US and UK bring to mind the words of Panait Istrati when visiting the 1930s USSR: “All right, I can see the broken eggs,” he said. “Where is this omelette of yours?” @mrjamesob
— Theun Karelse (@theunk) February 3, 2019
Forest supercomputers, computational landscape architecture, and WiFi’s passage through trees—“landscapes sown specifically for their electromagnetic-propagation effects.” https://t.co/arQVqK2XGW pic.twitter.com/GfZubqLk8w
— Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) February 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/bldgblog/status/1091389661912559616)
’[E]veryone has a religion, whether admitted or not, because it is impossible to be human without having some basic assumptions (or intuitions) about existence and the good life.’
— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) February 1, 2019
– Alan #Watts
(Autobio.) pic.twitter.com/YcniiUv9KO
(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1091479511810621440)
Jogja Noise Bombing, From the street to the stage, #book by Indra Menus & Sean Stellefox (in Indonesian & English) is now available in printed version (contact them for a copy) and also in free PDF format. #noise #music #indonesiahttps://t.co/Kbp8kEb9DRhttps://t.co/hEN1gLAIq1
— C-drík Kirdec Syrphe (@Cdrk_Syrphe) February 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Cdrk_Syrphe/status/1091353261351882752)
“A huge Chinese middle class that is thought to number 400 million has brought about a fast-moving extinction crisis for many animal species.” https://t.co/tOMsPrDQmp
— Extinction Symbol (@extinctsymbol) February 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/extinctsymbol/status/1091461566929780737)
Three leaves from a Tibetan musical score used in Buddhist monastic ritual with the notation for voice, drums, trumpets, horns and cymbals.
— Espen Sommer Eide (@esomm) February 1, 2019
From the collection of the U.S. Library of Congress pic.twitter.com/TFWXQfbbab
How is our business preparing for pointless brexit? Cancelled travel in April, applied for export licence, stocked up on materials in studio, have the FoAM international network as backup for contracts in EU & loving the sudden horrified awareness of invisible infrastructures.
— Dave Griffiths (FoAM Kernow) (@nebogeo) February 1, 2019
I am convinced that the greatest threat we face isn’t climate change denial. It’s the weaponization of ignorance and apathy that is at its core…
— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) January 31, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MichaelEMann/status/1091098338320101378)
THIS SATURDAY 2nd FEB @DiagonalRecords @Cafeoto
— Russell Haswell (@RussellHaswell) January 30, 2019
HP [@RussellHaswell x @odbpowell ] — live debut w/ visuals by mathias gmachl [@farmersmanual_ ] • VIVIANKRIST [gallhammer] — UK live debut • NHK — live • HANDY — live https://t.co/NlGCJTizC0… pic.twitter.com/hFgDOKqF8d
(via http://twitter.com/RussellHaswell/status/1090728854652620806)
The crossword are probably the only mainstream puzzle format that requires a full-blown postrational civilizational OODA loop running in your head. You can solve sudokus with pure rationality, but crosswords require you to understand both the zeitgeist, and others’ maps of it.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) January 31, 2019
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Marie Kondo but for fossil fuels.
— Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen) January 29, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1090312257748185088)
Yo. Foresight. What’s the preoccupation with brands? They’re just trash cans of intellectual property that don’t pay enough tax.
— Tobias Revell (@tobias_revell) January 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/tobias_revell/status/1090597913615654912)
This language has only two genders: animate and inanimate.
— /// DRIFT /// (@body_drift) January 29, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/body_drift/status/1090324936034603009)
As a person, I love the narrative of seasonal and local food. It sounds cosy, comforting and intuitively logical.
— James Wong (@Botanygeek) January 29, 2019
Yet as a scientist, I know the reality of restricting the diet of a population to local and seasonal food is often hunger and malnutrition.
That’s why we shouldn’t.
