These differences in search, which I have posted before, still astound me. Inequality in web search trends, by “easy places to live” and “hard places to live” Wow.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/upshot/inequality-and-web-search-trends.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=0 Pardon (more…)
Iceland… 4K, genetic experiments, utilitarian sculptures, and original hipsters…
They were the original hipsters. They love their sweaters, beards, lumberjack look, indie pop, and apparently The Big Lebowski. They also are markedly homogeneous, with a wildly close knit population (more…)
Electric cars charged on coal powered grids pollute 3x a normal gas / petrol vehicle.
This is crazy. I always thought it would be the batteries that were found out to be the worst part…. http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21636715-why-electric-car-may-be-much-dirtier-petrol-one-cleaner-what Sorta (more…)
Anti-GMO is incredibly unscientific, based in opinion with no facts.
I have always been really cued into the public discussions that include a lot of opinion versus fact, etc. I am a huge skeptic, and big “science can save us from ourselves” guy. I am certainly not aggro (more…)
The cynic in me…. everyone’s the smart guy when the economy is good?
Africa is screwed.. if not crazy beliefs (Atheist is mentally ill: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28010234) , corruption, or just semi regional to northern Africa / Middle East escalation into all (more…)
The disruption of driverless cars melts my brain.
Sitting in a car and not holding a steering wheel would trip me out… but it’s only about control, right? It’s so much safer, but like flying… lack of control freaks us out. I cannot wait to sleep (more…)
Jon Stewart nails the NRA’s dementia, yet again. Also – Chipotle bans guns.
Not exact – “Just because you are a good guy openly carrying a firearm doesn’t mean other people know that. You just look like a guy with a gun. And waving your gun and saying ‘I am a good guy with a (more…)
Let’s chat about “HER”: A post semantic technological world of developmental singularities & transcendence
Spoilers kiddies: My “Her” review: a technological developmental singularity; when AI out evolves human consciousness w/transcension into a parralel universe. — Uncle Fishbits (@UncleFishbits) (more…)
47% of all jobs will disappear within two decades. Not hyperbole. Oxford’s study, & How an Algorithm wants your job.
edit: Although this was published in April of 2014 here on my blog, it had gone down at one time and had artifacts, a few links were dead, I used Wayback on one of them, reintroduced some old graphics (more…)
Christmas, Easter, Holidays, and continual theft of ancient oral culture.
So basically, it’s like this: The Babylonian and Sumerian Department stores went out of business. The Christians bought the stores for DIRT CHEAP. Then, they basically relabeled everything, and threw (more…)