Living In The Past (1969)

smartphone zombies: think the herd

City officials in Salzburg, Austria, are covering lampposts with airbags because so many so-called ‘smartphone zombies’ are walking into them. The vote was close … a lot of officials thought a better approach would be to let the posts thin the herd.

I watched the Stephen King horror film CELL recently. Are you reading this on your smartphone?
Have you seen it?

 

We Have Come Back For Our Bodies

Louis Esmé,  We Have Come Back For Our Bodies. Original design for GetUP Clothing, Redwire Media.

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Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism

 

and this:

How was your weekend? As eventful as the pig who stole and drank eighteen beers, and then tried to fight a cow? Mine wasn’t, but there’s always next weekend.

waffles

I laughed hard at this movie - it may be ONE of my TOP movies!

2004 . The Ladykillers . Tom Hanks as Professor G.H. Dorr . It's underrated that's for sure.

the anonymous project

Paris-based filmmaker Lee Shulman is on a mission to preserve old photographic negatives and slides from the 60s up to the digital age. Due to the nature of colour photography and the chemicals used on the film when it’s exposed to light, the images will fade away over a period of about 50 years.

With the help of book editor Emmanuelle Halkin, Shulman has salvaged roughly 400,000 Kodacrome-colour slides from flea markets and personal archives. That collection will be further whittled down to a curated selection to be scanned, catalogued and enjoyed for years to come.

Check it out HERE!

The Anonymous Project Website

The Anonymous Project on Instagram

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i am blue

it's hard to feel like this - so blue - so upset... BOOM

Guinea Pig Speaks Out - Ricky Gervais

weekend

It's so cold I'm reading and watching squirrels all weekend!

I'm reading

Untold stories from Election Day 2016. Marvin Gaye and the patriotism of resistance. In Trump country, not much has changed—at least not for the better. The year in push alerts, which I didn't really experience because the only notifications I get are from actual humans calling/texting me. It's not fake news, it's information disorder. Predators on film sets, high-school locker rooms, Capitol Hill (Anita Hill weighs in), and everywhere. Gay men need a whisper network, too. Harassment can be a career-killer. A fan finds out her fave is a creep, which "means admitting you were duped." Listening to Trump's accusers. How the rich hide their wealth. "For 11 brief minutes, they were God." You can run from "identity politics," but you cannot hide. Reblogging Audre Lorde. Yazidi women, post-captivity. Google's mass-shooting misinformation problem. An app for alcoholism. An a capella hazing scandal. What childbirth really feels like. A dispatch from the front lines of California's rush toward legal weed. Can Ford turn itself into a tech company? Saeed Jones on clarity in the face of overwhelming information. A 13-year-old teen-girl baseball blogger posed as an adult dude. The Japanese rent-a-friend business. The appeal of dressing modestly. For a chill thrill, cancel your plans. Or maybe head to one of the quietest places on earth.

Annie Lennox Why

hmmmm

OK folks, are you really people or are you bots?

I checked FeedBurner and some of you are really good people using an outlook email address - some of you look rather suspicious.

HMMM...is there a bot going on?

Maybe you need to leave a comment on here. Tell me somethin' good...

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William Shatner - "Garbageman" (Originally by The Cramps)

GOOD WAY | FRANK WALN ft. GUNNER JULES & ROLLIE RAPS

ANYmal Using an Elevator

how bad is it?

We have no choice but to end corporate rule before it destroys the entire human species.
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mechanizing ethics? superhuman artificial intelligence

oh, no... they did... AI learns to feel things...

Billionaires Create Fund to Teach Morals to AI

Who are they? EBay founder Pierre Omidyar, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, the Knight Foundation (a non-profit charitable foundation) and Omidyar’s charitable foundation, Omidyar Network.
In a press release in January 2017, Omidyar announced the group has initially given $27 million to researchers who will work at MIT’s Media Lab and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society to develop what Constellation Research (a Silicon Valley technology research and advisory firm) VP and principal analyst Steve Wilson calls a “deep, cross-disciplinary systems thinking being applied to the problem of mechanizing ethics.”

For example, one of the most critical challenges is how do we make sure that the machines we ‘train’ don’t perpetuate and amplify the same human biases that plague society?

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(Really!) Billionaires are moral? The inmates are running the asylum now? BOOM

Commenter: How about teaching morals to yourselves? The top 8 of the richest men in the world have as much as 3.6 billion people, or the bottom half of the entire global population. That's absolutely disgusting. Something is wrong with peoples greed and yet nothing ever changes.