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I have a question for anyone out there who gets this sort of thing. Recent discoveries studying the accretion disk of a very heavy galactic core black hole seem to suggest that ‘the surface zone’ around a black hole is “moving” at a speed close to the speed of light. I see a problem here….

I just did something wrong. I just experienced two separate incidents of what I’d term discrimination. Emphasis on ‘experience;. The first incident was on the train back from the east of the country. During my travel I experienced a bout of severe screaming and taunting from some, what I’d classify, more culturally backward schoolkids. This…

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/02/21/apocalypse_soon?wp_login_redirect=0 You almost got the essence. Almost. But halfway you just stopped thinking. Machines are created with purpose. Machines are devices that manifest the values and interests, not of the people that create them – but of the people that pay for them. Our whole world i about embedding financial interests of investors. It is…

Updates * Google won’t approve facial recognition Glass apps until it has ‘privacy protections in place’ * The Google Glass feature no one is talking about. * Stop the Cyborgs Movement * Google Glass Driving Ban * Privacy ‘impossible’ with Google Glass warn campaigners First, take the video feeds from every Google Glass headset, worn…

Tomorrow (thursday 7 february 2012) this time I will be travelling to the city of Breda (a place I had sworn to never visit again, as it represents a lot of quite painful memories for me) to visit the court house for a hearing for my name change. The judge holding the hearing is Mr….

(Source: Washington post. Used with no discernible permission) WASHINGTON — They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like “I, Robot” and the television show “Knight Rider.” Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway…

The following text is a proposal written by me, Khannea Suntzu. This text has no status or claims beyond that of a proposal. This text may be freely quoted and commented on, and is made available for the IEET, Humanity+, Transhumanity web site and other similar platforms of debate. The original “transhumanist Declaration was published…

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This article was published at Transhumanity.net, and was written by Zeev Kirsch http://transhumanity.net/articles/entry/transhumanisms-schism-are-we-motivated-by-greed-or-humanism. I’ve been observing the general tenor of transhumanism, via video footage on various speakers and events, essays published on the internet, and from speaking to self-identifying transhumanists by phone directly. I believe transhumanism is having an identity crisis, or possibly a schism….

This article was written by Arjen Kamphuis, for HuffPoUK (lol) and was first published here. Used without explicit permission because that’s how I roll. However Arjen is a very dear friend and he kicks ass. I redacted the links “a little” for entertainment value. At their yearly conference the Dutch The National Cyber ​​Security Center…

I have as little as possible to say on the topic, largely because I have no time for this. Even if this person is doing anything in his power to contact a lot of people and (in his words) try and ‘destroy’ me. I must have somehow touched a part of him deep inside, that…

(Source) If there’s one thing the past teaches us, it’s that human beings are cruel and capricious assholes, short-sighted and bloody-minded for whom everything always ends in tears. Our grandparents still remember a war that killed everyone who wasn’t our grandparents and ate a third of the entire population of Poland. On the evidence of…

(source) A Stanford professor and author of the Population Bomb recently published a paper in a scientific journal re-emphasizing climate change and population growth pose existential threats to humanity and in an interview with Raw Story said that giving people the right to have as many children as they want is “a bad idea.” “The…

(update.. hehehe to all critics.) I just spend an hour on the phone with civil servants of the city of the Hague, and with the commission on “these issues” of the Dutch parliament. Why did I do that? Well, this may be a theoretical issue. It may be a human rights issue. And it may…

(link) This is about as important as it gets, and the Libertarian Transhumanist keep in denial. “Those people” just want to postpone acceptance of this fact as long as possible because it’ll mean more taxes. Sadly, the longer we wait changing society to accommodate the shift in work patterns, the more convulsive the transition. J’accuse!

(Source) The expulsion of Palestinian residents from an army live-fire zone in the West Bank would enable the Palestinians to address the International Criminal Court. That is the legal opinion attached to a revised petition being submitted Wednesday to the High Court of Justice against the eviction. The petition relates to some 30,000 dunams in…

I coin this term today. The neologism is a contraction between “Fema” and “Favella”. The term describes large sprawling ghettoes of endless quickly constructed container and trailer (and many other sorts of improvized, cheap) dwellings in designated areas along the sprawling US metroplex areas. Femavellas’s primary raison d’etre is to offer living space tens of…

(source) Paul Krugman has recently taken a keen interest in the rise of robots and automation — an issue that I have been focusing on since the publication of my book on this subject back in 2009. In a recent post, Krugman says the following: Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but also reduce…

An IRL equivalent of my SL wife, allegedly. I’ll paint this image up a little next week. I dunno, a bit scrawny?