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The title of this article is click-baity in its abuse of the vague, subjective word "consciousness." " [blank] is already happening " is a trope, in wired's headlines, that gets re…

Somewhat, yes. It seems that graphite is a somewhat more relaxed state than carbon's diamond crystal allotrope. Both burn, and can be vaporized with LOX/acetyline torches: http://w…

But some of the blocking artifacts are fascinating to behold! People have drawn from it a new aesthetic in the form of the Glitch GIF. https://duckduckgo.com?q=!googleimages+glitch…

Oh thank god other people can see this. Sometimes I feel like I'm noticing fnords.

I've noticed that on monitors at 120hz and 240hz, full motion video starts to look strange. Not just high resolution animated graphics renderings, but also legacy recordings of liv…

The premise here, being that powerful (or technically adept) people may have the capacity to impersonate a phone number, or clone a SIM card. ...since that part isn't directly stat…

PR snake oil. Fitness didn't come true with the Wii. Better be prepared to still go outside and have a life. Your body will produce vitamins as your reward. Eyestrain is subjective…

Visibility. Most people imagine that if they lose their homes, the fate that awaits them is the one they step over each morning on their way to work. Most people don't have conting…

Uh, the point is that, on a slow connection, everything is going to suck in unpredictable ways, because of server-side bloat, and the trendiness of developers deploying 5MB js libr…

The "nanodegree." If anybody ever tried to use that as a credential, they'd waste more words trying to explain what it is, and what it's worth, than if they just told you what they…