#technology is magic

[damdemiwitch]

Everything in the Librarians goes according to Clarke's Third Law:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

[motleystitches]

Amazon One lets you pay with your palm

Amazon One uses palm recognition for payments

6 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. - Revelations 16 (NIV)

Because apparently technology takes inspiration directly from ancient nightmares? 

[science-of-noise]

A few weeks ago I dressed up in a black robe and a respected old man ceremonially bestowed me with a hood.

In one week I face a test and if I pass will be considered one of the world’s foremost experts in an arcane discipline full of strange formulas, making inanimate objects “learn” and “see,” manipulating literal knowledge in ways we pretend to understand but don’t, really, yet still use to drive the world.

So I realized I’m basically a shaman.

[acornmoment]

Okay, bad news and good news. Bad news: I can't play Pokémon White anymore. For some reason all my roms are fucked. Good news is I don't think any of the other Pokémon games I own have a fucked up cart so this is a one time problem.

[pandolfo-malatesta]

I can lie in bed at night and watch one of my favorite movies on a tiny screen and that's a capability 12-year-old me would have really coveted.

[studentandfox]

rpd

yesterday I filled out the rpd questionaire and since I don’t have a printer to put it on my shrine I just saved it in my e-mail drafts until the four days is up

[modernmonkeymind]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wprn56-mlHU)

[gretchensinister]

"Ok Google, Who's the fairest of them all?"