Category: Found objects
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Australia is building a deep surveillance infrastructure.
Michael West Media reports on the adoption of invasive surveillance technology by the Australian Government. Palantir (US based) and Cellebrite (Israel based) give our government the means to extract and analyse everything you do in the digital space. Everything. They are not building this for you. They are building it around you. And the person…
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Of painting and slow moments.
Sometimes we have to circle around for a bit before we see the beauty that was always on show.
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Sabine says neuroscience is in big trouble.
Very interesting short video that shows the methodology currently used in neuroscience hangs a big question mark over the validity of recent research. This is similar to problems in the field of psychology where many studies have failed to replicate results of earlier keystone studies.  Seems to be a combination of: It will be…
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Go un-filed.
“The unphotographed moment.” Now and then, deliberately do not photograph the sensory-rich thing — the meal, the low gold light, the street at dusk with the festival somewhere behind it. Let it go un-filed. An experience you did not capture keeps a power the captured ones lose: it can come back on its own, years…
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Summary of Near Death Experience research.
Quote from a comprehensive essay on the current state of research into the fascinating phenomenon of near death experiences (NDE’s)
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Coffee? Americans are weird.
At this point I am a little bit into seeking out the journaling blogs of everyday people writing about their own experiences and frames of reference.