Thursday 25th of August 2011

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So what do you need to do before zombies…or hurricanes or pandemics for example, actually happen? First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house. This includes things like water, food, and other supplies to get you through the first couple of days before you can locate a zombie-free refugee camp (or in the event of a natural disaster, it will buy you some time until you are able to make your way to an evacuation shelter or utility lines are restored). Below are a few items you should include in your kit, for a full list visit the CDC Emergency page.

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Thursday 6th of October 2011

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Rise of the machines: why we keep coming back to Wells' visions of a dystopian future

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Friday 28th of October 2011

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The Future According To Films -

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Friday 13th of January 2012

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Inspired By «we find hope for the future of space travel and echoes of its sciencefiction roots»

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Wednesday 29th of February 2012

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The James Bond of robots: Vijay Kumar at TED2012

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Thursday 1st of March 2012

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Robert Proctor production of ignorance»

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Tuesday 13th of March 2012

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Be afraid: Robot experts say machines are catching up

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Wednesday 28th of March 2012

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Mohamed Merah, l'homme aux cent visages

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Monday 9th of April 2012

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Narrative Networks (N2): The Neurobiology of Narratives

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Monday 9th of April 2012

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Robot realities fail fictional fantasies

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Sunday 22nd of April 2012

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man i just had that terminator song on my ipod and

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Sunday 22nd of April 2012

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Google's Terminator-Style Goggles Might Include

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Thursday 17th of May 2012

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From Science Fiction To Fact, Robots Are Coming To A Farm Near You Via @nprnews

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Monday 4th of June 2012

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After gory incidents, online 'zombie' talk grows

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Wednesday 13th of June 2012

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'Miami Zombie' girlfriend's lawyer, Gloria Allred: Cannibalism is bad

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Thursday 14th of June 2012

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The Enemy Within - Apes Armed with iPads

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Friday 15th of June 2012

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Apple Is Knight Rider, Google Is Terminator, Microsoft Is Minority Report

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Wednesday 27th of June 2012

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How Many Computers to Identify a Cat? 16,000

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Wednesday 27th of June 2012

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Call for Ray Bradbury to be honoured with internet error message

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Friday 13th of July 2012

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Bloodsucking parasite named after Bob Marley

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Saturday 21st of July 2012

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Wikipedia | Dark Knight massacre

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Sunday 22nd of July 2012

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Why Batman Believes in Gun Control

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Wednesday 26th of September 2012

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Whoa, Dude, Are We Inside a Computer Right Now?

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Wednesday 28th of November 2012

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An originator of the concept now known as "technological singularity," Good served as consultant on supercomputers to Stanley Kubrick, director of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
« Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make. »

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Thursday 24th of January 2013

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How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up.

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Tuesday 5th of February 2013

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Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

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Saturday 16th of February 2013

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From Terminator to Toy Story: drones for a better tomorrow

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Wednesday 13th of March 2013

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Martin J. Muench -- is the developer of Andover, U.K.-based Gamma Group’s FinFisher intrusion software, which he sells to police and spy agencies around the world for monitoring computers and smartphones to intercept Skype calls, peer through Web cameras and record keystrokes.

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Saturday 23rd of March 2013

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Recombinant Fiction emerges as a political and aesthetic fiction genre of this new immersive and participative form of art. By identifying valuable, distinctive characteristics and objectives, Recombinant Fiction defines a unique genre able to drive tactical activism and dramatic purposes.

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Tuesday 9th of April 2013

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Project K sleeping danger to US PR'

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Thursday 2nd of May 2013

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Bigelow was married to fellow director James Cameron from 1989 to 1991.
Zero Dark Thirty, a dramatization of American efforts to find Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty was acclaimed by film critics but it has also attracted controversy and strong criticism for its allegedly pro-torture stance.

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Tuesday 7th of May 2013

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Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden revenge-porn flick Zero Dark Thirtywas the biggest publicity coup for the CIA this century outside of the actual killing of Osama bin Laden. But the extent to which the CIA shaped the film has remained unclear. Now, a memo obtained by Gawker shows that the CIA actively, and apparently successfully, pressured Mark Boal to remove scenes that made them look bad from the Zero Dark Thirty script.

