My spouse pointed out, when I wondered whether Zoom could handle every university class in the country, that I could always switch to meeting my students within World of Warcraft, because the MMORPGs are definitely equipped to handle this kind of traffic.
— erika lietzan (@lietzan) March 11, 2020
it’s happening https://t.co/XwZbqOtlsp
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) March 12, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1237915935031394304)
Is a henge really the kind of thing you want to be tunnelling beneath?
— Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard) March 11, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/jcalpickard/status/1237854841998737416)
Looking forward to two weeks’ time when everyone has self-quarantined and declared their home a micronation. Post your Declaration of Independence here!
— Simon Sellars (@simon_sellars) March 11, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/simon_sellars/status/1237616448568053762)
Straights: I can’t believe the government would just ignore an epidemic that threatens thousands of lives.
— DSA Twink Caucus🌈🌹 (@DSAtwinks) March 10, 2020
Gays: pic.twitter.com/DW0jsx6ecd
(via http://twitter.com/DSAtwinks/status/1237246500058644480)
If we can’t make cruise ships work there is no hope for space ships
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) March 10, 2020
My son has just asked me a question which is so unanswerable, that I fear it may rip a hole in the very fabric of the space time continuum.
— Chris Lang (@ChrisLangWriter) March 8, 2020
Why is there no mouse flavoured cat food?
(via http://twitter.com/ChrisLangWriter/status/1236654678034845696)
proofing #filesystemart on #nobackup #cdrom - #sampling the #archive pic.twitter.com/BrmCdiR9uC
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) March 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1236997780385775616)
#miniclub #RISO flyers bwo @arglaaa @heikenehl pic.twitter.com/X03a8P0oZf
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) March 8, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1236711824797708289)
LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! And: LAUGHTER!https://t.co/4HgO1LKSe6
— ///Grenzfurthner\\ (@johannes_mono) March 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/johannes_mono/status/1237114658600992768)
gonna be extremely weird and unmooring if coronavirus breaks the “look at this hero who was dying and still went to work” mentality
— Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy) March 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/thedextriarchy/status/1237027323213463552)
Seeing someone remove a surgical mask to smoke a cigarette tells you a lot about how humans think about risk.
— Chad Dickerson (@chaddickerson) March 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/chaddickerson/status/1237091817419608064)
Reductions in air pollution due to COVID-19 in China have probably saved 20x the number of lives than have so far been lost to the virus. Does not mean pandemics are good, but rather that our economies absent pandemics are bad for health https://t.co/3UUIo4IpCA (Thread 1/n)
— Marshall Burke (@MarshallBBurke) March 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/MarshallBBurke/status/1236908728227512322)
The thing people are missing about the jackpot is that’s it’s easily 300 years long, started at least 100 years ago, and we’re just reaching the point where we notice that. https://t.co/kGt9IugXct
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) March 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1237091353730764809)
I’m developing a new theory that ‘Cyclonopedia’ and 'Intelligence & Spirit’ are parts 1 and 2 of a long-winded argument, at the end of which Reza will declare that cyclopean masonry proves Iran invented Lego.
— 🦇 ⤵️🕳 (@xenogothic) March 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/xenogothic/status/1237030443427532803)
“To protect business, you must not go to work.” Keep it up coronavirus. You’re creating a gigantic general strike. As a matter of fact, you’re making neoliberalism create a gigantic distributed general strike.
— Tim Morton (@the_eco_thought) March 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/the_eco_thought/status/1237086503957942272)
“Coronavirus and the Humanities: Will We Survive to See Post-Post-Critique?”
— joshua clover (@joshuaclov3r) March 8, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/joshuaclov3r/status/1236732501646704640)
The efficiency of Taiwan and Korea’s responses vs. the U.S., Japan, China and Iran suggest that democracies and autocracies both suffer from distinct failure modes in the face of external shocks, and that the best government is a democracy with competent technocratic leadership.
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) March 8, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1236699990765924352)
Invisible Hand sanitizer?
— Jim Brunner (@Jim_Brunner) March 8, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/Jim_Brunner/status/1236504154845020160)
Every month I go into my landlords office and do a Rent Acknowledgement instead of actually paying him
— Blood Quantum Entanglement (@LammaticHama) March 6, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/LammaticHama/status/1236034427974635520)
One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned as a climate scientist is that being clearly, factually correct about a problem is never enough to fix it
— Kate Marvel (@DrKateMarvel) March 7, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/DrKateMarvel/status/1236396716410253312)
I was never really afraid for America’s future until I saw how the CDC responded to coronavirus.
