“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)

“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)

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)

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)

https://t.co/MLm1HyUs5v

“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)

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)

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)

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)

You live in a society whose every production industry is based around a government-subsidized chemical feedstock.

Corn is not a _food_.
Corn is a _platform_.

— 🌽🌽🌽 CORN FACTS 🌽🌽🌽 (@SwiftOnSecurity) December 18, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1074856487514726400)

Corn is a platform with both limitless purposes, and one purpose:

to turn rural land into a dependable & infinitely fungible financial asset. https://t.co/Vc9sOuVFqa

— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) December 18, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1074882584436461570)

It seems like people are into MASS EXTINCTIONS these days and I wrote a book on them so here’s a 2-Part ⚡️MEGATHREAD⚡️ on the worst things that have ever happened pic.twitter.com/MVVts9RgPJ

— Peter🌋Brannen (@PeterBrannen1) December 14, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/PeterBrannen1/status/1073600092689489920)

back and forth between minimalism and maximalism

— AG.Føɍɇvøɍ : ρѻﻉtﻉ§§ (@poemproducer) December 17, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/poemproducer/status/1074581041422196741)

“Every problem is a trolley problem if you’re brave enough.”@maradydd

— Queen of Meme (@SarahMPottratz) December 17, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/SarahMPottratz/status/1074502174640488448)

corollary: “skin in the game can always be added if necessary.”

— Steven Wittens (@unconed) December 17, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/unconed/status/1074503452259082241)

this repo lets you implant random things into paintings https://t.co/yT1LX4jYNL pic.twitter.com/VAiVu2Tja7

— Gene Kogan (@genekogan) December 14, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/genekogan/status/1073624934553931776)

<Cornish place name> <body part> <symptom> <description> #viruscraft

— Dave Griffiths (FoAM Kernow) (@nebogeo) December 13, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/nebogeo/status/1073160639298846721)

#endoftheyear update crawling the archive for back catalogue w/ some goodies in there. upcoming farmersmanual “singles” compiled into one package, long lost “calimba de luna” EP on constar from 1997 https://t.co/0fKHhVhfay

— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) December 10, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1072097354990477312)

#artwork and #random snip of @farmersmanual_ - Ulan Bator - Track3 on FIVE - #sabotagerecords 20 - project #backward is #wip #generateandtest w/ #datachase pic.twitter.com/RhVZeY4KHW

— Oswald Berthold (@x7557x) December 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/x7557x/status/1070709101414490113)

then again it is also true that flights account for a small fraction of climate gas emissions while individualizing guilt is a paralyzing control mechanism of neoliberal governmentality, operating to protect vested interests and prevent systemic revolt by making you eat yourself.

— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) December 10, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1071989345366695936)

“Facebook, becomes this _absolute_ but also _multiplicitous_ alienation through the totalising but nonetheless superficial signifier of its opposite - @xenogothic // https://t.co/junmJJNSpS

— Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) December 9, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1071813011365605376)

AI machine learning is the new faerie deals, you need to be very specific in how you word your parameters.

— Jeannette Ng 吳志麗 (@jeannette_ng) December 9, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/jeannette_ng/status/1071839922502426626)

‘It was a phase.’ ‘Being a whale?’ ‘Being human.’

— m1k3y (@m1k3y) December 9, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/m1k3y/status/1071604052595621888)

Vegemite circuitry! https://t.co/AyRRLU1i6T

— Justin Warren (@jpwarren) December 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/jpwarren/status/1071264326604939264)

#artwork and #random snip of @farmersmanual_ - Ulan Bator - Track3 on FIVE - #sabotagerecords 20 - project #backward is #wip #generateandtest w/ #datachase pic.twitter.com/Xh5ljWHziR

— Oswald Berthold (@x7557x) December 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/x7557x/status/1070709097379565569)

‘“He wrote some incomprehensible books that no one standing here has read and never will read,” said Russian Navy vice-admiral Igor Mukhametshin in an anti-Kant rant to his sailors, that has since been widely-viewed on YouTube.’ https://t.co/6yu6VyRh0m

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) December 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1070659563081347073)

The yellow jacket protesters in France are wearing BS EN ISO 20471 compliant hi viz vests. The international ISO 20471 replaced BS EN 471 European Norm standard that itself replaced the British Standard BS 6629. Like many areas, a British Standard became an International Standard

— Think Defence (@thinkdefence) December 5, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/thinkdefence/status/1070114238990090245)

A New Life Awaits in the *checks notes* Underground Nutrient Shafts: https://t.co/2ay6zwrldG

— Sjef van Gaalen (@thesjef) December 3, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/thesjef/status/1069590674872381441)

the collapse is happening at a speed that overtakes writing, neutralizes it.

— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) December 3, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1069438043730264064)

“Can art be artificial and intelligent at the same time?”, is a question that unfolds a paradox: the hypothetical (according to some) or potential (according to others) intelligence of the non-living” https://t.co/qHlbGpR1q3

— Near Future Laboratory (@nearfuturelab) December 2, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/nearfuturelab/status/1069177201524903937)

A rare good take on Deleuze & Guattari’s rhizome as an “anti-method” that works against “the puritanical bureaucracy of the academic spirit” (Zourabichvili 2012). pic.twitter.com/zbhQz3OZ2l

— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) December 1, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1068759110806470656)

I am one of the cunning folk. I can ask the dust to tell me secrets. I can ask the trees to sing me bitter songs of the time before tracks. - Old Cunning Ash

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) November 29, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/HooklandGuide/status/1068061711125630976)

TROLLING IS THE NEW CRITICAL THEORY BUT LIKE WE’RE ALREADY AT THE PRECIPICE OF THE EPOCHS COLLAPSE INTO ITSELF RENDERING THE PROJECT AN EMPTY GESTURE SLOWLY LOSING ITS ABILITY TO SIGNIFY SHORT OF EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION LIKE A DAYTIME SOAP …

— EXCESSIVE KINK SIGNALING (@HUXTABLEJULIANA) November 29, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/HUXTABLEJULIANA/status/1068096627053920259)

What’s next? Some new about my new role at @bulbenergy #greentech #iot https://t.co/v3my72BAT6

— Alexandra D-S (@iotwatch) November 25, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/iotwatch/status/1066818707199066113)

2018: consumer reviews for the environmental collapse https://t.co/CUr0cbENwM

— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) November 17, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1063586071890616320)

Being with John Mawurndjul’s extraordinary work is less like visiting an exhibition, and more like being transported to another part of the Universe. One where the laws of nature, the very references of reality, are fundamentally different, yet supernaturally familiar. pic.twitter.com/uvhvPgY6Ou

— honor harger (@honorharger) November 24, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/honorharger/status/1066223962386923520)

Difference between machine learning and AI:

If it is written in Python, it’s probably machine learning

If it is written in PowerPoint, it’s probably AI

— Mat Velloso (@matvelloso) November 23, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/matvelloso/status/1065778379612282885)

tl;dr [I am happy to share the data on the time, resource and energy it takes one human to grow *one* mushroom, farm 5 locusts and make a portion of mealworm risotto] no magical fix here. pic.twitter.com/XkoYXsGwds

— Anab Jain (@anabjain) November 22, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/anabjain/status/1065613766421815296)

Listen to heavy ions collide in the #LHC! 🎶🎇

Data from the ATLAS detector has been transformed into a symphony of sounds via Quantizer, a @medialab sonification platform. Listen to even more ATLAS collisions LIVE at https://t.co/4twDWsUlkv. pic.twitter.com/SntA6r6GvZ

— ATLAS Experiment (@ATLASexperiment) November 22, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/ATLASexperiment/status/1065565822922489858)

bird feeder#neuralBricolage pic.twitter.com/zL5DhBCrEF

— helena sarin (@glagolista) November 22, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/glagolista/status/1065585474289524736)

Article about @_foam in @blueprintmag: “Labs can take up that moral position — that desire for personal and social growth, for civic advancement and enlightenment — which many of our institutions seem to have forgotten was once their guiding principle.” https://t.co/GvaqedF3QW

— Dave Griffiths (FoAM Kernow) (@nebogeo) November 22, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/nebogeo/status/1065561302570074115)

What you call darkness is not what a cat calls darkness, not what an owl calls darkness. Your reality is yours alone and only cousin to the reality of other creatures. Think of all the self-contained worlds and alien landscapes that prowl and glide just beyond your dark windows.

— The CryptoNaturalist (@CryptoNature) November 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/CryptoNature/status/1065099205000216577)

off-centered people plan off-centered thanksgiving dinners:
z-turkey, latent sides and dessert a la mode (collapse) pic.twitter.com/7RnGcMogq7

— helena sarin (@glagolista) November 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/glagolista/status/1065062119694106625)

Multivariate Spatiotemporal Hawkes Processes and Network Reconstruction

“approach uses both temporal and spatial information and does not assume a specific parametric form of network dynamics”

https://t.co/lI3fSY9jet pic.twitter.com/tAMaoXPbTx

— Alessandro Vespignani (@alexvespi) November 16, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/alexvespi/status/1063412283177615360)

“Ribbon Eel” also known as y=sin(x)
Ribbon Eel begin their lives as males and transform into females later in life.#Eel #Anguilliformes #Muraenidae #ocean #biodiversity #naturelovers pic.twitter.com/VpPMSYLiMT

