Psycho-Pass: Cyberpunk Dystopian Anime

Funimation has licensed season 1 of an excellent dystopian crime anime series is coming to the U.S. and season 2 is in the works.  In this dystopia, we follow Unit One of the Public Safety Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Division as they investigate crimes. The minds, intents, psychology, and mental health can be measured using a…

Bruce Sterling and His Setup

Great blog about what people use to get stuff done, The Setup, has done the unthinkable. They have profiled Bruce Sterling. By golly, it’s as brief, irreverent, and profound as one would expect.

http://bruce.sterling.usesthis.com/

Full Archive of Trustycon Vids

Trustycon syphoned off a lot of participants of the RSA conference when RSA was found to be in cahoots with the NSA, creating a backdoor for them and ultimately, making their security less effective. Trustycon’s purpose was to recreate the RSA conference with a particular focus on a lack of NSA and surveillance-ness:

We welcome all…

RU Sirius Gets Serious

RU Sirius, the legendary cyberpunk publisher/writer/mind has interviewed himself about his thoughts on transhumanism over at h+.

He’s been posting some amazing stuff over at Steal This Singularity.

Please to go look.

Philip Zimbardo on The Psychology of Evil: The Most Badass TED Talk

Yes, it’s from 2008, but TED reposted it on Twitter and we had to throw this up. It is, in essence, how a person becomes a villain and why we do bad things. More importantly, how we can be heroes. Legendary Rogue Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford Prison Experiment, Abu Ghraib) never shies away from controversial methods and this TED Talk is no exception. It is downright gritty.

<Link: TED>

Now That’s What I Call Music: C Program edition

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These short C programs piped to an 8-bit audio channel create some pretty stellar chiptune punk.

Created by Ville-Matias Heikkilä

Check out the other videos for more 8bit mayhem.

<Via /r/Cyberpunk’s /u/Panzerdrek >

Blackphone: The Privacy First Smartphone

Privacy communications gods Silent Circle and experimental phone manufacturer Geeksphone have come together and are finally releasing the much anticipated Blackphone. This sleek, matte black smartphone is the ultimate security device.

It runs a version of Android called PrivatOS which features system-wide permissions, Play Store incorporated options that lets you set permissions on an app-by-app…

Pussy Riot Members Get Whipped By Cossacks at Sochi

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The new Pussy Riot music video Putin Will Teach You How To Love shows the footage of two members of the Russian punk rock collective that went viral just a few days ago.

At a protest of the Olympics and Putin in Sochi, members are whipped, pepper-sprayed, and beaten down by militia members. They’re unarmed and not doing anything…

Turkish Citizens Continue to Fight New Restrictions

Turkish citizens are continuing to protest the new censorship laws that were passed through parliament. Opposition MP Hasan Oren compared Prime Minister Erdogan to Adolf Hitler:

When you came to power you talked of enhancing democracy in Turkey – now you are trying to implement fascism

Erdogan is an enemy of the internet , calling Twitter a “scourge” and said social media is “the worst menace to…

The Outrunners: A Quintessential Cyberpunk Webcomic

The Outrunnersis a truly awesome scifi webcomic that takes the sustainability problem to its logical end: warring biker hacker gearheads, solar cars, authoritarian energy regulations, and bad ass cityscapes. This is a cyberpunk (it’s AUTOPUNK, but you know…) mainstay as far I’m concerned, and it’s high time Andrew Krahnke and Jonathan Gelatt get some serious popularity for their work.  …