this is a real low blow pic.twitter.com/WnIpfQxp9Z— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) February 1, 2020 (via…
this is a real low blow pic.twitter.com/WnIpfQxp9Z
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) February 1, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1223665654307479552)
this is a real low blow pic.twitter.com/WnIpfQxp9Z
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) February 1, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1223665654307479552)
Douglas Rushkoff: “"I was deeply resentful of Wired for repackaging the Mondo universe as this kind of NASDAQ business story. And it was just obvious to me what they were doing. And the extent to which they either explicitly or implicitly discredited the real cyber movement…”
— MONDO 2000 (@2000_mondo) February 1, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/2000_mondo/status/1223673584360415232)
Hypocritical Theory: critical of everything but itself
— Gordon Wells (@gordonwells) February 1, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/gordonwells/status/1223525376258908161)
I’m gonna talk with world religion leaders with the Vatican real soon, and my wish is we make a document that radically alters what “apocalypse” means. Basically,
— Tim Morton (@the_eco_thought) January 31, 2020
APOCALYPSE NO!
(via http://twitter.com/the_eco_thought/status/1223310762770341888)
i asked some trees how they’d manage the massive and rapid transition away from fossil fuels in a just and equitable way and they just stood there https://t.co/N2Zm6g8OCg
— Kate Marvel (@DrKateMarvel) January 28, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/DrKateMarvel/status/1222256028261277698)
I liken it to a “we care TOO much thing” - kind of like how the immune systems “cares too much” in an autoimmune disorder.
— Katie Hinde (@Mammals_Suck) January 27, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/Mammals_Suck/status/1221861584764456960)
What I’m saying is, it’s nice to have a god who is more like you than not.
— Michelle Belanger (@sethanikeem) January 29, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/sethanikeem/status/1222382068929265664)
Speculative Design: the present is boring and predictable. The past is complex and a burden. Fiction is comfortable and cool, a temporary place to seek shelter. Over and over again.
— Modes of Criticism (@modescriticism) January 28, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/modescriticism/status/1222142888726974465)
WHO Scientists: Climate Change is one of world’s most urgent health threats & will impact our survival
— Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) January 29, 2020
Australia: *slow chewing* yeah, nah
WHO Scientists: There’s a coronavirus variation in China. It’s not global emergency. If you’ve travelled to…
Australia: OH MY %%#! GOD
(via http://twitter.com/manjusrii/status/1222334972712718341)
Jains for nothup gruman is galaxy level cognitve dissonance…..
— Omega Red (@pacifistHULK) January 28, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/pacifistHULK/status/1221960627691905025)
Note: You probably don’t know enough about telecommunications infrastructure, investment regulation, internet security, cyber-intelligence, and the 5 Eyes intelligence sharing network to hold as strong an opinion as you’re currently considering putting forth.
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) January 28, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/DmitryOpines/status/1222189902806253568)
Designing for more-than-human worlds, according to The Flintstones pic.twitter.com/V133wOnEVv
— 🐑 anne 🐑 (@annegalloway) January 27, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/annegalloway/status/1221928000981098497)
This is an amazing realization: all online multiplayer first person shooters are “just conferences calls with occasional shooting” and now I see WebEx completely differently https://t.co/Hr66KKxBT0
— dan hon (@hondanhon) January 28, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1221989363015225351)
UN discussion paper (PDF): “The Case for a Digital Ecosystem for the Environment” https://t.co/72DqlY1DVE pic.twitter.com/3z5wTVYU6E
— augmented ecology (@augmentedeco) January 27, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/augmentedeco/status/1221740636392558597)
If you believe Australians will change their attitude because of the catastrophe, read first Ian Kirshaw “The End” on the last year of the war 1945: everyone knows the Reich is doomed, yet they stick to the regime until the 1st US tanks enter their town. Except this time, no US!
