preventing threats to humankind brought about by humans.
Time To Take Stallman Serious →
I’ve made a bet: in six years humans won’t be chipped. Am I really right?
The Machine Is Eating Us →
Biological lives taken away by digital. Something stronger than us is here.
If we are only teaching what we know... →
… our children can only do as bad as we are doing, and this is the challenge we are facing - we have to go beyond it. — Gunter Pauli Click image for video Quoting more for context …
December 2011
68 posts
This year? Diziness, distraction, alienation. Too much rush, less time for true.
Next year? For my friends — less is more.
For me? Meet that beast! :))
Mind, cognition, space-time (and math?) →
Minds might base cognition on 4d(space-time) representation. All conceivable things are located at a certain place, which can vary with time.
Ex 1: Tools main function similarity can be measured by…
Sensemaking Systems →
Jeff Jonas wrote in General Purpose Sensemaking Systems and Information Colocation … With information trapped in the tailored database schemas of systems of record, operational…
To understand is to perceive patterns →
“Put simply: cities are like ant colonies are like software is like slime molds are like evolution is like disease is like sewage systems are like poetry is like the neural pathways in our…
JFBarracca - sculpture cities of the future →
“Suppose you wanted to create your own digital ghost to live for eternity in the...”
– Scott Adams Blog: Your Digital Ghost 01/17/2011 (via new-aesthetic)
What Do Crop Circles Mean? →
Web Site:Crop Circle Meanings
Re-Napstering
Surprise!
I was never imagine internet superpowers will act in the same way like their offline counterparts, decades ago.
And now Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft are playing again the verticalisation game with their mobile platforms and app stores.
I think Mozilla will have again a taugh job to re-napster these bullshit companies and take back the web, for us.
...
True Width Times Height Black Pixel Images →
Horizontal Cell Count: 5
Vertical Cell Count: 5
Black Cell Count: 3-24
Symmetry Type: X Not Y Symmetric
Number of Possibilities: 12,056
Link : IMG More Here
Human evolution: who are we becoming? →
In 1974, American professor of psychology Dr Clare W Graves wrote an article for The Futurist magazine titled Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap. Graves described an impending change in…
“I’m right but not now. Maybe after a couple of years”
“Since 1992, as the technological miracles and wonders have propagated and the...”
– New Aesthetic
The New Aesthetic: That turbulence is what the... →
That turbulence is what the real worlds are trying to arrest with their histories and their plans, but in the actual world, there is no past and no future, only the present. All we know of it is in the present. All we know of the past we know because it is here with us now, in living memories or…
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“The world is so hostile today many choose the exile. They took the blue pill to...”