RT @nolan@toot.cafe
— Julien Deswaef | @xuv@mastodon.social (@xuv) June 30, 2018
“The current state of web design” https://t.co/bkWla2csc3https://t.co/EWDl6Nofjk
How do people stay interested in money? I like both production and consumption but connecting the two with money feels increasingly exhausting, like paperwork or standards compliance. Makework middleware.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) June 30, 2018
Today seems like the right time to do a thread I’ve been thinking about for a while on how to handle the seemingly never-ending deluge of depressing and disturbing news. My tips are based on my time as a CIA military analyst in which I dealt daily with disturbing content. (1/)
— Cindy Otis (@CindyOtis_) June 29, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/CindyOtis_/status/1012488916178436096)
If you’re curious to see many possible, sustainable futures of Mars exploration, check out the #DecolonizeMars hashtag today.
— NMSArchaeology (@NMSarchaeology) June 29, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/NMSarchaeology/status/1012742592319098880)
Andy Holden & Peter Holden’s ‘A Natural History of Nest Building’ (2017) is one of the best multi-screen video installations I’ve seen; Springwatch via Ray and Charles Eames. And funny! 👌
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 29, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1012717199327285248)
How about a conference called “In Retrospect” in which presenters revisit talks they’ve given years prior – and describe how their thinking has evolved since?
— Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) June 29, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1012516381592612864)
‘Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of a few metaphors’ [ . ] Illustration from 'The earliest cosmologies..’ - William Fairfield Warren [1909] https://t.co/N50GoqTmoz pic.twitter.com/DKsePT0y5H
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) June 29, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1012631633286098944)
The rationalist heuristic to figure out root causes for problems is to ask “why?” 5 times. Do not use when feeling stupid.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) June 29, 2018
The postrationalist heuristic to figure out root motivations for behaviors is to ask “why bother?” 5 times. Do not use when feeling depressed.
OK, here’s some good news: Researchers have detected complex organic molecules in Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus, boosting the case for life there. https://t.co/yKldf4h2sm pic.twitter.com/2mjF7bTNQg
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) June 28, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/coreyspowell/status/1012457753904910347)
Pitch: seminar course on ‘failed’ technologies across time and space; OLPC, Free Basics, the Qinhuangdao straddling bus, the Dymaxion house, pneumatic and atmospheric railways, Cybersyn, airships, Aramis, Concorde, first-generation VR, etc.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 28, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1012312329843806211)
Stacking WaveNet autoencoders on top of each other leads to raw audio models that can capture long-range structure in music. Check out our new paper: https://t.co/JGHfu2OkAL
— Sander Dieleman (@sedielem) June 28, 2018
Listen to some minute-long piano music samples: https://t.co/CzF7PnxVC3 pic.twitter.com/snWRKHbnwr
(via http://twitter.com/sedielem/status/1012126279871627265)
Mulling over writing a parallel review of Wind River (2017) and Winter’s Bone (2010).
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) June 26, 2018
They’re massively structurally parallel, and traverse the same themes: big, hard landscapes. Marginalised communities. The nature of justice in borderlands at the edge of the law.
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1011655367024136192)
Herald/Harbinger is a permanent public artwork, and a kind of living wake for the Bow Glacier. 24/7 the piece relays live data from the glacier into the middle of Downtown Calgary: https://t.co/pbr5Qlybi0
— Jer Thorp (@blprnt) June 26, 2018
A Norwegian org checked design patterns for privacy settings in apps by internet giants. https://t.co/Rcw71PTwrW pic.twitter.com/qjNZL43jFy
— Peter K (@peterkz_swe) June 27, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/peterkz_swe/status/1011974161672163329)
Dear Mr. President… https://t.co/0fhZXPaqEx
— David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) June 26, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH/status/1011672665902362625)
Today! We will be debating two scenarios on algorithmic power (ethical elections and AI in policymaking) using the method of sortition. #experiments #futureofdemocracy #futurepower https://t.co/oIKbUWUBzL
— Superflux (@Superflux) June 26, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/Superflux/status/1011565073301692416)
Photographic liquid emulsion prints on Japanese paper little tactile pieces will be presented in Arles @rencontresarles July. Part of a larger project TRAIL OF TOUCH https://t.co/vJGOgSiSU3 @tipibookshop pic.twitter.com/valjVCJhc9
— Naroa photo (@naroaphoto) June 24, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/naroaphoto/status/1010957245872574464)
Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain strong - decentralized - consistency AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary parties AND scale up to a large number of nodes/transactions.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 24, 2018
Pick 2.
