“Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster” - Wirth’s law

— samim (@samim) November 2, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/samim/status/1058245649181732865)

Word of the day: “dree” - to endure, bear with fortitude that which is wearisome, to last out (Scots). A “dree” is both a hard task and also a long, drawn-out melody. “To dree one’s weird” is - unforgettably - to endure one’s fate, suffer the consequences of one’s actions. pic.twitter.com/EjdRuNhLcb

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) November 2, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1058252462811824128)

“What kind of political, social and economic system would I want — and what would I fight for — if I knew I was coming back somewhere in the world but didn’t know where and didn’t know who I’d be?” https://t.co/aVJs3c4abm #GoverningForFutureGenerations

— Stuart Candy (@futuryst) October 30, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/futuryst/status/1057290157781598212)

A new Cretaceous period would see the loss of most coastal cities, might be home to reptiles in place of mammals, and could not support human life https://t.co/KQ4DKcwrTY pic.twitter.com/Vka382cd7M

— Aeon (@aeonmag) October 30, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/aeonmag/status/1057089840779550728)

His name is JC Sheitan Tenet and he’s a tattoo artist out of Lyon, France. https://t.co/ctgfMlTCQD

— Crutches&Spice♿️ (@Imani_Barbarin) October 29, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin/status/1056928907516149760)

The world’s first exhibition of interplanetary spacecraft and mechanisms in Moscow, USSR, 1927. The exhibition featured models of rocket vehicles and “interplanetary language of logical concepts” with an alphabet of eleven letters depicted by algebraic signs. pic.twitter.com/BsczEzOhB0

— Soviet Visuals (@sovietvisuals) October 29, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/1056810132011651072)

Move slow and fix things.

— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) October 28, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1056377629094395905)

UNACKNOWLEDGED SYMBOL

— Library of Emoji (@libraryofemoji) October 28, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/libraryofemoji/status/1056492529917587456)

There’s something similar with Japanese. Usually non-gendered (people are referred to by name), but the “being/is” verb is divided (vaguely) into living/non-living. For living we use いる (iru) and non-living we use ある (aru). Plants and robots are grouped as non-living.

— Alex 🔬☕️🐱🏋️‍♀️🏳️‍🌈 (@indigo5alpha) October 27, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/indigo5alpha/status/1055997889372073985)

It depends for plants. I think the plants themselves are animate but the parts of them are inanimate. Like a branch or flower is inanimate but the whole tree is animate. Idk about germs. Robots are animate (as are cars).

— Ō’m”kaistaaw”kaa•kii (@mariahgladstone) October 26, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/mariahgladstone/status/1055672356302028800)

been learning the art of customs and border patrol airport receipt photography

i think i’m really starting to get the hang of it pic.twitter.com/BlJgnjjYAH

— Tim Hwang (@timhwang) October 26, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/timhwang/status/1055626446717181952)

he looks like he’s about to steal a bunch of dinosaur embryos https://t.co/gRucMBepL8

— Sarah Beattie (@nachosarah) October 26, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/nachosarah/status/1055625868133822464)

A couple more from my recent series ‘Abominations’, a projection 300 years into the future where alchemy and transhumanism converge. pic.twitter.com/ocU6DshIC9

— Jim Kazanjian (@studiokazanjian) October 24, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/studiokazanjian/status/1055170034807451648)

Words of the day: “terrain vague” - apparently empty or abandoned interstitial spaces in towns & cities; e.g. vacant lots, brownfield sites, marginal ‘wastelands’ (French). ‘Vague’ carries senses of flux (vague/wave, French), wandering (vagus, Latin) & vacancy (vacuus, Latin). pic.twitter.com/RIBZ8Uk3M2

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) October 25, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1055338289077596161)

From yesterday’s #IceBridge flight: A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg’s sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf. pic.twitter.com/XhgTrf642Z

— NASA ICE (@NASA_ICE) October 17, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/NASA_ICE/status/1052601381712887809)

Here for the entanglement distribution networks. https://t.co/G4PpMJWXb6

— Scott Smith (@changeist) October 24, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1054963115253735424)

“Automatic acoustic identification of individual animals: Improving generalisation across species and recording conditions”https://t.co/YZw1nl8MoI - a #bioacoustics collaboration with @IDsignaling and others

— Dan Stowell (@mclduk) October 23, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/mclduk/status/1054639761950957569)

I’m working on a paper about ethnographic failures. Can anyone recommend good ethnographers where the fieldworker was kicked out of a field site and/or asked to leave early?