— Audrey Dussutour (@Docteur_Drey) November 16, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/Docteur_Drey/status/1063363367828639744)

just learned from @hdeweyh that anyone with an academic email address can just order human biological samples https://t.co/AVc1h8T5Yv pic.twitter.com/vvCBPHUlxI

— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) November 17, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/kcimc/status/1063649079647854592)

The Hojoki | Kyoto Journal https://t.co/G9ZMCjKYuP @kyotojournalさんから

— 木　くま (@hikingkuma3) November 15, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/hikingkuma3/status/1063084544398581762)

Idea for adversarial press briefings: reporters type in questions that go on a leaderboard, and vote on what they want answered. Top question goes first. Questions stay on top till majority marks them ‘answered’. Nice and decorous.

Few leaders would have the courage for this.

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) November 16, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1063575035003072514)

BigGan Experiments (2/N):

Sampling using |z-sin(z)| creates the following images with the same background pic.twitter.com/xqhruPTYEh

— Zaid Alyafeai (زيد اليافعي ) (@zaidalyafeai) November 15, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/zaidalyafeai/status/1063138622252179456)

Now you may ask: where have all those convolutional artifacts and supersaturated images gone that pioneered this space? Well, I tell you: they became victims of gantrification and were driven far out into the zones where the gradients only descent once a week. pic.twitter.com/yXgAyEz6rX

— Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo) November 16, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/quasimondo/status/1063383973047480320)

BigGan Experiments (1/N):

Using z, np.sin(z) pairs on the z-vector space can generate images with the same foreground but different background. pic.twitter.com/guoo3MjYLq

— Zaid Alyafeai (زيد اليافعي ) (@zaidalyafeai) November 15, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/zaidalyafeai/status/1063052872357687297)

TENTACULAR takes place Nov 22-24 in @mataderomadrid, featuring @ForensicArchi @bruces @mthvn @zachblas premiering a new project curated by @juliaxgulia, @Dymaxion @joana_moll @nd_kane @tobias_revell @disnovation @M_PF @minipetite @ManuelBartual @amaliaulman @abrelatas and more. pic.twitter.com/HBAlRHhAow

— Jose Luis de Vicente (@Macroscopist) November 13, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/Macroscopist/status/1062428845838614529)

A large crater lies underneath Greenland’s Hiawatha Glacier—a well-known, but little-studied part of the planet. Now scientists hope to determine if it could be linked to a controversial extinction theory.https://t.co/sjp6uSq9Au

— National Geographic Magazine (@NatGeoMag) November 15, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/NatGeoMag/status/1063138509886758913)

A compilation on DeepMind-NHS:

Concern https://t.co/0XS3Vk9ygE
New deal https://t.co/PkUcgxeWAJ
Origins @halhod https://t.co/ZzM15JylrC
Soft regulators https://t.co/Sz0MExtyJS
Pods @FrankPasquale https://t.co/DS4LvjgNT7; https://t.co/1PbGspnvnM
Fireworks https://t.co/nL5OnTsvf7

— Julia Powles (@juliapowles) November 13, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/juliapowles/status/1062428876620644352)

DeepMasterPrints: synthetic fingerprints matching a large number of fingerprints https://t.co/w24RrmBEt4

— Hacker News (@newsycombinator) November 15, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/newsycombinator/status/1062963780353691651)

Sci-Hub is being blocked in Sweden after Elsevier won in court, ISP protests by blocking Elsevier website, too https://t.co/vxS5chGVzm pic.twitter.com/88Zf7MPw7K

— Sci Hub (@Sci_Hub) November 13, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/Sci_Hub/status/1062389486968016901)

… in progress performance for 300 linghzi mushrooms, 17 humans and 25 pyramidal transmitters - 16/11 TFAM Taipei Biennal post nature mycelium network society pic.twitter.com/sPk8r7SZVs

— martin howse (@micro_research) November 13, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/micro_research/status/1062288877124308992)

And so it goes. Goodnight #StanLee. I’ll just say again: May we all be so fortunate as to live so long and see as much of our work and the work of the people we love have as wide an impact on the world as Stanley Lieber did. Poor Jewish kid from NYC made it about as big as it get

— Damien But No Spoopier Than Usual, Which is Fairly (@Wolven) November 12, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/Wolven/status/1062063757411737600)

tick to mashed taters, triceratops to bagel, bald eagle to crock pot #BigGAN pic.twitter.com/B5AsUGzLBs

— jacob broms engblom (@osfa) November 12, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/osfa/status/1062090822903128064)

The @_foam autumn digest is out - updates on projects from across the whole network, and some opportunities to get involved: https://t.co/4Cd8a3n3Ng pic.twitter.com/qP3h8roxNm

— Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly) November 12, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/AmberFirefly/status/1061965654570471426)

Today in cyberpunk dystopia news:

My feed is full of Californians complaining that FaceID doesn’t work with the breath masks they’re wearing to cope with the fires.

