Transmetropolitan Disco. Artist gaktikol.
“The police department in Santa Cruz, California, has begun an experiment that uses a mathematical algorithm to predict when and where certain crimes will be committed, and puts police on the scene before they happen. So far police have arrested five people using this technique of “predictive policing” and the rates of certain categories of crimes in the city have dropped significantly, perhaps as a result. The program has correctly predicted 40 percent of the crimes it was designed to monitor.”
Santa Cruz Cops Experiment With ‘Predictive Policing’ | TPM Idea Lab
If they’d just let us have the cool UI that they have for interacting with the precogs, that’d be fine.
(via warrenellis)
Dance like you’re stamping on a human face forever, love like you’ve been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there’s no such thing as God.
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Warren Ellis
I spend a lot of time looking at quotations. I found this one and I don’t know where it’s from or when he said it, but it’s so perfect. It really sums Warren up nicely: simultaneously the best and worst thing you’ve ever known.
Warren Ellis is like the Uncle who gives good advice in a wedding speech whilst simultaneously whipping out his gentleman vegetables, flopping them on the table and saying “and if it ever looks like this, get it lanced before it goes green. Congratulations!”
learn how to speak like your Internet Jesus. (via momentofellis)
This page randomly generates a Warren Ellis-like greeting based on his tweets. All respect and credit for the words here should be given directly to him, we just thought it would be funny to do this. Please don’t destroy us, Mr. Ellis.
The Last Ghost by E. G. Gauger (via Warren Ellis).
Happy Valentine’s Day to all. And to those who hate the day, I say this: Valentine’s Day is a Christian corruption of a pagan festival involving werewolves, blood and fucking. So wish people a happy Horny Werewolf Day and see what happens.
[the essential purpose of writing is this]: getting the idea down before you forget it. Doesn’t matter if the idea’s crap. Doesn’t matter if it’s not immediately useful. Doesn’t matter if it’s half-formed. Get it down. Jot it in a text file on your computer and toss it in a folder called Loose Ideas. Thumb it out into a note file on your phone. Scribble it into a notebook (in block caps so you can read it later, if you’re me)…
If you don’t have some kind of kit for capturing ideas, even if it’s a 50p reporter’s notebook and a pencil from the local shop for local people, you’re doing it wrong.
—Warren Ellis yet again.
…very few political soil pipes are built to take the pressure of millions of people squatting out ideas all over the place.
—Warren Ellis again.
