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…)
Musing on the history of the Jeep Wave in honor of Memorial Day.
This is 100% taken from the OP’s post. Read the comments to see more people musing on it, and lamenting that NO ONE WAVES ANYMORE. This is an addendum to my rant at JEEP corporate for missing out on one (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…)
The Coming Age of Long Form Journalism – some delightful examples of media rich articles.
The duality of a society with less and less attention finding the time to consume large bits of detailed information is not so surprising, as modern times find niche markets victorious. Looking to be (more…)
Digital Inheritance, & Sentiment Analysis to build biographer’s depictions of a dead soul.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/300614977/the-new-age-leaving-behind-everything-or-nothing-at-all This talks about your “digital inheritance”, how people used to burn letters to (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…)
Violation in the 21st Century – even a transparency advocate can feel like his privacy is at risk.
Tiburon and I guess the whole world is going to have to start making airspace rules. I don’t care if you have a quadropter. I don’t care that you have an HD mounted camera on a gimble. I don’t even (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…)