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) March 7, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1236115622544551936)
Far from the city, where the Milky Way shines in the night sky, she met an alien from a distant star.
— Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF) March 7, 2020
“Why are you here, so far from civilisation?” she asked.
“I could ask the same,” the alien said.
“We can’t travel to other stars.”
“I know. I meant you.”
“Oh. To escape.”
“Same.”
(via http://twitter.com/MicroSFF/status/1236273358834143233)
How to make a fairy tale worse with a one-letter change:
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) March 6, 2020
1. Baba Yoga.
Just blocked a few who discuss this virus in terms of “predicting” & track record, as Phil the rat @PTetlock & others in the “forecasting” BS are presenting it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 6, 2020
When you put your seat belt you aren’t “forecasting” a crash. When you lock your house you aren’t forecasting theft…
I really wish that the 👻 emoji was more creepy. Why does it have to have its tongue out and be so cheery?
— ⚫ Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) March 6, 2020
Why can’t it be a dread ghost? Representing the fear of god, the weird and the eerie.
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1236032849138024448)
capital: *deterritorializes*
— Pangolin Soup for the Spirit (@xen0nym) March 5, 2020
me: nice
capital: *reterritorializes*
me: wtf
Ballard’s best self-quarantine stories (imho):
— Simon Sellars (@simon_sellars) March 6, 2020
“Having a Wonderful Time”: tourists trapped o/s, can’t go home; they love it
“The Enormous Space”: man barricades himself inside home, kills any intruders
“Intensive Care Unit”: laws prevent meeting in person, only via screens https://t.co/LWqv9qAtAZ
(via http://twitter.com/simon_sellars/status/1235819416207544322)
In FKA Twigs’ “Cellophane”, a male voice is mimicking the hi-hat line.
— Jose Luis de Vicente (@Macroscopist) March 4, 2020
In Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy”, the hi-hat line is actually a sound recording of a traffic light in Sidney.
In Rosalía’s “Malamente”, flamenco clapping is playing the role of the hi-hat.
(via http://twitter.com/Macroscopist/status/1235325777790603270)
recently rediscovered - meet nanoloop - great piece of #audiotools #android #nicest #kickdrum #polyrhythms #recur2 @nanoloop @tsxone1 recommended pic.twitter.com/ABlPJgdi7O
— Oswald Berthold (@x7557x) March 5, 2020
For those in quarantine (self-imposed or involuntary), a though problem by @SrinivasR1729 pic.twitter.com/dMOcjFwhmJ
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 5, 2020
What I’d give to have been a fly on the office wall of whoever chose the photo to accompany this editorial on Covid as the pangolins’ revenge. https://t.co/9u34TBAbbv
— Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard) March 5, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/jcalpickard/status/1235535263629262849)
In 1665, Cambridge University closed b/c of the plague. Issac Newton quarantined himself at his childhood home. It was the most productive time of his life. He discovered the calculus & laws of motion. Stuck a bodkin in his eye to study optics. How will you spend the next year?
— Michael P Gibson (@William_Blake) March 3, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/William_Blake/status/1234966077123284993)
dirt-cheap hardware, abundant solar energy, censorship-resistant domains and p2p storage solutions will soon combine, ensuring every new website launched today will remain online forever, browsable eternally in the next 200 years of vapor-ized solarpunk futurenow
— Toby (@tobyshorin) March 4, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/tobyshorin/status/1235269769525440515)
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A public who can imagine a better future, or understand the present in the context of history, is bad for the kleptocrats. Which is one motive for the current drive to promote STEM subjects in higher ed, and the shutdown of humanities faculties (except as a luxury for the rich.) https://t.co/6XCHEkiwxQ
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) March 4, 2020
as someone studying linguistics i can tell you all words are fake and language is arbitrary and prescriptivist grammars are tools of class and race supremacy <3 https://t.co/sORj9FAyFr
— maravilla afrolatina (@catsqvad) March 2, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/catsqvad/status/1234474984220872705)
Remember when it was hard to accept that non-humans, like microbes, could be full fledged actors -actants rather- able to build up associations in addition to those more classically “social”? Now it’s common sense: here is Chinese pollution with or without virus. (Huffingtonpost) pic.twitter.com/5cxpcbeA1C
— BrunoLatour (@BrunoLatourAIME) March 2, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/BrunoLatourAIME/status/1234491625965019136)
Modern West: “So many occultists and spiritualists have struggles with mental issues. It makes the whole ‘magic’ thing very suspect.”
