Ideas Are Bulletproof

Go batman! Doing the Yes dance

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:46:33 -0400

Go batman! Doing the Yes dance

I shall rape and kidnap thee

Sun, 27 May 2012 18:07:38 -0400

I shall rape and kidnap thee

Ack! ….crushed

Sun, 27 May 2012 18:06:28 -0400

Ack! ….crushed

Ah memories and glitches

Sun, 27 May 2012 17:59:57 -0400

Ah memories and glitches

Hey it’s me in the mornings!

Sun, 27 May 2012 17:38:37 -0400

Hey it’s me in the mornings!

"Idk where to start to be quite honest here and I don’t appreciate the harrowing feeling I have..."

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:48:00 -0400

“Idk where to start to be quite honest here and I don’t appreciate the harrowing feeling I have at the moment either.
An idea? How about a fire is festering deep inside? Its all I can say but no words at this precise moment can describe whats truly ruling my thoughts. Decisions are overruled by past engagements and experiences. Anything that was once dear is now tainted by this black energy. Any problems, old and new, are now met with an undying self backlash and it’s making me stay silent and pulling me further away from you also and it seems you don’t want anything to do with it.
I say, no more. You will not see me dwindle, you will not see me roll nor squirm if it brings harsh words with intent to strike me down deep where my love for you lies. This is a promise, this is my heart and if you still see me as a victim then don’t bother proving that you’re there for me, for you stopped caring for me and you stopped being the girl I once knew and truly cherished.”

- 28th April, 2012.

"I’m sorry that I’m both your umbrella and the rain."

Fri, 04 May 2012 21:26:08 -0400

“I’m sorry that I’m both your umbrella and the rain.”

- Tablo (via anditslove)

October 11th, 2011.

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:41:26 -0400

Me: I'm gonna be blessed in tomorrow
Me: Ride or die fool
Me: You know what I'm sayin'
Sullie: No
Sullie: I don't lol
Me: Im a b-k machine baby
Sullie: Lol
Sullie: Look smile
Me: Sabra Dios if theyres crips in your college
Sullie: Lmfao
Sullie: That made me giggle so hard
Me: Imao boba

This conversation took place at 2:27am till 3:31 am

psychofactz: http://www.psychofactz.com/

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:06:20 -0400

psychofactz:

http://www.psychofactz.com/

Did Humans Make Tools, or Did Tools Make Humans?

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:36:27 -0400

Is our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, the first cyborg species? Gizmodo/New Scientist has a fascinating article up about how humans evolved as a result of technology. Timothy Taylor, an anthropologist and archaeologist at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom, submits a theory I am very inclined to believe: thathumans evolved from tool-using proto-human primates. This evolutionary path resulted in a “survival of the weakest,” which Taylor explains:

Technology allows us to accumulate biological deficits: we lost our sharp fingernails because we had cutting tools, we lost our heavy jaw musculature thanks to stone tools. These changes reduced our basic aggression, increased manual dexterity and made males and females more similar. Biological deficits continue today. For example, modern human eyesight is on average worse than that of humans 10,000 years ago.

Unlike other animals, we don’t adapt to environments – we adapt environments to us. We just passed a point where more people on the planet live in cities than not. We are extended through our technology. We now know that Neanderthals were symbolic thinkers, probably made art, had exquisite tools and bigger brains. Does that mean they were smarter?

Evidence shows that over the last 30,000 years there has been an overall decrease in brain size and the trend seems to be continuing. That’s because we can outsource our intelligence. I don’t need to remember as much as a Neanderthal because I have a computer. I don’t need such a dangerous and expensive-to-maintain biology any more. I would argue that humans are going to continue to get less biologically intelligent.

Taylor is not alone in his belief that technology of some kind came before Homo sapiens. Richard Wrangham’s book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, argues that the human-making tech was fire and cooked food. Easier to digest and less likely to cause disease, cooked food allowed for a smaller digestive tract to provide the immense amounts of energy required by our bigger brains. Both Taylor and Wrangham could be correct. In fact, many various technologies may have combined over time to allow and influence our evolutionary path.

Both Wrangham and Taylor’s findings support the thesis that humans are, paradoxical as it may seem, technological by nature. As I stated last year in my IEET post “We Have Always Been Transhuman“:

What is so staggering about this revelation is that it means humans are not the product of evolution the way other primates are in that humans, should [Taylor and] Wrangham’s theory hold, are the evolutionary result of technological pressure and selection on a species. Erectus evolved from habilus due to technology and, concurrently, sapiens evolved as a species maximized to use technology. So, if technology is natural, and we (Homo sapiens sapiens) are a natural product of technology, then whither the boundary between the two? Is it us?

In other words, to be human is to be cybernetic. Humans are a species born of technology. Whoa.

By: Kyle Munkittrick

npr: discoverynews: expose-the-light: Best Pictures Of A Baby...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:26:51 -0400

npr:

discoverynews:

expose-the-light:

Best Pictures Of A Baby Elephant Playing At A Beach Of All Time

My heart just melted and I died. RIP.

Oh my!

Elephants deserve a day at the beach too.

Radical thinkin’ and choice you made AMERICA…

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:21:44 -0400

Radical thinkin’ and choice you made AMERICA…

Loved it loved it loved it!

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:15:47 -0400

Loved it loved it loved it!

What would you do if you had a pair of these?

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:44:58 -0400

What would you do if you had a pair of these?

Alice the painter

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:43:06 -0400

Alice the painter

Fuck Yea! I’m doing this...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:45:06 -0400

Fuck Yea! I’m doing this someday..day…day…..day……….day

“ A young man with an arrow in his head arrives at...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:10:05 -0400

“ A young man with an arrow in his head arrives at hospital following ethnic clashes in the town of Nakuru in the Rift Valley area January 26, 2008. Kenyans in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru feared more violence on Saturday after a disputed election triggered pitched battles between ethnic gangs that killed at least a dozen people.”

“A man carries two brothers who were killed when their...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:35:06 -0400

“A man carries two brothers who were killed when their home collapsed during an earthquake in Bam December 27, 2003. International rescue workers hacked desperately through flattened debris for survivors and cemeteries overflowed in Iran’s ancient Silk Road city of Bam after an earthquake that killed more than 20,000 people.”

“A woman walks past a heap of skinned seal cubs after the...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:52:40 -0400

“A woman walks past a heap of skinned seal cubs after the annual cull near the village of Nizhnaya Zolatitsa, some 150 km from the Arctic city of Arkhangelsk in Russia March 9, 2000. Local inhabitants rely on the cull as their only source of income for the whole year, making roughly $100 from selling the fur and meat taken during the week long event.”

Is this really neccesary? Stop the killing.

“Ali Ismail Abbas, 12, wounded during an airstrike...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:49:45 -0400

“Ali Ismail Abbas, 12, wounded during an airstrike according to hospital sources, lies in a hospital bed in Baghdad, April 6, 2003. Abbas was fast asleep when war shattered his life. A missile obliterated his home and most of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned and blowing off both his arms. It was midnight when the missile fell on us. My father, my mother and my brother died. My mother was five months pregnant, the traumatised boy told Reuters at Baghdad’s Kindi hospital. Our neighbours pulled me out and brought me here. I was unconscious, he said on Sunday.”