Despite a weekend break from the debate, my attention keeps getting pulled back to the threads arguing that personal action to lower one’s carbon footprint is ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst toward the goal of climate protection.
— Elizabeth Sawin (@bethsawin) February 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/bethsawin/status/1100084168120242177)
“No superintelligent AI is going to bother with a task that is harder than hacking its reward function” #smartbutlazy #ai https://t.co/HNCmV81RZq
— Scott Berkun (@berkun) February 25, 2019
For a year I’ve been reporting this story about major climate news, finally breaking today: A new simulation finds that global warming could cause stratocumulus clouds to disappear in as little as a century, which would add 8°C (14°F) of extra warming. https://t.co/1cSmLOsmOS
— Natalie Wolchover (@nattyover) February 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/nattyover/status/1100063361021169665)
Woke up with the term “best case dystopia“ at the top of my mind. I’m gonna choose to blame @cascio for this.
— Funranium Labs (@funranium) February 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/funranium/status/1100060605053001728)
when you have to stomp out the face in the snow so your surveillance camera stops texting you @internetofshit pic.twitter.com/hW2vJmXGhD
— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) February 25, 2019
Archaeologists in Turkey discover an Ancient Mosaic Skeleton That Says: ‘Be cheerful, enjoy your life’ pic.twitter.com/23LskP6XLL
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) February 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1099816223884234752)
A fun excerpt from my Voyager research: at one point, NASA realised that starting and stopping the craft’s tape recorder (used to buffer data before transmission to Earth) caused it to rotate around its yaw axis. Committing things to memory affected its motion.
— Edwin (@dirigiblebill) February 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/dirigiblebill/status/1099711229076168704)
Got SpiralSynth Modular compiling again! Great thing about 15 year old software is that it takes practically no CPU to run :] pic.twitter.com/Bz4TSLgHoG
— Dave Griffiths (FoAM Kernow) (@nebogeo) February 24, 2019
Also Kolmogorov complexity obviates metalanguage.
— Rob Myers (@robmyers) February 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/robmyers/status/1099085439942586368)
Just in US, vehicule idling is burning 40k tons of CO2 daily, thats nearly 15k kt of CO2 yearly and BTC worldwide is 23k kt.
— Gigabyted (@gigabyted4) February 22, 2019
So north america idling vehicule alone > the whole CO2 emission of bitcoin! And this is just idling vehicule alone!https://t.co/pTtux32UGB
(via http://twitter.com/gigabyted4/status/1099059736861908992)
Hilarious when people say stuff like “capitalism gave us the internet”. Capitalism has done everything in its power to hold back the internet, which is based on free exchange, cooperation, and open protocols. Capitalism has tried to lock down, destroy, and sabotage every step.
— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) February 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1099053253659058176)
#gt init https://t.co/FlcwwuegDY gen-4 w/ fb01 - voice crack - taken and changed on https://t.co/pSuV6sTcdj
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) February 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1098934615744630784)
MEDIUM EARTH of @theotolithgroup is generous to the slowness of the eye in gathering cinematic texture. The vastness of the sonic world it offers with low frequency, seismic gestures blends with evolving and morphing visual perspectives. #SAF19 #hereafter @brakkegrond pic.twitter.com/w9GH5o01Qs
— Sonic Acts (@SonicActs) February 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SonicActs/status/1098938064154644481)
we believe in jouissance madness holiness and poetry pic.twitter.com/jZHH0ufAva
— Ignota Books (@IgnotaBooks) February 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/IgnotaBooks/status/1098950708789952512)
Recommended reading: Wikipedia’s “List of scandals with the -gate suffix” https://t.co/QBuRoYQXAk
— Ada Palmer (@Ada_Palmer) February 21, 2019
Also recommended: Wikipedia’s “List of sexually active popes.” https://t.co/6CDQikgfHR
(via http://twitter.com/Ada_Palmer/status/1098707187705225220)
“Bag of Tricks for Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks” is such a great paper. Really clear, and most importantly, amazing results - >94.5% imagenet with a simple rn50, beating even inception v3!
— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) February 21, 2019
I’m working on replicating this now with fastai. pic.twitter.com/SqJgyBwRQK
(via http://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1098682588519006209)
https://t.co/7U5g0AjsQ7 is finally back up
— 𝕹𝖞𝖝 スライム娘 (@NyxLandUnlife) February 21, 2019
t͕̲͉h̺̥a̶̹͈̹t̤̙͉ ̤̝i̗̖͇̳̕ͅͅs҉ ̷̩̖̝̟̤̪ǹ͈̖o̬͕̻ͅț͖̙͞ ḑ͔̮͇e̷̪a̹̙̘͈d̺̖ ̛̠͙̪̭̼̣͕w̘͝h͕̜͕i̡̬̯̱̘c̖̕h̨̰̯̗ ̙̖̗̻͠c̮̤̭̳̟͙̗a̖n̬͍͍͉͖̟ ̹̫̱̮̹̫̟͜e̱̮̻͚t̴e̡̙͎r̬̩̟̗n̠͚̱̟̤͍͜a̹̬͉̞ͅl̴̟̥̪ ̥l͉̻̺ị̱̹e̻̻̠̯̬̹̩
(via http://twitter.com/NyxLandUnlife/status/1098642823929384961)
Shiv Integer, as a security professional, brings shame to the Internet Security profession according to this fellow professional. Sorry we did it wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/pgfKTsAkzk
— M Plummer-Fernandez (@M_PF) February 21, 2019
My set from the @bleep @Hyperdub instore up here.. Proper wonky one, all over the place, was fun instore vibes — “Keep Jumpin Y'Bastrds!” — https://t.co/C0ajNcWH84
— Lee Gamble (@GambleLee) February 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/1098198745664102401)
great, that ticks unbind-scan-ocr-rebind-on-my-library-bootleg off the backlog yielding #forwardslack #done
— Oswald Berthold (@x7557x) February 21, 2019
A good tool to have, but which i definitely don’t have the skills to make: a bot that wide searches every known public “people finder” repository for folx’s data, sends deletion and opt-out requests en masse, and then scrubs itself. I think that could be helpful to a lot of peopl
— Damien saw the Time-Knife once. Highly Recommended (@Wolven) February 20, 2019
Properly stoked to announce that I’ve just signed the contract to write a book with @VersoBooks on systems; if you like how I’ve taken a run at concrete, adult entertainment, Elon Musk, and heavy machines, you will (I hope) be on board with this ⚒
— Georgina Voss (@gsvoss) February 20, 2019
tuning youtube algo to serve wholesome “polyglot surprises old woman by speaking her rare language” videos instead of “cringe fails and public freakouts compilation #666.” moving past hatred and disgust one day at a time
— atemlos (@mxexsxh) February 19, 2019
Y’ALL. Intersectionality is not about the intersection of identities, its about the intersection of institutions of oppression. Making that distinction is verrrrrry important.
— diasporic shawty 🅴 (@cybermarxisttt) February 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/cybermarxisttt/status/1097612648517156864)
This article uses an annotation tool so that we don’t have to define cultural terms in the article. We’re doing this because we want the people who already understand those terms to feel like our target audience. https://t.co/X7QUuuUKaK
— Frank Shyong 熊紹岡 (@frankshyong) February 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/frankshyong/status/1097986781503516672)
The central question raised by these insect apocalypse stories is one that goes way beyond the fate of insects: How should we act upon imperfect knowledge? https://t.co/XULTG9cbz5
— Ed Yong (@edyong209) February 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1097896028295122945)
Climate scientists are too alarmist, say people who claim a carbon tax will destroy the economy, crush freedom, and turn the US into a communist dictatorship
— Kate Marvel (@DrKateMarvel) February 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/DrKateMarvel/status/1097897951861587968)
How can science fiction help us confront environmental crisis? @grist investigates, with a particular emphasis on climate fiction (including our recent Everything Change, Volume II anthology!) and interviews with experts and editors. Dig it: https://t.co/HQsAAe7rFw
— ASU CSI (@imaginationASU) February 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/imaginationASU/status/1097622809138745345)
“Afforestation” (brand new forest) programs such as the “great green walls” planned across the Sahel and NW China have also had pretty terrible tree survival rates.
