Here’s a video just for you guys of me trying out my new bebionic hand! What do you think?!?
Anonymous asked:
Why is it a selfie if you reblogged it? #egirl
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Well I thought it was funny to imagine you all as Discourse Suit pilots. Ah, well. But don’t worry. Once my visual respresentation software is complete, it will be able to represent any network of partisan/ideological prosthesis as a mech, and I can use neural nets trained on hundreds of thousands of anime characters to generate a true rattumb mecha anime.
ranma-official answered:
Someone told me “send nudes” and I did, and now it’s spread across revenge porn websites like pixiv
Revell’s model kit of a Westinghouse Atomic Power Plant.
So, who will be buying this for me to show how much they love me?
Boston-based multi-trillion asset manager State Street Global Advisors, the controversial company behind the now infamous feminist symbol (and selfie cameo) The Fearless Girl, is settling federal allegations that it discriminated against 305 women in senior positions by paying them less than their male counterparts.
The settlement, first reported by Bloomberg, also names fifteen black vice presidents paid less than their white counterparts, genders not specified.
Now remove the statue so that we can have our glorious bull, which was originally placed somewhat subversively but kept due to the adoration of the people, restored to its original context.
Younger brothers more likely to be gay right?
Birthrates have dropped; in the past it was not unusual to have 8+ kids.
Exactly how many people were gay in the past? Most of them?
I was given to understand that higher population density is correlated with a higher proportion of gay individuals, so presumably these two factors cancel out somewhat
we’ll figure this out one day.
No one expected the arrival of what 4chan dubbed the “Fag Maximizer” AI.
(Or, as the beleagured sociology students that accidentally unleashed it onto the world called it, Kinsey Indexer.)
The new Star Trek is really going to have a problem with how technology has been changing since the earlier series. Either they accept it, and give everyone a smartphone-camera-tricorder and have drones that perform exploration and simple errands in which case they become insufferable selfie-taking millennials who are too lazy to carry their own laundry or whatever, or they ignore that and we mock them for having technology worse than our current day technology.
I think the issue here is that smartphones and drones would be a serious advantage in a situation like that, not just a convenience, but we still think of them as conveniences.
But then I think that very few people in sci-fi have dealt properly with the consequence of ubiquitous computing, they either bypass it entirely or come up with technology that’s worse than today’s. Bypassing it is a justifiable decision though, if you don’t you can end up with futures that end up looking ridiculous where everyone communicates with handheld fax machines.
The problem here is that the next logical step is Transhumanism. Why aren’t the crew of the Enterprise all paramilitary cyborgs who, while looking human externally, have in-built communications technology and redundant backup organs?
But Transhumanism isn’t the Humanism on which the original Star Trek was built. Star Trek was intended to be about Human stories, Human morality, Human ethics… Transhumanism is… well in many ways it’s deeper than that, pulling at threads that ordinary human ethics buries.
It comes down to how the picture of the world when a work is made informs the future. Mobile Suit Gundam was made in 1979 and it seems like Tomino may have envisioned grand space colonies and so forth, but not personal computers or the internet. A lot of works that were made before the days of widespread cellphone use may seem a bit head-scratching when limitations in communication are a plot point.
Now see, that applies to Classic, Original Series Trek, which has actually aged remarkably well all things considered, not this new J.J. Abrams Trek.
The new Star Trek is really going to have a problem with how technology has been changing since the earlier series. Either they accept it, and give everyone a smartphone-camera-tricorder and have drones that perform exploration and simple errands in which case they become insufferable selfie-taking millennials who are too lazy to carry their own laundry or whatever, or they ignore that and we mock them for having technology worse than our current day technology.
I think the issue here is that smartphones and drones would be a serious advantage in a situation like that, not just a convenience, but we still think of them as conveniences.
But then I think that very few people in sci-fi have dealt properly with the consequence of ubiquitous computing, they either bypass it entirely or come up with technology that’s worse than today’s. Bypassing it is a justifiable decision though, if you don’t you can end up with futures that end up looking ridiculous where everyone communicates with handheld fax machines.
The problem here is that the next logical step is Transhumanism. Why aren’t the crew of the Enterprise all paramilitary cyborgs who, while looking human externally, have in-built communications technology and redundant backup organs?
But Transhumanism isn’t the Humanism on which the original Star Trek was built. Star Trek was intended to be about Human stories, Human morality, Human ethics… Transhumanism is… well in many ways it’s deeper than that, pulling at threads that ordinary human ethics buries.
I look forward to the day that we use vines instead of emojis
it’s the logical progression
well, shit.
In the future, software on our phones will automatically analyze our most recent selfie and convert it to scalable vector graphic renderings of our faces, then adjust them to fit the standardized unicode facial character morphs using specialized neural networks.
Except for me. There will only be one photo on my phone, incorrectly meta-tagged as a selfie.
JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER
SHINZO ABE!
Aliens give you a camera and say “only those you photograph will live.” You have one year.
*takes a selfie. destroys camera*
this is gonna be a good life
Take a selfie… from the Moon. Problem solved. Then panic over the definition of who counts as in the picture, and arrange for mass aerial photography.
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