how much of “western culture” is just unprocessed PTSD from the Black Plague
— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) October 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1188807921645375489)
interior geometry of the planet, by people you don’t know, in a language you don’t speak.
— notaleptic (@notaleptic) October 29, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/notaleptic/status/1189074387619778560)
When climate change meets @internetofshit. https://t.co/nTad09XP7Z
— Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly) October 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/AmberFirefly/status/1188949133215895552)
“Data as oil,” “data as property,” “data as water,” “data as labor,” and “data as nuclear waste,” and the list goes on.
— giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) October 28, 2019
The more I think about it, the more I land on a new metaphor — data as a red herring https://t.co/vvYIgEDI5i
(via http://twitter.com/gquaggiotto/status/1188753286762876929)
“well, it’s a big question, i’m busy today so I’m not going to discuss it with you”
— Tim Etchells (@Tim_Etchells) October 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Tim_Etchells/status/1188779266353311744)
I think the secret to being a productive programmer is to relentlessly accumulate tricks for getting interesting things done with the least amount of effort
— Simon Willison (@simonw) October 27, 2019
Then keep an eye out for opportunities to apply those tricks for the most possible leverage
‘I see no reason to suppose that the air about us and the heavenly spaces over us may not be peopled by intelligences, or entities, or forms of life, as unintelligible to us as we are to the insects. … [We] are part of an infinite series…’
— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) October 26, 2019
—#Whitehead
1943—image: Lewandowski pic.twitter.com/TA6IZInI5x
(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1187885372094722048)
I like how Silicon Valley has rebranded “skipping breakfast” as “intermittent fasting”
— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) October 26, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/oliviasolon/status/1188131647914250240)
“What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.” - @nntaleb
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb Bot (@nntalebbot) October 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/nntalebbot/status/1187511648975806465)
Just Taking You Apart And Arranging You Into A Circle I Try To Put You Back Together But Carelessly I’ve Lost Too Many Pieces Whoops Now You’re The Milky Way
— Keiji Haino (@HardyGuideyMan) October 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/HardyGuideyMan/status/1187794721277644802)
Live shows this winter:
— ON (@omeednorouzi) October 21, 2019
10.27 ~ ‘Sunwarped’ at the lunchbox in Phoenix
11.02 ~ ‘Perpetual Dune’ at the palms in Joshua tree pic.twitter.com/ogGyCiBPmI
(via http://twitter.com/omeednorouzi/status/1186413243574575105)
tell me more about the slime-being amalgamation event
— Spectral Slime (@EnsendadaSlime) October 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/EnsendadaSlime/status/1187374264275656712)
Melting Owl in direct sunlight pic.twitter.com/wlHOfyUd3U
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) October 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1187451083427176448)
Our emotional reaction to climate collapse will shape our response at least as much as our intellectual understanding. Rage. Fear. Grief. #TYF2019
— Jamais Cascio (@cascio) October 24, 2019
“Certainly there had been trouble coming. Anyone who had had any experience of wars would have seen it coming long before the afternoon that Mack ran down Morris the Florist."
— ⚫Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) October 24, 2019
Chapter 4, The Summer Before the War, The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1187425295973965824)
“The battle for freedom is not fought alone on the great fronts. It is fought in every home, in every community, in every state in the world. it is fought in the mind and heart of every man.”
— ⚫Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) October 24, 2019
Jack Whiteside Parsons - Freedom is a Two-edged Sword
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1187424894197338115)
Anyone to a designer: “looks weird”
— Jess Eddy (Earth) 💜 (@jesseddy) October 24, 2019
Designer: “can you be more specific?”
Designer to designer: “looks weird”
Other designer: “yeah, it does”
(via http://twitter.com/jesseddy/status/1187200917243744258)
The idea of Multiscale Localism:
— Joe Norman (@normonics) October 23, 2019
The smaller the scope of the system, the more tightly bound together the agents comprising the system are and ought to be
As we expand scope, coupling among agents becomes weaker and weaker, towards independence
Timeless design principle.