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) February 17, 2019
(Growing trees in deserts is hard.)
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1097273311120314368)
We delivered a talk on “exit and salvagepatch” strategy to a group of young militants and polipunks in the inner city today. Their message back to me: show us what to smash and we’ll help you build from the ruins. Deal.
— ◉ (@brightabyss) February 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/brightabyss/status/1096925353535188994)
how large a city could you build (how many people) in which 1) the only forms of transportation are walking (or chairs/electric scooters for the disabled) and elevators; and 2) max travel time within 30 mins? walking need not be at surface level (eg pedestrian bridges btw towers)
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) February 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/interfluidity/status/1096490577472905216)
imma let you finish, but… what if this was our pop cultural high point? kinda haunted by that thought lately for some reason pic.twitter.com/bBsCKnwD7r
— m1k3y (@m1k3y) February 16, 2019
personally hope these kids bring the whole stinking machine to a halt. glad they are on their feet and taking a lead.
— Tim Etchells (@Tim_Etchells) February 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Tim_Etchells/status/1096464248459444224)
The other night I found myself sitting in my dark car in the Vroman’s parking lot, laptop actually in lap, listening to old Art Bell Area 51 shows and writing clojure to analyze 6.5 billion aircraft transponder pings I’ve picked up over the years.
— John Wiseman (@lemonodor) February 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1096440946764308480)
Your tweets hint at an intuition I had about the human experience (qualia) of time. It seems to me that *frequency* is the way we perceive time. Repetition forms reality. I once posed the odd provocation, “Is it possible for humans to perceive something that only happens *once*?”
— Peter Wang (@pwang) February 15, 2019
I’d like you to know that the final message we played for Opportunity was a song.
— Arielle Samuelson (@ariellesamuel) February 15, 2019
We sang her to sleep with Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Be Seeing You.” It ends with:
I’ll find you
In the morning sun
And when the night is new.
I’ll be looking at the moon,
But I’ll be seeing you.
(via http://twitter.com/ariellesamuel/status/1096227375505788928)
This is how astronauts sleep in zero gravity pic.twitter.com/2h1TOqOyWs
— Universal-Sci (@universal_sci) February 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/universal_sci/status/1096182735499132931)
“Now it is true that we very proudly killed Cook, who brought VD & Tuberculosis to the Hawaiian people with his disease-ridden men. In fact, we Hawaiians still celebrate every 14 February as Hauʻoli Lā Hoʻomake iā Kapena Kuke!” https://t.co/pBmNEKcRvs
— Jack Latimore (@LatimoreJack) February 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/LatimoreJack/status/1095877994105585664)
Anyway it’s quite something, I guess, to be the generation to ride the peak, to be the ones who can look back at the long rise behind us, like the smooth flank of a gigantic ocean swell, and forward, at the precipitous and chaotic drop to come, seeing even the rocky ocean floor.
— Will “Scratch” Burroughs (@kaimingmck) February 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/kaimingmck/status/1095482929705353223)
AGF: plotting my interaction with bio modular synthesizer CELLF [cultured human cells with IPs cell technology to neural network into responsive external “brain”] with Guy Ben-Ary - 29 March 2019 #Helsinki produced by @bioartsociety + @real_mkk https://t.co/wuIAjJ1vUG pic.twitter.com/GbNb7bMGFh
— AG.Føɍɇvøɍ : ρѻﻉtﻉ§§ (@poemproducer) February 12, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/poemproducer/status/1095235107764477952)
Happy Third Birthday, Priscilla Stratton! https://t.co/gulCkpmtRQ pic.twitter.com/uhtnZbKWMc
— j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) February 14, 2019
“The data behind it isn’t anything new, but the public-friendly repackaging of that data, known as climate-analog mapping, represents a shift in how science reaches the public.” https://t.co/cqrSwsaBOR via @WIRED
— Greg Fiske (@g_fiske) February 14, 2019
I’m going to refer to the ideal as “Interdependent Music” from now on. Seems sticky & illustrative. Independence without mutual support + obligation = hellscape. A re-reading of what made the original indies special was the interdependence + resiliency of artist led networks..