— Jeff Guhin (@jeffguhin) October 22, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/jeffguhin/status/1054485028124545024)

Honored to be part of the Random Forests publication by @augmentedeco The outstanding lecture-performance by @_foam and Teun’s own Terra Fiction Lab project are included #digitalculture #ecology #ecodesign #worldbuilding #codedmatters pic.twitter.com/EqlXkDYMMO

— FIBER (@FIBERFestival) October 22, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/FIBERFestival/status/1054283279124365312)

Re-up for weekend reading ☕️

I explored the future beyond cyberpunk:
1. Chaohuan, the “Ultra-Unreal”
2. Afrofuturism
3. Gulf Futurism
4. Cli-fi
5. Solarpunk
6. Water Crisis Thrillers
7. Kitchen Sink Dystopia
8. Woke Space Opera
9. The New Weird https://t.co/HyKpeJfXW8

— Jay Owens (@hautepop) October 20, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1053557063668940801)

Nate Persily on how to fix political discourse on the internet. pic.twitter.com/bMN7jPPB2d

— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) October 19, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1053391943655247872)

“On the other hand, because my basic image of the planet is of a household rather than a spaceship, I have some confidence in a long-run process of mutual attunement within this household that will survive revolutionary destruction.” Elise Boulding [2/2]

— Stuart Candy (@futuryst) October 16, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/futuryst/status/1052251529950978049)

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— ~ (@exquisitecrash) October 18, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/exquisitecrash/status/1052909496291512320)

My friends have made books and they are so 🔥💥Go buy them. @iotwatch @timmaughan @gsvoss 👏🏽 pic.twitter.com/ETRhxnlhkO

— Anab Jain (@anabjain) October 18, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/anabjain/status/1052903278969802753)

techno-chemical
disorder poetry

for all of the techno junkies
synthesizer vocabular-abusers
who sounds good?

isn’t breathing techno?

.

— AGF : ρѻﻉtﻉ§§ (@poemproducer) October 18, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/poemproducer/status/1052832170270748672)

This Henry Rollins ventriloquist dummy is 160% unnecessary. pic.twitter.com/QeqhVOSrXc

— Emma Alvarez Gibson (@AlvarezGibson) October 17, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/AlvarezGibson/status/1052612199762472960)

I, for one - have great hope in the future because a complete ecological collapse is the closest we’ll get to an alien invasion; it too will challenge the age-old arrogance of power structures, and who knows from that rubble may spawn the seeds of a more responsible civilization.

— ((( 1/फे ))) (@fadesingh) October 17, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/fadesingh/status/1052468967699148800)

alone in the neurotic real-time liquid surveillance machine.

— iMetaleptic (@botaleptic) October 14, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/botaleptic/status/1051588406017441792)

We need to quit looking for leaders and be our own leaders. We need to find ways to sidestep power we cannot directly challenge, to dance around it, to make it irrelevant, until it’s time to burn.

— Josh Ellis (@jzellis) October 13, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/jzellis/status/1050981576148803584)

i’m sorry this is too meta pic.twitter.com/vfTgvrphnx

— jenny odell (@the_jennitaur) October 11, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/the_jennitaur/status/1050492799030685696)

BRB - Just explaining Rumsfeldian epistemology using the @TheCQWG spotters guide. pic.twitter.com/vEQRSPWTxz

— Every mile is two in winter (@thejaymo) October 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1049288794690736133)

The talk is going to use the SR-71 blackbird analogy I wrote about in this essay a few years back https://t.co/27IGEQmCJO

— Every mile is two in winter (@thejaymo) October 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1049312239356956672)

The poet and soldier Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) was fascinated by the magical beliefs and practices he witnessed in the trenches, and referred to secular humanoid charms, like Fumsup, as, “the first gods born in the twentieth century.” pic.twitter.com/ZUmQdOkgTm

— Owen Davies (@odavies9) October 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/odavies9/status/1049403553641627648)

The Case for Climate Pessimism: https://t.co/S3Zr8BVS7L

— Extinction Symbol (@extinctsymbol) October 11, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/extinctsymbol/status/1050214523083390976)

“We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code"

David Clark
Chief protocol architect of the Internet

— Marta Peirano (@minipetite) October 10, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/minipetite/status/1050161028917592064)

Happy #AdaLovelaceDay ! This year, some of my favourite female artists and designers sticking a knife into and around technological systems; do check them out and support them ▲△▼▽

— Georgina Voss (@gsvoss) October 9, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/gsvoss/status/1049609643645960192)

“The tragedy is that our own times not only could not produce such a building, but cannot even maintain it.”
— Ada Huxtable, 1963 pic.twitter.com/Du6CSF33pp

— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) October 9, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1049575741871071232)

SEEKING: Story (books, movies, tv) recommendations in xeno-anthropology. Anything to do with anthropologists encountering nonhumans/aliens. Also, is there such a thing as a feminist Ender’s Game / Speaker for the Dead?

