How will life extension transform punishment

What happens to life sentences if our lifespan is radically extended? A philosopher talks about future punishment.


-Aeon

Man hangs himself and 4-year-old son over malware message

 
Senseless tragedy struck in the Romanian commune of Movila Miresii when Marcel Datcu took a distressing but wholly impersonal malware threat at face value, killing himself and his four-year-old son, Nicusor, in a misguided attempt to avoid prison and spare his boy shame.

Datcu had apparently visited a number of adult websites and thereby exposed his computer to infection by ransomware, a set of tools used by cybercriminals to lock down a device and extort the user for a cash payout, often while posing as law enforcement. Such insidious tactics have been popular of late, and are nowhere more prevalent than in Eastern Europe and Russia.

-Daily Dot

The U.S. Air Force’s Most Secretive Squadron

Never mind stealth bomber outfits and units remotely operating multi-million-dollar spy drones from secure desert outposts. Arguably the most secretive flying squadron in the whole U.S. Air Force owns a bunch of small Cessnas and medium-size transports that look pretty much exactly like civilian aircraft.


-Medium

“We are ignorant of the beyond, because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.”
—Jules Renard

Pourquoi les femmes dominent le marché du sexe?

Pourquoi est-ce que les femmes ont plus de facilité que les hommes à réaliser leurs fantasmes ? Pour l’écrivain Dunia Miralles, qui dissèque l'âme humaine dont fait partie la mécanique du sexe, il est à espérer que tout cela change et que les femmes soient, elles aussi, obligées de faire le premier pas… elles aussi confrontées à la possibilité qu’un homme se refuse. Ce serait «la vraie égalité», dit-elle.


-Libération

Portrait of a porn star Duke freshman stands behind her alter-ego

How fast is the Internet? In the United States, information travels at about 8 megabytes per second. An email is sent in the span of 0.2 seconds on average, faster than the blink of an eye. A text message is even faster. That’s the speed between “send” and “sent,” between almost and permanent—because as parents, teachers, potential employers and public service announcements have warned us, the Internet is forever.

For a first-year woman at Duke, a half-second Google search transformed her from Lauren*, a college Republican and aspiring lawyer, into Aurora*, a rising porn starlet.
 
-Duke Chronicle

2CELLOS - Thunderstruck

If You Go Chasing Rabbits . . .

 

. . . You know you're going to fall. Here's what happens when a middle-aged man tries to find the girl he loved. In second grade.

 -Washington Post

10 Incredible Cutting-Edge Technologies In Development

Don’t give up on flying cars or hoverboards just yet! As technology marches relentlessly on, everything goes into development sooner or later—as demonstrated by the existence of these things, which we’ll almost certainly see within our lifetimes.

-Listverse

‘You See All Kinds of Stuff’: A Conversation With Europe’s Most Prolific Sperm Donor

Ed Houben has 99 children. Maybe 100 by the time you read this. Several more are already on the way. He has met many of them, but he has raised none of them. Scattered throughout the Netherlands—his home country—and the rest of Europe, they aren’t his.

 
Houben, 44, is a “charitable sperm donor,” devoting much of his free time (he is a tour guide by day) to helping lesbian couples, single women and infertile heterosexual couples conceive. When he began donating 15 years ago, he gave to a sperm bank. Now he prefers what he calls the “natural method”—that is, sex.

-Newsweek

Cool Street Art & Inventive Urban Art

One of the great things about cool street art is how inventive and original it can be.  It can be incredible how some people perceive the world and can create something seemingly out of nothing.  It is the essence of opportunistic art and is often the most quoted and memorable pieces. Not all of the pieces I have included are created like this but are equally inventive and original.

-Mr Pilgrim

Astrud Gilberto: Take Me To Aruanda

Astrud Gilberto: Take Me To Aruanda. Listen on Tumblr.