— BrunoLatour (@BrunoLatourAIME) January 26, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/BrunoLatourAIME/status/1221519977653637121)
1. Email is the worst monitoring and alerting mechanism except for all the others.
— Jan Schaumann (@jschauma) January 25, 2020
2. Absence of a signal is itself a signal.
3. The severity of an incident is measured by the number of rules broken in resolving it.
(via http://twitter.com/jschauma/status/1220903052145778688)
Large-scale physics experiments, or “sites that are incredibly evocative, religious in their belief that an unseen world is capable of revelation, but scientific in their insistence that this unveiling will be achieved through technological means.” https://t.co/xWOvzb8Lv9 pic.twitter.com/14soyNTpXD
— Geoff Manaugh (@geoffmanaugh) January 25, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/geoffmanaugh/status/1221160471769673729)
2094: Scientists discover that Trout Mask Replica, Neutral Milk Hotel, Tokyo Anal Dynamite are deeply embedded What3Words coordinates to portals through which the Pilgrims will ascend to the hell planes. It begins.
— 🦇 ⤵️🕳 (@xenogothic) January 25, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/xenogothic/status/1221088022667694082)
People thought they were building Star Trek’s computer but didn’t realize they were building Douglas Adams’ Sirius Cybernetics computers, because he accurately observed that the Marketing Department exists
— dan hon (@hondanhon) January 24, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1220507599386243072)
Yeah, I am perfectly comfortable with the nature of sandwichness being ephemeral and contingent, rather than fixed and immutable.
— Deb Chachra (@debcha) January 24, 2020
can you like, fucking not pic.twitter.com/9OWDz4dD9c
— dan hett (@danhett) January 22, 2020
Not entirely implausible:
— dan hon (@hondanhon) January 22, 2020
“Because of its extensive work in anti-cheating software, Fortnite became the first online location for e-voting certified by the Federal government.”
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1220068110377447425)
Scramble was the name of one of Shell’s long-range scenarios back in the day https://t.co/yKwarU0JTe pic.twitter.com/TVtv11lPoH
— Alexis C. Madrigal (@alexismadrigal) January 22, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/alexismadrigal/status/1219891002283978752)
Looking fwd to this “slithery philosophical filibuster and experiential scrum”, where @zzkt & I will share our oblique insights, animist techniques & occult ways of doing business @_foam (that helped us survive several tech bubbles, economic crises and other contingencies).
— Maja Kuzmanovic (@deziluzija) January 22, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/deziluzija/status/1219828533565898753)
20.02.2020 7pm @monamuseum The Thorny Question of Art and Economy: A C̷̢̺͕͇̅͝ó̸̱n̴̰̫͍̈̄̀̅̕v̸̞̬͛e̷̻͔̗̦͂̆͑͠r̷͗̆͐ͅṡ̴͙̠̰͠a̸̡̽̾̈́t̵̡̽į̵̧͆ô̵̠͌̕̕͝n̷̹͑͆̒ ̶̲̈P̷̢͉͖͆͊͋̎i̶̧͙̼̇́̅̀̾ȇ̵͕̱̾̓́̕ć̵̼͚̊͂̌̓ê̴̪̆ @Miss_Despoinas @_foam members @deziluzija Kate Rich #fMBA &…https://t.co/HtqQKsLxh4
— Nancy Mauro-Flude (@sister0) January 22, 2020
‘The buildings and the instruments at Aragats remain, like ghost ships in the cosmic rain … [waiting] for news that could change the universe: a quantum bullet more powerful than humans can produce, or weirder than their tentative laws can explain.’ https://t.co/Yc6S01Hwmk
— Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard) January 21, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/jcalpickard/status/1219572977471279104)
the most powerful land art piece of the decade pic.twitter.com/uR6SaGcOoX
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) January 21, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1219614521586745349)
When you get near 100% confident in a belief, you internalize it, which means it sinks into the unconscious. To hold a belief consciously is to hold it with non-trivial amounts of doubt. The doubt level of stuff you say tends to be matched. We rarely mix confidence levels.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) January 21, 2020
Here’s one weird trick for improving your life and your politics: whenever you’re ready to condemn or degrade someone, ask yourself, “What can I learn from them?”
