Black Abbeys - a traditional black treacle biscuit made in Repton and named after the ruins of the Black Abbey. Later made on an industrial scale at the biscuit factory in Holcroft Street.
— ReptonGuide (@ReptonGuide) December 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ReptonGuide/status/1207282080964587521)
Plastic-free, edible flight meal trays designed to reduce airline waste https://t.co/XzH8zlrK58 via @TelegraphNews #design #designthinking #circulareconomy #airlines #Food
— Jens Martin Skibsted (@jmskibsted) December 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/jmskibsted/status/1207284256126488577)
My favourite current example of misunderstood phrases is this:
— John V Willshire (@willsh) December 17, 2019
“A jack-of-all-trades is a master of none”
…has a second line, which is…
“But oftentimes better than a master of one”
It’s a compliment. https://t.co/7Hx9QHRrYE
Now that I am retired, I just about only use Lisp languages (Hy (hylang) for deep learning and using other useful Python libraries like spaCy, Common Lisp, Racket). This surprises me because I thought that Pharo would be my retirement language https://t.co/iGdy1hRBnG
— mark_l_watson (@mark_l_watson) December 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/mark_l_watson/status/1206597739540144128)
We need an agonizing reappraisal of our own uselessness and the causes and origins of our collective uselessness if we are to be effective helpers.
— Vinay Gupta (@leashless) December 17, 2019
I fucked up by not working inside capitalism. Open Source Hardware as a strategy set me back by ten years or more.
Lesson learned.
(via http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1206912315020451842)
One storyline of 2019 is creeping authoritarianism. Another is people power. Major protests this year in Hong Kong, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Sudan, Chile, Bolivia, Russia, France — and now India.https://t.co/vRchvID9Bu
— Michael Crowley (@michaelcrowley) December 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/michaelcrowley/status/1207019086078730240)
No one ever mentions that “Fortune favors the bold” is what Pliny the Elder said as he set sail toward erupting Vesuvius, where he landed, and was promptly killed on the spot.
— Joshuah Bearman (@joshbearman) December 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/joshbearman/status/1206842071014752256)
seriously how did we get from “bicycle for your mind” to “cash register/surveillance device for optimizing premium content consumption” in just a few short decades
— Dorian Taylor (@doriantaylor) December 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/doriantaylor/status/1205905139749404672)
An efficient way to find out about a scientific literature: Toss out a half-formed idea on Twitter, wait for angry academics to tell that there’s a big literature on that topic, ask them for links, block the ones who are too angry to give you links, and follow the ones who do
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) December 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1205924350676783109)
Nothing human makes it out of the medium-to-long-term future!
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) December 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1205388185548681218)
“Nothing human makes it out of the near future.”
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) December 13, 2019
—Land, literally a quarter of a century ago
(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1205383130359586816)
One way to interpret political outcomes in the great weirding is that people seem to vote against candidates who act like they know what’s going on.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) December 13, 2019
Is there a single climate policy decision or policy recommendation that would (or should) change if we all finally agreed to rule out the cursed RCP8.5 as a plausible future? I honestly can’t think of any.
— brad plumer (@bradplumer) December 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/bradplumer/status/1204861439976054786)
We’ve had to keep this secret for 5 years, but stage one is now complete. Illuminatus! Trilogy TVhttps://t.co/vIy47bzYXL
— hagbard celine (@amoebadesign) December 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/amoebadesign/status/1204836969924251648)
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
— Anil Dash 🥭 (@anildash) December 10, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/anildash/status/1204415434709065731)
the mainstream art and pop culture tropes of 2019 feel sort of like 1999 all over again - futuristic fantasy aesthetic with underlying nihilism and dread for the inevitable collapse of modern civilization
— ZJ (@ZOLAJESUS) December 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ZOLAJESUS/status/1204586007238250497)
The remaining carbon budget left to limiting warming to 1.5C is so small that its effectively impossible at this point (~235 GtCO2 for a 66% chance of avoiding; 395 for a 50% chance). So how do we create plausible scenarios to limit warming to 1.5C? More negative emissions! ¼ pic.twitter.com/cd4zQFjmVu
— Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) December 10, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1204460008538136576)
i have eaten
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) December 8, 2019
the $120,000 banana
that was duct-taped
to the gallery wall
and which
you were hailing
as a symbol
of gilded-age excess
forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so meaningful
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1203530906654261248)
The quantifiable nature of music streaming means that “the music you listen to the most” is increasingly conflated with “your favorite music.” To me, these are profoundly different concepts.
