An instant classic image:
I doubt whether there’s much of interest to say about this stereotypical tribal chaos, but feel free to have a go.
ADDED: Systematic Racism. Race War … the usual.
ADDED: Not wanting to overplay the comical side of this, but …
Thankful for the organizers, advocates, electeds, clergy & community members who will mobilize this outrage into change. #Ferguson
— Sandra Fluke (@SandraFluke) November 25, 2014
ADDED: Giuliani time.
A bunch of charts breaking down occupations by ideology are flying across the Internet at the moment. Perhaps Robin Hanson started it? (Linked by Cowan here.) Hanson includes a link to this NYT article, which focuses upon the Left-orientation of tertiary education, but that’s a huge, perennial topic in itself.
Hanson has his own theory on the subject, based upon differences in risk orientation, but my favorite analysis was provided by commenter adrianratnapala:
Most of the data on those plots can be explained by a rule that says “People who who tell other people what to think for a living lean left. Nearly everyone else leans (nominally) right.”
Bonus (indirectly related) chart dug up from the web:
(The site it’s taken from looks like a gold-mine for this kind of stuff, if rather popcorn-heavy.)
How can a movie this preposterously stupid also be so peculiarly awesome?
“It’s like all the things that make me human are fading away.” (140 is the key.)
Scarlett Johansson has somehow become the icon of intelligenesis catastrophe. One thing should certainly be indisputable: this one is a far superior vehicle for such cosmo-twisted blonde dehumanization fantasies than last year’s execrable schmaltz-blitz Her. (An additional data point.)
Outside in is unable to defer to the authority of this abominogram, whose degeneracy, contamination, and incompleteness are self-evident, but it seemed worth putting up for reference purposes.
(Clicking on the image opens a new cosmic door window, where one additional click brings up an expanded version.)
This isn’t a video game. (Via Fernandez, who fills in some background.)
Teletronic warfare isn’t typically conceived as a media development, despite regular comparisons of drone ‘pilots’ to computer gamers. That’s clearly due far more to institutional information control than to the character of the technological process. It is becoming impossible for an even moderately modernized military to destroy anything without the simultaneous production of a media event (which has then to be withheld from mass Internet-based circulation by an extrinsic application of policy). A virtual morbid super-spectacle is generated alongside the war, as munitions converge with narrative agency. When considering the content locked up in the basement of the Web, this material has to be a huge part of it.
“What did you do as a child, Pythia?”
“From what I can remember, I seem to have spent a lot of time cooking monkeys in hell.”
NOTE: Paul Virilio’s War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception (1989), which emphasized the parallel development of the movie camera and the machine-gun, stands as a prophetic forecast of sensible weaponry, whose story — told from its own increasingly high-resolution perspective — is already beginning to leak out.
An engagement with this (extraordinarily interesting) monetary analysis isn’t going to reach any kind of remotely convincing state tonight. Perhaps I can buy people off for a while with a few of these:
It actually says pretty much everything that needs to be said, in compressed form.
There’s an additional Weiner post of special relevance here. (His definition of inflation as ‘counterfeit credit’ does a lot of theoretical work, very quickly.)
Weird Twitter/NRx Twitter map pic.twitter.com/oCsRdRVuRI
— Gnaeus Rafinesque (@sbenthall) October 1, 2014
(I can’t get enough of this stuff.)
Read history through a real unit of account, and suddenly it emits hard information:
(Chart from azizonomics, via my favorite communist.)