— anne galloway 🐑 (@annegalloway) October 9, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/annegalloway/status/1049575009247625216)

Dan Roosegaarde’s Space Waste Lab pinpoints orbiting space debris with long-range LEDs https://t.co/YHB1CIEikM pic.twitter.com/C58WO0bWLz

— giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) October 9, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/gquaggiotto/status/1049552640999227392)

The @IPCC_CH report on #GlobalWarming of 1.5°C is one of the most important #climatechange reports ever published. Limiting temperature increase requires unprecedented changes in society, but will have huge benefits. Every half a degree of warming matters. https://t.co/a7GOzVFv50 pic.twitter.com/p0wX5vYrA5

— IPCC (@IPCC_CH) October 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/IPCC_CH/status/1049205935388811265)

You can see it as an opportunity for unprecedented global innovation, or protect the pensions of a few old guys so they can golf in a carbon monoxide cloud protected by armed guards. “Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040” https://t.co/Xcbvw4gS3j

— Scott Smith (@changeist) October 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1049190668315385856)

I think the Banksy thing is pretty badass but never forget that in 1998 Chris Burden installed a battering ram connected to the turnstile so that if enough people visited his show the entire museum would collapse. pic.twitter.com/8RWOoOKDVi

— Mikki Halpin (@mikkipedia) October 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/mikkipedia/status/1048642745135456256)

You know the country’s not in a good place when people start learning how the government works.

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) October 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1048596713362141191)

Word of the day: “defaunation” - the loss of animal populations & species across all forms of disappearance; from extinction to extirpation to decline in abundance. #LexiconForTheAnthropocene
See for more on defaunation: https://t.co/Bg6AWDoIKD pic.twitter.com/C3q6dPW60B

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) October 7, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1048815247853801472)

A nonprofit dedicated to the study of animal movement and remotely sensed environmental data https://t.co/5loYw20rGM

— giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) October 7, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/gquaggiotto/status/1048791923081666561)

Hey friends, I need some good book recommendations. Something engrossing and preferably written by a woman.

Examples:
- Gone Girl
- Ancillary Justice
- The Fifth Season
- old school Anne Rice
- mysteries, southern gothic, something that keeps me glued to the page

— malice ghoulpus (@alicegoldfuss) October 7, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/1048738818944368640)

The earthquake and tsunami caused an immense damage in Palu, Indonesia. But few people have seen or really understand the process of liquefaction, here caught on satellite in a time lapse https://t.co/fCIONUK1rx pic.twitter.com/82cUyV6YnK

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1048529511103516672)

To suffix things “-punk” now guarantees them a cozy sub-genre status, thereby protecting the status quo from whatever genuine conceptual threat they might otherwise have posed. Punk is sheer conceptual threat, punching up. https://t.co/cnnK6dBH3V

— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) October 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1048433737711607808)

I guess be glad Banksy didn’t use a proper crosscut shredder.

— matt blaze (@mattblaze) October 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1048684402254012416)

most cunning of all new media artists #Banksy really knows how to inflate the value of his work https://t.co/ECjfu1SsOf

— Memo Akten (@memotv) October 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/memotv/status/1048683841731407873)

This is one of those things.https://t.co/kR6lPyJ71U

— Nick Harkaway (@Harkaway) October 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/Harkaway/status/1048528199330779136)

👻☭👻🇪🇺

— Every mile is two in winter (@thejaymo) October 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1048496885294616576)

The full lecture-performance by @_foam (Maja and Nik) presented at #terrafiction #codedmatters last week. https://t.co/T0K51JNWPU

— FIBER (@FIBERFestival) October 4, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/FIBERFestival/status/1047728476458012672)

