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thenewinquiry: One bank is already lending on the basis of...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:41:56 +0800

One bank is already lending on the basis of borrowers being able to get Facebook friends to serve as human collateral.

Perhaps no company has gone as far as Lenddo, a Hong Kong start-up that owns online lenders in Colombia and the Philippines. Loan-seekers ask Facebook friends to vouch for them. To determine if those who say “yes” are real friends rather than mere Facebook contacts, Lenddo’s software checks messages for shared slang or wording that suggests affinity. What’s more, the credit scores of those who have vouched for a borrower are damaged if he or she fails to repay. Put the word out about this “social-enforcement mechanism” and “boom, the money shows up,” says Jeff Stewart, Lenddo’s boss.

Nothing like having your digital kneecaps broken because some deadbeat friend of yours couldn’t make a payment. Better purge all those high school friends from your Facebook who aren’t likely to be successful; get rid of all those college friends who seem weird or who update about unsavory low-class, low-status things. Reify your habitus! And do it fast, before it costs you. Never mind that your habitus is precisely what you take for granted about how you see the world: subject yourself to rigorous observation and then make yourself conform to the signifiers of status! You wouldn’t want your friends to get hurt, would you? You wouldn’t want them to drop you, right?

-Rob Horning, “Social-Media Redlining and ‘Social Enforcement’ “

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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:41:56 +0800

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gonna be useful when exchange ends

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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:51:17 +0800

likeafieldmouse: Claudia Mitchell, the first woman in history...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:44:13 +0800

likeafieldmouse:

Claudia Mitchell, the first woman in history to have a bionic arm

“In 2004, Claudia Mitchell lost her left arm in a motorcycle accident. Two years later, she became the first woman to have a bionic arm - a prosthetic limb that she controls with her mind.

The robotic arm comes from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and was developed for $3 million. Mitchell, who used to peel bananas using both feet and one hand, can now carry items, lift cups, and move her prosthetic arm almost as naturally as her real one.

How does it work? Mitchell’s arm is myoelectric, which means it picks up electrical signals coming straight from her brain, down her nerves. Electrodes help the signals jump from her body, to the prosthesis, which uses a computer to figure out which motion Mitchell is thinking about.”

Pretty amazing.

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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:41:16 +0800

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Time is ticking. (at White Lion Walk)

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:14:54 +0800

Time is ticking. (at White Lion Walk)

In love with this town :) (at Guildford High Street)

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:59:24 +0800

In love with this town :) (at Guildford High Street)

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Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:16:41 +0800

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Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:35:07 +0800

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istillloveparamore: do u ever lie in bed at night and start sobbing because of paramore because you...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:20:24 +0800

istillloveparamore:

do u ever lie in bed at night and start sobbing because of paramore

because you think about everything they’ve gone through

and then you think of the now preview and

I DONT THINK PARAMORE WILL EVER UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I LOVE THEM I MEAN NO OTHER BAND WILL OWN MY HEART LIKE THEY DO 6 YEARS AND RUNNING STRONG BBY

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Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:08:58 +0800

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jaymug: Learn from yesterday live for today hope for tomorrow.

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:28:08 +0800

jaymug:

Learn from yesterday live for today hope for tomorrow.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:39:08 +0800

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99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:36:23 +0800

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jldean: Google and the World Brain trailer A film about the...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:50:47 +0800

jldean:

Google and the World Brain trailer

A film about the dreams, dilemmas and dangers of the Internet.

In 2002 Google began to scan millions of books in an effort to create a giant global library, containing every book in existence. They had an even greater purpose - to create a higher form of intelligence, something that HG Wells had predicted in his 1937 essay “World Brain”.

But over half the books Google scanned were in copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop Google, which climaxed in a New York courtroom in 2011.

SKYNET IN THE MAKING.

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Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:40:55 +0800

yelyahwilliams: buzzfeed: Surprised Red Panda! the other is...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:35:58 +0800

yelyahwilliams:

buzzfeed:

Surprised Red Panda!

the other is like: “you ok dude?”

Red pandas!

aaahahahha

ERRRMEHHRRRGEERDDD HAHAHAHHAHA

earth-song: ”blue shark story #1” by Alexander Safonov Blue...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:44:27 +0800

earth-song:

”blue shark story #1” by Alexander Safonov

Blue sharks are the most interactive shark specie I ever saw in my life. They are not shy and come straight to the divers from all sides, so it’s very important to dive as a group and watch each other backs. We had about 10 sharks in the water with us, making circles and always coming back to sample port shade, strobe or strobe arm - or even tank, sneaking from behind ^_^ It was great adrenaline pumping ride - which I hope will be doing again sometime soon ! ^_^

OMG ADRENALINE MAX SIA

pulmonaire: Monobloc by Bert Loeschner

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:43:18 +0800

pulmonaire:

Monobloc by Bert Loeschner

bookshelfporn: This is why we need...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:52:35 +0800

bookshelfporn:

This is why we need bookstores…

(via edwardspoonhands)

This is why we need books…