— Quinn Norton should be writing right now (@quinnnorton) January 20, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/1219296706631741442)
Insurable = Habitable is an interesting civilisational metric.
— ⚫ Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) January 20, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1219207164641845249)
#miniclub for #ppl - this one is hot and sizzling - significant upgrades - we’re gonna have the pendulum plus all the old stuff pic.twitter.com/nzaQJI2MHQ
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) January 19, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1219030983233744907)
I keep coming back to the Challenger tragedy’s NASA/Norton safety/probability/risk vs political “must-launch” culture, and comparing it to Boeing’s safety/probability/risk vs cost-cutting “must-ship” culture
— dan hon (@hondanhon) January 19, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1218975522551672834)
Oh damn this arrived a lot quicker than expected! Had already highlighted a bunch of pdfs to pieces but nice to be able to read the rest on paper. Looks good @futuryst pic.twitter.com/xsSR9AgQXe
— Sjef van Gaalen (@thesjef) January 18, 2020
If you had ‘Bacterial Brutalism’ on your late 21st C bingo card, cover that square now. https://t.co/lxPsU9RhId
— Scott Smith (@changeist) January 18, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1218477147490263040)
contemporary electronic music is an adversarial attack on beat tracking assumptions, with love.
— jetpack cognition lab (@LabJetpack) January 17, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/LabJetpack/status/1218311504459706368)
Zoöp news, Feb 21st at @NieuweInstituut we will be running a new & improved version of our narrative-immersed workshop Zoönomic Futures, “an immersive training programme aimed at developing a practical ethics for a society that is no longer human-centric”: https://t.co/XIvsyL29cS
— Sjef van Gaalen (@thesjef) January 17, 2020
Today in #writing: things which unclog the creative flow.
— Nick Harkaway (@Harkaway) January 17, 2020
1. Music
I create playlists for each book to set the mood. That’s more helpful than it sounds. It not only blocks street noise, it also becomes pavlovian - I hear the music and immediately feel ready to work.
(via http://twitter.com/Harkaway/status/1218133553348841472)
“Absolute deterritorialization is not defined as a giant accelerator; its absoluteness does not hinge on how fast it goes. It is actually possible to reach the absolute by way of phenomena of relative slowness or delay” (Deleuze & Guattari, ATP 56).
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) January 17, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1218075553523093504)
Not sure what’s funnier (and more punk) - the fact that this high-tech clamp replacement was defeated by heated windows and a credit card, or that people then jacked its GPS function to get themselves free internet. https://t.co/4z0OUWFY7i
— Io Black (@b_iologic) January 16, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/b_iologic/status/1217606269563031553)
anyway here’s how to get the barnacle off of your car https://t.co/GUfCd3qXhd pic.twitter.com/HcunI3kwbc
— cowboy sally (@saallyjohnsonn) January 14, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/saallyjohnsonn/status/1217190703392067584)
Cool, this will be a nice distraction: scientists create “Xenobots”, new lifeforms grown from living cells, “completely biological machines from the ground up”…
— Simon Sellars (@simon_sellars) January 14, 2020
But wait, what’s this: “They can organise themselves spontaneously & collectively”… 😱https://t.co/jrhS3xImWe
(via http://twitter.com/simon_sellars/status/1216935104582303745)
I want to live in an internet where .io isn’t controlled by colonial theft of funds but by Jupiter’s moon
— Kei (@keikreutler) January 14, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/keikreutler/status/1217034909090484225)
Plurals explored:
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) January 13, 2020
1. The regular first person plural: “we”
2. The monarch’s first person singular: “we”
3. The Borg’s first person plural-is-singular: “we”
4. The football fan’s third person plural possessive (their team): “we”
…
I really don’t understand this language.
