Category Archive: dystopia
Nov 15
Occupy Toronto Live
Nov 15
Occupy Wall Street Live Stream
Occupy Wall Street live. Around 1:00am on Tuesday, November 15th, the NYPD moved in to clear Zuccotti Park of all protestors and equipment. Members of the press, both independent and mainstream, were systematically prevented from covering the story Read about the press suppression here <a href=”http://storify.com/bendoernberg/press-suppression-at-occupy-wall-street-raid” target=”_blank”>View the story “Press Suppression …
Sep 22
Execution
I’ve posted this before –back in March 2009 — but it bears repeating tonight. “Hanging rituals and other elaborate methods of execution arose alongside the modern state. In medieval Europe justice had been carried out on a private basis: When a person was murdered, his family members sought vengeance upon the killer. That practise held …
Jun 24
Popbot Sells Candy
After much debate, it’s recently been revealed that Japanese pop star, Aimi Eguchi, is a digital composite. That is, she’s not human, has never been human and she isn’t even a she but an it. Or, perhaps, some strange combination of the two. Like Dr. Frankenstein plundering graves for spare parts, music producer Yasushi Akimoto, plundered …
Apr 16
Augmented Eyeglasses for Brazilian Cops
The Brazilian police department, has gotten glasses that can pick criminals out of a crowd. “At distances up to 50 yards, the glasses can reportedly scan 400 faces per second, comparing 46,000 biometric points on a person’s face against a database of terrorists and other criminals. If a match is made it is indicated by a red …
Apr 08
Pills For Your Morals
Those men in the white coats are attempting to make pills to improve morality. Dr Guy Kahane, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a Wellcome Trust biomedical ethics award winner says: “Science has ignored the question of moral improvement so far, but it is now becoming a big debate. There is already a …
Feb 25
Guernica to Tripoli
I’ve posted this before but, given events on the ground in Libya, it’s appropriate to post it again. Really, any time people are bombarded from the air, it should be posted. But then this blog would have to be called The Guernica Owl. This painting is often on my mind. I would say I love it …
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