(via http://twitter.com/normonics/status/1187068911986118661)
Oh you like ontology? Name all the things
— Beloved public intellectual William James (@WilliamJamesN2O) October 23, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/WilliamJamesN2O/status/1187040665252880384)
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(via http://twitter.com/crashtxt/status/1186986588288573442)
The most sci-fi spatial experience I’ve ever had wasn’t in a skyscraper or some geodesic dome. It was sitting in the climate-controlled antechamber at the Scrovegni Chapel, adjusting to the microclimate designed to protect Giotto’s frescoes. It wa like the airlock of a spaceship.
— Soon-Tzu Speechley 孫子 (@speechleyish) October 23, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/speechleyish/status/1186822047504068608)
Hypothetically, if you were, say, a member of Congress sitting on the Financial Services Committee given 5 minutes to question Mark Zuckerberg, what would you ask? 🤔
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 22, 2019
“INFORMATIC COSMOLOGY” 🐉🔥
— nicolasnova (@nicolasnova) October 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/nicolasnova/status/1186752919061913601)
all these djs do is buckfast, berghain settimes, flight delay complain, soulseek, dark club insta story, b2b, nts window, excited to announce and die
— Harvey Sutherland (@harvysutherland) October 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/harvysutherland/status/1186549595200880646)
Yugoslavia
— Hun Dude (@HunDude) October 22, 2019
Was this a valuable use of my time? No.
— alex c 🔜 supanova (@alex_cattoo) October 19, 2019
But am I proud of the end result? Also no.#UntitledGooseGame #TTRPG pic.twitter.com/ShU8tIfnOS
(via http://twitter.com/alex_cattoo/status/1185682121941143552)
So were all clear: there already is a price on carbon. It’s just that the wrong people are paying it.
— Crazy Bat Lady 🥰🦇🥰🦇 (@MaryHeglar) October 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MaryHeglar/status/1186428359787646983)
thanks I hate it. and literally everything else
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) October 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1186405522905423873)
which idiot called it a “Robot Butler” and not an “Uncanny Valet”
— Grant “s 3 cursed wishes” Howitt (@gshowitt) October 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/gshowitt/status/1186386348619587590)
When the signal gets noisy and processing it gets expensive, most people go tribal to cope but a few turn into asshole free riders arbitraging across tribal epistemologies.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) October 20, 2019
We should call this truth hacking.
I saw a guy at Starbucks today.
— Dave Vescio (@DaveVescio) October 18, 2019
No iPhone.
No tablet.
No laptop.
He just sat there.
Drinking coffee.
Like a Psychopath.
(via http://twitter.com/DaveVescio/status/1185207873199960065)
My favorite example of unintended consequences of technology is “when mark zuckerberg created facebook so that he could rank the hottest girls at harvard, he probably didn’t think that one day it could be used as a tool to help undermine democracy” https://t.co/mThwu5kBFY
— Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD (@cfiesler) October 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/cfiesler/status/1184968785536548864)
Within the autocorrect and predictive text lays Silicon Valley’s true agenda
— JAMES FERRARO (@LIL_ICEBUNNY) October 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/LIL_ICEBUNNY/status/1185329288364642307)
Every few months I remember that the KLF burned £1,000,000https://t.co/g5YF64TU0w pic.twitter.com/F8qAr3ep84
— Jer Thorp (@blprnt) October 18, 2019
When I die I’m going to donate my body to the Humanities. I don’t want some STEMlords poking around inside my organs. I would much rather have a bunch of English majors & MFA candidates just sort of have at it & do what they see fit with my corpse. Lord knows they have so little.
— cowboi dan (@midnight_cowboi) October 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/midnight_cowboi/status/1184840308418203648)
artificial neural nets are terrible because they always generate idiosyncratic schematizations that make no sense, can’t be communicated about and break in weird ways
— Chaos (@chaosprime) October 18, 2019
good thing people never do that
(via http://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1185282681841606656)
We are so close to being able to release the final Crap App!
— Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly) October 18, 2019
It’s gone through full testing by agronomists to check all the calculations, and is already recommended by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, just waiting for final sign-off…https://t.co/ErVvxWndqI pic.twitter.com/cvBMepriV6
(via http://twitter.com/AmberFirefly/status/1185272277610434560)
v93r was at the corn fields. yes, the sky was made of lead. The noises were plenty. Out:https://t.co/yiIXS9UAES
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) October 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1185227528698507264)
Painting of a recluse in his secluded cottage near Shanghai, done in 1360 when the Mongol rule of China was coming to an end. The recluse’s friends & guests left their poems on the painting; one is the descendant of a Tangut general who settled in South China as a Yuan statesman. pic.twitter.com/kAOZhLLxH3
— Jin Xu (@xujnx) October 18, 2019
“No mouth, no stomach, no eyes, yet it can detect food and digest it. The blob also has almost 720 sexes, can move without legs or wings and heals itself in two minutes if cut in half.” This news story reads like it just plagiarised Deleuze and Guattari…https://t.co/fciVeULCTP
— Sal 10000 (@Sal100001) October 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Sal100001/status/1184645040171208704)
Technically, this is CGI.
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) October 18, 2019
Computers are very, very different now. https://t.co/nYd3ieuTXz
Humans performed better on a cognitive task while being observed by a mean robot who insulted their intelligence than while being observed by a nice robot or while not being observed:https://t.co/SEIsRVGtwx pic.twitter.com/E91E2ApRgl
— Cory Clark (@ImHardcory) October 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ImHardcory/status/1184423265529421824)
don’t you fucking tell me what to do, paul pic.twitter.com/y68yk6pDqN
— unconsciousness enthusiast ☭ (@asoftdragon) October 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/asoftdragon/status/1185015783736446976)
I think it’s time to give up on the fiction that fossil fuel companies will voluntarily reduce their emissions or help with decarbonization. It’s also important to keep this behavior in mind when they come begging for bailouts as clean energy surges and their businesses fail. https://t.co/pv3JwYA3NL
— Melissa Powers (@RenewablePowers) October 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/RenewablePowers/status/1184839504139440128)
this is the future u/acc wants pic.twitter.com/PO4pB0BQep
— 🌎🌵the 🚀🌌cosmist 💣✊insurrection 🏴🚩 (@yungneocon) October 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1184936121819713539)
The inability to talk honestly about relative magnitudes led to stupid stuff like the “we’re running out of landfills” panic of the 1990’s, the ban on straws and aviation-shaming today, and will lead to a backlash where we are all driving Hummers in a Venus-like environment
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) October 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1184867378393313282)
What primordial origin myth story was prevalent:
— Keerthik Sasidharan (@KS1729) October 16, 2019
P — world Parent
G — primordial Giant
E — primordial Egg
(Originally studied by H. Baumann) pic.twitter.com/AvWWBIAjDg
Remember when I said in the Protocols talk that older ideological distinctions are no longer sufficient to distinguish the biggest companies from scene stuff? Yeah I was talking about the ease by which Amazon (the biggest) can start a fest called “Intersect”. It’ll get stranger.
— Mat Dryhurst (@matdryhurst) October 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/matdryhurst/status/1184888401121689606)
Our music was born from the sounds of jazz, funk, soul, noise - sounds with no other reason to exist, except because they did.. The plan was there is no plan, just start at the beginning, end at the end & party like it’s 1999 -Joe McPhee.
— Oren Ambarchi (@orenambarchi) October 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/orenambarchi/status/1184843936705236997)
When I turned 18yo my Grandfather - a farmer - gifted me a small piece of land with 30 olive trees.
— Tobia De Angelis (@tobdea) October 16, 2019
He planted them years before - meticulously planning so that as I turned 18, his gift would be fruitful and I could produce my own oil.
I think about this a lot.
It’s a mistake to think integrating extra musical ideas into music suggests privilege. The opposite is often true - many people think about other stuff by necessity because they have to work; hanging about expensive cities thinking solely about art is only real for the rich now
— Mat Dryhurst (@matdryhurst) October 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/matdryhurst/status/1184409310031425536)
If standing up against the climate and ecological breakdown and for humanity is against the rules then the rules must be broken.#ExtinctionRebellion https://t.co/i3S9gC0fpL
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) October 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1184188303295336448)
Speaking of DB Cooper, my favorite crime history trivia is that in the 70s so many planes were hijacked that the FBI considered building a fake Cuba off the coast of Florida so pilots could fly hijackers there to be arrested.