(fwiw I hope this is wrong, but I don’t see how)
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1010945390688886787)
I’ve set myself the challenge to:
— Alex McLean (@yaxu) June 24, 2018
* teach tidal to 8 year olds, in groups of 8
* then record an ‘algorithmic drumming circle’ performance with the 8 children live coding together
* all teaching and performing inside ONE HOUR with each group
* six groups, over the next two days..
“Oh no, not again.” https://t.co/gfzE6iqxYM
— Jamais Cascio (@cascio) June 22, 2018
Things that are part of the mecha genre if you accept Neon Genesis Evangelion as a mecha anime:
— 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄🍕𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐄 (@RevolverUnit) June 20, 2018
- Ratatouille
- Inside Out
- Being John Malkovich
- Innerspace
- Scooby-Doo: The Movie
(via http://twitter.com/RevolverUnit/status/1009535497633292288)
Our Cyberpunk Future.
— Jamais Cascio (@cascio) June 22, 2018
CRISPR-engineered Neanderthal stem cells grown into “mini brains” (Neanderoids), then wired into crab-like robots to compete against Organoid mini brains grown from modern human stem cells.
No, *really*.https://t.co/JOIbcZIfB4
Pink “Himalayan” salt is a hyperobject remnant of the End Permian Extinction, a global warming event that wiped 96% of lifeforms. Enjoy
— Tim Morton (@the_eco_thought) June 22, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/the_eco_thought/status/1010198462338650112)
Big fan of anthropologist Stefan Helmreich’s Alien Ocean, might be overdue a re-read; in the meantime, an interview on the sounds of STS. https://t.co/WwrGYVwnrv
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 21, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1009935338607915008)
With the US government increasingly embracing inhumane policies, I want to offer a few observations from my experience in Rwanda and what lessons it might offer for this moment. 1/20
— Timothy Longman (@Timlongman) June 20, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/Timlongman/status/1009484235399417857)
1) Religious statements are not epistemic (scientific, literal) claims, but risk-survival heuristics under incomplete understanding. Populations with the right risk heuristics survive. Others perish.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 21, 2018
2) Christianity has a built-in separation church/state.#SkinintheGame https://t.co/Fd9sEPdRsf
There is a big cultural opening for a new kind of political party:
— samim (@samim) June 20, 2018
- Life Centric (the politics of gaia)
- Transnational (tactics of religion)
- Open (opensource, wiki’s etc)
- Agile (lean startup etc)
- Resilient (tactics of info-sec)
- Informal (leaderless & ad-hoc)
- …?
The tldr of the talk “crypto courting major record labels and blue chip galleries, and tailoring systems for their deeply flawed and protectorate industries, is the cultural equivalent of Satoshi tethering their vision to Goldman Sachs”
— Mat Dryhurst (@matdryhurst) June 20, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/matdryhurst/status/1009381110252474368)
I’m mentally, emotionally, & physically fucking exhausted, so I’m gonna have a beer, read about cephalopod phenomenology, & go to bed early
— Damien (@Wolven) June 20, 2018
I’m really happy about this overview text introducing the commons in a evolutionary context (how they change over time in different type of civilizations)“https://t.co/1EG1ZMINjS
— Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens) June 20, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/1009390571360841728)
With regards to AI I can’t stop thinking about Bruce Blumberg’s synthetic creatures assertion that tech should behave like a dog: helpful companion, mostly friendly, potentially dangerous, limited human language, own culture and motivation.
— Andrew Sempere (@tezcatlipoca) June 19, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/tezcatlipoca/status/1009107638976700416)
Here’s the one thing everyone should understand about clean energy: the learning curve. Every time the amount of solar in the world doubles, prices drop 29%. That’s been consistent 40 years. For batteries, it’s 18%. It’s a slow-motion explosion, and we’re just feeling the bang
— Tom Randall (@tsrandall) June 19, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/tsrandall/status/1009185870052843520)
Every bug wants to become a feature.