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Thursday 31st of October 2013

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Revealed: NSA pushed 9/11 as key 'sound bite' to justify surveillance

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Friday 8th of November 2013

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Britain's Spy Chiefs Throw Off James Bond Image to Attack NSA's Edward Snowden Leaks

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Thursday 5th of December 2013

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Video : Asimov at 391 - The open

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Thursday 5th of December 2013

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Isaac Asimov - Visions of the Future (1992) 1/4

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Tuesday 25th of March 2014

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Homeland Afterword by Jacob Applebaum

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Friday 4th of April 2014

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"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" Is About Obama's Terror-Suspect Kill List

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Wednesday 30th of April 2014

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The Rise of the Drone Master: Pop Culture Recasts Obama

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Wednesday 30th of April 2014

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Obama’s Pop Culture Legacy [VIDEO]

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Sunday 18th of May 2014

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Sony Pictures Entertainment has optioned the film rights to the book “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” with the James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli ..

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Tuesday 10th of June 2014

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The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years..

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Wednesday 2nd of July 2014

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We may think of ourselves as rational actors, in conscious control of our choices, but most of what we do is reflexive. Our behavior is determined by our subliminal reactions to the influence of other people, particularly those in the various peer groups we belong to.

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Monday 21st of July 2014

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“.. take a closer look and you realize that many of these people would never have committed a crime if not for law enforcement encouraging, pressuring, and sometimes paying them to commit terrorist acts.”

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Saturday 30th of August 2014

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« When The Simpsons do something with you, you cannot be completely bad »

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Sunday 28th of September 2014

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After spending weeks depicting ISIS as an unprecedented threat — too radical even for Al Qaeda! — administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland. Seemingly out of nowhere, a new terror group was created in media lore.

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Tuesday 4th of November 2014

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Writing the future: A timeline of science fiction literature

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Wednesday 5th of November 2014

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RT @mathieumatiu: Predicting the present: Science Fiction as a lens for focusing on today (with

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Friday 7th of November 2014

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Fiction and reality. Here is the twosome that Edward Snowden has perhaps the most sustainably shaken. Some alerts had already been raised with the revelation of the Echelon system at the end of the last century; the ever-growing number of terrorism laws, the progressively more oligopolistic Internet ecosystem during the 2000s… But, by revealing - that is materialising - the surveillance mechanisms that control every aspect of our lives, en masse and with no criteria, Edward Snowden has turned the anxiety of the future into a terror of the present.

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Friday 7th of November 2014

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"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every fiction is already The writer’s task is to invent Ballard

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Wednesday 19th of November 2014

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Une superproduction européenne, un scénario haletant, des personnages touchants... La mission sur la comète Tchouri s'est révélée aussi passionnante qu'un long métrage. Analyse de la mise en récit de cet exploit cosmique.

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Thursday 20th of November 2014

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Science fiction never imagined Google, but it certainly imagined computers that would advise us what to do. HAL 9000, in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” will forever come to mind, his advice, we assume, eminently reliable — before his malfunction.We have yet to take Google’s measure. We’ve seen nothing like it before, and we already perceive much of our world through it.

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Thursday 27th of November 2014

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Most people follow a summary dismissal heuristic: given surface characteristics of a message, they quickly judge whether it is worth considering or dismiss with a “oh, that’s just silly!” I like to call it the silliness heuristic: we ignore “silly” things except being in a playful mood.What things are silly? One can divide silliness into epistemic silliness, practical silliness, social silliness and political silliness.