— Drac 🦇 Bloodryk (@BudrykZack) October 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/BudrykZack/status/1184225227385065475)
REMINDER THAT YOU CAN JUST KINDA PUT SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THINGS. he’s public domain so you can just kinda use him wherever. i made him break up with a wizard
— Heather ⬢ Flowers (@HTHRFLWRS) October 12, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/HTHRFLWRS/status/1182861021116911616)
who are the kind of people who snorkle the internet
— Gretchen McCulloch (@GretchenAMcC) October 13, 2019
or what about spelunking the internet
(via http://twitter.com/GretchenAMcC/status/1183222799655149568)
My expert analysis, as a historian, is that things are going to get worse before they get even more worse.
— Adam Rothman (@arothmanhistory) October 10, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/arothmanhistory/status/1182407113303363592)
New post: after 13 years as a fellow with @longnow and over a decade of teaching futures, I’m currently running a class at @cmudesign on long-term thinking. Here’s the syllabus.https://t.co/rWUUfsfChu #longtermthinking #longshorts pic.twitter.com/QP5nKyQlks
— Stuart Candy (@futuryst) October 10, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/futuryst/status/1182383919079010309)
My sense is that changing liability dynamics due to climate change breaks the business model of PG&E. There’s some apparent jank, in terms of safety spend vs. dividends paid to investors, but I don’t see how this infrastructure requirement still works as a private concern.
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) October 10, 2019
The outcomes of natural selection consist entirely of unintended consequences.
— Stewart Brand (@stewartbrand) October 9, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1182011022682574848)
Unusual: manuscript with square-bracket glossing that is rather late (15th century) and contains an unusual text/genre for this particular page design (classical, Seneca) (Aix-en-Provence, BM, 1524) pic.twitter.com/yOltjb0MDv
— Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) October 9, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/status/1181962553628483584)
Try to be more like a 91-year-old getting arrested for protesting against climate change rather than a middle-aged wanker sitting on Twitter endlessly calling a 16-year-old girl a freak for not wanting the planet to fucking burn pic.twitter.com/K0adGoIWqh
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) October 9, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1181943577477357571)
First class: get a ‘smart’ object that is broken. You have technical support to open it but you need to find out what’s wrong on your own. Mechanical, electronics, software. You have to do the research on your own or ask ‘Masters’ for guidance.
— Alexandra D-S (@iotwatch) October 9, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/iotwatch/status/1181943469310447616)
Who says Singapore history is boring? pic.twitter.com/ixGMnMcNfO
— Dhevarajan Devadas (@historyogi) October 8, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/historyogi/status/1181432788530143233)
everyone is excited about the new microsoft flight simulator using real-world bing data but *i* am excited about the possibilities of a real-world, planet-scale katamari simulator
— untitled dan game (@hondanhon) October 8, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1181581023726800897)
Ghosteen.https://t.co/Vu21pP1XKD
— honor harger (@honorharger) October 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/honorharger/status/1180857189696598016)
Received the most beautifully-wrapped package in the post today, filled with precious words and images. The pages shimmer. @_foam @deziluzija @the_eco_thought https://t.co/TvfEbMjsQ2 pic.twitter.com/xrCLOmh4W6
— Lisa Hoffman (@LisaHof57603613) October 5, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/LisaHof57603613/status/1180597896812433408)
The real “smart city” was invented millennia ago. No high tech no fossil fuels no global supply chain necessary. #GoodUrbanism pic.twitter.com/zlw69Ms2qc
— brain mentality (@marx_knopfler) October 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/marx_knopfler/status/1180124629299580928)
When is the last time you listened to the #desert? 🌵🌵 Currently housed in Hayden Library, the Acoustic Ecology Salon… where smells, images, text & audio all come together for an immersive desert listening experience. https://t.co/CfAvWK5TX7 @ihr_asu @asuEnglish pic.twitter.com/kIrygNZLhn
— ASU Library (@ASULibraries) October 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ASULibraries/status/1179906573612638209)
“Dust and Shadow,” a collaboration between @ASU faculty and @_foam founders @deziluzija and @zzkt, seeks to reimagine our relationship with the desert via sensory experiences. Visit the Acoustic Ecology Salon at Hayden Library.@ihr_asu @ASUgreen @SynthesisASU @ASULibraries
— ASU Now (@asunews) October 4, 2019
Simple class excercise — create an instruction for a drawing, pass it to a neighbor, who makes the drawing from the instructions, who passes it to a neighbor who interprets the instructions who passes it to a neighbor to make a new drawing from the new instructions pic.twitter.com/VlFTCFLOEH
— zach lieberman (@zachlieberman) October 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/zachlieberman/status/1179789258724446208)
“Rewilding AI” My talk on 14 October: The future is more ecological than digital. Therefore AI can: reconnect man and nature; be an infra for ecosystem repair; make AgTech serve agroecology; enable farmer-city, & social-ecological, governance. https://t.co/TPzxoNQNuF pic.twitter.com/knCAbWAIfK
— john thackara 约翰·萨卡拉. (@johnthackara) October 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/johnthackara/status/1180076160295870464)
To those who question my so called “opinions”, I would once again want to refer to page 108, chapter 2 in the SR1,5 IPCC report released last year.