So basically, if you’re interested, episode one was Ecology without Nature, episode two was Hyperobjects, and episode three (this Thursday at 11:30 on BBC Radio 4) is Dark Ecology. https://t.co/YRXwZy1Wb9
— Tim Morton (@the_eco_thought) January 13, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/the_eco_thought/status/1216704242628489217)
Biosphere: Substrata. Coil: Music to Play in the dark. Jana Winderen: Spring bloom in the marginal Ice Zone. Tanya Tagaq: Submerged. Dead can Dance: De profundis. Phurpa: The Sound of Dakini Laughter. Goran Bregović: Underground (Moonlight, The belly button of the world), etc.
— Maja Kuzmanovic (@deziluzija) January 12, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/deziluzija/status/1216159898783772672)
Sleepy/Acc
— Qdn🩸ktsqfr (@qdnoktsqfr) January 12, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/qdnoktsqfr/status/1216318506368585729)
It seems that @SiemensDE have the power to stop, delay or at least interrupt the building of the huge Adani coal mine in Australia. On Monday they will announce their decision. Please help pushing them to make the only right decision. #StopAdani
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) January 11, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1215919031494070272)
This is turning into the “how do I do X in windows/just use linux!” of fowl-based tick management questions.
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) January 11, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1215813443862876164)
I worked on a Haunted Mansion-related project where we regularly re-calibrated echo cancellation by having every ghost talk for 10 seconds, simultaneously. Ghostly cacophony to exorcise the echo demons. https://t.co/tVRGIJYgNJ
— John Wiseman (@lemonodor) January 9, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1215173312755556352)
“There are some questions in science that can only be answered by strapping a pair of 3D glasses to an unsuspecting cuttlefish and setting it loose in an underwater movie theatre.”
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) January 8, 2020
By @iansample (via @elle_hunt) https://t.co/LIydRu1jjH
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1215005040609517569)
.@slatestarcodex asked me & @theshawwn if GPT-2 could play chess: “…sure why not”
— 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 (@gwern) January 7, 2020
Also coming:
- GPT-2-1.5b-poetry
- Music preference learning
- TWDNEv3: StyleGAN2 portraits (@skyli0n)
- SubredditSimulator-1.5b
- T5 finetuning code (@NaxAlpha)
- Ao3-pretrained AI Dungeon 2… https://t.co/lZXjW5dXko
Herders spraying reflective paint on their reindeer’s antlers to avoid road accidents leads to absolute surreal and scary pictures #Lapland #Finland pic.twitter.com/4PdVslNMjV
— Kakslauttanen (@kakslauttanen) January 8, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/kakslauttanen/status/1214874892081991680)
Where to invest:
— Michael Batnick (@michaelbatnick) January 7, 2020
$1- Scratch-off ticket
$10- Cocktail
$100- Good meal
$1,000- Weed Stocks
$10,000- Bitcoin
$100,000- Banana on wall
$1,000,000- 60/40
$10,000,000- Hedge funds
$100,000,000- NYC Penthouse
$1,000,000,000- Sports team
$10,000,000,000- Election
$100,000,000,000- Mars
(via http://twitter.com/michaelbatnick/status/1214596755922309120)
One Iranian attending Soleimani’s funeral ruthlessly mocked western media coverage of the events
— Wyatt Reed (@wyattreed13) January 7, 2020
“Why did you come here today?”
“We’re not here, we’ve been photoshopped…
This crowd is made up of ten cops, six revolutionary guardsmen, & two guys they bribed with juice packs” pic.twitter.com/eudg9UOHNU
(via http://twitter.com/wyattreed13/status/1214641652498866176)
Short story in the form of an acknowledgements page with track changes turned on
— Danielle Evans (@daniellevalore) January 7, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/daniellevalore/status/1214620121043521536)
Spooky dev environment hack: add
— Ryan Freebern (@rfreebern) January 7, 2020
127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h
to /etc/hosts and then all your dev servers can be accessed at http://👻
It’s localghost!