Elysia chlorotica is a sea slug that can capture energy directly from light, as most plants do, through the process of photosynthesis and during time periods where algae is not readily available as a food supply, it can survive for months https://t.co/Ql9RHcLaW2 pic.twitter.com/4x1yNTDhvW

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 3, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1047579974033661952)

The work of care in the Anthropocene is a struggle with scale and scope and sentience. What does care for a dying forest look like? For an unstoppable flood? For the endless migration of humans and other animals? https://t.co/F42jXOV2aR [Terrific piece by @deziluzija @zzkt]

— giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) October 3, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/gquaggiotto/status/1047450129807151104)

“Terraformation. Shaping earth, or making of soil. Terraforming as composting and gardening rather than planet-wide engineering.” #terrafictionhttps://t.co/DNAWsgQbyo pic.twitter.com/D0GwyBauG3

— FoAM (@_foam) October 3, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/_foam/status/1047448764083056640)

Golden Rule of Mediocrity Orientation: You can always create slack and room to maneuver by lowering your standards somewhere

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) October 3, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1047359576377458688)

Patchwork is Not a Model (Part 3) https://t.co/LBaynz4XZj

— 🦇 ⤵️🕳 (@xenogothic) October 2, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/xenogothic/status/1047228248994791425)

If your thing can’t provide at least half the value when half-assed, (or worse: actually makes things worse if applied with less than 100% conscientiousness), it is actually a liability. Almost no frameworks and methodologies more complex than 2x2s pass this test.

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) October 2, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1047215078045442049)

Universal Basic Income = Universal Basic Insanity: everybody is allowed a basic life budget for being crazy. For most people, solving for “good life” works out to less than 100% sanity. It is insane to want everybody to be 100% sane.

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) October 1, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1046851176812040192)

Episode 24 - Your attention is sovereign

1 You personally, get to decide where you put your attention
2 By acknowledging this fact you have to take full responsibility for where you have put your attention in the past & where you will put it in the futurehttps://t.co/NmIkH8tSHU

— Every mile is two in winter (@thejaymo) September 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1043118892388888581)

Next, we’ll delve into the mythic & sensual dimensions of panpsychism with a lecture-performance by @_foam co-founders Maja @deziluzija Kuzmanovic & Nik @zzkt Gaffney, contemplating time, microbial contamination, non-corvid interaction & death alongside audiovisual atmospheres.. pic.twitter.com/SI66VGZcTf

— FIBER (@FIBERFestival) September 27, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/FIBERFestival/status/1045405473724411905)

“If you are using the Earth’s geological calendar we are leaving the Holocene epoch. We are now at the beginning of the Anthropocene” #terrafiction

— FoAM (@_foam) September 27, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/_foam/status/1045405041149063171)

“Almost every country has a vessel monitoring system, and usually it’s totally top secret. Indonesia has decided to give all that data to publish for free.” https://t.co/0Rwgmp9bP3 cc @PulseLabJakarta @pa_wela

— giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) September 27, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/gquaggiotto/status/1045315153074540545)

Belgium’s Police are Teaching Ferrets to Prevent Robots

— Animal Tech Cop (@animal_tech_cop) September 27, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/animal_tech_cop/status/1045317268928942081)

join us (@zzkt & @deziluzija) tonight (2018-09-27) for “an evening about digital culture and imagining future worlds and sustainable living on earth and beyond.”#terrafiction #terraforming #terrapreta https://t.co/Rz46EG4J8I pic.twitter.com/lcCHNQAA9c

— FoAM (@_foam) September 27, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/_foam/status/1045212123880718336)

We still tune the dead channel. Every morning, the nuclear imaging gamma camera is tested, by imaging a flat, homogeneous source of radioactive cesium-57. Should always give the look of dead channel noise. If any perturbations, there is a problem in the system. pic.twitter.com/VZsW9aqpJ1

— Alan (@GammaCounter) September 26, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/GammaCounter/status/1045055959721275392)

Cockroach Milk: The Superfood of the Future Has Arrived https://t.co/ejZt4rGrDT

— ///Grenzfurthner\\ (@johannes_mono) September 26, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/johannes_mono/status/1044930312172711942)

Anarchy at the south pole: Santiago Sierra plants the black flag to destroy all borders https://t.co/gkC0sgdKlU

— The Guardian (@guardian) September 25, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/guardian/status/1044548655867469824)