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) October 2, 2019
There you’ll find our rapidly declining CO2 budgets. This is not opinions or politics. It’s the current best available science. ->
(via http://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1179507708493471744)
Jardín de Astronomía, Valencia. For @fadesingh Transporting me back to the Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, and meeting the one and only all those years ago. pic.twitter.com/3n4KhixShn
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) October 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1179094814400401408)
A defining American trait, and the neatest bit of elite inception in history.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) September 29, 2019
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― Ronald Wright
“Ballooning spiders operate within this planetary electric field. When their silk leaves their bodies, it typically picks up a negative charge. This repels the similar negative charges on the surfaces on which the spiders sit, creating enough force to lift them into the air. “
— honor harger (@honorharger) September 29, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/honorharger/status/1178161844202004481)
In A Flash All The Trains Arrive At Once
— Keiji Haino (@HardyGuideyMan) September 27, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/HardyGuideyMan/status/1177606284570484737)
“A distillation of atmospheres, questions and conversations from FoAM’s intermittent journeys into dust and shadow…”https://t.co/etT5uEGHa7
— FoAM (@_foam) September 25, 2019
a lawyer holds up the founding texts of international law, a span of four centuries. “these,” he says, “these are books of the holocene.”
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) September 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1176812692297977857)
Desert Humanities: Attunement to the Desert
— Sam Mickey (@doctormickey) September 24, 2019
Wonderful work by @deziluzija and @zzkt from @_foam and an acoustic ecology talk by @the_eco_thought , “Self-Explanatory Planetary Information”https://t.co/l1ORk5Gv3D
(via http://twitter.com/doctormickey/status/1176557022403153920)
@manimalicious introduces panel w/ @the_eco_thought Adam Nocek & Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney of FoAM for Desert Humanities “Creating Interdisciplinary Collaboration” event @ihr_asu pic.twitter.com/rjBwJZFrRp
— Devoney Looser (@devoneylooser) September 23, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/devoneylooser/status/1176191091155951617)
Wondrous cinematic experience. Thank you so much for that.
— Lisa Hoffman (@LisaHof57603613) September 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/LisaHof57603613/status/1176296408132882433)
Google Alerts has been broken for a long time, but every now and then it still emails me:
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) September 23, 2019
1) Pirated copies of one of my books, or
2) Someone saying something nasty about me on Mastodon, or
3) A munge of a scrape of something repurposed on a Chinese e-commerce scam site
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) September 23, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1176178097323945984)
FoAM vinyl, by @zzkt & @deziluzija
— Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly) September 23, 2019
‘Each record is packaged with dust, sand and detritus collected from the Sonoran, Mojave and Great Basin deserts which can be used for further physical manipulation and divergence from the recorded sound matter.’https://t.co/RpzjBwRwiK https://t.co/BT8lxHDRW5
(via http://twitter.com/AmberFirefly/status/1176150053834186752)
“From the space between the cells to the space between the stars.” #newmusic #nowplaying #listentothis #AutumnEquinox
— FoAM (@_foam) September 23, 2019
“Our gradual attunement to the desert expanse, its climate, rhythms and scales. Layered time. Material wonder. Being part of the world without romanticising wilderness or drawing hard distinctions between the desert and the cities within it…” https://t.co/707RRkHzKR https://t.co/xaGDcF9OFg
— FoAM (@_foam) September 23, 2019
IMHO it’s cheap to invoke parallel worlds just to avoid a piddling little yes-and-no time travel paradox. It’s like using an H-bomb to light a joint. There’s always gonna be a tricky way out of any seeming paradox, if you think hard enough.