— Βερενίκη (@EimiBerenike) March 2, 2020
Siberia & Mongolia: “If the spirits aren’t driving you mad and almost killing you, how could you possibly have any magic, bro?”
(via http://twitter.com/EimiBerenike/status/1234431268827336705)
#Infomocracy https://t.co/aGF3RAuIty
— Doctora Malka Older (@m_older) March 2, 2020
“Hyper-accumulating” plants draw metal from the ground, producing rich, multi-colored saps that can be more concentrated than ore bodies at traditional mines. Landscape metallurgy. The garden as mine. Extractive forestry. [Photo by Antony van der Ent] https://t.co/0pbUW9NLLO pic.twitter.com/h5qSGyeyHm
— Geoff Manaugh (@geoffmanaugh) March 1, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/geoffmanaugh/status/1234229022906695680)
top #coronavirus tips:
— dan hett (@danhett) February 28, 2020
- wash your hands regularly
- stock up on essentials
- self isolate if you feel ill
- don’t make unnecessary journeys
- don’t take risks on treacherous roads
- don’t swim in the sea
There are two types of people: those who like their nuclear waste site warnings as giant collections of menacing concrete spikes, and those who prefer their nuclear waste site warnings to be genetically manipulated cats who change color as foretold by ancient songs and fairytales
— Fred Scharmen (@sevensixfive) February 28, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/sevensixfive/status/1233464183104122880)
Norbert Wiener’s critical mongoose studies pic.twitter.com/jmaPEaRr4L
— Nick Seaver (@npseaver) February 29, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/npseaver/status/1233544038936186886)
ooOoqpo oOo O0 odbOOo ooOO0o oO O oooOo o00Oo o0Oooo ooOO0oo oOo oO0ooOo oOoo oOoo0Ooo dbOoqpoO oOoo oqpOO oOdb oO O0Ooo oooOo Oqp0o oOo Oooo ooooO0 qpOoooo oOo oOodbqpoO0o
— m0nad (@m0nad) February 28, 2020
Sonic:
— Lilypatchwork (@Lilypatchwork) February 26, 2020
- Environmentalist
- Keeps destroying robots
- Lives like a fucking anprim
Eggman:
- Destroy trees
- Stans AI
- Literally a BwO
Accelerationists,,,, we’ve been misled
(via http://twitter.com/Lilypatchwork/status/1232460060812435458)
Things that happen in Econ that would be odd in other sciences:
— Jason Smith (@infotranecon) February 25, 2020
“The Kavli Institute, a privately funded physics think tank dedicated to the idea that dark matter doesn’t exist, came out with a meta-analysis of astrophysical data that claims dark matter doesn’t exist.”
(via http://twitter.com/infotranecon/status/1232346627492306946)
A graviton near or at its ground state would be super spread out, right? It’s cold in space, mostly. I believe the universe is a graviton, frequency unknown, amplitude universe, shimmering near or at its ground state. What do I know I’m just a humanist clown
— Tim Morton (@the_eco_thought) February 25, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/the_eco_thought/status/1232420425487003650)
Think I’m making shit up? One of the most popular apps in S. Korea right now is one that alerts you if you’re close to one of Shincheonji’s ‘churches’ or other affiliated establishments. Of which there are over 730 across S. Korea alone, btw.https://t.co/dN0lz5dLGP
— Sam (@Spainkiller) February 24, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/Spainkiller/status/1231871985862545408)
The Coronavirus Chronicles keep getting weirder and weirder.
— Sam (@Spainkiller) February 24, 2020
You’ve probably heard about the sudden outbreak of the virus in South Korea. Well, did you also know that this is, in large part, to thank to an actual death cult? It’s called #Shincheonji, and it’s super scary.