— ((( 1/फे ))) (@fadesingh) June 19, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/fadesingh/status/1008974533267787778)
The internet’s constitution allows for the suspension of Godwin’s Law in times of emergency. https://t.co/t0mLVsbl6a
— dan hon (@hondanhon) June 19, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1009097235517194240)
How would one get four air horns past security at the British Library if you had to take them in your bag for a performance trial run later that night? Asking for a friend.
— Jennifer Lucy Allan (@Jenn1fer_A) June 19, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/Jenn1fer_A/status/1009009400395247618)
Always nice to see the 2012 Universal Construction Kit mentioned by @CMUInnovation https://t.co/d7p1pXrcLA #iot
— Alexandra D-S (@iotwatch) June 19, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/iotwatch/status/1009096484166529026)
The new @orenambarchi / @kasseljaeger / James Rushford LP is so good — something I’ll say I haven’t remotely heard before. Oddball city.
— David Grubbs (@blackfaurest) June 19, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/1009124740898967552)
“Cagency” - A business who trap ideas, padlock the door and throw away the key. https://t.co/ubhIbwTCNk
— John V Willshire (@willsh) June 18, 2018
The first #InvisibleWorlds residency begins in July: Rosanna Martin will be doing microscopic examination and material manipulation of by-products from Cornwall’s china clay industry to explore the boundaries between human and geological forces https://t.co/Mv6XNV4xRu pic.twitter.com/DqrijdXxMJ
— FoAM (@_foam) June 18, 2018
If we cannot answer the annoying question of why there is something rather than nothing, perhaps we can at least answer why there is only something rather than everything. Perhaps existence is the default.
— Joscha Bach (@Plinz) June 18, 2018
Meatspace is increasingly full of people doing insane shit driven by the invisible logic of conspiracy theories. At least with religious behaviors there’s markers of the specific fantasies being acted out and you know what to expect. https://t.co/uP2ryPVaRR
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) June 18, 2018
The most successful people I’ve met:
— Ann Leckie ☕ (@ann_leckie) June 17, 2018
1. Live in a cave
2. Eat 10,000 spiders a day
3. Are outliers and should not have been counted
4. No seriously #3 is pretty much it
(via http://twitter.com/ann_leckie/status/1008414512574279680)
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— m0nad (@m0nad) June 17, 2018
Human feet as a geological force pic.twitter.com/RMrs51aTFl
— Paul 🌹📚 Cooper (@PaulMMCooper) June 15, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/1007612133356572672)
Anyways, seeing it’s Bloomsday, I’m going to walk across Tartu, call in to the church on the way, then the library, then go to the pub and hopefully get into a blazing row with a cyclops. What’s your plans?
— Darran Anderson (@Oniropolis) June 16, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/Oniropolis/status/1007938490934464517)
Try to be predictable to your friends and unpredictable to your enemies, rather than the opposite.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 14, 2018
Why did I not invent this acronym first? ‘Collaborative Technology Hardened for Underwater and Littoral Hazardous Environment’, a robot under development at Sellafield for cleaning up the Magnox radwaste pond: https://t.co/ubC2QGb9me
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) June 14, 2018
Top 5 Writing Tips:
— Delilah S. Dawson (@DelilahSDawson) June 13, 2018
1. Kill your starlings
2. Writing is rewriting is rewiring is HVAC maintenance
3. Text adverbs to let them know you’re just not that into them
4. No purple prose or puce paragraphs or chartreuse chapters
5. Write drunk, edit slobber
(via http://twitter.com/DelilahSDawson/status/1006701618430083072)
Cool idea from #VelocityConf: they had a ‘dine-around’ where attendees could sign up for dinner reservations with random other attendees. More conferences should do this!
— Natalie Silvanovich (@natashenka) June 13, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/natashenka/status/1006941575564292096)
Fox+hedgehog=raccoon
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) June 13, 2018
Alright, let’s have a roll-call of the big psychology studied that ate their own teeth for one reason or another.
— 🏴James Heathers🏴 (@jamesheathers) June 11, 2018
SOCIAL PRIMING. Lots of failed repos.https://t.co/pIvKajcpMF
(via http://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1006287906087071748)
Recording tonight at North Warren for ‘Whispering In The Leaves’ at Aldeburgh Pumphouse on Saturday pic.twitter.com/QsDBP6z13o
— Chris Watson (@chrisrwatson) June 12, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/chrisrwatson/status/1006611569638363141)
Google discovered that giving every employee a credit card and trusting them to follow policy on expenses, even with some bad actors, was cheaper than the enforcement and structures most companies use.
