#weirdfuture

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Any reports of unnotified SUA activity should follow a format similar to that used for activities such as bird reports or windshear and that ATC should use the descriptor of the SUA as provided by the individual making the report. Furthermore, in the absence of updated information (including confirmation of the cessation of such activity), any such reports should continue for up to 30 minutes after the initial report. This follows the precedent associated with bird or windshear reports, and is coincidentally the typical maximum useable battery life of SUAs.

Civil Aviation Authority, IN-2015/085, Reporting of Unnotified Small Unmanned Aircraft (SUA) Activity

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The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College is pleased to announce the first annual Neukom Institute Prizes in Computational Arts. These competitions aim to inspire innovations in computational methods that generate artistic products, such as literary, musical, and visual art.

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If you want the exact figure, last year’s prize pool for the contest was a staggering $10,931,103 which was also earned largely through sales of that year’s Compendium. The Compendium - in case you missed me banging on about it before – is a digital book you buy and then spend time or money leveling up in various ways. ... The majority of the money from sales goes to Valve, but a quarter is fed into the prize pool. Right now the prize pool for TI5 stands at $11,388,719. $1.6 million came from Valve so that means $9,788,719 from the community for the prize pool and $29,366,157 to Valve.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/ti5-prize-pool-dota-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RockPaperShotgun+%28Rock%2C+Paper%2C+Shotgun%29 I have almost no idea what's going on here - I'm vaguely familiar with Dota 2 (it is an game) and that this is a big deal (record breaking prize pool for an esports event). The main thing that astounds me here is that Valve just made damn near $30 million from selling what appears to be a kind of digital sticker album. Hashtag weirdfuture.

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Consider one group of bio-hackers who meet in the lab each Monday night to work on a project that sounds like a contradiction in terms: They’re trying to make cow’s milk cheese without the cow. Using mail-order DNA, they’re tricking yeast cells into producing a substance that’s molecularly identical to milk. And if successful, they’ll turn this milk into cheese. Real cheese. But vegan cheese. Real vegan cheese.

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/diy-biotech-vegan-cheese/ "Mail-order DNA"

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A pair of Icelanders hope to produce the first power bar using cricket flour, and make a compelling case for what makes the insects a sustainable choice. The product, called Jungle Bar, is made from “dates, sesame, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, chocolate and cricket flour”. As in made from crickets, the insects.

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Matheryn Naovaratpong, Alcor member A-2789, was pronounced legally dead on January 8, 2015 (the same date in both Thailand and Arizona’s time zone) in Bangkok, Thailand. The same day Matheryn, a neurocryopreservation member, became Alcor’s 134th patient. She is also Alcor’s youngest patient, being less than three years old at the time of her cryopreservation.

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For several seasons, and particularly embodied in his A/W 2014 lookbook, which took shape as a highly-produced TV commercial entitled TCTV, Telfar has utilised the concept of ‘basic’ or mainstream clothing as a source for his conceptual design practice. Entitling it Extremely Normal™, with the added trademark symbol simulating a corporate or mass-cultured branding-strategy, he fetishises not only accessible or ‘easy’ fashion styles (earth- and pastel-coloured, basic lounge- and sportswear), but the brightly-lit commercialism that surrounds that particular market. “I want to take American basics to the next level, and show people what they can be,” he stated half a year later in an interview at the showcase of his S/S 15 collection. Here, the normal is idealised, reimagined and ‘made-avant-garde’, transforming it into a subject of aesthetic and philosophical contemplation – exemplified, coincidentally, by the performative trend-forecasting agency K-Hole with their articulation of normcore as concept or trend

http://dismagazine.com/blog/73767/simplexity-utopia-and-dystopia-in-the-world-of-telfar/