(via http://twitter.com/rfreebern/status/1214560971185778693)
Hello police cops? I’d like to report a murder. pic.twitter.com/JMnSLrL5G5
— Steve Smith (@stevesmithffx) January 7, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/stevesmithffx/status/1214434900952043520)
I didn’t get through much fiction last year, but from what I did finish three I loved were Infinite Detail by @timmaughan Cygnet by @season_butler and Deaf Republic by @ilya_poet . Hard recommend for all three.
— duncan speakman (@_dspk) January 7, 2020
“Minds are basically computers” is wrong if you think of computers as abstract turing machines but spot on if you think of computers as a horrible assemblage of kludges bridging incompatible legacy code which only work because critical bugs are masking other critical bugs.
— David R. MacIver (@DRMacIver) January 7, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1214492384089792513)
‘How come we conned ourselves into thinking that being ecological means we can’t have any fun anymore?’
— tomjennings (@tomjennings) January 7, 2020
Or rather didn’t con ourselves but were ourselves conned - indeed, still being conned - by vested interests.
Nevertheless, this is great and timely! https://t.co/Zxg7g935Im
(via http://twitter.com/tomjennings/status/1214503450622476288)
After 3 years, 83,000 words and 400 footnotes, I’ve finally finished my new book, THE GOOD ANCESTOR: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World. Look out for it on May 21. Here’s a miniaturized sneak preview… #goodancestor pic.twitter.com/Mo5JDrY05L
— Roman Krznaric (@romankrznaric) January 7, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/romankrznaric/status/1214504840463888384)
“Music is never tragic, music is joy. But there are times it necessarily gives us a taste for death; not so much happiness as dying happy, being extinguished. […] Peace and exasperation. Music has a thirst for destruction…” (Deleuze & Guattari ATP, 299).
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) January 6, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1214164455161884672)
Concluding the post-solstice fallow fortnight with Volume 8 of the Korean series Ars Vitae on #Rest. It’s an honor to have a revised Thriving in Uncertainty by @_foam included in such a thoughtful and beautifully crafted book. https://t.co/tQ0iG2OJZY pic.twitter.com/QaS3zGhMSo
— Maja Kuzmanovic (@deziluzija) January 5, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/deziluzija/status/1213636679266795521)
Born in 1920: Isaac Asimov, Sun Myung Moon, DeForest Kelley, Federico Fellini, Tony Randall, James Doohan, Toshiro Mifune, Ravi Shankar, Peggy Lee, Che Guevara, Yul Brynner, Charles Bukowski, Ray Bradbury, June Foray, Mickey Rooney, Walter Matthau, Timothy Leary, Dave Brubeck
— Jef Poskanzer (@jef_poskanzer) January 4, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/jef_poskanzer/status/1213456426724577281)
Fossil fuel related idioms: “full steam ahead”, “cooking on gas”, “gaslighting”, to “blow off steam” or to feel like you’ve “run out of gas”. Can anyone think of any more?
— Alice Bell (@alicebell) January 3, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/alicebell/status/1213055914795786240)
Meanwhile: “Jakarta floods: cloud seeding planes will try to break up heavy rain” https://t.co/zXjzmRh7mP
— Scott Smith (@changeist) January 3, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1213037933361614849)
This one goes out to everyone who didn’t understand that Cayce Pollard isn’t actually cool she’s complicit as fuck https://t.co/X5hOG8E9ds
— Ingrid Burrington (@lifewinning) January 2, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1212823574840586248)
“We need some true wild cards, artists, people who never went to university and fought their way out of an appalling hell hole, weirdos from William Gibson novels like that girl hired by Bigend as a brand ‘diviner’ who feels sick at the sight of Hilfiger” https://t.co/7LcYDDdaSl
— Scott Smith (@changeist) January 2, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1212816850641403904)
We at least needed a session on the role of trolling in public diplomacy.