— Dave Gray (@davegray) June 12, 2018
How much do you waste due to low trust? Can you do the math for your company?
(via http://twitter.com/davegray/status/1006543974725816321)
I’m pedantic about the singular they. It is as old as the English language and when folks are like “I don’t have a problem with nonbinary people, I just care about grammar [more than people]” I’m like “cool but you’re actually wrong about grammar too.” https://t.co/P7GFDXQWjE
— Annalee (@leeflower) June 12, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/leeflower/status/1006509384212664320)
I’ve been thinking about what makes something zombie-like, and have concluded it is lack of an innate identity maintenance/repair instinct. If your arm falls off and you don’t try to reattach it, you’re a zombie. Mutatis mutandis any complex system.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) June 11, 2018
In places where there’s limited land and a surplus of water, it makes a lot of sense to optimize for land. So there, grow & eat crops.
— Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) June 12, 2018
And in places where there’s a lot of land and limited water, it makes sense to optimize for water. So there, grow & eat ruminants.
(via http://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1006363798213681159)
“Mojibake (文字化け; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake]) is the garbled text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding. The result is a systematic replacement of symbols with completely unrelated ones, often from a different writing system.” п��я─п╟�п╨
— Rosa M☵☲nkmɐn (@_menkman) June 11, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/_menkman/status/1006233986002309126)
There is a principle of Defensive Decentralization: when besieged, a well constructed decentralized system will further decentralize.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 11, 2018
The corollary of which is: A well constructed decentralized system will identify & attack emergent centralization.
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1006052118619291648)
“You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.” - Sven Lindqvist. I wrote an op-ed for @WiredUK on whistleblowers and what we can know about technology: https://t.co/DdQfGllamH
— James Bridle (@jamesbridle) June 11, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/jamesbridle/status/1006106943461699585)
A Brief History of Strange Czechoslovakian Movie Posters https://t.co/CT8JKfVpyr pic.twitter.com/2KnXeOp6I4
— Wᴀʀʀᴇɴ Eʟʟɪs (@warrenellis) June 10, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/warrenellis/status/1005789512348422145)
We’re not building clean energy anywhere near fast enough - useful reminder by @jtemplehttps://t.co/FimTKjWo8t pic.twitter.com/styq3z0sK5
— Oliver Geden (@Oliver_Geden) June 9, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/Oliver_Geden/status/1005441887262707712)
To a degree. This is what I endeavor to do in High Weirdness, where I try and both exploit the ambiguity of the term (as genre, popular adjective for odd experiences, literary term, analog of “uncanny”, etc) and attach it to a space between matter and aesthetics.
— Erik Davis (@erik_davis) June 8, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/erik_davis/status/1005170803917258752)
Artwork by Japanese illustrator Takato Yamamoto pic.twitter.com/AoIxf1V4zl
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) June 8, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1005148273726795776)
Anthony Bourdain on humanity:
— Wilkine Brutus (@wilkinebrutus) June 8, 2018
“Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.” RIP pic.twitter.com/0CWxbTcF8V
(via http://twitter.com/wilkinebrutus/status/1005056413276786689)
Our #driversofchange posters are on display at a special @ClimateMusic concert in San Francisco. The music tracks land-use, population growth and fossil fuel use to bring #climatechange to a new audience. Get your tickets here: https://t.co/SVkpS6dTEj @djspooky @EndOvershoot pic.twitter.com/1AjjjsX1pk
— Arup Foresight (@arupforesight) June 8, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/arupforesight/status/1005156419841208320)
Shenzhen transformed from a wilderness into the world’s most cyberpunk city in about 30 years pic.twitter.com/Q5pnYOcxCJ
— Cyberpunk Watch (@CyberpunkWatch) June 5, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/CyberpunkWatch/status/1004134948834508800)
I don’t know a lot about Bourdain but I know this: He got television about human geography to rate well. He got more Americans thinking about the rest of the world as people, instead of as foreigners, than any other artist or entertainer I can think of. Shit.