— Mat Dryhurst (@matdryhurst) February 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/matdryhurst/status/1096017588075806720)
Most of Sun Ra’s albums were pressed in units of 100. They rarely sold out. About the same amount of people who supported experimental music then, support it now
— PrizmLabs (@HPrizm) February 13, 2019
delighted, we’re archived on https://t.co/uVgVVRUohV w/ #automix - hands free playlisting sorting #jetpackpowers #tbc cheers @jamie_desktop @sendspaace @NTSlive
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) February 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1095791332461891584)
“when removed from the circumstances for which it was designed, WaveNet can “speak” on its own. […] speechlike sounds are accompanied by the irregular clicking of digital teeth and smacking of synthetic lips. […]What human mouth might produce such uncanny abjection?”
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) February 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1095604715167961088)
Ever had one of those bugs that makes you want to study really hard, apply to grad school, get a doctorate in physics, spend the rest of your life in deep research, invent a time machine, go back in time, kill Charles Babbage and prevent the computer from coming into existence?
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) February 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1095518556463099904)
trying to make z̍al̉̐ͣ̅̎͒҉ģ̔͒͌o̍̉ͬ͆͒̌͑ȓͬ҉av̂̒ͥe̋ͣͣ͌ͤ̈̿ a thing
— Aashish Gadani (@amgadani) February 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/amgadani/status/1095532158490419200)
Your data parable for today, courtesy of Ghost In The Shell pic.twitter.com/srcG4Jsh7M
— Wesley Goatley (@wesleygoatley) February 12, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/wesleygoatley/status/1095457891706904576)
Do you want to be part of the problem or part of the other problem?
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) February 12, 2019
Mileva Maric was the only woman in the physics program w Einstein. She failed her exams a few weeks after discovering she was pregnant and then dropped out. They both were working on 2 papers each. A few years later he published 4 papers that became known as a miracle. No
— Monica Beletsky (@MonicaBeletsky) February 12, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MonicaBeletsky/status/1095164903839522816)
Now in NatureClimate - Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world https://t.co/PTRBLn1oHi pic.twitter.com/6mzz6NB6cA
— NatureClimate (@NatureClimate) February 12, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/NatureClimate/status/1095112246223691778)
That’s what I normally use, but in this case I need to be able to differentiate those people as a clump from the other people who happen to be science researchers :) unless we decide that science researchers aren’t people, which is fine by me
— Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly) February 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/AmberFirefly/status/1095063049688567808)
“They don’t write text; they cookup intensities. They don’t theorise; they secrete, datableed.”
— 🦇 ⤵️🕳 (@xenogothic) February 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/xenogothic/status/1094973225442906112)
Bold of you to assume the AI programed by supremacist idiots won’t train itself on the corporations’ attempts to use the occult for profit https://t.co/mtnbIXYfWD
— Damien saw the Time-Knife once. Highly Recommended (@Wolven) February 12, 2019
I put my Antarctic “emulation” code on a website where you can run it at the push of a button, no knowledge or installation needed. I think this is the future: https://t.co/ORVzLvpScy
— Dr Tamsin Edwards (@flimsin) February 11, 2019
“When in doubt, choose to live” — Lu Tze in Thief of Time
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) February 12, 2019
1. chaos magic wasn’t a mistake. it’s just…like kesey said about acid (paraphrasing) “you can’t just keep opening & closing the door; eventually you have to walk through.”