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Tuesday 9th of December 2014

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Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda

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Sunday 14th of December 2014

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A new book exposes the incestuous relationship between the two and the extent to which they both feed us propaganda

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Thursday 18th of December 2014

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The following slides are taken from a 34 gigabyte leak of internal Sony Pictures data, thrust out onto the internet by maybe-North-Korean-who-knows hackers, and obtained by Gawker. They have not been edited to look like dog shit, but were in fact designed this way by well-paid humans

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Monday 29th of December 2014

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C3TV - The Invisible Committee Returns with "Fuck Off Google"

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Sunday 4th of January 2015

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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his landmark novel "Neuromancer," CHF favorite William Gibson returns to the Festival. This autumn he’ll celebrate the publication of his latest work, "The Peripheral," a high-tech thriller set partly in a decadent postapocalyptic future. Gibson is joined in conversation by author Carol Anshaw.

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Monday 12th of January 2015

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Réalisé par Edward Zwick, "The siege" - trahi par son titre français "Couvre-feu" - relate avec un sens rare de l'anticipation une campagne terroriste conduite dans New-York par un groupe islamiste radical. Tourné en 1998 alors que les Etats-Unis subissaient le 7 août le double-attentat contre leurs ambassades à Nairobi et Dar-es-Salam, le film, qui n'est aucunement inspiré par l'attentat d'Oklahoma City comme l'affirme un article de Wkipédia, constitue un exemple presque parfait d'anticipation artistique d'un phénomène politique majeur.

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Tuesday 13th of January 2015

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On ne maîtrise pas un texte. Il existe. Il tourne. Il est lu. Parfois même, il est lu, utilisé ou instrumentalisé par des gens dont on aurait préféré qu’ils ne posent jamais les yeux sur ces mots-là. C’est comme ça. C’est même (paradoxalement) toute la beauté de ces choses étranges que sont l’écriture et le journalisme, cette façon d’avoir un lecteur sans jamais vraiment savoir qui il est. Si proche et si lointain – surtout avec Internet.

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Thursday 22nd of January 2015

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Explaining the Japanese meme mocking ISIS

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Thursday 22nd of January 2015

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We gonna have a little competition to see who be the rougher torture master, broken down by a few overarching categories

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Thursday 22nd of January 2015

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Using a hashtag that translates to "ISIS crappy collage grand prix," Japanese netizens mocked the hostage video using photoshopped memes. The hashtag has more than 50,000 uses (Al Jazeera has a policy against showing video or stills from ISIL-produced content).

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Friday 23rd of January 2015

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Japan's silly response to ISIS propaganda did what the government couldn't

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Sunday 1st of February 2015

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War by media and the triumph of propaganda

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Thursday 5th of February 2015

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Make Hitler Happy: The Beginning of Mein Kampf, as Told by Coca-Cola

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Monday 23rd of February 2015

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Like propaganda films and sexual pornography, Hollywood movies about America at war have changed remarkably little over the years.

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Monday 23rd of February 2015

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How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

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Thursday 26th of February 2015

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Don’t forget that the online information sphere is just as much designed to conceal information as it is to reveal it. It’s designed to cocoon us. Don’t let yourself get duped. Fight to understand how your world really works.

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Wednesday 11th of March 2015

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LA VIE ALGORITHMIQUE, Critique de la raison numérique via @Eric_Sadin

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Sunday 5th of April 2015

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Humans are natural storytellers, and the world of stories is much more tidy, predictable, and coherent than reality. Millions of people behave strangely enough to attract the FBI’s notice, and almost all of them are harmless.

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Monday 6th of April 2015

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"Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in an exercise of speculative fiction," writes Imarisha in Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, an anthology of short sci-fi stories co-edited by her and Adrienne Maree Brown. "Organizers and activists dedicate their lives to creating and envisioning another world, or many other worlds, so what better venue for organizers to explore their work than through writing science fiction stories?"

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Thursday 16th of April 2015

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Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton is on the board of trustees of RAND Corporation, an organisation specialising in research and development for the United States military and intelligence sector. The Sony Archives show the flow of contacts and information between these two major US industries, whether it is RAND wanting to invite George Clooney and Kevin Spacey to events, or Lynton offering contact to Valerie Jarrett (a close advisor to Obama) or RAND desiring a partnership with IMAX for digital archiving. With this close tie to the military-industrial complex it is no surprise that Sony reached out to RAND for advice regarding its North Korea film The Interview. RAND provided an analyst specialised in North Korea and suggested Sony reach out to the State Department and the NSA regarding North Korea's complaints about the upcoming film. The Sony documents also show Sony being in possession of a brochure for an NSA-evaluated online cloud security set-up called INTEGRITY.

