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by cerealbad 9y ago
in a free society some people will choose to disassociate themselves from it.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
mercantile capitalism morphing into corporate feudalism; slavers need blinders for human tack. the usual suspects: torah, mahabharata, dhammapada, i ching, the communist manifesto, theosophy, neoplatonism, shamanism, utilitarianism, etc. no
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by cerealbad 9y ago
some people enjoy good food and drink, the company of others, to sing and dance and laugh; to love and hate in one breath, and feel the passions of life like a spark across their skin. some people enjoy problem solving in a dynamic environm
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by cerealbad 9y ago
that we know of :)
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by cerealbad 9y ago
every now and then try to read something you hate. it builds character and patience, something everyone finds moreish.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
1939- The New World Order (H.G. Wells)[] is a short read. 78 years later, a human lifetime, the issues are the same now as then. uncertain future, uncollected collective, fear, greed and inequality. at some point you need to take a step bac
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by cerealbad 9y ago
page 12[] is where the interesting numbers are. machinery, iron and steel, cotton, lumber. that's how it became the world's economy. ww1 and ww2 is how it became the world's military power. the military industrial complex is
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by cerealbad 9y ago
a redesign of the internal space of personal transportation vehicles was inevitable this century. flat-packed open-topped convertible electric mover rented for sleeping, sex and middle journeys (500-2000 miles).
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by cerealbad 9y ago
create an app that rates a users face on a scale of 1-10 and matches them up with another user of the same rating. sell the photo database backend to government contractors, law enforcement agencies, advertising firms.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
seems like some kind of face camouflage is necessary for the future.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
not a bubble, not a bubble, not a bubble.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
nuclear war, aka the apocalypse for the religiously unaligned.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
writing diminished thinking and reasoning capacity, computers continued offloading cognitive functions to adaptive machines. dig up, stupid! is a fitting epithet.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System a lot of moonshot movie weapons don't get mentioned too often, mostly because they suck (and were incredibly expensive to develop). there was another one in the 8
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by cerealbad 9y ago
a high level parser which receives sense data and does scheduling. stay alive, avoid pain, seek comfort, exploit opportunities. strain yourself to count 1 to 100 while re-reading this entire text from the beginning and visualise various sha
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by cerealbad 9y ago
we will fight two world wars in the next 3 decades and the generations born after will be wasteful and destructive. revive me in 2099 if i was correct.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
philosophers are used word salesmen, you aren't missing much.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
icq, aim, msn messenger, google talk (DOA), skype, wechat. besides widespread business adoption, what's special about this one? it's seamless to uninstall an app and get a new one. why would there be customer loyalty to this busin
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by cerealbad 9y ago
can a data center be shrunk down to the size of a consumer product within the next 50 years? will we all own one and store massive amounts of information for purely selfish or inane reasons? yes/yes - ai comes out of that. no/no -
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by cerealbad 9y ago
to all expectant mothers nervous about whether you should breast feed or not, it's definitely a huge and important decision, so i have devised an experiment you can undertake right now to try to gather more data so you can make an info
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by cerealbad 9y ago
the things i know are not as certain as i am. universities teach myth and research profit. "Here they lie."
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by cerealbad 9y ago
reminds me of the back-to-the-land movement and the foxfire books. their impetus in the 60s and 70s was a retreat from the complicated, (inter)dependent, technological ecosystem of a modern metropolis; towards a simpler redundancy structure
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by cerealbad 9y ago
The Prisoner (1967-1968) is mesmerising. Le Voyage dans la lune - Georges Méliès 1902 (link provided) holds up after 115 years. Don't be so surprised! Timeless storytelling and design transcends it's delivery medium. https:/
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by cerealbad 9y ago
the internet will go the way of the telephone network. what will replace it? a copy of all your favourite people stored on the implant in your brain. the interface will be a waking dream.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
selling targeted advertising in front of curated information is not the cyberpunk future i was promised. information needs to become transparent so addicts look through it rather than at it, with an augmented reality horizon. current mobile
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by cerealbad 9y ago
What makes female engineers different from male engineers again?
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by cerealbad 9y ago
btc seems like a great way to spy on everyone using it.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
Bill Cooper's Mystery Babylon radio series from the late 90s is archived online and was intended to act as an in depth primer >40 hours. Quigley's books are freely available from his wikipedia page: https://en.wikipe
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by cerealbad 9y ago
if you are bad at negotiation you should hire someone to do it for you.
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by cerealbad 9y ago
american civilization lacks the maturity of foresight. their <250 year history is greedy search. this permeates all levels of their culture and cements company ethos as a race between employees rather than a collaborative endeavor in pro

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