The Psychology and Singularity blog should be on our blogroll - great find.
sd. great post.
AQ 447 = EUROPE - AT THE CUTTING EDGE = ACCELERATING ACCUMULATION (Intelligent Design) = FOR I AM THE MINISTER OF GOD = INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (NACHIP) = MECHANISM OF TRANSLATION = NEURON-SILICON INTERFACE (NACHIP) = PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY = SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTE.
AQ 319 = VIRTUAL ECONOMY = ABSTRACT CULTURE = AZURE-LIDDED WOMAN = CONTINENTAL ARMY = EAST-WEST INTEFACE = INFRASTRUCTURE = LAWS OF DIFRACTION = PHASE CHANGE OCCURS = PINPOINT LANDFALL = SCIENCE V. IGNORANCE = SEXUAL BORDERLAND = SOUTHEAST: BELDOR = SOW THE WILD OATS (Alamantra) = STANDARD OF LIVING (Kurzweilomics: Forecasting Productivity - Labor productivity is perhaps the most important statistic in the economy. Over time, output per worker is what drives wage rates and the standard of living.) = STEEPED HORSEHAIR = STELE OF REVEALING = THE CALL OF CTHULHU = TREATY OF NYSTAD.
AQ 344 = RACE/RELIGION PRISM (k-punk) = ADEPTUS EXEMPTUS = BLACK MESA SCIENCE TEAM (Half-Life) = CALLIGRAPHIC ELEMENT = COMPUTE AN OUTCOME = CORETTA SCOTT KING = ENOCHIAN APOCALYPSE = HYPOSTATIC UNION = IMAGE OF GOD THE FATHER = MARGINALIZED THRICE = NU! THE HIDING OF HADIT = PAMPHAGE, PANGENETOR = RACIAL SPECIFICATION (bmr) = SATYENDRA NATH BOSE (Bengali Indian physicist, specializing in mathematical physics; bosons, named after him; with Einstein, predicted the existence of phenomena which became known as Bose-Einstein condensate, a dense collection of bosons (which are particles with integer spin, named after Bose), which was proven to exist by experiment in 1995Half-Life).
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/02/.../22/brain.gate/
BrainGate Neural Interface is being developed by Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems Inc. in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The device is a 4 by 4 millimeter arrangement of 100 electrodes. It is surgically implanted in the motor cortex, the part of the brain responsible for creating movement in the limbs.
http://www.cyberkineticsinc.com/
http://www.wired.com/wired/archi...3.03/
brain.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/03...s.ap/
index.html
According to the book [Game of Shadows], Bonds was using two designer steroids, known as the cream and the clear, plus insulin, human growth hormone and other performance enhancers by 2001, when he hit 73 home runs to break Mark McGwire's single-season MLB record.
http://www.azcentral.com/
arizona...14sarewitz.html
The flip side of the steroid scandal in baseball is the nearly parallel announcement of the first cloned dog. Ballplayers are punished for using pharmaceutical technologies to improve their physical abilities while scientists are rewarded for pushing toward a similar goal: in the words of artificial-intelligence technovisionary Ray Kurzweil, "reverse engineering our biology and then reprogramming it."
http://www.jefallbright.net/node/3020
"The use of anabolic steroids, in retrospect, will seem almost prehistoric as well as stupid [...] In the future, we'll be able to enhance ourselves in other ways that won't be so dangerous."
really good roundup
http://lancemannion.typepad.com/
...ream_and_t.html
Steyn on Reynolds:
http://www.macleans.ca/culture/
b...3_124174_124174
The Reynolds book probably v. stimulating judging by his range of interests and sound instincts - will try to pick it up if it's affordable. His 'pack versus herd' meme totally D&G of course.
On media and the war:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Arti...le.asp?
ID=21885
Bloggers at the Gate: Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
A new age of of magic interpretation is almost upon us
northanger - K-punk and Jack Robertson seem to be on the same page. (I like the practical consequences of this leftist 'irrealism' because it means none of their ideas will ever amount to anything - more wild situationist-style ravings please!) - on a similar note, dailyKOS is Karl Rove's best friend
nick. hmm.
AQ 608 = DAILYKOS IS KARL ROVE'S BEST FRIEND =ARISTOTELIAN MODEL OF CIRCULATION (Druj Notes) = FORAGING FOR THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE = WE ARE LIVING IN THE AGE OF PROPHECIES.