(via http://twitter.com/Spainkiller/status/1231869865205620742)
If good software is easy to change, and bad software is hard to change, the limit of any software with sufficient development resources is bad. This may mean that the only thing that keeps some software good is a lack of resources, or attention, or both.
— halvarflake (@halvarflake) February 25, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/halvarflake/status/1232190061669748736)
Had the horrible thought of using Unreal Engine or Unity as the frontend to a news CMS
— did you mean: dan hon? (@hondanhon) February 24, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1232048125520408576)
my 6-word media doctrine:
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) February 24, 2020
aggregating audiences bad, aggregating creators good
“A sign I found in a field near my home” said a nonfiction writer who should know better lolol pic.twitter.com/09CorMWmWW
— Tim Morton (@the_eco_thought) February 24, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/the_eco_thought/status/1232032827862069249)
Once you start to see how much urban space we’ve devoted to storing privately owned cars, you really can’t unsee it.
— Colin Mckerracher (@colinmckerrache) February 24, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/colinmckerrache/status/1231877520489881600)
Here is your homework for this week:
— Tim Morton (@the_eco_thought) February 23, 2020
1. Locate the gateway to utopia.
2. Fly through it with as many others as possible.
(via http://twitter.com/the_eco_thought/status/1231704873495711744)
So following my retweet of the saguaros being cut down, it occurs to me that the extraordinary nature of the saguaro may not be common knowledge. Therefore, let us talk about this marvelous vegetative creature.
— Kingfisher & Wombat (@UrsulaV) February 23, 2020
sources of inconsistency:
— Path Integral Salesman (@litgenstein) February 21, 2020
(1) GR is nonrenormalizable AND its short distance (high energy) structure is plagued with diseases that prevent us from using quantum (field) theory to study it
(2) QM and GR treat spacetime differently in many ways, e.g., background (in)dependence
(via http://twitter.com/litgenstein/status/1230660142980460545)
A bisexual professor walks into a forest and discovers a chestnut tree made of Nikola Tesla.
— Magic Realism Bot (@MagicRealismBot) February 21, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/MagicRealismBot/status/1230654537699954690)
My own initial reaction to gpt2 helps me understand why pre-modern tribes reacted to being filmed and shown the footage like the camera was stealing their souls. Except, I *like* the idea instead of being horrified by it. Unfortunately as untrue for AIs as for film cameras.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) February 20, 2020
[source: ideology, personal experience]
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) February 19, 2020
I’m glad @quinnnorton finally put this out: https://t.co/LJE078osbA. I was and am one of those friends, and it was horrifying to watch this happen — it still haunts me. I have no great lessons here, other than that we still don’t understand how to live in the networked age.
— Eleanor Saitta (@Dymaxion) February 19, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/Dymaxion/status/1230216828443676672)
‘Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics’ - I wrote up the transcript of my talk from Tentacular Festival on Critical Activism and Fungal Revolts 🍄https://t.co/nx8vl0OjlP pic.twitter.com/79QtCHQ9i0
— Anab Jain (@anabjain) February 19, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/anabjain/status/1230150599007756289)
its pretty cool that we live in a world where we need acousticians to make rooms sound good but not the equivalent for light waves
— yan (@bcrypt) February 19, 2020
imagine if ur room being slightly the wrong size made everything look more green because of a resonance at the 550nm wavelength lol
There’s a big difference between Buddhist-derived loving kindness and capitalist industrial mindfulness. https://t.co/UUFTRJYene
— 🐑 anne 🐑 (@annegalloway) February 18, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/annegalloway/status/1229852152069124096)
Idea: single-use digital watermark cosmetics to prove you aren’t a deepfake.
