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Time wars: our finite lives frittered away in the precarious world of automation Custom made 3D printed Portal gun from model ripped straight from the game Make Weekend Projects - a touchless 3D tracking interface Pussy Riot's closing statement Kid-crack: Japanese "paper doll" fashion stickers Time wars: our finite lives frittered away in the precarious world of automation
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 12, 2012 08:53 am Mark Fisher's essay "Time-Wars" riveted me. It's an analysis of the way that stories about technology and work -- both explicit political/ideological stump speeches and futurism, and science fiction stories -- have failed to keep pace with the reality of work, automation, and "precarity" (the condition of living a precarious economic existence). After all, time ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 11, 2012 03:32 pm Melissa sez, "Here are some of the best pictures as well as a demonstration video of my custom-made portal gun. I wanted the gun to be as accurate as possible, so I used 3D printed parts that were ripped directly from the game files! After months and months of hard work, I was able to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 11, 2012 03:03 pm [Video Link] This Weekend Project from MAKE is really cool: a touchless 3D tracking interface made from foil and cardboard. Using a combination of low- and high-tech components, we'll show you how to build a completely touchless 3D tracking interface. This project will introduce you to the principle of capacitive sensing, and the Arduino microcontroller. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 11, 2012 01:59 pm Argument in the show-trial of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot -- who gave an unlicensed anti-Putin performance in a cathedral and now face harsh, Stalinist justice for daring to point out the spy-emperor's nudity -- has concluded. Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich has given a tremendous closing statement, which is a masterful summary of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 11, 2012 01:28 pm Last month, I took my daughter into town for lunch, and we ended up at a communal table with a couple of slightly older girls (and their mom) who were geeking out, pasting intricate Japanese "fashion doll" stickers into elaborate albums. Each sticker-sheet came with one or two blank bodies -- mostly girls, though boys ...
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