AQ 394 = KARL ROVE'S BEST FRIEND = CCRU HAS NEVER EXISTED = DECAGON WITH TRIANGLES = DIFFUSION OF PRESTIGE = DOUBLE GIFT OF TONGUES = EMANCIPATORY ASPECTS (k-punk) = FIXED RATE OF INTEREST (Kurzweilomics) = INFORMATION SPLICING = MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME = NOT RIGOROUS ENOUGH (Beyond Market Efficiency) = STRANGER AND STRANGER = THE PRISONERS' DILEMMA = THE US GRAND STRATEGY (JR Dunn).
AQ 174 = KARL ROVE = MOONCHILD.
AQ 280 = CRASHING THE GATE = 1. YEA, IT IS I, BABALON. (LIBER 49) = ART MATHEMATICAL = CORRESPONDENCE = CRUCIAL DECISION = CRYPTOGRAPHY = DISCOMBOBULATED (Omowale Adewale) = EXCHANGE PARADIGM = FINLANDIZATION = FIRST QUARTER = FUCKING MOONGOD = GENE MUTATIONS = HUMAN USE-VALUE = LAW OF IDENTITY = MORPHOGENESIS = MYSTIFICATION = NEW REVELATION = NOVA PROSPEKT (Half-Life) = NUCLEAR REACTOR (Half-Life) = NUCLEAR WINTER = OESIPUS ISLAND (LAM Gateway) = QABBALA UNSHELLED = ROYAL ARCH DEGREE = SELF-SUFFICIENT (Half-Life) = SHREDDED GENOMES = SWEET SMELLING = THE (SUB)BASEMENT = THE SACRED RITES = THE WORD SECRET = THIS IS THE PLACE = TICKING MACHINES = TO ME! TO ME! - 418 - AUM HA = TYPHONIAN O.T.O. = ULTRACULTURE.
northanger - have you noticed the way this 'irrealist' critique of capital perfectly resonates with the present realities of French political culture? If it could get beyond disconnected enraged slogans and produce a systematic philosophy of phantasmatic rejectionism it would be HUGE in the psychotic heartland of Old Europe - meanwhile, the periphery gets on with making stuff (and thus producing real change).
Barbarians of suburbs target French Jews
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
art...14296_1,00.html
misc Dunn & On media links:
A Military Quagmire Remembered: Afghanistan as Vietnam
The Beginning Of The Corruption Of The Media [H]
Lies, Deceit and Hypocrisy
The Death of Journalism
Media Challenges In Africa
Making a Killing: The Business of War (ICIJ)
A nearly two-year investigation by the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has also found that a handful of individuals and companies with connections to governments, multinational corporations and, sometimes, criminal syndicates in the United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East have profited from this war commerce a growth industry whose bottom line never takes into account the lives it destroys.
The Role of the Media in a Democracy
Thomas Jefferson felt so strongly about the principle of free expression he said something that non-democrats must regard as an absurdity: "If it were left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." The implication of those words is that self-governance is more essential than governance itself. Not so absurd, perhaps, if you had just fought a war against an oppressive government.
The People, The Press, and The Government
Kalb: Hamilton had it both right and wrong. He had it right in the sense that the value of a journalist's work, when repudiated by the public, when regarded as cynical and domineering, is thrown into doubt and confusion. For whom, after all, is the journalist writing or, in more recent times, broadcasting if not for the benefit of the public? If he/she loses the public,then the journalist loses his/her mandate. Put in purely commercial terms, if the public stops buying a newspaper, the newspaper goes out of business. Public support, therefore, is crucial in the marketplace. But Hamilton had it wrong -- though he accurately reflected the conservative views of his time -- for implying that public and/or the government's approval of a journalist's work is crucial. Public opinion can swing to the left or the right, but a journalist should be pursuing a fair rendition of truth without regard to popular moods. What we have learned in the United States after more than 200 years is that a free and unfettered press is the best underpinning of a society free to be liberal or conservative. The journalist should not be swayed by public opinion, only by the pursuit of truth, as close as he or she can get to it.
The Press and the Public
Now we have a full-scale fight, and the newspaper is right in the middle of it. Some might even say that the newspaper caused the argument in the first place by publishing all those contradictory views, stirring up what had been a fairly calm and simple situation. But most agree that the newspaper provided a useful public service. In the end, the city council weighs all the evidence and arguments, including those from the powerful merchants who oppose the light, and decide to install the new light. Democracy in action. Now to complicate the matter even more, let us say the publisher and editor of the newspaper, who are worried about declining sales, decide to take advantage of this minor public crisis to boost the paper's circulation.
