Monat: Januar 2018

…hätten in der gleichen Zeit auch mehrere Femtobitcoin produzieren können.
¹ Datenbergarbeiter_innen? Datengräber_innen? Datenkumpel??

• The Art of Flying.
• The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions.
• Freedom from Necessity of much Sleeping exemplify’d by the Operations of Tea and what happens in Mad-Men.
• Varnishes perfumable by Rubbing.

„There was an old woman there who told Prasath she was the caretaker, and after seeing how I was such a big fan, decided to let us in to see his office!“

But for every amusingly wrong prediction, there’s one unnervingly close to the mark. It’s the same Thomas Malone who, amid predictions of weaponized hurricanes, wonders aloud whether “large-scale climate modification will be effected inadvertently” from rising levels of carbon dioxide.
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“Putting broad-band communications, picture telephones, and instant computerized retrieval in the hands of [governments] is like feeding pastry to a fat man.”

30% visual brilliance, 10% crazy make-up, 15% great cast, 5% stunt casting, 40% b.s., 10% genius.
Sein Video zu Moonlight – All-Black-„Friends“-Metaparodie – ist 100% mehr Science Fiction…

— What if Mos Eisley wasn’t really that wretched and it was just Obi Wan being racist again?
— What do you mean, “these blaster marks are too precise to be made by Sand People?” Who talks like that?
— Belatedly realizing that in a crime scene distinguished by precise blaster marks, Storm Troopers are your last suspects. I mean, based on the rest of the movie, should say “These blaster marks are too precise to be made by Storm Troopers.”

„Wir können zwar nicht verhindern, dass wir Ressourcen verbrauchen und Abfall produzieren, aber wir können die Intensität der Interaktion verändern“