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Luke

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  • To an extent, it is reasonable to question the policies and practices of any place where crime has occurred. I have always welcomed constructive feedback; and indeed, Omegle implemented a number of improvements based on such feedback over the years. However, the recent attacks have felt anything but constructive. The only way to please these people is to stop offering the service. Sometimes they say so, explicitly and avowedly; other times, it can be inferred from their act of setting standards that are not humanly achievable. Either way, the net result is the same.
    Omegle
  • All of this makes it more unlikely every day that man will encounter anything in the world around him that is not man-made and hence is not, in the last analysis, he himself in a different disguise.
    The Dream of Virtual Reality - by L. M. Sacasas
  • Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, mobile
    Manifestly_Haraway_----_(A_CYBORG_MANIFESTO_Science,_Technology,_and_Socialist-Feminism_in_the_...).pdf
  • To which I say: reality has had 5,000 years to get good, and is clearly still woefully lacking for most people; I don't think we should wait another 5,000 years to see if it eventually closes the gap. We should build—and we are building—online worlds that make life and work and love wonderful for everyone, no matter what level of reality deprivation they find themselves in.
    Reality Privilege and Living Your Life Online
  • and microelectronics and the political invisibility of cyborgs have blurred the lines of physicality.[1]
    A Cyborg Manifesto
  • But we will not find the fountain of pure visual poetry if we do not look for it.
    vroctopi.pdf
  • A] consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legiti- mate operators, in every nation. . . A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding
    vroctopi.pdf
  • non- symbolic communication
    vroctopi.pdf
  • The dream of artists, to be able to show the fabric of their dreams and visions, may be fast approaching virtual reality
    vroctopi.pdf
  • electronic illusion from hell”?
    vroctopi.pdf
  • As we learn our lines and the blocking that goes with them, we move out of the inchoate realm of the preverbal child and into the realm of the first virtual reality, the VR of culture. Many of us never realize that this domain is virtual, and instead we assume that we are discovering the true nature of the real world.
    vroctopi.pdf
  • The octopus does not transmit its linguistic intent, it becomes its linguistic intent.
    vroctopi.pdf
  • I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the cephalopods, the squids and octopi, have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.
    vroctopi.pdf
  • We are on the brink of another leap in evolution, folks
    vroctopi.pdf
  • The belief in the stability of natural systems began to break down when a study was made of the predator-prey relationship of wolves and elks. It was found that populations of predators and prey had varied wildly over centuries. Other studies then found huge variations, and a significant lack of homeostasis in natural systems. George Van Dyne then tried to build a computer model to try to simulate a complete ecosystem based on extensive real-world data, to show how the stability of natural systems actually worked. To his surprise, the computer model did not stabilise like the Odums' electrical…
    All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series)
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about busin
    Curius / Onboarding