Maia Jern

1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.

2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.

3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.

4. 68% of millionaires support…

(via wilwheaton)

December262011

jephjacques: UN Hearing On AI Rights

jephjacques:

The subject of this debate is whether AIs are “people-” whether they possess the same degree of personhood as humans, and whether that entitles them to the same rights.

You have heard all the arguments for and against the consciousness, intelligence, free will, and cognition of artificial…

December242011

Riley on Marketing (by dbarry1917)

YES! WIN!!

December202011

wilwheaton:

immutableinscrutable:

Cassette on Ocean Avenue.

Kids, ask your parents.

12AM

I’m starting to think Lego is evil

paxvalkyrie:

I already linked how Lego is trying to target toys for girls, and this is another post about this subject, but I really wanted to highlight it because of this:

You want to market things towards girls? Show girls using your shit. Bam. I just revolutionized advertizing. Where’s my money.

When I was a kid, I loved legos. I had two boxes of various, build-what-you-like pieces. I played with my cousin’s old legos, which we had at our summer cabin, too. He had knights and horses and bits for building castles, and he had space legos, as well. I loved the medieval sets the best. But the sets I see now, you can only build one thing with them, and any playing after building is set up as killing dragons or shooting lasers or cops and robbers, and there’s no room for free play anymore. Sad.

(Source: teamvalkyrieftw)

12AM