— Scott Smith (@changeist) February 18, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1229767665536778241)
WHAT DOEAS A COW CALLED WHITH NO LEGS
— Kids Write Jokes (@KidsWriteJokes) February 18, 2020
A CLOWN
(via http://twitter.com/KidsWriteJokes/status/1229674684226162688)
A Hindu god now has a permanent reserved seat on an Indian Railways train (which will only serve vegetarian food and play devotional music on train’s speakers) https://t.co/vzru444Rp9 via @qzindia
— Raju Narisetti (@raju) February 17, 2020
new work: nvidia-co2 displays how much arctic sea ice your GPU is melting per hour 💻🧠🧊 https://t.co/hHbNGfeMag pic.twitter.com/x6ilGVLrin
— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) February 17, 2020
How can we stop pandemics? Pandemic Math explains: Turn rapid exponential growth to rapid exponential decline. Change the contact network by (1) targeted individual isolation (2) early symptom identification (3) reduce social connectivity (4) travel and group boundaries. pic.twitter.com/8BkEFizHEv
— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) February 17, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1229429333527273473)
“Being tolerant with the intolerant is an act of intolerance.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #intolerance
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Wisdom (@TalebWisdom) February 16, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/TalebWisdom/status/1229154922710683651)
A whatchamacallit in different languages:
— Adam Sharp (@AdamCSharp) February 17, 2020
7. Thingamajig (English)
6. Chingadera (Spanish)
5. Himstergims (Danish)
4. Naninani (Japanese)
3. Zamazingo (Turkish)
2. Dingsbums (German)
1. Huppeldepup (Dutch)
(via http://twitter.com/AdamCSharp/status/1229301200862007297)
cool project - permanently encase the air of Amazon fulfilment centers by exploiting the fact that they inflate those padded air cushions during the packaging process. https://t.co/rGGZn6engn
— M Plummer Fernández 🌎 (@M_PF) February 17, 2020
The Hopf Fibration
— Mattias Malmer (@3Dmattias) February 17, 2020
Unfolding the hypersphere (S3) to fill all of 3D space via stereographic projection.
The fibers shown here are just the subset of points on S2 representing a projected dodecahedron. pic.twitter.com/PKBQxtWfJL
(via http://twitter.com/3Dmattias/status/1229224283265736705)
“this tendency to turn everything into immateriality is really…an old trick of western patriarchy” - Sadie Plant.
— Alexandra Chace (@necrosystems) February 14, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/necrosystems/status/1228187304902057987)
Believing things takes a lot of energy. You can measure the fragility of a system by the energy it takes to believe in it. Or alternately, how believable it is at non-striving slacker energy levels. Good systems are 80% believable at 2o% peak energy level.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) February 13, 2020
brb writing an AI to replace “AI” with “regex”
— Nat Alison (@tesseralis) February 12, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/tesseralis/status/1227672438206390272)
This all reminded me of https://t.co/Yo3WjO20B0 and prospect–refuge theory.
— Charlie Loyd (@vruba) February 12, 2020
What if the Matrix, but fax machines.
— Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard) February 12, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/jcalpickard/status/1227562907887640576)
Have you ever seen a clearer rebuttal to late capitalism’s insistence on private individuals changing their behavior to solve systemic ailments? https://t.co/O2Cex2mswW
— 🦇 ⤵️🕳 (@xenogothic) February 11, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/xenogothic/status/1227221799793983488)
Hauntology was not an ‘end of history’ concept, but a diagnosis of an economic, political dismantling of the ability for the future to be culturally produced. There is therefore a role for strategists to create new models of infrastructure to allow now possibilities
— 𝘉𝘖𝘋𝘠 /// 𝘋𝘙𝘐𝘍𝘛 (@body_drift) February 11, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/body_drift/status/1227292395601088515)
I just emailed a tree at the Melbourne Urban Forest to let it know that one of its branches is falling off and is a danger to pedestrians.
— (have-YER! Candeira) (@candeira) February 11, 2020
While this is neither the cyberpunk future I was promised nor the one I was threatened with, I’m ok with this particular development.
(via http://twitter.com/candeira/status/1227186692873834497)
sorry but jordan peterson writing a book prescribing “rules for life” then almost dying in a russian hospital from benzo withdrawals and an insane all-beef diet not even two years later is one of the funniest things to ever happen
— miller low life (@itwasthreezero) February 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/itwasthreezero/status/1226514738944913409)
People love to criticize approaches to climate change, an unprecedented global issue, but rarely want to implement approaches themselves—because they expose themselves to criticism. If you’re going to do this work, you have to have an earnest desire to co-learn—& lots of humility
— Christine Larivière (@cdlariviere) February 11, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/cdlariviere/status/1227184234969862145)
This could as well be the new dictum of Green Capitalism: “luxury sea travel without the usual environmental guilt”https://t.co/u3MfMew2GP
— Srećko Horvat (@HorvatSrecko) February 10, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/HorvatSrecko/status/1226832135476170752)
This is a wireless antenna in California. Network coverage was disrupted by an Acorn woodpecker, a 3 ounce bird stashing an estimated 35-50 gallons/300lbs of acorns. pic.twitter.com/QYdp6ShxXZ
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) February 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1226490886151954435)
‘I derived all my knowledge of media from people like Flaubert and Rimbaud and Baudelaire.’
