Second entry in the The Trans Luminal Mail Archives (TLMAP) TLMAP 00348-31 (Letter the second) following TLMAP – 088011 (Letter the first) The Editors -- ‘Elegant intimacy’, a Preliminary report on the success of vision endeavor 17dash23 (As documented by assistant supporter of the council on Karoote, third cycle of...

"We exist in a bizzare combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval buereacracy, and god-like technology." -- Edward O. Wilson, 2008 (author of On Human Nature) I like how the person who told me the quote told me from memory that it was 'Bureaucracy' rather than 'Beliefs', as he recalled it from falsified memory. I think of this...

Choreography for dual-line Kite Ballet requires some knowledge on the problems of physical issues...

musings on Adorno & Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment.; crossposted from...

Failed Crop Circle attempts. After seeing these I reassessed my thoughts on the...

The DMTrmx project aims to enrich the dialogue of entheogens specifically, and consciousness in...

Michael Rigley

Anticipation of Love Neither the intimacy of your look, your brow fair as a feast day, ...

...and a few more documentaries

ND Metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1)[1] is a gene that makes bacteria resistant to antibiotics of the...

What are they for... pictures of stars, of people bursting into stars, stars coming out of people, humans with star-skin, the idea of being made of star stuff that all of these embody – actually, it's transcendence. A totally physical, 21st-century transcendence of the, escape from the bodies, lives, world, geo-centric,...

Foton till boken Jag har scoutat runt i stan efter bilder till våran bok, de byggs om just...

The digital settles in as background. We remember less and query more. Our identity play would...

As we're building out human-centered next-gen profiles for the Collaboratory, we wanted an...

Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum...

A unique artist that I recently came across. He creates very striking photos and I thought...

I've been having a lot of fun the past few weeks fleshing out our next-gen profiles for the...

‘Matter’ becomes soft. It is the softening of matter, of ourselves, of our genes, of...

"Dance, Dance, otherwise we are lost.." Pina Bausch I have finally managed to watch...

Panama 2012 w/ Fundación ParqueArte Scenario: Festival Abierto is an annual 3-day free...

Its ready for you to spend .00000001 bitcoin to vote (we'll count by people, not by money, which will require a decentralized web of trust as I'll explain below), as the existing Bitcoin and optionally Bittorrent for uploading and voting on files whenever it starts working again. We get to include any 20 bytes in a Bitcoin address. Here's 1 where...

When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder,...

Editors note: The Trans – Luminal mail archives Trans Luminal mail is a repository of letters written by unknowns to unknowns, these letters carry no valid destinations and no convincing authors, these are simply fragments of impossible conversations, dialogues and monologues, treated as pieces of an indefinite puzzle which purpose we do not...

A meme to meditate about what it means to be in a tribe, to lead, to follow, or to get...

Life within living cells. Breath taking. Must...

There are 2 purposes of this writing. It will help people continue organizing on a global scale toward our common goals, and we should keep records of these events as they occur for the history books. The world is about to change in a way most people have difficulty imagining, from a hierarchy based society to decentralized ways to organize...

Q: How do the Amish raise a barn without money? A: Community, and the social capital that weaves it together. In my husband’s Latvian community, they have a concept similar to barnraising called “talka,” which describes collective volunteer work for the good of society and environment. Several times a year we come together at our camp...

... our children can only do as bad as we are doing, and this is the challenge we are facing - we...

When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder,...

Summary: A megacity synth looks for cooperation with transhumans while a corrupt cartel bot is out to get revenge. 1. INTERIOR -- megacity transport station -- day. There are members of multiple posthuman species on their way. Bots are machines. The transhumans are the most human-like. HYNT is a synth which is a form of artificial life that...

Its happened over and over in history, including why USA was created. In general the right to free speech always has and always will mean the right to communicate to others who want to receive those communications, without permission of anyone else. These days, there are many kinds of communication, and free speech applies to them...

This represents my mission for the rest of the year, it is a fully functioning fridge floating...

Yesterday Stowe Boyd wrote a commentary (Getting to Trust: Better Swift than Deep) in response to my post about trust and collaboration, saying that the way of the future is connectives, not collectives; cooperation, not collaboration. He goes on to recommend assembling ourselves with swift trust, align professionally around a common...

Saving Humanity from Homo Sapiens SHfHS is dedicated to preventing threats to humankind brought about by humans.

What: Pasta by Design Who: George L. Legendre Foreword by Paola Antonelli Get it...

The Future of Occupy project is neither about predicting nor advising the future of the movement....

This mini-paper was given at the Escapologies symposium, at Goldsmiths University, on the 5th of...

Had said. I wish we are all crazy.

“I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought. Others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don’t know what...

"Never Forever..." is a quantitative visualisation of the transient nature of empire. The...

With File Sharing is the New Meditation I had a fast little thought. Now someone has made...

In a few years humanity will have to enter space with industrial and permanent structures. There are several reasons to do so and I will touch on them briefly. First a presence in space will allow us to develop an industrial presence for harvesting asteroids and the moon (as well as doing general research), and such a presence is profitable....

A short documentary about outer space exploration and falling in love and how these 2 things can be...

This is a plan to solve a big problem everyone on Earth will soon have if we don't start working on a solution. The solution I'm looking for is technical but can quickly be calculated with pen and paper. Its a way of us observing eachother and keeping track of who can and can't be contacted, to make sure the reasons for anyone's unexpected...

12 Piano notes made visible for the first time

Minds might base cognition on 4d(space-time) representation. All conceivable things are located at...

“Put simply: cities are like ant colonies are like software is like slime molds are like...

Jeff Jonas wrote in General Purpose Sensemaking Systems and Information Colocation ... With...