— Timothy E Kaldas (@tekaldas) January 1, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/tekaldas/status/1212329578074693634)
Time dilation/contraction perceptions are at least 2d, where first dimension is event stream and second dimension is information abstraction level. So you can dilate at one level, contract at another. This idea is ubiquitous in folk wisdom but surprisingly missing in the research
— Venkatesh *atchoo* Rao (@vgr) December 31, 2019
Reminder, again, that the “Y2K wasn’t that bad” campaign is a deliberate effort by climate deniers to attempt to diminish expertise and the ability for collective action to avoid catastrophe.
— Anthony B, oh god we’re all going to die (@swearyanthony) December 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/swearyanthony/status/1211590250775998464)
A year in review, some reflections from FoAM’s rear-view mirror. Weaving robots, bat detectors, jungles and deserts, islands and swamps, plants, robots, food, music, and above all, lots of lovely people! Thank you all for being part of our journeys. ✨💫💥 https://t.co/ovh2Qz7yKq
— FoAM (@_foam) December 30, 2019
If you haven’t read this paper, you should. It shows how a key technology (solar panels) develops first through R&D and later through scaling effects.
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) December 30, 2019
It implies that the way to foster a new technology is first to subsidize R&D, then later to subsidize deployment. https://t.co/jcuZQ071TS
(via http://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1211541323330637829)
The French have système D(émerder), lit. ‘unshiting system’.
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) December 29, 2019
Cubans have 'resolver’ (to 'resolve’ any difficulty).
Spaniards have 'apañarse’.
All cultures where the constant unfucking of things is routine.
(via http://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1211119771388801024)
The problem with the idea of a “Purpose-driven life” is that 99% of life is Purpose-resistant.
— Venkatesh *atchoo* Rao (@vgr) December 29, 2019
My new rule is I will 100% debate climate deniers on the air if I can bring ten thousand other scientists, the Argo ocean observing system, at least one satellite, and the reanimated corpses of the 19th century physicists who figured all this out
— Kate Marvel (@DrKateMarvel) December 27, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/DrKateMarvel/status/1210703328264511488)
1. I worked with Anna Zaitsev (Berkely postdoc) to study YouTube recommendation radicalization. We painstakingly collected and grouped channels (768) and recommendations (23M) and found that the algo has a deradicalizing influence.
— Mark Ledwich (@mark_ledwich) December 28, 2019
Pre-print:https://t.co/1NneHDnKHD
🧵
(via http://twitter.com/mark_ledwich/status/1210743158184693760)
The Betelgeuse dimming totally feels the act one background detail that will end up dominating act three of 2020.
— Fred Scharmen (@sevensixfive) December 26, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/sevensixfive/status/1210076948216647680)
Scientists attempt to recreate ‘Overview effect’ from Earth https://t.co/0AhjHso9ve cc @metanautic
— Scott Smith (@changeist) December 26, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1210198531979595776)
Even worse, petroleum is not vegan! Those are like zooplankton, man. https://t.co/Oamo4JxOrg
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) December 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1209946662967201792)
I went to Hamleys recently and the shelf with Frida Kahlo and Hillary Clinton Barbies shocked me so much! And people buy ‘em.
— Anna Gát ✨ (@TheAnnaGat) December 25, 2019
Where is the Emma Goldman Barbie?