An ancient banyan tree spread over 3 acres near Takht Hazara (between the villages Abal and Mori wal) in the Punjab. Said to have been planted by Buzurg Murtaza Shah with his student Malang Baba Rohray Shah a few centuries ago. #LegendaryTrees #Celebritree https://t.co/y3JEuz1BmE

— Nadine Zubair (@NadineZubair) September 26, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/NadineZubair/status/1044868363313467393)

a “highly blurred” meme seems more authentically “used”; attention metrics have no patina

— Rob Horning (@robhorning) September 24, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/robhorning/status/1044240741747306496)

We are sorry we have kept you waiting! MINERVA-II1 consists of two rovers, 1a & 1b. Both rovers are confirmed to have landed on the surface of Ryugu. They are in good condition and have transmitted photos & data. We also confirmed they are moving on the surface. #asteroidlanding

— HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) September 22, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa/status/1043481944179105792)

How Philosopher Paul Virilio (1932–2018) Spoke to an Age of Acceleration and Total War.

McKenzie Wark pays tribute to the French cultural theorist, who called our era one of ‘dromocracy’: the reign of speed.https://t.co/q7C4CYVjKF

— Virginia Gordon (@chatsbury) September 22, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/chatsbury/status/1043617527459328000)

Welcome to New York, where the sewer rats are probably laughing at you.

(No really, they are, and we sent a sound artist to record it. Listen to what rat laughter sounds like: https://t.co/0AEEISpjXr) pic.twitter.com/Waqfh9BGO8

— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) September 22, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/NYTmag/status/1043512645968646144)

every corpse on mount Everest was once a highly motivated person

— Laurelai Bailey (@LaurelaiBailey1) September 22, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/LaurelaiBailey1/status/1043393218790993920)

Strange and Modern Biology is taught by @jeffvandermeer

The Practicum in Geology Love is from @metaleptic, with @botaleptic and @notaleptic TA-ing

Marine Structures is @debcha’s design studio

Who wants to lead General Almosts of Anthropology?

— Jay Owens (@hautepop) September 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1043130652613328897)

The radiosynthesizing Cryptococcus neoformans. Microbiologist ‘Ekaterina Dadachova suggested such fungi could serve as a food supply and source of radiation protection for interplanetary astronauts, who would be exposed to cosmic rays’ https://t.co/1Tq2zlv8Zr

— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) September 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1043124534893846529)

Behind every Deep Learning there’s a lot of (Chinese) training work. They’re creating the training set for AI cashiers. #ai pic.twitter.com/4nUNmf2Y5q

— Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño (@brunosan) September 21, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/brunosan/status/1043016373218078720)

#airetreat
-All human forms of consciousnesses (uploads etc tbd)
-Angels
-Demons
-Djinn
-Corporations
-Mycelial Networks
-Machine Minds
-Cities
-Kami (Japan)
-Rivers (Maori)
-Relational conjunctions of change (Buddhist)
-Yokai
-Gods
-Uplifted Nonhuman Animals
-Cephalopods
-Corvid

— Damien (@Wolven) September 19, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/Wolven/status/1042459056957542402)

“The time of an intellectual having an influence is over.
Who has an influence? It is the climate.”
–Paul Virilio, Grey Ecologyhttps://t.co/fd2JalFtUv

— Elise Hunchuck (@elisehunchuck) September 18, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/elisehunchuck/status/1042065124847243265)

A minimal Turing test (McCoy & Ullman, 2018):

“Say one word that convinces us you’re human.” pic.twitter.com/ZhPkVQiIxH

— Dr Julia Shaw (@drjuliashaw) September 18, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/drjuliashaw/status/1042002026715131904)

‘The dinosaurs never die outright, and the new age of abundance never quite gains its inviolable foothold. The future just keeps arriving, mutating, bowing to the fickle pressures of advertising markets and quarterly earnings reports.’

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) September 19, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1042533874943844352)

the precise moment at which @pennyred asks the leading lights of Bitcoin “what the hell is wrong with you people” (if phrased more politely) https://t.co/7FImcslwRZ

— David Gerard (@davidgerard) September 18, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1042138366710571010)

1. Pre-nihilist: humans are a miracle.
2. Nihilist: humans have no intrinsic value.
3. Post-nihilist: let’s just see where this human thing goes, just for fun.

