Marilyn Monroe with young photographer
(via retrogasm)
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DON’T MESS WITH FIREFLY!
How sci-fi fans made a campus safe for free speech (featuring Neil Gaiman) -
Real Carmen Fabrica de Tabacos
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from City Of Shadows
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Alan Moore on Science and Imagination →
“I would prefer a two-state solution. My basic premise is that human beings are amphibious, in the etymological sense of ‘two lives’. We have one life in the solid material world that is most perfectly measured by science. Science is the most exquisite tool that we’ve developed for measuring that hard, physical, material world. Then there is the world of ideas which is inside our head. I would say that both of these worlds are equally real - they’re just real in different ways. The concept of a world of ideas, yes it’s intangible, it can’t be repeated in a laboratory, but pretty much the evidence for it is all around us. In that, every detail of our clothing, our mindsets, of the buildings and the streets and cities that surround us - that started life as an idea in someone’s head.”
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the faraway nearby
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dynamique
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Bitcoin Reborn: As a Financial Wire Service for the $10 Trillion System D? →
A P2P (person to person) transaction system can be used to for many different things, least of all as a currency for retail transactions. One of the more interesting of these uses is it growing use as a wire transfer system like Western Union for the $10 Trillion and rapidly growing System D, the world’s shadow/black economy. Why is a P2P transaction system perfect for this? It isn’t reliant on trusted third parties to run/operate the network (which is good, since in today’s environment, they are impossible to find in government or finance).