(via http://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1209894032652017664)
Admire people with anaerobic courage, the kind that can drive for long periods without hope while souring the soul
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) December 25, 2019
OOOOO : Out Of Office Oriented Ontology
— Fred Scharmen (@sevensixfive) December 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/sevensixfive/status/1209599700564938752)
my top years for 2019 were 1969 and 1972
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) December 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1209588127041544192)
Object-Oriented Ontology was philosophy’s Out Of Office e-mail reply
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) December 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1209536375327985665)
Another one made it home… pic.twitter.com/lF7gkK8vvn
— ☒ (@jsaurelius) December 23, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/jsaurelius/status/1208968016169299968)
Writing a piece on containment structures. This is the Runit/Cactus Dome (also known as The Tomb) on Enewetak Atoll. It contains radioactive debris from US nuclear detonations throughout the 1940s and ‘50s https://t.co/n6kZ09CPxW pic.twitter.com/BgIoAOPaPV
— Darran Anderson (@Oniropolis) December 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Oniropolis/status/1208805077340827650)
Amsterdam’s ghost airport is grounded by a climate-development clash https://t.co/6RZuF0lc7h via @bpolitics
— Mrs Smith (@hauspa) December 20, 2019
When Red Disappears by Elspeth Diederixhttps://t.co/2pvZMqy6XH pic.twitter.com/DjcAx7aj8O
— Olga Yatskevich (@photoliax) December 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/photoliax/status/1208027715955236866)
Shannon Taggart has dedicated almost twenty years of her life to researching and documenting the séances and modern practices of Spiritualism.
— Olga Yatskevich (@photoliax) December 18, 2019
Her extensive research and photographs were recently published in a photobook entitled “Séance”.
👻 https://t.co/zt2oMTQ9GF pic.twitter.com/JdvE2RCC2u
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My @boomkatonline 2019 chart is online > @neworder @tom_mudd @kdrumm70 @prehberg68 @incapatm @busycircuits @fancyyyyylabel = https://t.co/kjuVNRMxlY
— Russell Haswell (@RussellHaswell) December 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/RussellHaswell/status/1208042786181799937)
Opabinia is one of the most bizarre creatures ever to have lived. It had 5 eyes, 30 legs, 30 flippers, a nose like an elephant’s trunk, and a lobster-like claw! pic.twitter.com/IUJKGe1kkj
— Extinct Animals 🦖🦕 (@Extinct_AnimaIs) December 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Extinct_AnimaIs/status/1208068576365682688)
The Dutch Supreme Court confirms that the State has a positive obligation to reduce GHG emissions in order to protect our right to life. Thank you @urgenda! #ClimateEmergency pic.twitter.com/bTYrOx4Xo2
— Jasper Teulings (@Patagorda) December 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Patagorda/status/1207974244031893505)
I think the Great Weirding has finally hit the tech stack. Everything I’m seeing happening to the consumer web experience seems in some way a response to the huge stress test the web 2.0 tech stack endured in 2015-18 due to major pattern failures
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) December 19, 2019
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Protip: If you don’t use a password manager—or even if you do—you’ll always remember passwords that are expressions of personal disdain specifc to the venue into which you are logging in.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) December 19, 2019
I realize that calendars are arbitrary but all the decade-in-review stuff I’ve been reading has only strengthened my impression that the 2010s have no discernible, specific character whatsoever.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) December 19, 2019
Based on preliminary analysis, yesterday, Australia recorded its hottest day on record. The nationally-averaged maximum daytime temp was 41.9 °C exceeding the record set on Tuesday, 40.9 ºC. You can view the top ten highest daily maximum temps here: https://t.co/Cdqm9vD1cI pic.twitter.com/DRDK9LAvrg
— Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (@BOM_au) December 19, 2019
How to beat #Section144 -
— The Sphinx (@TheSphinxSpeaks) December 18, 2019
Stand in groups of 3 about 50 paces apart.
Don’t interact between groups.
Don’t shout slogans.
Just hold placards with messages.
Don’t disrupt traffic, Stand on sides of roads
By spreading out you also cover a larger area. @SabinaBasha @godavar
(via http://twitter.com/TheSphinxSpeaks/status/1207434348502212608)
ERASE YOUR DIRECTION
— ALGORAVE ADVICE (@ALGORAVE_ADVICE) December 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ALGORAVE_ADVICE/status/1207370742851080192)
Preliminary results suggest that the 17th December was Australia’s hottest day on record at 40.9 ºC, with the average maximum across the country as a whole, exceeding the previous record of 40.3 ºC on the 7th January 2013. https://t.co/TKwWBuFPgJ pic.twitter.com/xOFpokoXos
— Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (@BOM_au) December 18, 2019