[monochrom] Anarcho-Transhumanism and Hacking the Spaces
http://anarchotranshumanism.com/Anarchohttp://anarchotranshumanism.com/-Transhumanism features our pamphlet http://www.monochrom.at/hacking-the-spacesHacking the Spaces and posts a couple of suggestions: This is just the start, of course. I'd also suggest that efforts be made to develop more radical hacktivist projects, particularly aligned towards ongoing social struggles. What if an Anonymous-style movement went after the Minutemen and nativist anti-immigration groups rather than the Church of Scientology? Hacklabs should also be connecting to these ongoing social movements and offering their technical expertise and support. Imagine if a worker-occupied factory was able to continue production under worker control thanks to the adoption of reprap machines or other open source 3D printers, facilitaed by hacktivists? What if DIY robot hackers assembled fleets of drones to aid in Copwatch programs, using sousveillance to keep abuses of authority in line? Even better, what if these hackerspace users took their politics back to the labs, factories, and offices in which they work, enabling a new movement of radicalized scientists and techies to counter the corporate uses and abuses of their research and intellectual labor? What are we waiting for? http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2009/05/19/monochrom-on-hacker-spaces/Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/05/anarcho-transhumanism-and-hacking.htmmonochrom at 5/19/2009 06:22:00 PM
[monochrom] google employees
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Google-will-mit-Software-Mitarbeiter-Abwanderung-stoppen--/meldung/138130 Der Suchmaschinen-Spezialist Google will einer drohenden Abwanderung wichtiger Mitarbeiter zuvorkommen mit Hilfe einer speziellen Software. Das Unternehmen sammle derzeit Daten von Mitarbeitern wie Ausbildungsstand und Gehaltsentwicklung, berichtet das Wall Street Journal heute. Mit einem speziellen Algorithmus solle aus der Datenmenge ermittelt werden, welche der 20.000 Mitarbeiter sich zum Beispiel unterfordert fühlen könnten und deshalb möglicherweise offen für neue Herausforderungen sind. Der Algoritmus helfe Google über Wechselwillige Bescheid zu wissen, bevor die Betroffenen selbst wüssten, dass sie wechseln wollen, zitiert die Zeitung Googles Personalchef Laszlo Bock. [...] wieso fällt mir da jetzt das department for pre-crime ein ? nach web, earth, books und streets nun auch noch die eigenen mitarbeiter ...
[monochrom] What We Think We Know Of Fairy Tales Is A Fairy Tale, Too
In the scholarly debate about the origins of fairy tales, the latest clash [is] over a new claim that, far from being passed down through an oral tradition, fairy tales actually have their history in print. Stony Brook University professor Ruth B. Bottigheimer argues that folk invention and transmission of fairy tales has no basis in verifiable fact. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/19/oral-roots-fairy-talesLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/05/what-we-think-we-know-of-fairy-tales-is.htmmonochrom at 5/19/2009 06:34:00 PM
[monochrom] You can now buy low calorie water.
Wow. Bio-synergy Skinny Water, is the first in the world to be fortified with l-carnitine and chromium. A low-calorie water, enhanced with a unique combination of ingredients to help support healthy weight loss. http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/product_detail.asp?pid=1541Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/05/you-can-now-buy-low-calorie-water.htmmonochrom at 5/19/2009 06:36:00 PM
[monochrom] The Case of the Missing H-Bomb
This essay is featured in Jeffrey St. Clair's forthcoming book, Loose Nukes published by Count Zero Press. Things go missing. It's to be expected. Even at the Pentagon. Last October, the Pentagon's inspector general reported that the military's accountants had misplaced a destroyer, several tanks and armored personnel carriers, hundreds of machine guns, rounds of ammo, grenade launchers and some surface-to-air missiles. In all, nearly $8 billion in weapons were AWOL. Those anomalies are bad enough. But what's truly chilling is the fact that the Pentagon has lost track of the mother of all weapons, a hydrogen bomb. The thermonuclear weapon, designed to incinerate Moscow, has been sitting somewhere off the coast of Savannah, Georgia for the past 40 years. The Air Force has gone to greater lengths to conceal the mishap than to locate the bomb and secure it. http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21488Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/05/case-of-missing-h-bomb.htmmonochrom at 5/19/2009 07:00:00 PM
[monochrom] ships: google earth API game
You have google earth installed? Try to click here: http://ships.planetinaction.com/ (don't forget to read the keyboard shortcuts) It's ships, a great example what one can do with the google earth API. The game uses google earth as a game rendering engine. enjoy. fra