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
Wikipedia: List of journalism topics
Wikipedia: Journalism
Wikipedia: Wikinews
Wikipedia: Neutral point of view
Wikinews: Neutral point of view
Disputing Anomalies
Thinking more about Wikipedia, and the kind of content disputes that seem to demarcate in terms of specialist/expert vs non-specialist/layman, led me to wonder whether there was more to it than that. To me, one of the most fascinating things about the evolution of Wikipedia has been the emergence of an interface that reflects disputes and ruptures within existing knowledge. It would be all too easy to dismiss these effects as the ineviatable migration of usenet trolls and mailing list malcontents. But maybe there's another phenomenon in effect?
Ethical Implosion
Michael Moore: "Bush lied to the American people"
Bill O'Reilly: "It's not a lie if you believe it to be true"
Is the capitalist drive an inherent obstacle to good journalism? In one sense, the marketplace can be the ally, rather than the enemy of a strong, free media. For the public to believe what it reads, listens to and sees in the mass media, the "product" must be credible. Otherwise, the public will not buy the product, and the company will lose money. So, profitability and public service can go hand in hand. What a media company does with its money is the key. If it uses a significant portion of its profits to improve its newsgathering and marketing capabilities and eliminate dependence upon others for its survival (e.g. state subsidies, newsprint purchases, or access to printing facilities), the product improves, and the public is served. If it uses its profits primarily to make its owners rich, it might as well be selling toothpaste. George A. Krimsky
which is ok by me, i just want to know if i'm getting news or toothpaste. the panel in nick's "On media and the war" link primarily leans right. imho, they're selling pov ideology & not necessarily facts. otoh, read an opinion piece in a local paper yesterday about immigration. writer mentioned "conservative viewpoint". found it refreshing he wasn't trying to sell me anything. there's a big difference between "selling" a pov & "reporting" a pov.
French Despair
http://www.nationalreview.com/
bu...00603311512.asp
Anonymous -
"the panel in nick's 'On media and the war' link primarily leans right" - that's true, for sure, but you'll notice their attacks are directed at the psuedo-neutrality of a complacent 'liberal' elite, not at self=confessed partisan slant. So I'm not sure we, or they, are so far apart. Bias will always be with us, the key is to be honest and upfront about it.
Only unbiased new medium I know is Fox ;)
F = 15 = 6
O = 24 = 6
X = 33 = 6
>>Only unbiased new medium I know is Fox ;)
tis true, tis true.
[awesome numbo-jumbo]
The Iraq Front, not fantastic, but OK:
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/...s/
20060402.aspx
A twitchier view:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/ed...ml?
id=110008178
Short interview with Daniel Pipes:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Arti...le.asp?
ID=21893
Major setback in the war on terror:
http://redstate.org/story/2006/4...4/1/10439/
32439
Why are economists right wing?
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article....aspx?
id=040306A
AQ 552 = WHY ECONOMISTS ARE RIGHT WING = THE HAND OF BIGOTRY AND FANATICISM = UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK CREST.
haven't the slightest idea.
Qwernomic hardware (via Samizdata):
http://gadgets.fosfor.se/the-top...keyboards-ever/
Change at The Economist (comment thread interesting - pleased to find out so many others have been appalled by its inexorbale drift to the left, but then we're talking Samizdatists):
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/
ar...conomist_a.html
Overdoing it, just a tad:
Man 'took 40,000 ecstasy tablets'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/healt...lth/
4874938.stm
Neurological and Psychopathological Sequelae Associated With a Lifetime Intake of 40,000 Ecstasy Tablets
http://psy.psychiatryonline.org/
...ourcetype=HWCIT
Case Report Mr. A, 37 years old, used ecstasy between the ages of 21 and 30. For the first 2 years, he took 5 tablets every weekend, escalating to an average daily use of 3.5 tablets for the next 3 years, and further escalation to an average of 25 tablets daily over the next 4 years. An estimate of lifetime consumption yielded a total intake of more than 40,000 tablets. At the time of his presentation, Mr. A reported current cannabis consumption, together with a previous history of polydrug misuse (i.e., solvents, benzodiazepines, amphetamines, LSD, cocaine, heroin). After three episodes of "collapsing" at parties, Mr. A finally stopped his ecstasy use.
After three Scanners-style exploding head episodes ...
those things hurt
Mr A deserves a medal and national monuments erected in his honour.
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