— kit ennis yetts (@cour13r5) February 12, 2019
(1 like = 1 tweet amplifying this)
(via http://twitter.com/cour13r5/status/1095147904715710469)
“What happens to us
— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) February 11, 2019
Is irrelevant to the world’s geology
But what happens to the world’s geology
Is not irrelevant to us.
We must reconcile ourselves to the stones,
Not the stones to us.”
(Hugh MacDiarmid) pic.twitter.com/EVA7yjCi4P
(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1095069209959243782)
Great text on a great painter. Everything and nothing at the same time. “It has to look easy,” he said, “That feeling like it just happened.” That quote is something to write up somewhere as a constant reminder no matter what medium you’re working in. https://t.co/ShQGOSsgpZ
— Tim Etchells (@Tim_Etchells) February 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Tim_Etchells/status/1095017642560237570)
Broke: ‘Move Fast and Break Things’
— samim (@samim) February 7, 2019
Woke: 'Move Slow and Heal Things’
Bespoke: 'Don’t Move and do nothing’
On the 19th @ 1900 I’ll be at @Futures_Design London meet-up talking about the failure of speculative design to achieve anything of substantial human value beyond ‘hm interesting’ or profit https://t.co/cNmHf9GTHl
— Tobias Revell (@tobias_revell) February 10, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/tobias_revell/status/1094646099233644544)
turn it up - tonite’s @sendspaace episode collaborative #automix by @farmersmanual_ + @jamie_desktop pic.twitter.com/DPUQ93LGIp
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) February 10, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1094635121972527104)
An innkeeper finds out that seven tigers are controlling random numbers.
— Magic Realism Bot (@MagicRealismBot) February 10, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MagicRealismBot/status/1094561179534409728)
In the “Machine Learning for Art” scene there is “before GAN” and “after GAN” (2015 > now). The vast variety of methods & ideas of the early period, got homogenized into a endless stream of GANerated pixels, that tether on nihilism and yet are sold as magic. Artificial Progress?
— samim (@samim) February 10, 2019
The Wondering Earth was a box office hit during the spring festival in China. And Chinese showing their ticket , printed Only Communist Party Can Save The Earth. No I am not kidding @BaldingsWorld @Jkylebass pic.twitter.com/KjO3EXmcpW
— Formless 大法自然 (@NQRVdx3xzBk61gO) February 10, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/NQRVdx3xzBk61gO/status/1094491055255220226)
Updated terms and conditions: all Instagram targeted ad copy is now to be delivered by talking birds.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) February 9, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1094324530649223171)
‘Seek out the faceted moments of geomediation at the Hermits Rest, after staring down The Abyss. Layers upon layers, Bright Angel Shale, Vishnu Schist and Zoroaster Granite. The Great Unconformity (an absence, a non-layer).’ https://t.co/KOEP6nantK
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) February 9, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1094194518914666496)
When I was young I wanted to grow up to become a tree
— BeachSloth (@Beach_Sloth) February 9, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Beach_Sloth/status/1094215776251379712)
Seriously, if we can’t make up words willy-nilly, or borrow them from random languages and underground emoji codes wtf did we even build the internet for? The whole point of the internet was to act as a complexifier of language 🤬
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) February 8, 2019
A few notes from a desert marked by stark contrasts between heat and chill, adoration and dread, escape and extraction (by @deziluzija and @zzkt) https://t.co/Ffm4aGyFhW pic.twitter.com/85Vb4UX3R9
— FoAM (@_foam) February 8, 2019
Unfinished art project (2009)
— Matt Webb (@genmon) February 8, 2019
Prompted by a conversation with @infovore@instagram.com about our separate experiments with timelapses over many years (given the timelapse machine I’m currently building, which is right now taped to the win…https://t.co/xDYlf9dkzg pic.twitter.com/95McEF6s6Q
Russica Spectrata exists in a state of probability and has an extremely short life cycle…
— helena sarin (@glagolista) February 8, 2019
A Field Guide to Surreal Botany,
the #unnaturalHistory illustrated#substanceGAN pic.twitter.com/EdBTwMlkev
(via http://twitter.com/glagolista/status/1093666889673465856)
#unnaturalHistory: an essential reader pic.twitter.com/bMSaUUldZM
— helena sarin (@glagolista) February 8, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/glagolista/status/1093668948074209280)
Word of the day: “slipshape” - in contrast to “shipshape” (tidy, ordered, regulated), that which is “slipshape” is characterised by fluidity, uncertainty, shape-shift & flow.
— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) February 7, 2019
Coined by Alice Oswald in her book-length river-poem Dart, “a songline from the source to the sea”. pic.twitter.com/fH0cNo2K2U
(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1093404097384833025)
New research finds Australia is installing renewable energy faster than any other country, a trend that will allow Australia to meet its economy-wide Paris targets five years ahead of schedule if politics doesn’t derail the trend. https://t.co/pFanmeaTIo
— Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) February 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/manjusrii/status/1093601482320965632)
Senior EU officials have told me bluntly they know Brexit was won through illegality and cheating by Leave. Leaving the EU is not the ‘will of the people’. Brexit is the will of a British government complicit in ignoring data crime, electoral crime and Russian interference. https://t.co/G1HdqBPCzw
— Christopher Wylie 🏳️🌈 (@chrisinsilico) February 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/chrisinsilico/status/1093443720203173888)
Srinivas: Anthropology cannot be satisfied to train students for a crumbling world, but rather should allow them to imagine a world that could be and then give them the imagination to build a future that only they can see.’
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) February 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1093551331099455491)
Complexity concept of the day: The greatest challenge today is building collaborations among people who don’t understand each other for collective benefit.
— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) February 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1093524812272726017)
Just climbed Montagne de Bueren, a 374-step staircase in Liège, Belgium, while thinking about transitional spaces and Georges Perec.
— Matthew Turner (@MjTurner_) February 6, 2019
“We should learn to live more on staircases. But how?“
— Georges Perec (Species of Space, pg. 38) pic.twitter.com/UKulHZID5Y
(via http://twitter.com/MjTurner_/status/1093146326475390976)
Never accept “no” for an answer from someone who doesn’t have the authority to say “yes”.
— StratAnalytica (@StratAnalytica) February 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/StratAnalytica/status/1093260174524121092)
Just learned the amazing word “apophany” from apophenia, the tendency to see patterns when they aren’t there, i.e. faces in clouds, nonexistent patterns on the roulette wheel. So an apophany is like an epiphany except you’re wrong.
— Ada Palmer (@Ada_Palmer) February 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Ada_Palmer/status/1093003720089128960)
Within the past 24 hours, France, Russia, & the US have all conducted test launches of unarmed nuclear missiles.
— DEFCONWarningSystem (@DEFCONWSALERTS) February 6, 2019
France: 1 missile launch from a warplane
Russia: 1 ICBM Yars from Plesetsk Cosmodrome
US: 1 Minuteman III from Vandenberg AFB
(via http://twitter.com/DEFCONWSALERTS/status/1093127840042795008)
Attention Is All* You Need
— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) February 6, 2019
* (except for fully connected layers, softmax, positional encoders, layer norm, skip connections…) pic.twitter.com/BnSQD9oEPA
(via http://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1093273889449205760)
One must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star. #Nietzsche
— NietzscheQuotes (@NietzscheQuotes) February 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/NietzscheQuotes/status/1093270645411119104)
Arm my trembling hand, that it may boldly rip up and anatomize the ulcerous body of this anthropophagized plague.