— Matt LeMay (@mattlemay) December 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/mattlemay/status/1203405826121228288)
‘the patience has been replaced by a grim, creeping dread. A fear that it won’t be over soon, or ever. It feels like karma. This is what the scientists have warned us about, begged us to think of, all these years. It’s here. And it’s going to get worse’https://t.co/TxO0K60wrP
— Amy Thomas (@amyclairethomas) December 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/amyclairethomas/status/1203429114033557505)
no not a podcast about numbers stations, a podcast that just is just actually a numbers station
— Ingrid Burrington (@lifewinning) December 5, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1202421629655105536)
After a year of work our paper on evaluating performance of historical climate models is finally out! We found that 14 of 17 the climate projections released between 1970 and 2001 effectively matched observations after they were published. https://t.co/xbmOh4ZPcn 1/19 pic.twitter.com/xjez5FWwd3
— Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) December 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1202271427807678464)
Students finishing up socially-minded design and art projects: This might be a useful time to ask yourself about the relationship between wonder + urgency in your work. If you’re stuck, ask: is it all wonder, no bite, no urgency? All earnest urgency, but lacking wonder?
— Sara Hendren (@ablerism) December 5, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ablerism/status/1202617908553224197)
“Upon seeing Utah for the first time, Tarkovsky remarked that now he knew Americans were vulgar because they filmed westerns in a place that should only serve as backdrop to films about God.”
— jenny (@fvrmvn) December 4, 2019
An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth.
— Jamie Henn (@Agent350) December 4, 2019
The world’s diplomats come together to address the emergency.
And they spend the whole time talking about how to create “market mechanisms” to try and avoid actually paying for asteroid defense.
That’s basically #COP25 so far.
(via http://twitter.com/Agent350/status/1202168846586720256)
Thread: 50 years ago, on Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago cops killed 21-year-old Black Panther, Fred Hampton
— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) December 5, 2019
Hampton’s death wasn’t just another police murder. Even more than MLK or Malcolm X, Hampton’s murder might be the most important black assassination in US history. Here’s why:
(via http://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1202391127346814976)
NEW: The mixtape is compiled and composed from audio materials recorded and curated during the #BioSignals #Biosemiotics networked events #fieldrecordings
— AGF*øɍɇvøɍ : ρѻﻉtﻉ§§ (@poemproducer) December 4, 2019
Original recordings and interviews:https://t.co/eaySnbJzSK https://t.co/WJcPl5URhB
(via http://twitter.com/poemproducer/status/1202371504119439361)
Has anyone run a #decellerator program? One focused on #ethics and long conversations about the multitude of futures of an idea/startup with their founders? Something remote with no wifi? or is that just @DoLectures
— Alexandra D-S (@iotwatch) December 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/iotwatch/status/1202264604715429892)
81 years ago I was the first to show that CO2 levels in the atmosphere were increasing due to burning fossil fuels, and that global land temperatures were observed to be warming as a consequence.
— Guy Callendar (@GuyCallendar) December 3, 2019
EIGHTY-ONE YEARS. https://t.co/1EEOWo8qX5#COP25 #COP25Madrid pic.twitter.com/1I6qwMHfZp
(via http://twitter.com/GuyCallendar/status/1201806918932717569)
The issue all along with Tech and the Arts hasn’t been that it will replace artists and craft, but that it will replicate and populate the world with even more mediocrity https://t.co/6HfmaZcSyr
— 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐑𝐆 (@CosminTRG) December 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/CosminTRG/status/1201861973765500928)
Oblivion Paralysis.
— Jamais Cascio (@cascio) December 4, 2019
When each sector of analysis (e.g., the classic STEEP Social/Tech/Econ/Enviro/Politics model) shows signs of collapse in process, it’s very hard to imagine what to do or where to focus. Every action feels insufficient or pointless.
2020 here we come!
