January 2010
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Absolute power corrupts YOUR BRAIN. →
Unfortunately, states of power seem to induce a temporary state of mindblindness, so that our sympathetic instincts are repressed. A simple variation on the ultimatum game known as the dictator game makes this clear. Unlike the ultimatum game, in which the responder can decide whether or not to accept the monetary offer, in the dictator game, the proposer simply dictates how much the responder...
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"The Max Headroom Pirating Incident" (1987) →
This is something that, thanks to our decentralized channels of distribution, almost never happens in contemporary life, but it should, because it’s totally fucking amazing.
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Fontr - Automated Hierarchichal Clustering of... →
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Vue Weekly : Edmonton's 100% Independent Weekly :... →
what if Jacques Lacan—the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst—had left his home in the early 1950s in order to travel to England and work as a police detective? How might he have applied his theories in order to solve crime?
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Daft Punk - The Crash
A piece of music rumored to be taken from the upcoming TRON Legacy soundtrack.
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my idea of a good time
challenge: Develop a series of questions and measurements in order to create a full and viable implementation of the Voight-Kampff empathy test, to be deployed at events and in public spaces.
obstacle: Developing the test will introduce observer bias and therefore make it unusable on its creator. Must find an observer-neutral method of detecting replicant status.
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“postmodernism is the turbulence that occurs at the interface of disparate value...”
– clark richert
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weapons of god →
jesus christ, literally.
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fantastically beautiful.
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crazy badass keyboardism →
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“it is going to be a drunken unicorn drowning in a martini glass with the words...”
– Ponyxx
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I would like to know
how I might best fit my square peg into your round hole.
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emotion
$(document).ready(function() { $(this).fuck(‘shit’); });
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Depressive realism - Wikipedia, the free... →
Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by the positive illusions of illusory superiority, the illusion of control and optimism bias. It must be understood that this refers specifically to people with borderline or moderate depression - while normal people see things in too positive a...
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doctor who/rocked radiophonic
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"fickle is as fickle fucks."
-mer
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