expect so much

Finally, the machines will do what we ask them to do and not what we ought to ask them to do… In short, it is only a humanity which is capable of awe, which will also be capable of controlling the new potentials which we are opening for ourselves. We can be humble and live a good life with the aid of the machines, or we can be arrogant and die.

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—	Norbert Weiner, Excerpts from “The Machine Age”

aquaticwonder:

Eternal

Tripping balls.

justinpickard:

stoweboyd:

John Hendrix for the NYT.

A punch to the gut.

Yup.

motherjones:

bostonreview:

The deadline for the BR Poetry Contest is two weeks from today! Enter online for a chance to win $1,500 and be published in the pages of Boston Review: http://ow.ly/lcqnQ

Siren!

Words to that.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

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—	Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson in his timeless Kenyon College commencement address, May 20, 1990. (via explore-blog) True. Dat.

thecheshirekitteh:

what ur average tragedy looks like after 100 years

yep, sometimes not that long tho

How long is the line for the 9/11 flight simulator!?

Bloodthirsty 'factual' Discovery, NatGeo, History Channel, Animal Planet TV shows demonise wildlife »

climateadaptation:

Journalist Adam Welz blows the lid off of how major US TV networks are depicting killing animals for profit. Wolves, grizzly bears, lynx cats, and other animals are being trapped, shot with AK-47s, and painted as dangerous threats on national networks NatGeo, Discovery, and other “reality TV” shows. Click through for more.

There is a storm brewing.

Get ready to get angry.

So we give readers what they want, even if we don’t necessarily think it’s what they should want. It may mean we’re no longer elitist. Or, more likely, it means we’re no longer living up to our responsibilities… Sorry.

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—	Dan Primak, Fortune Finance - The Biggest Merger You Didn’t Hear About Today. (http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/20/the-biggest-merger-you-didnt-hear-about-today/)

Perceiving magic is precisely the same thing as perceiving the limits of your own understanding.

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—	Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?

Dallas Shines, Dallas Towers 5/20/13

Green Tower / Shard / Arch View / Dallas Colored

Down in Dallas 5/19/13

Flying Flag / JFK Memorial / An Empty Space / Legacy

Omg this was college.

Hey Yahoo(!)…

Don’t fuck it up.

WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: The Situation of Andrew "weev" Auernheimer »

mollycrabapple:

via a friend who just visited him in prison.

Andrew is currently serving 3.5 years for revealing a security flaw by AT&T. He has been in administrative segregation for twenty days as punishment for using his payphone calls to post to Soundcloud, and for sending pre-written…

Seriously, wtf. How is their punishment commiserate with the crime? What crime, exactly?

Yet a fantasy of precision persists… This is one of the great illusions of our times: that you can game without being gamed.

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—	Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?