— Charlie Loyd, apparently, (@vruba) June 8, 2018
Daniel Trilling (@trillingual)’s LIGHTS IN THE DISTANCE is the best book yet written about borders and migration in Europe. Based on years of research and personal relationships, this is proper journalism and proper storytelling. Essential reading: https://t.co/CJafxLFygC
— James Bridle (@jamesbridle) June 8, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/jamesbridle/status/1005016896268357632)
Federico Campagna (@FedCampagna)’s TECHNIC AND MAGIC will change the way you think about reality in strange and mysterious ways. Philosophy for the present, bringing together numerous strands of fascinating thinking: https://t.co/HPvZpVQzpH
— James Bridle (@jamesbridle) June 8, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/jamesbridle/status/1005018283240763392)
Realised I mostly tweet about visual art and tech rants, so with my own book coming out in a couple of weeks I thought I should redress the balance in favour of BOOKS, the best media. Here are some of the more recently published things I’ve read recently, and you should too:
— James Bridle (@jamesbridle) June 8, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/jamesbridle/status/1005016430042107904)
‘The “Crack Manifesto” marked the beginning of the “Crack group,” a collective of five Mexican writers dedicated to breaking with Magical Realism in favor of a return to the complexity of plot & style found in Borges and Cortázar.’ Crack! https://t.co/QRYCHeDd35 @Dalkey_Archive
— Julian Hanna (@julianisland) June 7, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/julianisland/status/1004733466821488640)
Actually now I’ve given it some thought, clearly the most efficient undersea data storage approach would be to put LEDs on the outside so octopuses can see what’s going on inside. Then your data structures will become cephalopod dialects and live for generations.
— Richard Sandford (@_riwsa) June 7, 2018
a mix of some of my favorite female noise artists for @nnwradio
— Porya Hatami (@poryahatami) June 6, 2018
including @electric_indigo, @poemproducer, @theotherldr, @marieelerose. @France_Jobin, Pharmakon, Jane Winderen, Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire https://t.co/h4v42Ki2hT
(via http://twitter.com/poryahatami/status/1004435504287440898)
it’s seems that the hateforker of @torproject and @zcashco (rotor and zencash) @movrcx stole an APC from the army then went on a drug fueled 2 hour joyride round Virginia. The future is weird. (Cc: @chelseakomlo @isislovecruft )
— Philip (@_miw) June 6, 2018
Random philosophical thought experiment: would running a real-world Searle’s Chinese Room experiment make one guilty of crimes against humanity, viz. torture? After all, there’s a human in solitary confinement inside it, who is forbidden from communicating their own thoughts …
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) June 6, 2018
Need a hashtag for philosophical thought experiments that would leave one open to criminal charges if one actually ran them for real (imagine deliberately testing the Trolley Problem, for example).
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) June 6, 2018
https://t.co/8vMnkGFW9Q
— PLⒶNΣT_☻f_Puppets (@audio_pervert) June 5, 2018
“A potent question at such intersecting points of interest being asked, "Are we at the doors of post-cyberfeminism? ” Matthias Gross, author of Ignorance and Surprise, if concepts like Antifa, Bitcoin and Blockchain have any relationship with..“
(via http://twitter.com/audio_pervert/status/1004120451625488385)
The UNC on the Law of the Sea states: Artificial islands & other structures do not possess the status of islands. They have no territorial sea of their own & their presence doesn’t affect the delimitation of territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone or the continental shelf.
— Rosa M☵☲nkmɐn (@_menkman) June 5, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/_menkman/status/1004104830447648768)
An African Grey parrot has learnt how to use Alexa/Google Home to get its wishes (despite its owners’ best efforts) The best part is that its name is PETRA! (which will be hilarious to @PETRASiot researchers) > https://t.co/lc2r5D0Vr0
— electronic max (@emax) June 5, 2018
There is a whole critical literature on the concept of trauma that is unknown to most in mental health who assume it is a self-evident and unassailable category. For example, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman’s “The Empire of Trauma” is a masterpiece on exactly this. https://t.co/dANFnyzdKi
— Vaughan Bell (@vaughanbell) June 5, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/vaughanbell/status/1004086287937261568)
“Walmart, not the Soviet Union, is the largest planned economy ever attempted” - from the fascinating new book by @michalrozworski and @Leigh_Phillips https://t.co/n1HXIM97AX
— Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck) June 4, 2018
It’s the last day of @JamesPDuffy’s secondment with @_foam. James has been modifying the #sonickayak system to automatically map underwater noise and temperature, and to be a bit more waterproof.