(via http://twitter.com/Botanygeek/status/1090322243127861249)
I’m very excited to announce the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria from my own body that I have used in numerous artworks is the first “artistically important” organism to be accessioned by @NCTC_3000 under code number NCTC 14139. https://t.co/VR7txJ48YZ #bioart #bacteria #sciart pic.twitter.com/B0iRLuiA9k
— Anna Dumitriu (@AnnaDumitriu) January 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/AnnaDumitriu/status/1089948877980160001)
I revisited the Museo Xular Solar. If Buenos Aires *is* a labyrinth then its Asterion is not the obelisk but this museum – a labyrinth inside a labyrinth with its own universal language and music, its own form of total syncretism, its own Glasperlenspiel. #PanChess #XularSolar pic.twitter.com/91Kee663ZV
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) January 27, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1089498737406341125)
It’s impossible to predict the future. Any models or scenarios will inevitably be mostly wrong. So I recently described the goal of the Future Committee as “being wrong about the future in the most useful way possible”. #futurism
— Smári McCarthy (@smarimc) January 27, 2019
“Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind.
— Dr Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) January 27, 2019
It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events.
-Salman Rushdie
(via http://twitter.com/manjusrii/status/1089494015676837888)
This is Nikolai Vavilov, a Russian botanist.
— James Wong (@Botanygeek) January 26, 2019
He is undoubtedly one of the most influential people in human history (that you have never heard of).
As you and I may well be alive today because of his work, here’s a (short) thread about him on the 76th anniversary of his death. pic.twitter.com/6Dx31bYWR0
(via http://twitter.com/Botanygeek/status/1089187721434853377)
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(via http://twitter.com/biolojical/status/1089178756810530816)
just biked from Taipei to New Taipei City while listening to the entirety of DJ Shadow’s “Endtroducing…..”, extremely into it pic.twitter.com/6MqyQRBZo8
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) January 26, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1089235121901686784)
clouds workshop day two, wonderfully rich offerings: desert poetry and balloon expeditions, contrail art, ice-cream artillery, lightning guns. the #intheclouds hashtag has a snapshot.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) January 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1088909184203177986)
“Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them hope.’ But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.” https://t.co/fnvErGbfOI
— Alice Bell (@alicebell) January 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/alicebell/status/1088841187363041280)
Ten years ago I set up a small DIY label for noise & experimental music. After 36 releases by artists from Italy, China, UK, Australia, Hong Kong & Germany, we’re closing shop & everything is on Bandcamp for free download. A few takeaways: https://t.co/cFLegqLuTt
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) January 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1088786826372907009)
How can you do great AI research when you don’t have access to google-scale compute? By being weird. The big tech companies are obsessed with staying nimble despite being big, and some succeed to some extent. But they can’t afford to be as weird as a lone looney professor.
— Julian Togelius (@togelius) January 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/togelius/status/1088679404937625600)
Apprentice STS scholar: I don’t know what a boundary object is
— Goth Merenghi (@farbandish) January 25, 2019
Intermediary STS scholar: nobody ELSE knows what a boundary object is
Veteran STS scholar: fuck it just call it a ‘coordinative artifact’ and dare the reviewers to ask questions.
(via http://twitter.com/farbandish/status/1088606431849283584)
“Santa” is very important because it teaches kids that adults are capable of staging large scale, leaderless, and decentralized deceptions just for the hell of it
— John Backus (@backus) January 23, 2019
Um yeah sure ok, Elon Musk can shoot his car into space but my idea of putting authentic mastodon bones into oversized space suits and placing them on the Moon next to a homemade wooden rocket in order to confuse future archeologists is “unreasonable” and “a waste of resources”
— Dr. Jens Foell (@fMRI_guy) January 23, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/1088070530723389440)
as a composer I am applying into the vast and limitless void here, for the next women led feminist intersectional interspecific cultural luxemburgist sci-fi #scifi
— AG.Føɍɇvøɍ : ρѻﻉtﻉ§§ (@poemproducer) January 24, 2019
hmu DMs open
(via http://twitter.com/poemproducer/status/1088544720937091072)
I think… apart from anything else… it’s important to learn the lessons of the Brexit fracture lines as preparation for the much bigger fight that’s coming over climate.
