https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/6/14/17464516/stanford-prison-experiment-audio

This week, the story of the experiment changed considerably. In a thoroughly reported exposé on Medium, journalist Ben Blum finds compelling evidence that the guards in this experiment were not left to act on their own desires. Audio recording and interviews with those involved reveal the guards were coached into being mean or considered the experiment to be an “improv exercise.” Here is one of those recordings, via the Stanford archive. It’s pretty damning. You can hear David Jaffe, one of Zimbardo’s students who acted as the prison “warden,” chastising a guard for not being severe enough.

 

This subject just by itself would require a discussion of encyclopedic proportions:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-erosion-of-reality/

We humans have arguably been eroding our own reality from the moment our hominin ancestors and cousins started communicating and storytelling. A good fireside tale may help maintain a verbal history, or articulate moral and social rules, helping bring cohesion to our families and groups. But it can, perhaps inevitably, mislead, distort, and manipulate.

In a way, we might be getting ahead of ourselves by anticipating the birth of true a.i. so soon. But nobody knows if, or when it will happen.... but I'm sure that once it happens, it will be kept an extremely closely guarded secret until other nations (governments) develop their own.

 

Coolest selfie ever:

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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/06...selfie-during-massive-dust-storm-on-mars.html

 

Coolest selfie ever:

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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/06...selfie-during-massive-dust-storm-on-mars.html

I see the reflection of a Martian staring back into that top camera.

 

I see the reflection of a Martian staring back into that top camera.

One of the biggest challenges for the rover is the accumulation of dust on its solar panels. I've always wondered how big of a challenge it would be to include a small air compressor in the design, and have the robotic arm periodically clean the panels with a nozzle, using short blasts of air.

 

One of the biggest challenges for the rover is the accumulation of dust on its solar panels. I've always wondered how big of a challenge it would be to include a small air compressor in the design, and have the robotic arm periodically clean the panels with a nozzle, using short blasts of air.

Rather, look to nature for solutions...

 

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/in...rmland-into-junkyard-near-sandy/283-561758141

Sandy, Ore.— Joe and Diane Rinard built their dream home in 2004. It sits on five acres of farmland just outside of Sandy.

The neatly kept property is nestled among huge fir trees. It is so quiet in this rural part of Clackamas County, you used to be able to hear owls and frogs at night.

But not anymore.

 

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/in...rmland-into-junkyard-near-sandy/283-561758141

Zombie at 2:30 in the video.

 

Zombie at 2:30 in the video.

Zombies gotta eat too.

 

Bye Bye GE?

For the first time in 110 years, GE is not part of the DOW.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/19/investing/ge-dow-jones-walgreens/index.html

I remember riding through Nela Park (old GE HQ) at Christmas time - wow what a sight!

 

One of the biggest challenges for the rover is the accumulation of dust on its solar panels. I've always wondered how big of a challenge it would be to include a small air compressor in the design, and have the robotic arm periodically clean the panels with a nozzle, using short blasts of air.

Probably because it wouldn't be very practical. How well would you expect an air compressor to work here on Earth at an altitude of 90,000 feet? That's the average pressure altitude on the surface of Mars.

 

Probably because it wouldn't be very practical. How well would you expect an air compressor to work here on Earth at an altitude of 90,000 feet? That's the average pressure altitude on the surface of Mars.

Oh, I'm aware of the very low pressure of Mars' atmosphere. My thought was around some sort of very slow working pump mechanism. Something that would accumulate enough air during the course of several months, so that only a couple of yearly blasts would be performed for maintenance purposes.

 

The end of an era.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/4-000-episodes-halt-jerry-springers-show-203235591.html

NEW YORK (AP) — Somehow it doesn't seem right for Jerry Springer to exit quietly.

There should be one last thrown chair or a bleep-filled tirade, at the very least. Instead, it was announced with no fanfare this week that he will stop making new episodes of his memorably raucous talk show, and neither Springer nor his bosses will talk about it.

 

The end of an era.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/4-000-episodes-halt-jerry-springers-show-203235591.html

The worst America has to offer.

Good riddance.

 

Well, it's over.

https://apnews.com/332abb7455cb4b60...nline-shoppers-can-be-forced-to-pay-sales-tax

 

Well, it's over.

https://apnews.com/332abb7455cb4b60...nline-shoppers-can-be-forced-to-pay-sales-tax

This is a good thing. It's only when taxes hurt a majority of the public that tax reform becomes possible.

And, I am generally speaking of states with high sales taxes in this specific instance.

In Florida, I am comfortable paying 6% on purchases.

 

No sales tax here unless you buy dope legally as we do have recreational marijuana taxes.

 

Most people don't know how big and magnificent Tenochtitlán was before the Spaniards arrived. It was bigger and better organized than most European cities. This is a short video (1:30) giving a few impressive facts about that metropolis:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180622-tenochtitlan-the-mexican-metropolis​

Most of what is known today about Tenochtitlán comes from a book written by one of Cortés' soldiers, Don Bernal Díaz del Castillo.

 

http://www.kptv.com/story/38492825/...rowning-death-and-did-nothing-wont-be-charged

Cocoa, FL (WFTS) -- On Friday, the State Attorney's Office announced that the four juveniles and one adult who laughed and recorded a Florida man's drowning death last year, will not face any criminal charges.

Jamel Dunn, 31, drowned in a retention pond in Cocoa, Florida, on July 12, 2017. Cocoa police say they later discovered that the group, ages 14 to 18, recorded Dunn's drowning on video.

In the video, the teens can be heard laughing at Dunn, saying that they weren't going to help him. One of them even appeared to laugh and say, "He just died!"

According to the State Attorney's Office, there is no law in Florida that requires people to give or call for help when someone's in distress.

Sick and sad.

 

http://www.kptv.com/story/38492825/...rowning-death-and-did-nothing-wont-be-charged

Sick and sad.

Yes, it's worse than sick and sad... it's atrocious... the western world has forgotten its own foundations... the price for that will be paid in one or two generations at most... God help us