Most people are not lazy enough. The kind of relentlessly effortful living conservatives love to preach is unnatural except perhaps for hummingbirds. Half of survival of the fittest is the patience to wait for the steals and deals and moments of unreasonable leverage.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) December 2, 2019
A good rule of thumb is that unless you work for a secret government spy agency, something has gone terribly wrong if your employer has automated online services to help with getting your cover story straight with your family. https://t.co/4WrI0imm4x
— matt blaze (@mattblaze) December 2, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1201650087216193537)
“The process, called ‘acoustic enrichment,’ had a ‘significant positive impact on juvenile fish recruitment throughout the study period.’ The acoustically enrich reefs attracted fish faster and maintained them longer than the reefs without a healthy soundtrack.”
— Maddie Stone (@themadstone) December 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/themadstone/status/1201218804304564224)
The Sound of Disappearance is a mix I created to accompany an upcoming essay on ecocritical listening for Neural Mag. You can listen to it here: https://t.co/vNGjDIRPpz pic.twitter.com/thA4TaRbzr
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) December 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1201273307934396417)
What was the last phenomenon, observable as a stream of discrete events, that “popped” from background to foreground for you, and what if anything triggered the pop?
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) November 30, 2019
Example for me: fancy water bottles trend. Now I notice them everywhere. Noticed when I got one as schwag.
“My pick for the book of the year Infinite Detail, is a before-and-after tale of near-future social collapse..It’s hard to believe it is a debut, so assured and evocative is Maughan’s writing” hot damn @arrroberts in the @guardian https://t.co/5PJlF4jwp8
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) November 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1200806084581167105)
There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING that says “FUCK YOU” to Brexit more than a terrorist being taken down by a Polish man brandishing a Narwhal tusk. There’s your second referendum right there. REMAIN!
— Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK) November 30, 2019
My new heist movie is just 100% crew-assembling. A new character is introduced every five minutes. It has the most unweildy cast in the history of cinema. The Smashmouth soundtrack never stops playing. Critics are calling the plot “nonexistent.” It has grossed $30bn worldwide
— Pigeon Fancier (@isabelzawtun) November 29, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/isabelzawtun/status/1200488020505440258)
Twins born on 11:59 PM and 12:01 AM could have different birthdays 🤔
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) November 30, 2019
Sci fi book of the year?@timmaughan’s Infinite Detail
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) November 30, 2019
“It’s hard to believe it is a debut, so assured and evocative is Maughan’s writing. As a portrait of the fragility of our current status quo it’s as thought-provoking as it is terrifying”https://t.co/amq2JMO89R
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1200862036919541760)
My dream algorithm
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) November 30, 2019
1. Auto-cluster tweets per user (shitposting, representing, thought leadering, shilling, sharing, thinking aloud) and auto follow/unfollow dynamically based on that.
2. Live filter resulting first-pass output by mood (restless, serious, beefy)
Starlink’s light pollution is yet another case of what’s called ‘the enclosure of the commons.’ A public good (the clear night sky) is appropriated by a powerful man simply because he can do it, and now those who shared it are beggars at his table.
— Karl Schroeder (@KarlSchroeder) November 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/KarlSchroeder/status/1200573418099355649)
We have done it!
— Pascal Canfin (@pcanfin) November 28, 2019
Thanks to all the support and proud to have gathered a large majority in the European Parliament to make Europe the first continent to declare a climate and environmental emergency.
We are today meeting the expectations of European citizens.#ClimateEmergency
The prototype of this died some time ago, but if someone want to build it / it exists elsewhere… https://t.co/3ltUQmg2zd please / thank you pic.twitter.com/9wFd3f8XxE
— James Bridle (@jamesbridle) November 27, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/jamesbridle/status/1199648914942648320)
Considering the merits of debugging a Nvidia/Xorg problem verses taking a long term view by spending that time looking for a vacancy in a monastery or Amish community.
— Luke Gorrie (@lukego) November 27, 2019
While Americans agonize over how to purge the last vestiges of discrimination from algorithms, China has a “massive cybernetic brain” that directs the police to investigate and detain whole categories of people. https://t.co/DMCDVC22of
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 26, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1199394214024339456)
Technical Debt: the first 10000 years is the bug in Plough Technology that it basically destroys soil health and no one noticed until the situation was critical. https://t.co/LZXBg3ULT2
— ⚫Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) November 26, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1199396849041453057)
The California Ideology — the mindset that to this day is core to the way the Internet as infrastructure (and much of hacker culture) thinks — does not accept the idea of social responsibility, nor of any meaningful collective constraint on individual action, regardless of cost.
