Now, somebody write the last line here.

— Oswald Berthold (@x7557x) January 5, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/x7557x/status/1081523903460245504)

ꀬ→…..⋰≈ ⌂ ≈≈≈≈ ∆ ≈≈⋱…..→ pic.twitter.com/1VNADtpjhL

— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) January 5, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1081516221223317504)

nctryzob:

フィギュア制作 大越孝太郎

science70:

Langdon Clay, Cars—New York City, 1974-1976.

barnsburntdownnow:

An Obsession with Rocks
Tomioka Tessai, Japanese, 1895
Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Poet Mi Fu (1051–1107) kneels reverently before a selection of artful stones.

iamdanw:

““It is important that we recognise that screens are a modern way of being,” he said. “Reading we see as a hugely positive thing, but it is largely a sedentary thing. We have never done studies to look at the link between reading and adiposity [being overweight] but it is sedentary [lifestyle]. Five hundred years ago we thought it was bad for women’s brains to teach them to read. Reading and pamphlets have radicalised a lot more young people than screens have ever done. Yet we somehow worry about screens being different.””

— Screen time not intrinsically bad for children, say doctors

2019: THEY PUT A GARDEN ON THE MOON 🌱🌘 https://t.co/V01HBoDGT9

— m1k3y (@m1k3y) January 4, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/m1k3y/status/1081083833242374144)

2019… whatever it may bring, best wishes from all of us at at FoAM! https://t.co/53yNlgbVWi pic.twitter.com/CiVktvwLak

— FoAM (@_foam) January 4, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/_foam/status/1081244233892327430)

TL: Euclidean distance additively weighted; TR: Euclidean distance multiplicatively weighted; BL: Manhattan distance; BR: Chebyshev distance; pic.twitter.com/w4cMNGZFNU

— Raven Kwok (@RavenKwok) January 4, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/RavenKwok/status/1081075436875001856)

A project I have coming up: UNDER FIVE TREES. Five site-specific installations and audio narratives at the Esplanade Park, Singapore. Commissioned by National Gallery. Working with MANY writers, musicians, artists, designers, performers. Launches 18 Jan. More details coming… pic.twitter.com/zSCj5mAReN

— ben slater (@gonetopersia) January 3, 2019

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“There is something crazy about a culture in which the value of beauty becomes controversial. It is crazy not to celebrate whatever reconciles us to life. The craziness suggests either stubborn grievance … or benumbed insensibility. The two terms may be one. (Peter Schjeldahl)

— Weird Studies (@weirdstudies) January 2, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/weirdstudies/status/1080577294375313408)

Trying something inspired by @jeremyzilar idea of unfollowing everybody and rebuilding deliberately.

Mine is less extreme. I unfollowed almost all *except* current mutuals. So almost everybody in this ‘ground state’ is a mutual. Went from ~3k to ~770. Will build back slowly.

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) January 2, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1080317108578209792)

thisobscuredesireforbeauty:

Source

weissesrauschen:

zébulon rouge

“the call is always a call to dis-order and this disorder or wild- ness shows up in many places: in jazz, in improvisation, in noise.” #undercommons

— AG.Føɍɇvøɍ : ρѻﻉtﻉ§§ (@poemproducer) January 1, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/poemproducer/status/1080024535678754816)

Omens for the year to come. https://t.co/63HZ52z8HP

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) December 31, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1079682019267874816)

video link

“Most displays are looking to play things faster. We’ve got movies at 60 frames per second, and gaming displays that run at 144 fps. But what about moving in the other direction? [Bryan Boyer] wanted to try this out, so he built the VSMP, or Very Slow Movie Player. It’s a neat device that plays back a movie at about 24 fph (frames per hour) on an e-ink display to demonstrate something that [Bryan] calls Slow Seeing, which, he says “helps you see yourself against the smear of time.” A traditional epic-length movie is now going to run you greater than 8,000 hours of viewing.“

https://hackaday.com/2018/12/30/the-very-slow-movie-player-does-it-with-e-ink/

The belief that a great artist must also be a great (or at least acceptable) person is an infuriatingly stubborn fallacy. My go-to example is composer Richard Wagner, but MMA fighter Jon Jones works just as well. Yes, I know, this isn’t a fight-fan account, but hear me out.

— Weird Studies (@weirdstudies) December 30, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/weirdstudies/status/1079377299957579778)

My kind of thinking “infects” healthy thinking like a parasite that won’t go away 😎

All 4 horsepeople troll rationality with a specific trolling aesthetic. Pararational trolling is being annoying in juvenile way. Meta is “owning” and post is “trivializing”. Infra is “confusing”

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) December 30, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1079473511444316160)

Love to all those pushing algorithmic patterns and DSP forward in 2018, let’s keep it alien and broken in 2019, embrace error, break down walls (and fences) to collaborate, disrespect definitions, find complexity in simplicity, make space for others, share freely, fun is serious

— Algorave (@algorave) December 29, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/algorave/status/1078955780093763584)

Aesthetics/trend predictions for 2019: Extinction (of course), Seagoth, EMF radiation bait, chunky spiritual tools, further mutations in ‘ugly’, nostalgia for old eco movements, hallucinatory butch un-realness.

— /// DRIFT /// (@body_drift) December 29, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/body_drift/status/1078991004399792128)

Science is just magic we understand.

— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) December 30, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1079255881672417280)

Jewish culture taught me to love arguing.

Texan culture taught me that all arguments are pointless.

And Japanese culture taught me to appreciate pointlessness.

— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) December 29, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1079135452785893376)

Your hopeful stories, music, movies, comics, whatever, will all be better, more powerful, and more precise for having considered the perspectives of those who (non-ironically) believe there is no way to incrementally reform fundamental problems in our culture from within.

