Monday, September 30, 2013
bet not have any friends/correspondents overseas...,
By CNu at September 30, 2013 1 comments
Labels: cull-tech , unspeakable
a little taste of what unspeakable is hogging...,
Email, one of the original forms of social media, is even older than the web and contains a detailed description of our personal and professional history.
Immersion is an invitation to dive into the history of your email life in a platform that offers you the safety of knowing that you can always delete your data.
Just like a cubist painting, Immersion presents users with a number of different perspectives of their email data.
- It provides a tool for self-reflection at a time where the zeitgeist is one of self-promotion.
- It provides an artistic representation that exists only in the presence of the visitor.
- It helps explore privacy by showing users data that they have already shared with others.
So Immersion is not about one thing. It’s about four. It’s about self-reflection, art, privacy and strategy. It’s about providing users with a number of different perspectives by leveraging on the fact that the web, and emails, are now an important part of our past. Fist tap Dale.
By CNu at September 30, 2013 0 comments
Labels: facebook IS evil , not a good look , tricknology
Sunday, September 29, 2013
quoth the godmoor...,
By CNu at September 29, 2013 1 comments
Labels: crate excavation , subrealist oeuvre...
speaking of the unspeakable
Chapter 1: The Higher Circles
- This chapter provides a description of the power elite and the mechanism through which it acquires and exercises its power on a national level.
- He describes the contemporary means of power as the hierarchies of state, military and the big corporate institutions. Other, previously decisive institutions such as family and religion are pushed aside in the contemporary United States. They adapt to contemporary life, which in turn is set and determined by the new means of power.
- Wealth, power, and popularity, in this system, attach to the positions that individuals occupy, and not to the individuals themselves.
- The power elite of the US, which never faced competition due to the
absence of feudal structures (aristocracy and religion), monopolize
power from the get-go.
- It becomes a caste within the upper classes, and makes all decisions that have important consequences.
- It is not a group of rulers whose every decision is correct and every consequence of such decisions is as expected.
- It is limited by the means of power, the techniques of power, and the means of communication. However, their limitations are much less compared to previous ruling classes, due to the expansion and centralization in the means of power.
- To study the unity of the US power elite, one should investigate:
- the psychology of the elite in their respective environments (their psychological similarities)
- the interrelations between the military, economical, and political institutions they are part of (the social intermingling of the means of power)
- the co-operation between the means of power (i.e. the military, big corporations, and state)
- The main theses of the book, as set by Mills, are:
- Historical circumstances have led to the rise of power elite,
- They now make key decisions,
- The enlargement and centralization of means of power increased the potency of the consequences of their decisions,
- The power elite is much more unified and powerful than the "mass society",[2] which is fragmented and impotent.
By CNu at September 29, 2013 4 comments
Labels: Living Memory , unspeakable
nsa spying on u.s. citizens was first reported in 1975..,
By CNu at September 29, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Living Memory , unspeakable
so much wild and crazy stuff shook loose in the 70's...,
By CNu at September 29, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Living Memory , unspeakable
Saturday, September 28, 2013
doctrine cannot abide the commentariate
By CNu at September 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: agenda , deceiver , establishment , propaganda
/. solved the comment signal/noise "problem" a generation ago...,
By CNu at September 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: People Centric Leadership , tactical evolution
popular science kills comments, blames criticism of global warming and evolution...,
Often doctrine specifically connotes a corpus of religious dogma as it is promulgated by a church, but not necessarily: doctrine is also used to refer to a principle of law...
a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party, or other group.
But here at DailyTech we take a different view. We reject censorship and believe in free expression.
We welcome all opinions from the novice to the professional. We welcome respectful criticism of our authors, our articles, and the material therein, in a public place for all to see. We don't believe doctrines and indoctrination have a place in open scientific discussion.
At the same time we acknowledge that comments -- criticism, trolling, and more -- are a painful burden at times. But it is a burden we choose to bear because we must. Perhaps it will hurt our readers' impressions of our site. But journalism and science are founded upon open discourse and a receptiveness to feedback. Once you lose that, you risk rapid loss of your accountability and credibility.
By CNu at September 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: information anarchy , institutional deconstruction , not a good look
welcome to the marketplace of ideas
By CNu at September 28, 2013 2 comments
Labels: information anarchy , institutional deconstruction , unintended consequences
Friday, September 27, 2013
selling food that has passed its expiration date...,
An estimated 40 percent of food in the United States ends up getting wasted and thrown away.