— Eva (@evacide) November 9, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/evacide/status/1061012220417531904)

This thread by @NiNanjira is essential reading if you are thinking about plural futures. https://t.co/gCLtYV8kEQ

— Anab Jain (@anabjain) November 11, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/anabjain/status/1061720762694950912)

post-shanzhai arises at the intersection of big tech marketing and bad urban design, becoming the perfect carrier for state surveillance: if you add enough screens and traditional culture, face recognition cameras become an acceptable externality https://t.co/DLxLmVryQV

— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) November 11, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1061535414069080065)

wondering if it makes sense of identifying a “post-shanzhai” trend emerging in Chinese tech, as copycatting and cloning low/mid-tier consumer electronics give way to shitty and uncanny tech demos https://t.co/P5zWzc5WpI

— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) November 11, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1061532392295256064)

Saving the world is a job for professionals

Making it worth saving is a pastime for amateurs

The problem is all the damn amateurish professionals and professional amateurs.

They go around all mixed up, threatening the world AND trashing it, so it’s not worth saving from them

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) November 11, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1061522364800761856)

Re-reading #AaronSwartz’s Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, on what would have been his 32nd birthday, and in the middle of the final #AccessLab sessions for 2018. As relevant now as it was ten years ago - keep fighting, in any way you can. https://t.co/r583ZtxGLq

— Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly) November 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/AmberFirefly/status/1060542693502271489)

Our autumn digest has just been published. this time it’s “economic experiments, citizen science games, artistic explorations and speculative forays into animist territories” from the @_foam outposts. https://t.co/08FAcEgqbX pic.twitter.com/nyQJbR9oB3

— FoAM (@_foam) November 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/_foam/status/1060479103147655173)

somehow I don’t think it would be that hard to radicalise the whales https://t.co/6B4gG7SpPp

— m1k3y (@m1k3y) November 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/m1k3y/status/1060383554310295552)

Word of the day: “xanthophylls” - the class of pigments responsible for the yellows in both autumn leaves & egg-yolks. Xanthophylls are present year-round, but as chlorophyll breaks down each fall, many-splendoured yellows – gold, ochre, lemon, amber – are disclosed by decay. pic.twitter.com/URTRTYYe3a

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) November 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1060426799610499073)

#fromthearchives 2013 or earlier - gullibloon - army of darkness - https://t.co/tBCYtyob0Z #musicbots #dancebots

— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) November 7, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1060144225726226433)

Jeez, just put @MazzucatoM and @KateRaworth in charge already https://t.co/y7ctCdgDIt

— Dave Griffiths (FoAM Kernow) (@nebogeo) November 7, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/nebogeo/status/1060112877728735233)

I guess it was only a matter of time before @gregeganSF came up with a stunning insight that would ripple through a particular branch of the tree of mathematics. So, his recent work on superpermutation seem most apt.https://t.co/R2pQxIXT85https://t.co/IxABAwt0K4

— honor harger (@honorharger) November 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/honorharger/status/1059823027725221888)

Fascists in a democracy demand the right of free speech, but once in power will absolutely, definitively, not grant it to anyone other than themselves. That’s their trick and they know it perfectly well.

— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) November 3, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1058826753081131008)

“Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society” https://t.co/Sli6w0cwMd

— nicolasnova (@nicolasnova) November 5, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/nicolasnova/status/1059349729933443072)

David Abram offers notes on technology and animism in an age of ecological wipeout. https://t.co/TwjDtQMdo1

— Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) November 4, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1059138625722556422)

Amazing photo of Chinese tourists battling through Venice floods with their luxury goods https://t.co/8ZxLXBKW7l熱爆話題/253791/厲害了-威尼斯大水浸-擋不住大媽買名牌 pic.twitter.com/atNyUrz3A9

— Austin Ramzy (@austinramzy) November 3, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/austinramzy/status/1058573824722067457)

Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too https://t.co/dUbas8Iy6A

— TF (@torrentfreak) November 2, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/torrentfreak/status/1058427804637782016)

Words of the day: “empty forest” - a forest or jungle ecosystem that has lost its large mammals due to defaunation, while its vegetation remains intact. A habitat hollowed from the inside out.
Coined by Kent H. Redford, 1992. #LexiconForTheAnthropocene pic.twitter.com/Kc8L5uXSzv

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) November 4, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1058977199599030272)