— Nick Harkaway (@Harkaway) January 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Harkaway/status/1088523018731700224)
One can neither work with, nor dispense with, the category of ‘nature.’
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) January 24, 2019
The best one has are conceptual tactics.
(via http://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1088531258265747457)
The greatest impact of climate chaos is the end of predictable decision-making landscapes—the loss of the ability to plan optimally and the need to find rugged strategies for non-foreseeable futures.
— Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen) January 24, 2019
We’re only just starting to grok the enormity of that.https://t.co/73nu6XKS8W
(via http://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1088238823480320000)
It’s 2019, so I wrote ‘stop shouting future start doing it’ because I am tired of hollow promises and would like some more courage please. https://t.co/4w5QS6KIIe
— Anab Jain (@anabjain) January 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/anabjain/status/1088402360920100865)
Hope for slightly higher recycling uptake isn’t utopia
— Justin Poirier (@tokenizedcap) January 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/tokenizedcap/status/1088255178317447173)
“In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.” ― Robert Anton Wilson
— samim (@samim) January 23, 2019
There’s really only 4 ways to connect with someone of a culture/ideology you hate at an intellectual level (none guaranteed):
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) January 23, 2019
1. Develop a taste for their food
2. Develop a taste for their music/cultural output
3. Weather a mortal crisis with them
4. Sleep with them
I don’t know who originally called machine learning “bias laundering” but that’s often very accurate
— Asher Langton (@AsherLangton) January 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/AsherLangton/status/1087847010580004870)
yup, and we’re driving right past the turn off pic.twitter.com/e9qarQSJLq
— m1k3y (@m1k3y) January 23, 2019
Hi, I’m the #Arctic #cryosphere portal. You may know me from my greatest hits “I’m losing around 60,000 km2 of sea ice a year*”, “Near-surface permafrost has warmed by more than 0.5°C since 2007**” and the all time smash hit “The Arctic is the fastest warming part of the globe” https://t.co/rz9pV0nTdC
— Polar Portal (@PolarPortal) January 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/PolarPortal/status/1087698327171465217)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. #OscarWilde
— Oscar Wilde (@ByOscarWilde) January 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ByOscarWilde/status/1087832305597644800)
Something went wrong between the PDF of my manuscript and the printer, and what emerged is now the coolest thing I’ve ever created pic.twitter.com/1OBlsXr2s4
— Joey Connolly (@joeyrconnolly) January 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/joeyrconnolly/status/1087309155432628224)
Australian Government to provide $6.7 million for a replica of Captain Cook’s ship to “re-enact” a 39-stop circumnavigation that never took place at all. There was no circumnavigation.
— Dr Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) January 22, 2019
Post-fact society? What are we inventing here?
(via http://twitter.com/manjusrii/status/1087503863479918592)
tropical ghost fortress airport.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) January 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1087422791224197120)
Both outright doom & doing more of the same are grounded in maintaining a sense of comfort, but the future is uncomfortable. Both are ways of excusing oneself from the discomfort of the experimental, bold action this moment demands. I have lost patience for excuses.
— syd🌹🌱 (@SydneyAzari) January 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SydneyAzari/status/1087479165769502720)
you, oxygen-breathing intellectual: for the first time, in the Anthropocene, an organism is transforming its own planetary environment.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) January 22, 2019
me, early earth anaerobic heterotroph: fOr thE fIrsT tiMe, iN tHe anThRopOcenE, aN orGaNisM is tRanSfOrmIng iTs oWn pLanEtaRy eNviRoNMenT.
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1087517730020839425)
“It is possible that intelligence in the wrong kind of species was foreordained to be a fatal combination for the biosphere, perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.” - Edward O. Wilson
— S.C. Hickman (@alien_ecologies) January 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/alien_ecologies/status/1087414196336132096)
“Thinking-with the swamp”, a recent publication by @IngridVranken, Sepideh Ardalani, and Mihaela Brebenel: https://t.co/uXglvJNCOQ
— FoAM (@_foam) January 21, 2019
Amazon warehouse workers are getting utility belts to ward off robots https://t.co/8JVgrFBuw9 “a bit of kit that warehouse workers can wear to make them visible to nearby machines.”