Doug Rauch, who used to be the president of Trader Joe's, has come up with a way that might prevent some of that food from going to waste.
Rauch's project is a market called the Daily Table, which is set to open next year in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Most food that gets thrown out at the grocery store has passed the sell by date, which can sometimes be inaccurate depending on how the product is stored.
Also, farmers dispose of produce that has cosmetic abnormalities, because they won't be able to sell it.
The Daily Table will use that produce in prepared fresh food, to be sold at affordable prices.
Rauch is quoted as saying: "It's kind of a hybrid between a grocery store and a restaurant... it's going to take this food in, prep it, cook it... But the idea is to offer this at prices that compete with fast food."
The market will not only conserve food that would otherwise go to waste, but they can also sell that food at a discount.
By CNu at September 27, 2013 1 comments
Labels: common sense , hustle-hard
35-YEAR-OLD US VETERAN: I AM ON FOOD STAMPS BECAUSE I ENJOY NOT STARVING
His letter depicts an America where ”normal” is military service families using food stamps to survive while the soldiers who serve America are busy fighting overseas… Shouldn’t these people, giving so much for their country, have at least enough to buy food for themselves and their families?
This is the reality of the GOP War on the Poor. Fist tap Dale.
By CNu at September 27, 2013 2 comments
Labels: clampdown , Collapse Casualties , Farmer Brown , food-powered
bugs for slum-dwellers around the world...,
By CNu at September 27, 2013 9 comments
Labels: clampdown , Farmer Brown , food
no more meat for prisoners...,
County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is no stranger to controversy. Over the years, he has made seemingly countless numbers of national headlines. As recently as August, the five-time elected sheriff was in the news after announcing that his deputies would be required to carry firearms at all times, even while off duty.
Of course, reporter Troy Hayden was less convinced, telling Arpaio that the soy looked like "wood chips" and pointing out that some of the carrots used were brown.
"Oh, that's probably just dirt, don't worry about that," Arpaio responded.
By CNu at September 27, 2013 0 comments
Labels: clampdown , Farmer Brown , food supply
Thursday, September 26, 2013
the power of myth in the hood...,
By CNu at September 26, 2013 4 comments
Labels: killer-ape , monkey see - monkey do , not a good look , What IT DO Shawty...
the power of myth
By CNu at September 26, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Livestock Management , What IT DO Shawty...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
if a path exists toward a moral economy, we're not on it...,
By CNu at September 25, 2013 47 comments
Labels: banksterism , dopamine , global system of 1% supremacy , hegemony , killer-ape , resource war
deadly attack in nairobi shopping mall
All were fleeing the bloody massacre unfolding around them as they saw terrified fellow shoppers mercilessly executed after being singled out as non-Muslim.
Men, women and children were lined up and then gunned down with AK-47s after failing to name the Prophet Mohammed’s mother or recite passages from the Koran – sure-fire proof they were ‘kafirs’, or non-believers.
Others fled and sought refuge in shops, bank vaults and store rooms as grenades exploded and bullets fired around them.
The fortunate ones managed to emerge blood-splattered and terrified, with the wounded pushed out in shopping trolleys.
Hannah Chisholm, 21, from Haslemere, Surrey, described the terror and confusion at the Westgate Mall, which she was visiting while on holiday.
She said: ‘We kept running to different places but the shots were getting louder so we barricaded ourselves along with about 60 others into a large storeroom.
‘There were children hiding with us as well as someone who had been shot. At that point we thought the gunmen were thieves so we assumed they wouldn’t try to reach the storeroom.’
Greg Aldous, from New Zealand, told how he hid in a box and watched a man being gunned down 30ft away from him. He said the terrorists ‘were coming in through the front, they were coming in through the back and we were just sitting ducks’.
He added: ‘These are Islamic fundamentalist nutcases. They just shot and killed anybody. They are horrible.’
He eventually escaped under the cover of darkness to a lorry-loading depot where people were panicking and screaming.
‘My instinct was to hide and I jumped into a large box containing supermarket cartons and hid there,’ he said. ‘I only survived the massacre because I kept out of sight.