— Eleanor Saitta (@Dymaxion) November 26, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Dymaxion/status/1199455986995601408)
“A recorder that ‘records’ sounds of the future troubles the linear temporality and becomes a haunted medium of different worlds - human and nonhuman, life and afterlife, and a liminal site of competing worldviews, value systems, and modes of justice.”
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) November 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1199069606645813250)
‘Reality is too important to be left to the realists. The stories are ludicrous in so many obvious ways, but they are offered as a weird reflection of where we might be.’
— The Quietus (@theQuietus) November 25, 2019
Tim Etchells interviewedhttps://t.co/xCnQd9ol0f pic.twitter.com/YX1R6MAqju
(via http://twitter.com/theQuietus/status/1198881508414509056)
Thanks @Macroscopist @juliaxgulia for giving me the space to think through this More-Than-Human Field Guide in public. Hope to write it up and share soon. https://t.co/W1M2RQoEDs
— Anab Jain (@anabjain) November 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/anabjain/status/1198904488331005952)
tinyswamp! not just forests https://t.co/yBLpIMyRWI pic.twitter.com/p5mA7fwEBc
— augmented ecology (@augmentedeco) November 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/augmentedeco/status/1198551491876917248)
In Thai, when we eat something that’s not to our taste,
— Pim Techamuanvivit (@chezpim) November 24, 2019
we don’t really say
“I don’t like this”
or
“this is bad”.
We say “I don’t know how to eat this” (กินไม่เป็น)
Just a big tiny difference.
I think the correct response to all change is to mitigate the effect of the change on the people from lose out from it, not to try to stop or reverse the change.
— Land Reform In Developed Countries Stan Account (@csilverandgold) November 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/csilverandgold/status/1198484446351110144)
Researchers compare two cutting-edge carbon sequestration techs (CCS &, uh, trees) & find trees “are less expensive per ton of CO2 stored [&] have a longer history of success, stronger near-term viability, more robust co-benefits, & fewer risks than CCS.” https://t.co/Ti4Snisxfj
— David Roberts (@drvox) November 23, 2019
In the current state of climate emergency, the Internet of Dead Things Institute (IoDT) is dedicated to repurposing obsolete technologies. MinitelSe allows you to stream radio, browse the Internet in text mode, read the news, chat & more. See more at @recyclism & @noschoolnevers. pic.twitter.com/yVW81paj9r
— lethalkimchi (@lethalkimchi) November 23, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/lethalkimchi/status/1198246475232423936)
Today at the 2219 Opening Conversations, at @ArtSciMuseum, futurist Scott Smith (@changeist) provided an invaluable introduction to the history of futures work, focussing firstly on the early work of Herman Kahn at the RAND Corporation post-World War II.#SG2219 #FuturesImagined pic.twitter.com/EDjw4CWG0K
— honor harger (@honorharger) November 23, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/honorharger/status/1198194137377337344)
1. Reality is not a game.
— Adam Robbert (@AE_Robbert) November 22, 2019
2. Evolution & general intelligence are not really game-theoretic.
3. The mind is not a machine.
4. Thinking isn’t computational; computation is something thinking sometimes does.
5. In life, there is no hardware / software distinction (h/t: @normonics).
(via http://twitter.com/AE_Robbert/status/1198012171176697857)
be gay do cyber crimes https://t.co/yRzT0A6DZE pic.twitter.com/6dkyfneebD
— isis agora lovecruft (they/them) (@isislovecruft) November 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/1198027115041452032)
Wonderful to be quoted at length by @longnow in their writeup of @SonarFestival & @sonarplusd https://t.co/AqwLlYIHij pic.twitter.com/mh5Dj3nWPg
— ⚫Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) November 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1197808148637274112)
Happy to share some memories and afterimages from @_foam Dust & Shadow fieldtrips through the Sonoran, Mojave and Great Basin deserts…
— Maja Kuzmanovic (@deziluzija) November 22, 2019
👣 📸 🌵https://t.co/Il5GvYa9Tc pic.twitter.com/Xa2gw4WkSz
(via http://twitter.com/deziluzija/status/1197920073391828992)
If the system is so gridlocked that nothing can ever get done, why *not* take silly extremist positions online?
