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Dis how u #vaporwave?

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Social Decay Andrei Lacatusu

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New vision board

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Make America America Again.

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My new favorite Olympic event: Protesters extinguish Olympic torch in Brazil.

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Current mood.

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DANGER: Glitch ahead.

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I found this #glitch in the wild.

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How Many Bombs?

On the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this is something you have to see.

70 years ago today, the US military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Because the hospitals were destroyed, and because of the following US occupation, no accurate death toll exists. But it might be conservative to say that 140,000 people were murdered, and tens of thousands more were injured.

The US has never apologized for this terror.

And along with 8 other states, the US maintains its geopolitical power with the threat of continued nuclear terror.

I made this so that we don't forget, and so we fight until nuclear weapons are history.

Please spend some time with it and share.

And this week, please hold in your hearts the Japanese, Polynesians, Siberians and Navajo who's lands have all been subjected to devastating nuclear attacks and testing. -- Thanks to carlyfiorina.org and countthekids.org for aesthetic and coding inspiration. You can look at the code (which could be cleaned up) at https://github.com/chr15eat0n/hiroshima. If you would like to play with the data, check out http://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report. Eventually I’d like to turn that into a json ready google spreadsheet.

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#DeepDream, like today’s Internet in general, presents one big conflict. It is part of Google’s image recognition apparatus - the corporate mass surveillance of data capture. But it offers unprecedented power to user.

Hopes and Fears explains that Deep Dream is an Artificial Neural Network that produces trippy images by "digging through visual data, “enhancing” parts of images and building on features it “recognizes” within by using its own datasets."

Its the reverse of the software Google uses for image recognition. Software that uses filter within a network of filters to recognize some form or contour in an image, send it to another filter that refines its recognition and so on until it can claim what (or perhaps “who”) the image show.

In reverse, these filters "dream" up new contours in an image. The network currently generates dog, bird, insect, city and car forms (results that might speak volumes about the long term objectives of the project).

Lured by novelty, users feed Google data, which will be used to improve the surveillance capacity of its image recognition software. The feedback loop of desire and data capture unravels any dichotomies between surveilled, external user and surveillance software.

To make these GIFs in a few hours rather than a few months, I needed to install VirtualBox on my computer and run a Deep Dream virtual machine. This did not process my images but loaned out CPU and memory out to cloud hosted servers. Images from my IP address we're then given a "fast past" to be processed first. I then uploaded images, downloaded and resubmitted the results dozens of times.

Neural networks may proceed human like Artificial Intelligence. They are becoming human. But even more so, through feeding Deep Dream, through repetition and subsumption the surveillance apparatus, maybe users are becoming machine.

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Best animated pixel art reproduction of a famous painting ever!

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Rainbow (2015)

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What is the mass of the Central Black Hole of the Phoenix Cluster?

Here’s a nice animation to blow your mind.

20 BILLION of our SUNS.

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That’s heavy, dude.

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Best science #gif ever.

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Chinese company Xiao Zhu decided to highlight the dangers of pollution by projecting images of crying children onto clouds of smoke emerging from factory towers.

Related: looks like China has found its David Lynch.

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#FutureFriday: That time we flooded the whole god damn system.

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Impresionante.