— Rudy Rucker (@rudytheelder) September 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/rudytheelder/status/1175592698452959232)
“It’s as if all birds are canaries, and the entire world their coal mine.” https://t.co/pBCNr6EuAI
— Ed Yong (@edyong209) September 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1174807859013541888)
Pilot project in Stockholm - photo radar cameras measure speed of passing cars. Those above the speed limit receive a fine. Those below are entered into a lottery for a chance to win a portion of the fines from speeders (up to $3000). Average speeds fell from 32km/h to 25 km/h. pic.twitter.com/F3WSTlVVlW
— Brent Bellamy (@brent_bellamy) September 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/brent_bellamy/status/1174495102590435329)
my top 5 research methods:
— 胡子哥 (@SanNuvola) September 19, 2019
- make a mixtape
- talk to the bots
- bust a deadline because of a noise gig
- take very long screenshots of apps
- say yes to everything
(via http://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1174590704686755840)
Ahead of the *.wav, farmers manual und glitches, bleeps und sich wiederholende Schallwellen fließen aus den Yamaha-Türmen. Keine Stimmen. Kühl. Kein Gefühl. Okaygut, le chien qui mange la rue, sowas hat auch Gefühl. https://t.co/SKiicBd04V
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) September 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1174638815903961088)
The @meaningness model of how meaning fell apart (choiceless –> systematic –> countercultural –> subcultural –> atomized) and how it can be reconstructed (fluidity) rhymes well with my monotemporality –> atemporality –> multitemporality model https://t.co/fPzYVeV36K
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) September 16, 2019
The glamorous life of the traveling weave-coder. Cheap hotel debugging last night, today train London -> München via quick stop in Paris @ercpenelope pic.twitter.com/0iZTLFxzJG
— Dave Griffiths (FoAM Kernow) (@nebogeo) September 15, 2019
Earlier this summer I began noting the troublesome spike in atmospheric methane readings from Barrow AK. Someone commented they were likely in error. Nope. These record high readings over 2000 ppb are real and part of a record spike up in Arctic methane levels this year. pic.twitter.com/7fqw0U7Ft1
— Randall Gates (@rgatess) September 14, 2019
‘Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton.’
— Jonathan Coe (@jonathancoe) September 13, 2019
Alexei Sayle on R4 last night.
(via http://twitter.com/jonathancoe/status/1172431888482324481)
Last playtest / rehearsal with live sound and visuals is DONE. Next stop Ruhrtrienniale in Bochum, where we get to do this with a crowd of 75 trainees 😬: https://t.co/R5XjswNFML https://t.co/7hNJPx2SZT
— Sjef van Gaalen (@thesjef) September 12, 2019
v93r, longterm farmersmanual lurker, has been at the radios again. And the recording got automagically edited by autoedit.https://t.co/IIX6JDu1SJ
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) September 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1171842754252562432)
Last tweaks on the new Pattern Matrix prototype for @DeutschesMuseum and @ercpenelope. It’s a tangible programming interface meaning you can programme stuff by moving blocks of wood around rather than coding on a screen. This one is made from felt and conductive thread. pic.twitter.com/7BlebJJWej
— Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly) September 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/AmberFirefly/status/1171747896896774146)
If I’m honest, the Extremely Large Eels hypothesis is doing little to assuage my fear of lake cryptids.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) September 5, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1169565387761029126)
every utterance of a Brand is a tiny mental DDoS attack on humanity
— spiderfood (@ckhonson) September 4, 2019
every time you hear one your brain has to pause and go “warning, group of people trying to distort my perception to siphon my life-money” before carrying on
(via http://twitter.com/ckhonson/status/1169377515619569665)
Introducing Universal Adversarial Triggers
— Eric Wallace (@Eric_Wallace_) September 3, 2019
Phrases that cause a specific model prediction when concatenated to 𝘢𝘯𝘺 input.
Result
- GPT-2 turns racist
- SQuAD models predict “to kill american people” for 72% of “why” questions
- Classifier acc 90%->1%https://t.co/LOpnBeERQ9 pic.twitter.com/a7yLZeXLdX
(via http://twitter.com/Eric_Wallace_/status/1168907518623571974)