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1197615977598291969)
The thing about having a day job is that it takes up the whole fucking day.
— chica marx (@mckenziewark) November 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1197289878536491013)
Development of high speed rail in China - 2008 vs 2018 pic.twitter.com/r1uDSLwG3G
— Michael Parenti’s Stache 🚩☭ (@Karl_Was_Right) November 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Karl_Was_Right/status/1196975656493449217)
To paraphrase Mark Fisher, those who can’t remember the past are condemned to have it resold to them forever by recent design graduates.
— Scott Smith (@changeist) November 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1196768560313450501)
Last month’s global average concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) was nearly 412 parts per million (ppm), up approximately 24 ppm from October 2009. #2009vs2019 https://t.co/qjYgQZqqbL
— NASA Climate (@NASAClimate) November 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/NASAClimate/status/1196920098440675328)
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McKenzie Wark (2015) on the ecopolitical factions of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy: On the new planet the Greens are the terraformers, for whom “nature is synonymous with life.” Whereas for the Reds “nature is prior to life, greater than life:” the alien planet itself. pic.twitter.com/p4eLa4np7D
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) November 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1196402395967705088)
‘The Way is a void,
— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) November 17, 2019
Used but never filled:
An abyss it is,
Like an Ancestor
From which all things come …
It is like a preface to God …
The student learns by daily increment.
The Way is gained by daily loss.’
– Lao-Tzu
(image: Blum) pic.twitter.com/9JYzpLoRBO
(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1196192730793332738)
Protesters in Chile employing Lasers en masse to disorient, neutralize Riot Police pic.twitter.com/MsBJLCSZuD
— ᏔმƦ𝔢ჳ💤 (@mooncult) November 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1195418253859811329)
Diagrams from Histoire du ciel et de la terre: nouvelle physique céleste - Auguste Fiévet [1849]https://t.co/fZqNCvLp0j pic.twitter.com/NysehljfmN
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) November 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1195831726192369666)
191116_003109_a.clj https://t.co/bnQZkAkflO #ProceduralArt #generative pic.twitter.com/Auf0qUxMUd
— tweegeemee 트의기미 (@tweegeemee) November 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/tweegeemee/status/1195500195439677440)
Climate is a disaster response issue.
— Dr. Samantha Montano (@SamLMontano) November 16, 2019
Climate is a disaster recovery issue.
Climate is a disaster mitigation issue.
Climate is a disaster preparedness issue. https://t.co/god7Q8CWwc
(via http://twitter.com/SamLMontano/status/1195492086734360581)
“Lifeforms are lagoons, repressed pockets of forgetting, temporarily protecting themselves against the outside that created them and will destroy them” (Mackay 2012, 28). pic.twitter.com/kTg0vRQcI9
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) November 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1195328702646587392)
test-driving a take that the “tv or cinema” debate is a misunderstanding of the only truly significant distinction between different branches of the arts, which is Going Out vs Staying In
— Mark Asch (@therealmarkasch) November 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/therealmarkasch/status/1195466669038145537)
Our glorious algorithmic future. When “garbage in, garbage out” was just the world of programming it was one thing, now it’s bleeding into the real world like the stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
— Karl Burke (@burkekarl) November 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/burkekarl/status/1195098286799110144)
Interesting exercise:
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 11, 2019
1. Write down the question “Whose side are you on?”
2. Write down one answer only.
3. Don’t tell anyone your answer, but think about it.
(via http://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1193916828218576896)
The memory of a memory of a memory is what we see inside the fractal kaleidoscope of our minds as “observed reality”.
— ((( 1/f ))) (@fadesingh) November 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/fadesingh/status/1193908327505256448)
& this is an excellent accompanying article debunking Pinker & co claims to rationality:https://t.co/bYvknkPAd0
— monika bielskyte (@monikabielskyte) November 9, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/monikabielskyte/status/1193064116988108801)
Cuneiform in Iraqi street art. These are the Sumerian logograms ama-gi4 𒂼 𒄄
— Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid (@Moudhy) November 7, 2019
In cuneiform texts, the term refers to a reversion to a previous state, like in the manumission or release of slaves. In modern contexts, it has come to mean freedom #IraqProtests pic.twitter.com/WfJTaobK0J
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan” - Eliel Saarinen
— Leisa Reichelt (@leisa) November 7, 2019
Which means you need to research the next larger context and not just ‘your’ thing.
