Grounding of the Costa Concordia (by TheVideooo)
“A good actor-network theorist is able to take some existing system in which there are far too many explanations based on those uniquely human qualities and give an alternative account that relies instead on materials, technologies, infrastructures, documentation, and other modes of externalized practices. It is not to make the more futile argument that norms and consciousness and all those warm fuzzy humanisms don’t exist, but that they’re not necessary”
“isn’t there an easier way you can study the phenomena that interest you without attributing culture to robots themselves? But I saw where she was going and asked her about doing ethnographic studies of robot culture itself, instead of the culture of people who interact with robots — and it seemed like half the room gave a polite chuckle. Zara, however, told me that she loved the idea and we had a great chat afterwards about this.”
Computer Pub, Hackney Wick London 1965 (by dorlec01)
“The warning was issued this week after officers saw a television news report showing a basketball-sized object with multiple rotors hovering over an expansive Westside residence.”
— LAPD cracks down on drone aircraft use by real estate agents - latimes.com
“The Los Angeles Police Department is warning real estate agents not to use images of properties taken from unmanned aircraft, saying the flying drones pose a potential safety hazard and could violate federal aviation policy.”
— LAPD cracks down on drone aircraft use by real estate agents - latimes.com
“Until now, the only way we could take account of those countries’ limits was to remove content globally. Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why.”
“When people are riding the knife edge of a permanent vegetative state on their sofa after a hard day doing boring shit for an idiot, trying to love their stupid children or fighting with their dog, they don’t want to do anything at all. So bear that in mind.”
“So opens my quote-a-thon, with something completely and utterly wrong. I’m calling that one, right now. Passivity is lovely. We really like passivity. Passivity is going to be hip and cool and trendy for the rest of human history. This is because passivity is the result of human laziness and human laziness is the most powerful force in the civilised world. I can’t be bothered to explain why.”
“for one thing, it’s unlikely we’ll use the free time generated by automation for leisure, let alone board games”
— Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here | Magazine
“some Mercedes models come without a dipstick. “The burden of paying attention to his oil level he has outsourced to another,” Crawford writes: the technician, the dealer, the corporation, the shareholders. “There are now layers of collectivized absentee interest in your motor’s oil level, and no single person is responsible for it.”
— Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here | Magazine
“Nevada’s texting ban, for instance, does not apply to self-driving cars”
— Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here | Magazine
“Imagine the complexity we’ll have when cars drive themselves. Who will be responsible for their operation—the car companies or the drivers? What happens, for example, when a highway patrol officer pulls over a self-driving car? Who gets the ticket?”
— Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here | Magazine
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