— austin walker (@austin_walker) December 29, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/1079155867872825345)

This has been making the rounds for a few days, but I only read it now.

It’s insidious shit.

It uses the grief and horror we all feel about what’s already baked in to cast us as doomed, AS IF WE COULDN’T ACTUALLY JUST STOP FUCKING BURNING FOSSIL FUELS.

https://t.co/txVkkAOpaG

— Dr. Genevieve Guenther (@DoctorVive) December 29, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1079135749973381120)

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waitingfor-youu:

A soldier plays piano in ruined school during a war, behind him is a photo of Tito, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992.

Always design software with abusive exes in mind https://t.co/lZwDCZ9Ocx

— Danielle Leong (@tsunamino) December 28, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/tsunamino/status/1078667667853041666)

mixing noise music with tech talk, otherwise hard to handle… really enjoying my bandcamp add-on volume fader… morning lecture “How does the Internet work?” - An explanation of Inter-Net and everyday #35c3 https://t.co/55Jji7E3LR

— AG.Føɍɇvøɍ : ρѻﻉtﻉ§§ (@poemproducer) December 29, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/poemproducer/status/1078923620934733825)

Enter your street address or ZIP code into the map’s search bar to discover whose traditional territory your home was built on. https://t.co/CLJVrb8VAw

— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) December 28, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/atlasobscura/status/1078491676342132736)

Enjoying the silence of yule tide at home, while reminiscing about the last month’s journeying on the island of three legged crows: https://t.co/CLNYsr3nma pic.twitter.com/SyfCFnyAgl

— Maja Kuzmanovic (@deziluzija) December 28, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/deziluzija/status/1078695585627193346)

#Mindrot #topkombi invented, fictitious and imaginary

— mindrot (@mintrod) December 28, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/mintrod/status/1078678664190062593)

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“I’ve been trying to figure out why the removal of the headphone port bugs me more than other ports…and I think it’s because the headphone port almost always only made me happy.”

It feels a lot different now, working in technology. This is what changed

— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) December 28, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/dakami/status/1078462698143150080)

finally close to getting this drum track sounding like this pic.twitter.com/pexoSlkfsp

— Lee Gamble (@GambleLee) December 27, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/1078326144703873024)

Post-capitalism challenge is to invent a way to do 3 things at once:

a) keep pace of economic life as fast as it needs to be via consumption automation

b) use the automation to make it sustainable environmentally

c) decouple pace of human life from pace of economic engines

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) December 25, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1077666993786912769)

‘Unrestrained craving for explanation makes us seek what is uniform so intensely that we pay no attention to what is different.’

– F. H. #Jacobi

(1785 – image: Klimt) pic.twitter.com/2QICExJMtE

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) December 25, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1077707977128321024)

Similar to Chemistry making Alchemy rigorous, Divination could be resurrected as a discipline but take on a highly scientific approach, as a degree combining history and CS+stats in equal measure. As a bonus, if you do a PhD you become a certified Oracle :)

— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) December 23, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1076927879995285504)

Maybe there was no Gatwick Airport.

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) December 23, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1076886950240571392)

‘Sumerian star map from Nineveh’
3000 BC pic.twitter.com/fUVGvRb5Op

— Sardonicus (@RealSardonicus) December 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/RealSardonicus/status/1076223544202153985)

This artwork sold for 1 milli satoshi ( $0.000000037 ) via a #bitcoin lightning payment and set a record of being the cheapest piece of art ever sold. Congrats to the artist @cryptograffiti! 🎨🖌️👨‍🎨⚡ #LightningNetwork pic.twitter.com/lGfuC8MKGA

— A v B ⚡ (@ArminVanBitcoin) December 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/ArminVanBitcoin/status/1076047965112938497)

Always-already Great Weirding

“This is broken”
“This is how it’s supposed to work”

“This is a terrible bug”
“It’s actually a feature!”

“This is a crisis!”
“This has been the plan all along”

“This isn’t normal”
“Actually it’s always been this way, you just didn’t notice.”

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) December 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1076233803629191169)

Amoeba finds solution to Travelling Sales Man problem by parasitism of human cortex and analyzing neuro-chemical space-time distributions throughout the brain :P https://t.co/tx8miyzB8h

— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) December 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1076153884970795011)

chaosophia218:

Victor Delhez - Scherzo in Gold, 1948.

This brilliant parody on the concept of the “Golden Number” depicts a professor with the skull of a parrot and five students. Artwork is constructed around several pentagrams.

To some the shortest is Saroyan’s four-legged ’m’ to others it’s Gillilan’s ‘Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes’, We know the longest is the Mahabharata - 'Whatever is here, is found elsewhere. But what is not here, is nowhere else’ #solstice

— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) December 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1076052888126976001)

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Stuck in one of the first flight’s trying desperately to land in Gatwick whilst it’s fuel was running out made the fragility of our infrastructure so much more evident. Everything is connected to everything else, no technology exists in isolation. Certainly not a consumer drone.

— Anab Jain (@anabjain) December 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/anabjain/status/1076026708313210880)

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Interesting hints towards a praxis of “Life Centered Design” - expressed by Martina Huynh. pic.twitter.com/A6n9nOiDOI

— samim (@samim) December 20, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/samim/status/1075885926138691584)

Just updating some slides. pic.twitter.com/MHBHq7LRVN

— Sjef van Gaalen (@thesjef) December 20, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/thesjef/status/1075758512251256832)

By training neural networks with images of real fingerprints, researchers developed a way to generate fake fingerprints that can not only dupe smartphones, but successfully masquerade as prints from numerous different people https://t.co/ixN4NZUDzJ

— WIRED (@WIRED) December 20, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1075640733472841728)

colorcoil:

Aristeidis Apostolopoulos-  Myanmar

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