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| 31.3.2013 | 1 month ago
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Los Angeles in 2013, according to LA Times 1988. Not exactly there yet, but also not too far off.
ripperdoc's clinic
A schizofrenic braindump, a stream of cyberpunk, post-cyberpunk, neopunk, futurism and sci-fi items, inspiration for my writing and game design. Usually managed by my trusty auto-posting AI residing in a possum-brain in my kitchen sink.
Go ahead and inject into my brainfeed via Twitter or Tumblr submit. Aslo, go ahead and challenge my AI with a question (warning, it bites).
Go ahead and inject into my brainfeed via Twitter or Tumblr submit. Aslo, go ahead and challenge my AI with a question (warning, it bites).
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| 31.3.2013 | 1 month ago
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| 11.3.2013 | 2 months ago
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US Air Force Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle (by theworacle)
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| 11.1.2013 | 4 months ago
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This guy NEEDS to be a character in our cyberpunk game. It’s pure genius! He’s more over the top than any movie character could be. Bloody fact beats fiction every time. And it’s funny too!
The Republic will Rise Again! Beware of Infections in HOSPITALS! You can’t forbid iron rods now, can you? Hahaa!
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| 7.12.2012 | 5 months ago
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Various cities in US and how they’d be affected by various levels of sea level rise. These images show a relatively modest 5 feet of sea level rise (at high tide, presumably).
More at NyT
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| 30.9.2012 | 7 months ago
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Wyoming to Consider Buying an Aircraft Carrier - but the state has no coast
Well, when it’s apocalypse it’s apocalypse! Or as the article states: “Come get some, Montana!”.
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| 26.11.2011 | 1 year ago
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A gloomy, post-apocalyptic feeling in these photos of 1970s US. Full photo story here.
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| 28.9.2011 | 1 year ago
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U.S. Hires Shady Mercenary for Somali Proxy War
US shadow wars make 80’s action movies and near future techno thriller melt into reality.
A French-born mercenary with a criminal record and possible ties to several African coups and at least one murder is the latest agent of the U.S. government’s out-sourced war in Somalia […]
Richard Rouget, alias “Colonel Sanders,” works for Bancroft Global Development, a Washington, D.C.-based “private security company” that maintains an approximately 40-man team of self-described “mentors” in Mogadishu, Somalia’s embattled capital city.
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| 30.3.2011 | 2 years ago
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The Biggest Company You Never Heard Of - Koch Industries
An interesting read on US biggest privately held company, Koch Industries, which is largely unknown to the public.
Koch Industries, Inc. owns a diverse group of companies that are engaged in trading, operations and investments worldwide. It has a presence in 50 countries in such industries as petroleum, chemicals, energy, fibres, resins, fertilisers, pulp and paper, ranching, securities and finance.
(via @GreatDismal)
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| 1.2.2010 | 3 years ago
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“ No matter which side you choose, you and your teammates always look like US soldiers, while the enemy always wears ski masks or other garb that marks them as terrorists.
Scott Osborne’s America’s Army Review on Gamespot, via Quiet Babylon
Scott Osborne’s America’s Army Review on Gamespot, via Quiet Babylon
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| 26.11.2009 | 3 years ago
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SECESSION.NET - an actual movement to break up United States
There is actually a web community promoting “secession”, the act of becoming independent from a (super)state. The site discusses federated communities, direct democracy, etc. Snow Crash, anyone?
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| 29.9.2009 | 3 years ago
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