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Sunday 19th of April 2015

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Secret exchanges between the US State Department and Sony have also included a bizarre plan to recruit hip-hop artists to produce a Muslim We Are the World video to support the fight against Islamic State (IS). US diplomats are looking for "the Muslim Bob Geldof" to lead the campaign.

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Sunday 19th of April 2015

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Emails published this week by WikiLeaks reveal that a senior State Dept. official asked the CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment for help in countering the narratives of the Russian Federation and the so-called Islamic State.

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Monday 20th of April 2015

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Hollywood star explored his family's past on PBS documentary Finding Your Roots but viewers were not told one ancestor owned slaves Leaked Sony emails reveal how Henry Louis Gates Jr told a friend Affleck was trying to 'censor' documentary - a breach of PBS rules Gates asked his friend Sony boss Michael Lynton for advice and was told by Hollywood chief: 'I would take it out if no one knows' Instead show was about prominent liberal Affleck's Freedom Rider mother and distant ancestor who was mystic in civil war Gates claimed today that the slave-owning ancestor was not 'interesting' Latest embarrassing disclosure from leaked Sony emails posted by Wikileaks raises questions over PBS's integrity and for Gates, a Harvard professor

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Monday 20th of April 2015

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"The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas" Isaac Asimov, in essay for DARPA, 1959.

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Monday 20th of April 2015

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WikiLeaks: The Sony Archives

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Wednesday 22nd of April 2015

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RT @BoingBoing: Kurt Vonnegut's "Shapes of Stories" as an infographic

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Thursday 23rd of April 2015

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1976. How can product marketing methods be applied to politics?

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Friday 24th of April 2015

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RT @TransformDrugs: "The drug war is a war on the That's all it It has no other meaning" David Simon, creator of The Wire h…

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Friday 24th of April 2015

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emails indicate that Wikipedia is a standard part of film promotion for Sony. Numerous marketing strategy documents contain the instruction "Please create a Wikipedia (or other collaborative website) page if you are able", and Wikipedia is listed on other documents as one of their "standard tactics" for social media promotion

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Friday 24th of April 2015

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Les organisations terroristes, notamment, ont malheureusement bien compris l’enjeu de la communication et l’instrument efficace de propagande, d’endoctrinement et d’enrôlement que pouvait constituer cet espace numérique sans frontières.

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Saturday 25th of April 2015

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Cameron is said to have met with the executives 10 weeks before the historic referendum to discuss the TV show, which was shown in the US last August but delayed in the UK until several months after the vote in September. Outlander is based on the multi genre novels by Diana Gabaldon. The story is set between 1945 and the 18th century Scotland, featuring Scottish rebels fighting against British rule as part of the Jacobite risings.

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Saturday 25th of April 2015

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The World is a Stage - John Pilger (Documentary

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Tuesday 28th of April 2015

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Microsoft, Google, Apple and other firms have sponsored lecture series in which science fiction writers give talks to employees and then meet privately with developers and research departments. Perhaps nothing better demonstrates the close tie between science fiction and technology today than what is called “design fiction”—imaginative works commissioned by tech companies to model new ideas. Some corporations hire authors to create what-if stories about potentially marketable products. “I really like design fiction or prototyping fiction,” says novelist Cory Doctorow, whose clients have included Disney and Tesco. “There is nothing weird about a company doing this—commissioning a story about people using a technology to decide if the technology is worth following through on. It’s like an architect creating a virtual fly-through of a building.” Doctorow, who worked in the software industry, has seen both sides of the development process. “I’ve been in engineering discussions in which the argument turned on what it would be like to use the product, and fiction can be a way of getting at that experience.”