— Scott Smith (@changeist) January 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1087319302288621570)
“Work, Aristotle insisted, in no sense makes you a better person; in fact, it makes you a worse one, since it takes up so much time, thus making it difficult to fulfill one’s social and political obligations.”
— Tyler McConnell (@tjmac87) January 21, 2019
–@davidgraeber
been saying, #SLAM for #sensorimotor #space https://t.co/37WCb4k4Pj
— Oswald Berthold (@x7557x) January 21, 2019
‘Stand alone complexes’ are an interesting idea and seem especially relevant these days; surprising to look through Google/G Scholar and see no decent essays or papers on it, though! (Not like the _GitS:SAC_ anime weren’t super-popular and people haven’t heard of it…)
— gwern (@gwern) January 20, 2019
people are just gloss over the issues encoded in the part of my life you’re based on bad observation.
— notaleptic (@notaleptic) January 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/notaleptic/status/1086459358383300608)
We’ve mapped every ship in the Arctic & Bering Strait over 7 years… by far the biggest vector dataset I’ve ever worked with. Still struggling however with how to display the data. This animation shows well the annual mean center shift of shipping activity N and E over time. pic.twitter.com/g78N5jbJkJ
— Greg Fiske (@g_fiske) January 17, 2019
My essay on Crapularity Aesthetics is out:https://t.co/skb9liC4nS
— Florian Cramer (@florian_cramer) January 18, 2019
- Why “contemporary art” is not what its name literally means, how this reenacts the discourse of “Neue Musik”, and how everything is connected to wasteful accumulation.#contemporaryart #NeueMusik #blockchain
(via http://twitter.com/florian_cramer/status/1086224939752001536)
We’re looking for interesting writings, quotes or short excerpts about attunement. Is there anything you would suggest for the next Dust & Shadow reader? https://t.co/U602MJrTRM pic.twitter.com/0aMFwAW0fj
— FoAM (@_foam) January 18, 2019
This week the Smithsonian Museum unveiled a portrait of Henrietta Lacks whose cells were taken from her body without her knowledge or consent and used to produce the world’s first immortal cell line. The cells continue to be used extensively for medical research and development. pic.twitter.com/olgOjO2iZD
— Pulane Tshabalala Kingston (@PulaneKingston1) January 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/PulaneKingston1/status/1086071585843208196)
Temporary autonomous filter bubble.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1086200152258424832)
Belated review of 2018, which came out a bit longer than expected. https://t.co/c5qDRVfavl
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1085851379137241093)
I still think a lot about this tweet: https://t.co/abLzF3ampH Given the news that immediate fossil-fuel phase-out would be necessary to stay under 1.5°C warming (obviously not happening), here’s what that futures cone actually looks like: pic.twitter.com/fEBVEY6Uzr
— Sjef van Gaalen (@thesjef) January 17, 2019
“We cannot achieve what we cannot imagine.” Elise Boulding
— Stuart Candy (@futuryst) January 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/futuryst/status/1085640911596457984)
Hayles: “Think of the Turing test as a magic trick” (1999, xiv). pic.twitter.com/W5TCu6GdSB
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) January 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1085567702452756481)
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(via http://twitter.com/designscold/status/1085488236024221696)
At #saf19, filmmakers & researchers Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner introduce their long-term project Universal Syntax, which seeks to untangle the human tendency to read the natural world as a text. (📷 Production stills from the project’s first film, A Demonstration) pic.twitter.com/rJdkxLRme7
— Sonic Acts (@SonicActs) January 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SonicActs/status/1085497071224770560)
The artists in Fabulous Monsters include Dinh Q. Le, Ang Song Ming, Zeng Fanzhi, Ronald Ventura, Jia Aili, Jason Wee, Hyun Soo Kim and many others. The show is at Level 4 of @ArtSciMuseum, 17 January - 2 February 2019.https://t.co/5LZD84gaXK pic.twitter.com/g5cCPiVSSt
— honor harger (@honorharger) January 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/honorharger/status/1085466077167906822)
“So, what is this idea(l) of proximity and “clean” sounds about? Isn’t a recording as much about the distance and its space as it is about the desired subject? Doesn’t a veiled mountain tell you as much about the mountain as seen in clear sunshine?” https://t.co/2qPkVJUcxI
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) January 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1085483480719384577)
‘The Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC) was set up in London, United Kingdom, by the Colonial Office in 1945, with the aim of improving the worldwide forecasting and control of locusts.’ https://t.co/ooEsXyEkJW
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1085480322995757056)