‘If they had found me… I’m white, so I’m dead. They’re not even going to think twice. They hate your skin colour.’ Radio presenter Saadia Ahmed was one of the 1,000 who managed to flee. She said: ‘I witnessed a few people get up and say something in Arabic and the gunmen let them go.
‘A colleague of mine said he was Muslim and recited something in Arabic and they let him go as well.’
By CNu at September 25, 2013 0 comments
Labels: killer-ape , resource war
deadly attack at pakistan church
By CNu at September 25, 2013 0 comments
Labels: killer-ape , resource war , What IT DO Shawty...
CUNY students protesting petraeus catch an NYPD special...,
By CNu at September 25, 2013 0 comments
Labels: American Original , killer-ape , not a good look , predatory militarism , propaganda
and in a country predicated on in-group/out-group killer ape violence...,
By CNu at September 25, 2013 2 comments
Labels: American Original , clampdown , killer-ape , What IT DO Shawty...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
subversive to all "respectable" religious order...,
By CNu at September 24, 2013 1 comments
Labels: as above-so below
a parasitic gene that affects host promiscuity?
By CNu at September 24, 2013 2 comments
Labels: Genetic Omni Determinism GOD
how does morality work in the brain?
By CNu at September 24, 2013 0 comments
Labels: neuromancy
why is combinatorial communication rare in the natural world?
By CNu at September 24, 2013 0 comments
Labels: ethology , evolution , What IT DO Shawty...
how to understand the deep structures of language
By CNu at September 24, 2013 0 comments
Labels: ethology , evolution , What IT DO Shawty...
Monday, September 23, 2013
darwin's apple: the evolutionary biology of religion
By CNu at September 23, 2013 5 comments
Labels: co-evolution , What IT DO Shawty...
what drives dawkins is the truth and wonder of darwinism...,
By CNu at September 23, 2013 0 comments
Labels: the wattles
the history of myth
This essay will demonstrate that questions about the truth value and cultural importance of myths have generated ingenious interpretations and heated disputes ever since the time of Xenophanes and Heraclitus. For two and a half millennia, competition among various schools of mythology has been a struggle over matters of ultimate truth, religious belief, political theory, cultural identity, verifiable history, and social custom. Myth has been variously understood as the revelation of divine mysteries, as primitive science and faulty history, as bad philosophy, as a code containing truths hidden from the uneducated, as the cultural DNA determining a people’s identity, as a resource for learning about the material culture of “primitive” peoples, as a window into the workings of the human mind, and as a justification for deplorable acts of cruelty. Indeed, the story of mythology demonstrates emphatically that there is a great deal more at stake in the study of myths than becoming acquainted with amusing cultural artifacts attesting how naĂ¯ve and superstitious our ancestors were.
The early history of mythology may be summarized by saying that from the first flowering of scientific rationalism in Greece during the 6th century BCE until the revival of scientific rationalism in the 17th century CE, allegorical mythology of one kind or another was the only method employed for studying myths. As the Enlightenment (c. late 1600s-late 1700s) approached, allegorical approaches were overtaken and incorporated into the new, more scientific comparative mythology. Comparative mythology, in turn, gave rise to several related schools. The nature school made comparisons among the world’s myths to determine what key environmental or cosmological factor gave rise to myth. The ethnological school made comparisons among the world’s myths to discern a people’s folk-spirit—their essential ethnic qualities. The most intense form of the ethnological school—which culminated in the Aryan hypothesis—coupled comparisons of the world’s myths with intensely racial and nationalistic political ideologies.
Thus, by the 19th century, whether their focus was the Aryan homeland, the relationships between environment, Volk, and myth, or the Ur-myth , mythologists of all schools employed the comparative method. In practice, comparative mythologists of whatever school locked themselves in libraries and studies, reading extensively and writing theories based on linguistic and literary analyses of the myths they studied. Toward the end of the 19th century, however, interest began to wane in unverifiable theories about the Ur-myth and partisan arguments about a people’s “folk-spirit.” A new school of mythologists was waiting in the wings to shift the conversation away from questions about tale-types and Ur-people to the matter of how living mythic traditions function in so-called primitive societies. The next chapter examines these new, modern mythologies.
By CNu at September 23, 2013 0 comments
Labels: ancient , History's Mysteries
Sunday, September 22, 2013
autumnal equinox 4:44pm est...,
By CNu at September 22, 2013 0 comments
Labels: weather report
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