— Julian Hanna (@julianisland) February 9, 2020
- Marshall McLuhan
(via http://twitter.com/julianisland/status/1226494816999157761)
Imagine instead of a winner take all political competition we decided on what each person can best contribute—their superpower—and made their role to do it.
— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) February 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1226490115847081984)
“No matter how the official narrative of this turns out, […] these are the places we should be looking, not in newspapers or television but at the margins, graffiti, uncontrolled utterances, bad dreamers who sleep in public and scream in their sleep” (Pynchon, BE 322).
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) February 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1226480844744691712)
A sea snake asks you to solve a riddle: Why is a cockroach like a pigeon?
— Magic Realism Bot (@MagicRealismBot) February 7, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/MagicRealismBot/status/1225882971648823302)
No sniffers, no trackers, no GDPR, no ads, no cookies, no data collection, no marketing, no mailing list, no donation box, no scraping, no terms & conditions, no permission, no money. Who you are and what you do are no business of ours. #ubuweb
— UbuWeb (@ubuweb) February 7, 2020
Today, I am pleased to announce a bold and ambitious commitment:
— Ben Inskeep (@Ben_Inskeep) February 6, 2020
I change my diet to go 100% healthy food by 2050, and 45% healthy food by 2030 relative to my diet from 15 years ago when I was a college freshman.
(via http://twitter.com/Ben_Inskeep/status/1225438258064130048)
love the absolute eldritch wierdness of the Nike air zoom viperfly, enhanced by the fact its already banned for use in Tokyo 2020 despite coming out this week, so v few will ever see retail. Lovecraftian form factor in order to get the vaporfly plate into a running spike shoe pic.twitter.com/Cz9mnrc10B
— ཊལབསརངཧ (@David_Rudnick) February 6, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/David_Rudnick/status/1225225701386788867)
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You’ll notice I am subtweeting basically everything. Thank you and good night.
— dan hon 🔜 Interaction20 (@hondanhon) February 4, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1224537992229982208)
It’s true: We’ve written a book! How to Future is a practical guide to applied futuring for non-specialists, coming from Kogan Page this July. Sense, map, model and communicate new futures. Pre-order now, RT and stay tuned for more here, @howtofuture or https://t.co/Qk8PEPil3e pic.twitter.com/kcqGrHhG5z
— Scott Smith (@changeist) February 3, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1224354972659265536)
Best ever basil grown through this apocalyptic summer. So in the 2050s I imagine it will be all caprese salad but with jellyfish instead of mozzarella 😘 #climatechange #canberra pic.twitter.com/sIoSPYg5Fr
— Mitchell Whitelaw (@mtchl) February 3, 2020
the bishop of orlando is also the bishop of the moon, due to a canon law that says “any newly discovered territory would fall under the bishopric from whence the discovering expedition departed”. his is therefore the largest catholic diocese, at over 14,000,000 square miles
— إليزابيث 🇻🇦 (@enchanteeq) February 2, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/enchanteeq/status/1224112027083399170)
Yapping nixes nap so rue mad dog.
— Greg Egan (@gregeganSF) February 2, 2020
Net some avid moody pool bard.
Pit rats flog time.
Wed live Emir.
Repel animal dual.
Spank tressed tinker.
Reknit dessert knaps.
Laud lamina leper.
Rime evil dew.
Emit golf star.
Tip drab loopy doom diva emos ten goddam euros.
Pan sexing nip pay.
(via http://twitter.com/gregeganSF/status/1223953730082488322)
99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route! #googlemapshacks https://t.co/3gixMxopE6 pic.twitter.com/6KcMm1XgAF
— Simon Weckert (@simon_deliver) February 1, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/simon_deliver/status/1223569659645112320)
“Go to bed, they’ll still be wrong in the morning.”
— dan hon (@hondanhon) February 1, 2020
“Yes. That’s the problem.”
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