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Use your camera, and use it well. Rules like these can never be acceptable. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gHhfkZV3YI&w=640&h=390] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBpV0uSUg2g&w=480&h=390] Links Sousveillance The transparant society Penn Jillette A Robot YOU CAN BUY with Camera Remote controlled helicopters RC Nanocopter Construction robotics Cyber eye Miniature camera A Micro-Robotics Revolution If you still can’t see the implications after all…

I bear witness of protests in Washington. There is something changing in this place. Have a listen to how it works in this excuse for a country. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBnSv3a6Nh4&w=480&h=400] Can someone do something really awful to this vile wretch? This is corporate fascism, plain and simple. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NohON9Ui-I&w=640&h=400] Fuck is Rachel hot or what? [youtube…

The proof of the pudding is in your face. It must take a lot of money to bribe people to ignore, or media to confuse everyone else that the US is simply failing by any objective standard.

I have been a US critic for quite some time now. My criticism is quite widely scattered, but it centers mainly on the idea that a state (or society) must care for all even if this demands a sacrifice from those better off, and at best can demand from those it helps that they curtail…

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..any way we need to make sure. We do not care if people die. Some cosmetic democratization in Tunesia (who gives a fuck about Tunesia, they‘d say) was great, and a democratization surge in Egypt was regarded as acceptable by AIPAC … but get near our oil and we will instruct our allied right wing…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJyibKY6fPg&w=640&h=390] We are outgrowing the Earth. There is only one solution – scientific, sensible, verifiable, prudent management of resources. The is – basing our management of our house on constraints rather than aspirations. In terms you’d know that means an economical and ecological management (sound decision making rather than “politics”) based on what we have…

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*WARNING* not a bomb hoaxxx *WARNING* not a bomb hoaxxx The international people’s front of Hope and Ambition claim responsibility for this irreversibly ruthless strike against the forces of Apathy and Dolor. We have spread a subtle generation of neuroral memetic agents in all human brains, and these will DETONATE in a sequence of precisely…

Pilfered from here… Technological Transcendence: An Interview with Giulio Prisco By: Ben Goertzel Published: February 8, 2011 A character in Ken MacLeod’s 1998 novel The Cassini Division refers to the Singularity as “the Rapture for nerds” (though it should be duly noted that in that novel the Singularity occurs anyway!). This represents a moderately recurrent…

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Humans are evolved beings. I am quite sorry if you don’t believe in natural evolution, but that’s where I start. This evolution has endowed us with a faint capacity to actively desire to pursue a better state than we have. I would say that we seek to transcend our current state and would eventually (and…

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My name is Khannea Suntzu, I am pansexual, generally submissive, passive-fetishist, eager-to-please. I am a very restless and feral girl. The following is a presentation I was invited to hold for the VenusPlusX organization for Sexual Freedom, where I was invited by Dan and Alison, at the Creating Change Conference in Minneapolis. This text will…

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Let me quote back me at Mike Annisimov’s site, in 2006, for your entertainment.

Eventually even the hardcore transhumanists were bound to catch on that this current world isn’t that realistic when it comes to accrediting human beings with any inherent “value”. Of course for the while the old scarcicists keep singing the same tune “the economy the economy entitlements entitlements state debts state debts” – but that’ll help…

Let me paint you a highly simplified picture of energy politics in (especially the second half of) the future of humanity in the 21st century; 1 – Abundant Growth This is the future where we have so much energy we can do amazing things, and have unprecedented economic growth. Yes, I am saying “access to…

The most dangerous conventional wisdom in the world today is the idea that with an older population, people must work longer and retire with less. This idea is being used to rationalize cuts in old-age benefits in numerous advanced countries — most recently in France, and soon in the United States. The cuts are disguised…

The online world of Second Life seemed like the next big thing, only to be largely written off. Neither hypers nor detractors understood it. BY JULIAN DIBBELL Never mind: American Apparel closed a ­virtual store it had in Second Life. If you had to say exactly when the wave of media hype about the online…

For a moment it is difficult to identify the image on the cover of Envisioning Real Utopias. A pause, then realisation: it’s a mountaintop, emerging from thick cloud, below a pale sky. But everything is upside down. Like the idea of real utopias, the image is a paradox, impossible and possible at the same time….

Make it to the year 2045 and you can live forever, the controversial futurist claims. So how’s his personal quest for immortality going? New Scientist FOR Ray Kurzweil, it’s all about patterns. The IT guru and futurist became famous across the US while still in high school by developing a computer program that extracted the…

AlterNet : How America Turned into a Nation of Speedfreaks By Mick Farren, Feral House Posted on December 26, 2010, Printed on December 28, 2010 The following is an excerpt from Mick Farren’s new book, Speed-Speed-Speedfreak: A Fast History of Amphetamine (Feral House, 2010) In the fullness of history, all the different varieties of speed…