— ◉ (@brightabyss) September 15, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/brightabyss/status/1040998087899045888)

RT @bruces: *Tomorrow’s future-shock is not that we’re swanning around all posthuman. It’s that the planet’s ecosystems are grotesquely scorched and flooded, genuinely monstrous

— The Prepaid Economy: Sustainable Edition (@prepaid_africa) September 16, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/prepaid_africa/status/1041248418432212992)

I missed this last month: The New York Public Library lets people check out ties, briefcases and handbags for important meetings and job interviews. https://t.co/IdiSdtuPks

— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 14, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/pbump/status/1040417982021754881)

play{a=SinOsc;c=VarSaw;Splay ar:perform(a,x=\ar,0,perform(BRF,x,perform(c,x,perform(c,x,perform(a,x,b=(6..1)*2.1)*b,0,7-b/9)>0+(perform(a,x,1/b)>perform(a,x,0.1/b)+1)*[99,198]*b/9,0,perform(c,x,b/48)+½),2**perform(c,x,b/24)*488,0.4)*perform(a,x,0.012,b,2pi))/2}// #SuperCollider

— Fredrik Olofsson (@redFrik) September 14, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/redFrik/status/1040686477552873475)

Another reminder that, as yer man Sterling has it, the ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) September 14, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1040542780542672898)

“What do I believe in? Imagination, gardens, science, poetry, love and a variety of nonviolent consolations. I suspect that in aggregate all this isn’t enough, but it’s where I am for now.” - Teju Cole

— Jer Thorp (@blprnt) September 13, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/blprnt/status/1040252180069076993)

Untangled, entangled and retangled. FoAM’s new website. Same same but different! https://t.co/J7ksW4yXZW pic.twitter.com/DozHkljhhK

— FoAM (@_foam) September 12, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/_foam/status/1039901213700096000)

if you could accurately predict fMRI activity for a given image+person, maybe you could synthesize images that induce a specific kind of neural activity. images that synchronize two people. images that force a reboot. https://t.co/a6BsO4XjZP

— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) September 12, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/kcimc/status/1039679115169689600)

One of the world’s leading plasma physicists, Anthony Peratt, not too long ago declassified his discovery that he could reproduce 40% of the most fundamental petroglyph types in the plasma laboratory. pic.twitter.com/0ryI1hv1oO

— Controversies of Science (@controscience) September 11, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/controscience/status/1039543236707082240)

One of the world’s most haunting ruined places is the ghost town of Kolmanskop, in the desert of Southern Namibia.

Once a thriving mining town, it now sits in an enormous “restricted zone” where people are still forbidden to enter, and is slowly being reclaimed by the sands. pic.twitter.com/MoXQLIsSnp

— Paul 🌹📚 Cooper (@PaulMMCooper) September 11, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/1039546188377346048)

Celebrity Military Coup for Comic Relief.

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) September 11, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1039622352437432326)

My central preoccupation has always been coping. How do sentient beings cope and how could they cope better? That’s led me to an awareness of Hadot’s philosophy as a way of life, Foucault’s care of the self, and Sloterdijk’s anthropotechnical training

— Arran Crawford (@openhandthought) September 9, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/openhandthought/status/1038891401537355778)

1980s: Think global, act local

2010s: Think global, act spooky*

*ly at a distance through entanglements

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) September 9, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1038679750749741056)

The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument. Sunlight on mist. Summer lightning. Your choices outweigh your substance.

— The CryptoNaturalist (@CryptoNature) September 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/CryptoNature/status/1038534797105291265)

Agree with the conclusion. But: our blood is red primarily because of the aromatic ring of protoporphyrin IX, the iron ions bound to it shift only slightly the visible absorption maximum. Blood would be red even without iron.

— Jan Trnka (@jantrnka78) September 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/jantrnka78/status/1038311198893199360)

Your blood is red because of the iron you inherited from the Earth. You need the iron to help bind the oxygen you receive from plants and trees. Our blood and breath are hand-me-downs. The landscape is not decoration. Not scenery. It’s family.

— The CryptoNaturalist (@CryptoNature) September 8, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/CryptoNature/status/1038248902330331136)

Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia oscillates between a strange theory-fiction exploring oil as a sentient entity and ‘lubricant’ of political conspiracies and a near impenetrable brick wall of desert-based occult mythological correspondences. pic.twitter.com/cY2kk6P1GA

— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) September 7, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1037984326309371907)

Giraffes have long necks not merely to eat leaves, but because they yearn to escape the earth and voyage to the stars. #Twertzog

— Werner Twertzog (@WernerTwertzog) September 6, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/WernerTwertzog/status/1037533585257979904)