— martin howse (@micro_research) February 6, 2019
[Thomas Dekker]
(via http://twitter.com/micro_research/status/1093093983650267136)
SABOTAGE YOUR ATTITUDE
— ALGORAVE ADVICE (@ALGORAVE_ADVICE) February 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ALGORAVE_ADVICE/status/1092991429297741825)
This is a picture of the far side of the Moon and Earth beyond, captured on Feb. 4 by a camera on board the student-built Chinese DSLWP-B/Longjiang-2 satellite and received by the amateur-operated Dwingeloo Telescope in The Netherlands. (HT @AJ_FI @radiotelescoop) pic.twitter.com/pQAJaszEH3
— Jason Major (@JPMajor) February 4, 2019
Algorave Generation, a @residentadvisor film by @editedarts https://t.co/eEwv4P6Fv0
— Algorave (@algorave) February 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/algorave/status/1092528938306420736)
Here’s @tobias_revell and I’s most recent work ‘Augury’, an installation that parodies the faith in algorithmic prediction by combining machine learning technologies to create a new form of divination based on the flight patterns of planes: https://t.co/Lg8OQXXuXl
— Wesley Goatley (@wesleygoatley) February 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/wesleygoatley/status/1092521477843369984)
Tweeted it before but your design brief should always, always, always end with the final point.
— Tobias Revell (@tobias_revell) February 4, 2019
A more articulate critique of human/user-centred approached from @cityofsound
than I can manage. https://t.co/et4jjkq3fi pic.twitter.com/PU32K2ELLY
(via http://twitter.com/tobias_revell/status/1092426827015114752)
The first ever simulated image of a black hole, by astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet (1978). The surrounding accretion disk was calculated on punched cards, then drawn dot-by-dot “directly on negative Canson paper with black India ink.” Complete story: https://t.co/EF7ekbeIBV pic.twitter.com/okDfmIa4XS
— ((( 1/f ))) (@fadesingh) February 5, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/fadesingh/status/1092691324757786624)
when they depreciate the api pic.twitter.com/MBPE5E52Or
— everest (@everestpipkin) February 5, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/everestpipkin/status/1092605891378073602)
Call me crazy, but I think the glass is both half empty AND half full.
— Theodor Holm Nelson (@TheTedNelson) February 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/TheTedNelson/status/1092515725367898112)
Genuinely thrown by the Maroon 5 guy’s Hindi-language tattoo of the word ‘tapas’.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) February 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1092427146218360832)
“Magic is insidious, and therein lies its danger… In magical rites the inversion of letters serves the diabolical purpose of turning the divine order into an infernal disorder.”
— ◉ (@brightabyss) February 4, 2019
(Carl Jung, ‘Alchemical Studies’, p.121)
(via http://twitter.com/brightabyss/status/1092472139398053888)
For professional reasons, got a new phone & been testing the Google Assistant. Out-of-the-box, if you say “good morning” it will start to read Reuters & CNN news. This is the exact opposite of what I perceive as a “good morning”. Overall, it feels designed for a alien race.
— samim (@samim) February 4, 2019
Today is #WorldCancerDay. On this day, exactly a decade ago I was first diagnosed with cancer. To mark this decade of living with dis-ease, I’ll be publishing excerpts from my journal online in various forms. #IAmAndIWill https://t.co/WUOl3Cojj9 pic.twitter.com/98QZnMYDFd
— Maja Kuzmanovic (@deziluzija) February 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/deziluzija/status/1092472874894544897)
Books 11: https://t.co/xOehTsXoHe published The Million last summer. It’s set in the universe of Lockstep, but inside-out: it’s the story of the people who stay awake will the millions of locksteppers hibernate. https://t.co/3UTYCJNsWW pic.twitter.com/iRVIcHdPBu
— Karl Schroeder (@KarlSchroeder) February 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/KarlSchroeder/status/1092477276225179648)
I admire @GretaThunberg, I respect her, I find her courage inspirational, and I also recognize that having these feelings won’t change the political inequalities, structural economic and social inertia, and climate feedback dynamics that are going to kill us all.
— Roy Scranton (@RoyScranton) February 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/RoyScranton/status/1092056867902275584)
Three emoji thesis for philosophers:
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) February 3, 2019
• Deleuze: 🥚🦞🥔
• Haraway: 🤖🤝🐶
• Bataille: 🌞💦🌍
• Adorno: 🚘🙅♂️📺
• Benjamin: 💨👼🔥
• Barthes: 📖✍️😵
• Agamben: 🔜⛓😶
(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1092055937240596482)