New paper out based on a massive sample (n = 355,358) finds that screens explain less than 0.4% of depression AND shows why previous research is deeply flawed - unless you are willing to believe potatoes and eyeglasses are also destroying a generation (Thread 1/13) pic.twitter.com/AF3GP68b94
— Patrick Markey (@patmarkey) January 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/patmarkey/status/1084842687755362305)
hot take: “spark your joy” with the realization that objects do not exist, and neither do you.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) January 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1084958142134312960)
Folks, what are the famous C20th novels/autobiogs about going for very long, continent-spanning walks?
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) January 15, 2019
I am forgetting sonething obvious
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1084970237789982720)
‘How do you learn to ‘experience’ Bigfoot, to ‘see’ traces of Bigfoot, to accomplish the evidential practices of Bigfooting when scientific consensus maintains that none of these experiences and none of the material collected is evidence at all?’ https://t.co/rAVLMyYlVA 🔒
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1084924153642262528)
The current World Magnetic Model (released in 2015, meant to last until 2020) has slipped so far against reality that an early update is needed.
— Greg Egan (@gregeganSF) January 13, 2019
Wikipedia describes the model as an order-12 spherical harmonic expansion of the magnetic potential, plus d/dt.https://t.co/QLhBnNiaOQ
(via http://twitter.com/gregeganSF/status/1084582451614146560)
Woman takes a picture of an automated sweeper cleaning a road at the Inner Mongolia Normal University in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China (Ding Genhou) pic.twitter.com/eMgKiO9PQF
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1084515590096723971)
The term “parking” needs to be reclaimed to mean “hanging out in a park” as opposed to “storing a few tons of metal for a while”.
— Smári McCarthy (@smarimc) January 12, 2019
This is what happens when you try to print an essay from Kittler on the ontology of machines… pic.twitter.com/Hrgd7AWxGD
— Adam Hulbert (@drhulbs) January 12, 2019
Breaking news: captured live on camera, the precise moment when Deep Dream A.I. becomes sentient… https://t.co/fk8M3JiRTz
— Simon Sellars (@ballardian) January 12, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ballardian/status/1083883629845962752)
Sketch for a new work - “Three Latent Body Problem” pic.twitter.com/rAf0HmHBQj
— Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo) January 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/quasimondo/status/1083729580932976640)
Speaking of which, has anyone looked in on the CDC lately? This is how future backstories begin. https://t.co/SNthZwA621
— Scott Smith (@changeist) January 12, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1083988438507053056)
“like most technologies, machine learning is neutral” should be a sentence that, when uttered, disqualifies you from all technology work pending completion of a 4 year degree in a humanities field
— mad scientist bruno latour 🏳️🌈🏴 (@no_reply) January 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/no_reply/status/1083685878067875840)
‘The Orkney electron gives me hope that the future can be otherwise, that there is another way of being and living that is not apocalyptic. The Orkney electron tells me the end is not nigh.’ https://t.co/AEcsHE1guq
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1083827851655286784)
To quote Alan Moore: “None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with YOU. You’re locked up in here with ME.” 🤣 https://t.co/8TCmKNJlkD
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 11, 2019
“With the rise of so-called new materialism, it is perhaps necessary to simultaneously call into being a new idealism, no longer Platonic, Cartesian, or Hegelian in its structure, that refuses to separate materiality from … ideality, resisting any reduction” -Elizabeth Grosz
— Ryan Heuser (@quadrismegistus) January 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/quadrismegistus/status/1083864233454886912)
St. Louis braces for a major snow storm and possible lizard attacks. pic.twitter.com/aZjjwsfa1I
— Doug Vaughn (@DougVaughn_KMOV) January 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/DougVaughn_KMOV/status/1083778856375517185)
my new rooftop, I’m crying pic.twitter.com/1gq5XxHJXB
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) January 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1083669842744365057)
In the immortal words (may he rest in peace) of Kurt Vonnegut: “God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, ‘Sit up!’ 'See all I’ve made,’ said God, 'the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars.’ And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around…”
— Trey Darley (@treyka) January 7, 2019
Unpopular opinion: Trying to “understand” art necessarily impoverishes it. Understanding is just modeling, i.e. simplifying something for the sake of tractability. When we simplify our perception of art in order to “understand” it, we lose a lot.