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Saturday 2nd of May 2015

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Army Commercial Targets PG13 XMen Audience

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Tuesday 19th of May 2015

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The documentary portrays the Kathryn Bigelow movie, which purports to be a definitive account, as a skewed view that was heavily influenced by the CIA and its press office. The agency had given the filmmakers extraordinary access to classified details about the operation that they didn’t otherwise hand out to journalists. “A lot of other people who covered the beat like I did in that search for bin Laden—we didn’t get close to that kind of cooperation from the agency on telling the inside story,” veteran Washington Post intelligence reporter Greg Miller told Frontline. The documentary is short on news and revelations. But it concisely lays out the the dueling narratives between the CIA’s version of its so-called “rendition, detention, and interrogation” program, and the Senate Intelligence Commitee’s years-long investigation of the same. The committee’s findings conclude that the agency tortured detainees and failed to come up with useful intelligence about terrorist attacks. If you haven’t been following the minutiae of this now-decade-long controversy, the documentary will bring you up to speed.

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Tuesday 19th of May 2015

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The Frontline documentary includes a clip from Zero Dark Thirty in which a CIA torturer yells at an al Qaeda prisoner, “When you lie to me, I hurt you!” A repurposing of that line would hold true for the government and the American public — when it lies to us, it hurts us.

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Friday 29th of May 2015

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"notre Kyle Reese, il s’appelle Edward Snowden," @jerezim

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Tuesday 2nd of June 2015

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The U.S. military command in charge of special operations is betting tens of millions of dollars on a science fiction suit that would wrap troops in high-tech body armor and effectively afford them superhuman abilities. Back in the real world, SOCOM is offering up its own high-dollar prizes to the private sector — as well as academia and Hollywood special effects designers — to deploy exoskeleton-clad super soldiers against the United States’ enemies around the world.

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Saturday 4th of July 2015

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As I've written here before, science fiction is terrible at predicting the future, but it's great at predicting the present. SF writers imagine all the futures they can, and these futures are processed by a huge, dynamic system consisting of editors, booksellers, and readers. The futures that attain popular and commercial success tell us what fears and aspirations for technology and society are bubbling in our collective imaginations.

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Sunday 5th of July 2015

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Terrorist or freedom fighter, Satan or saint, monster or victim? When they have white skin, they get to have it all.

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Wednesday 8th of July 2015

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Everhart's first full report is a viral video promoting Ant-Man, describing Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) as a cyber criminal and "self-proclaimed whistleblower." He was convicted of stealing from the fictional tech company VistaCorp and funneling the money back to its customers. The upcoming movie will see him finish his prison sentence and become Ant-Man, with help from Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), the inventor of the Ant-Man suit.

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Saturday 22nd of August 2015

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In 1920s Hollywood, the Arab was a hero, as played by the iconic actor Rudolph Valentino in his "Sheik" movies. By the 1970s, Arabs and Muslims were depicted as embodiments of evil, not only in Hollywood films, but in children’s cartoons, the news, TV sitcoms, and even on radio. What happened? Valentino's Ghost examines the ways in which US foreign policy in the Middle East has changed the media's portrayals of Arabs and Muslims. Accused of bigotry towards Arabs and Muslims, American filmmakers are blamed for the bias which would never be applied to African-Americans, Jews, homosexuals, or any other minority group. This film lays bare the truths behind taboo subjects that are conspicuously avoided or merely treated as sound bites by the mainstream media.

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Monday 31st of August 2015

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retour sur Dune, la planète des sables

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Friday 11th of September 2015

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Vigipirate et le fantôme de la guerre d’Algérie

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Monday 19th of October 2015

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Étudier Terminator @lundimat1

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Tuesday 10th of November 2015

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RT @LesDiplomates: : de l’impact des histoires sur notre cerveau

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Monday 1st of February 2016

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"Le Maître des Bots" 1er épisode 1/2

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Saturday 2nd of April 2016

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Johan Grimonprez - "DIAL HISTORY" (1997)

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Sunday 1st of May 2016

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RT @trevortimm: Are you going to tweet the part where your fake vaccination campaign led to the death of dozens of medical workers?

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