Banquet in the Thames Tunnel, George Jones (attrib?), 1827. pic.twitter.com/lSTnrLnh3E
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) November 8, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1192867968432115713)
A good hack to find interesting ideas to work on is to start with a word that seems to pick out an important concept, but has been rendered annoyingly vacuous by abusive overextension. Examples: strategy, meaning, irony. Other examples?
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) November 7, 2019
the intersection of art and technology is closed until further notice
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) November 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1192196660115447813)
The S-curve of the Great Weirding is entering its terminal plateau level. We’re entering the permaweird.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) November 6, 2019
If it weighs you down it’s a taxonomy, if it frees you up, it’s an ontology https://t.co/NxMWucezE2
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) November 5, 2019
“We think of our future as anticipated memories.”
— ((( 1/f ))) (@fadesingh) November 4, 2019
- Daniel Kahneman https://t.co/y4Bxw4k7ea
(via http://twitter.com/fadesingh/status/1191373538277462018)
Scientists: there is a zombie outbreak
— Kate Marvel (@DrKateMarvel) November 4, 2019
Think tanks: The zombies are a natural cycle
Politicians: I’m not a zombie expert
Business: click here to calculate your personal footprint #walkingless
Media: Let’s listen to this zombie denier! (undisclosed: he eats brains)
Public: *eaten*
(via http://twitter.com/DrKateMarvel/status/1191362942995959810)
the specification that can be written down is not the true specification
— Chaos (@chaosprime) November 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1191448253243514882)
If you find yourself getting sucked into an ideological rabbit hole, run some stress tests by reading the smartest critiques from the other side.
— Jason Snyder (@cognazor) November 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/cognazor/status/1191380641209823232)
I dont agree with what Richard Spencer has to say but I’ll defend to the death his right to get punched in the face
— saeen (@saeen90_) November 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/saeen90_/status/1191340207112630272)
Blade Runner’s 2019 is prisoner firefighters battling a burning California while the internet rages with bots passing as humans.
— dan hon (@hondanhon) November 2, 2019
People always forget reality will always win at being weirder and sideways to what we’re capable of imagining.
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1190753708839034880)
“global computing infrastructure has become so concentrated around just 10 or 15 major hubs ..that the internet itself has become brittle and bottlenecked…This fragility has made it vulnerable to sabotage and natural disasters” #infinitedetail https://t.co/UniEmwnYfr
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) November 2, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1190694872409411584)
I finally realized why I generally dislike consuming audio and video: I’m not able to use any of my strengths in reading speed/comprehension, info processing, note taking, deeper reflection, & skipping/scanning. It’s like being stuck in the slow lane with steering wheel locked
— Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) November 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1190056157257318400)
That feeling that all your peers have figured out something important you haven’t and moved on in some way, leaving you behind? It’s universal.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) November 1, 2019
It’s the human galactic red shift. Everybody has figured out something unique and is receding from everybody else.
Happy Halloween 💀
People criticize tech companies for putting money above principle, but Github is holding on to a $100K ICE contract despite employee anger, and Facebook says it will continue to sell toxic political ads that are 0.5% of revenue. These are clear examples of putting principle first
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) October 31, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1190018795873681417)
SUBVERT YOUR COMPUTER
— ALGORAVE ADVICE (@ALGORAVE_ADVICE) October 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ALGORAVE_ADVICE/status/1189659033948561408)
Some music for end of October festivities. Have a feeling @the_eco_thought @deziluzija and @zzkt might appreciate this. The power of SLOW.https://t.co/A07f2oM4iW
— celina.osuna (@celina_osuna_) October 31, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/celina_osuna_/status/1189711104701677568)
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I’ve been tinkering with the @edenproject Dazzlebug citizen science installation, been having issues because it’s too popular! 139 bug hunters yesterday afternoon alone… pic.twitter.com/q9nDjoFF04
— Dave Griffiths (FoAM Kernow) (@nebogeo) October 30, 2019