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) January 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1082385443096674304)
And the CHI anarchism paper IS. IN. AND. DONE.
— Goth Merenghi (@farbandish) January 6, 2019
I don’t know if my favourite bit is the talmud quote, the conclusion, the acknowledgements, or the footnote putting the boot into anprims. All I know is writing with @joeybean and Meg was a dream and this paper is everything to me. pic.twitter.com/Yey7EkpCym
(via http://twitter.com/farbandish/status/1081822220643557376)
Slowly, slowly, oh mind
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) January 7, 2019
Slowly everything unfolds
The gardener might well flood the garden
But the fruit will only ripen in its season
— Kabir
So great - a woman near Munich hand knitted a scarf showing train delays on her commute throughout the year. A frustration visualization… (via @Vykos) https://t.co/6A4BZrEbYD
— Jer Thorp (@blprnt) January 6, 2019
#books The Gateless Gate or The Gateless Barrier (Chin. Wu-wen kuan; Jap. Mumonkan). The author is Chinese Ch'an master Wu-men Hui-hai (無門慧開 Mumon Ekai, 1183-1260), via https://t.co/fcGNChUleD https://t.co/aQ2ElPQ1Tg
— Oswald Berthold (@x7557x) January 6, 2019
Tomorrow composts today.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1081988953782304768)
‘How do we know that only one geometry is relevant to the complex happenings of nature?
— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) January 6, 2019
Perhaps a three-dimensional geometry is relevant to one sort of occurrences; and a fifteen-dimensional geometry is required for another sort.’
– A. N. #Whitehead
(MT, 1938 – image: Korolev) pic.twitter.com/7ecQrvnKS3
(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1081965323182592001)
welcome to my new Netflix show it’s called CLUTTERING IS GOOD ACTUALLY IT IS LIKE A NEST MADE OF STUFF BUILT TO PROTECT YOU FROM FEELING FEELINGS
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) January 5, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/1081625196187000832)
A fifth of Earth’s geologic history is missing. One theory: “colossal crustal consumption” by glacial erosion during ‘Snowball Earth’, a whole-planet ice age 700 million years ago.
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) January 5, 2019
This is wild:https://t.co/6pQRJpBEBX
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1081650405157883905)
You know how the saying goes. If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck but is also a little like a beaver it’s probably a platypus.
— Leslie J. Anderson (@inkhat) January 5, 2019
Now, somebody write the last line here.
— Oswald Berthold (@x7557x) January 5, 2019
ꀬ→…..⋰≈ ⌂ ≈≈≈≈ ∆ ≈≈⋱…..→ pic.twitter.com/1VNADtpjhL
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) January 5, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1081516221223317504)
2019: THEY PUT A GARDEN ON THE MOON 🌱🌘 https://t.co/V01HBoDGT9
— m1k3y (@m1k3y) January 4, 2019
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
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
(via http://twitter.com/gonetopersia/status/1080742681716768768)