— FoAM (@_foam) June 5, 2018
Here’s his blog post on what he’s been up to -> https://t.co/4QNfBGTAQ5 pic.twitter.com/T6IwhXjpjO
’[Mongolia’s] monasteries are increasingly run by millennial monks, the first generation to come of age after decades of religious repression under the Soviet system wiped out almost all Buddhist clergy.’ https://t.co/YYz2xpjYm1 (Thomas Peter) pic.twitter.com/7KeohdJs9m
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 5, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1003977131263655941)
What are some stochastic procedural generation techniques in the realm of fabrication? Examples: tie-dye, western raku pottery.
— Lea (@doridoidea) June 5, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/doridoidea/status/1003802646124392448)
thread on companion species. https://t.co/rXFyLp68ga
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) June 5, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1003890716509200386)
Increasingly I hear from people who won’t do something that functions well in their own context because it “won’t scale globally.” The abstract notion of unbound scalability has become a cognitive virus for intellectuals. It will leave them hungry. https://t.co/mi9WgpBUJn
— Ariel Greenwood (@greenwoodae) June 3, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/greenwoodae/status/1003183604359294976)
Japanese ramen adverts are now a bit…intense. pic.twitter.com/yCiKfqmdrG
— Ollie Barder (@Cacophanus) June 3, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/Cacophanus/status/1003414539780567040)
It’s illegal for Uber & Lyft to pickup at SFO’s arrivals level, so they pickup at departures. This has made congestion so bad, there’s now a sign encouraging drop-offs to go to arrivals. So now departures go to arrivals & arrivals go to departures because tech fixes everything.
— Brian Janosch (@BJanosch) June 3, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/BJanosch/status/1003412848930746371)
Art Movements https://t.co/BWaS8jSCus via @hyperallergic
— Tim Morton (@the_eco_thought) June 1, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/the_eco_thought/status/1002662660251324416)
There is a n Emma Goldman quote for everything.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 1, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1002662312119947264)
“The Kyushu Seidokai has expanded into Tokyo, setting up several front companies, and joined forces with Tadamasa Goto, a former Yamaguchi-gumi boss turned Buddhist priest, who has now re-emerged as a powerful player in Japan’s underworld.”
— Gabriel (@Gabriel050111) June 1, 2018
Is that a manga pitch ?
(via http://twitter.com/Gabriel050111/status/1002611357001412610)
Responsibly Engineer an Upgrade Path for the Planet
— Sjef van Gaalen (@thesjef) June 1, 2018
Patch the Planet
— Sjef van Gaalen (@thesjef) June 1, 2018
Interestingly the plants in this pic are technically also introduced invasive species, brought to the UK along with wheat farming. (Admittedly a *very* long time ago.)
— James Wong (@Botanygeek) June 1, 2018
The difference between a weed and a wildflower is kinda subjective, you see.
https://t.co/sgepZQERWl
(via http://twitter.com/Botanygeek/status/1002512419980304385)
Both HP Lovecraft and Jack Kirby told stories about the universe being beyond human comprehension, it’s just that Lovecraft found that terrifying while Kirby found it rad
— Ben Rowe (@CineastBenRowe) May 30, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/CineastBenRowe/status/1001927017317597185)
Nepalese ritual mask formed from a large single Lingzhi fungus (ganoderma lucidum), 19th century pic.twitter.com/atF6NEhJyw
— Loki (@LowQuay) May 31, 2018
World map by #Google #streetview coverage pic.twitter.com/VZYRu0gTqh
— Beautiful Maps (@BeautifulMaps) May 31, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/BeautifulMaps/status/1002114901303799814)
Creepy is subjective. Speculation can be productive. Context matters. https://t.co/3QSnrmWJRC
— Scott Smith (@changeist) May 31, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1002117498966290433)
What I just said in an interview:
“I’m not a methodical literary cook who uses character, genre and plot like ingredients and spices to make a meal, I’m an irresponsible mad scientist gardener who plants things intuitively and is delighted when they grow out of control.”— Nnedi Okorafor, PhD (@Nnedi)May 31, 2018