A comprehensive “tour d’horizon of contemporary Speculative Design practice” by @julianisland Including bits from a forthcoming interview with FoAM’s @deziluzija and @zzkt for @speculativeedu https://t.co/PfZvrZKjzP
— FoAM (@_foam) September 4, 2019
Sigh. LAM came first. then Drexicya in the Bass section of Record Time in the early to mid 90s. then Elecktroids, The Other People Place, Transllusion and so on. those records exposed me to another dimension. Grateful for James Stinson & all of his contributions. 🖤 #DrexciyaDay
— Mike Servito (@mikeservito) September 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/mikeservito/status/1169019267662143488)
Vintage Diving Suits (1914, 1925, 1931) pic.twitter.com/Eh5uidmfAb
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) September 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1169007135608496128)
Yes, yes, surveillance, vampire squid, evil credit, etc etc, I know, I know, but from a product design point of view, it’s really really good.
— Ben Hammersley (@benhammersley) September 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/benhammersley/status/1168933841354051585)
I’m on a quest for Hawaiian snails named after Christian missionaries and their descendants. There are just so many! Amongst the Achatinella, my current list includes A. baldwinii, A. stewartii, A. cookei, A. juddii, A. dolei… Please feel free to share other examples. pic.twitter.com/0titj560Oz
— Thom van Dooren (@thomvandooren) September 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thomvandooren/status/1168734460633681920)
“You divide, I choose” remains the single most basic principle of voluntary social organization. It really should be an entire academic subdiscipline by itself, like prisoner’s dilemma
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) September 2, 2019
In the late 1960s and early 70s, American photographer Arthur Tress asked children to describe their nightmares, immortalizing them in staged photographs pic.twitter.com/2UvrnwHHXt
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) September 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1168222079377801216)
the collapse is here, it’s just not evenly distributed
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) September 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1167995337295814658)
Tldr: don’t debate, don’t seek common ground. Just try to keep the game going as long as possible exploring common NEW ground.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) August 31, 2019
Endland is a collection of cut-up dystopian fables set in a fractured half-hallucinated version of England. The Autumn launch is getting closer. “And the Gods looked down on Endland (sic) and tbh they were pretty unhappy how it all turned out”. https://t.co/UFuem0nY6C
— Tim Etchells (@Tim_Etchells) August 29, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Tim_Etchells/status/1167002266555076608)
JMW Turner, ‘The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons’ (c.1834) pic.twitter.com/6JnuaQAiXP
— Jeremy Millar (@jeremy_millar_1) August 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/jeremy_millar_1/status/1166631949890400256)
An annoying thing about picking words to use for things is that major uses that came before are often inconsistent. For example, the word “atemporality” means interesting but slightly different things in the ways @bruces @GreatDismal mean it, versus the way Ursula Le Guin used it
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) August 27, 2019
We’ve never had a cultural model for an apocalypse that lasts for a century or two. We don’t even know how to make a movie or a pop song about such a slow catastrophe.
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) August 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1165418096636485633)
Zero carbon commuting on the Nudibranch! pic.twitter.com/CRDIpeAkeo
— Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly) August 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/AmberFirefly/status/1164453405483503617)
The test pressing of Dust & Shadow, FoAM’s first vinyl has arrived! Stay tuned… the release is planned on the 23rd of September. pic.twitter.com/iqjuUix22Z
— FoAM (@_foam) August 22, 2019
Really pleased to publish ‘Para-Photo-Mancy’ and an accompanying essay in the latest issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. The issue addresses ‘Interface’ as an agentially charged field. https://t.co/0KGV8aderF pic.twitter.com/k9RKuegQDK
— Sam Nightingale (@Night_Sam) August 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Night_Sam/status/1164514546826059777)
I saw a claim that the Amazon Rainforest provides 20% of the world’s oxygen, so I went to go see if that was correct. My initial query came back flooded w/20% off deals on Amazon, and boy if that ain’t the most perfect, sad crystallization of this cursed moment in human history.
— Jake Buehler (@buehlersciwri) August 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/buehlersciwri/status/1164283941274079233)
.@focx & I made a kaleidoscopic compass of speculative multispecies imaginaries#solarpunk#morethanhuman pic.twitter.com/1Q9cVJYNTr
— Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo)August 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1163840255033827329)
Still the simple best explanation of what machine learning is compared to classical programming. pic.twitter.com/grHOIxoW3y
— Thibaut (@Kpaxs) August 18, 2019
“Abandoned mines are a large scale opportunity to decarbonise heat.” https://t.co/HhdQ1IIV6R
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) August 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1163172244262137861)
“I don’t have a train of thought. I have a trolley problem.”
— dan hon is back (@hondanhon) August 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1162766202545963010)
If Your Mouth Was Turned Off Just For A Moment We Might All Become Weightless And This Endless Book Could Finally Be Closed
— Keiji Haino (@HardyGuideyMan) August 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/HardyGuideyMan/status/1162383502727417856)
I am so proud of being a real person who enjoys his work in the wonderfully humane Amazon fulfillment centers. I am happy I love box I get so many pee breaks I am so full of organs.
— Joaquin - Amazon FC Ambassador 📦 (@joabaldwin) August 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/joabaldwin/status/1162034873571221505)
“how do you write a eulogy for a glacier?” striking, closes with a figure of time that I hadn’t come across before.https://t.co/NmqJqhmkw2
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) August 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1161548140236988416)
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This girl tweeted from her smart fridge after her mom took her phone. I am overcome. https://t.co/dlOOytujN2
— Tracie Hunte (@TracieHunte) August 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/TracieHunte/status/1161090440059396101)
Release trailer for Eliza, a neat-looking visual novel about an AI counselling programme. https://t.co/kikqlCfkKb
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) August 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1161213392096546816)
I’m loving these unhinged acceleration assemblage compasses so so hard. This one is great.
— Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) August 13, 2019
Pls send me them if you come across them. https://t.co/A0yNEfQ7hG
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1161217454040932353)
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Ooh, just found these wonderful diagrams of internal time/alphabet/number structures of people with time-space / sequential synaesthesia in an *1893* issue Popular Science … they’re like concrete poems! 😍😍I see time/letter/numbers like this, do you? (https://t.co/CzTkAuOLDP) pic.twitter.com/m1l4eSB7dh
— Stefanie Posavec (@stefpos) August 9, 2019
Whenever I am working on policy decisions I think of this image… 🚴♂️ pic.twitter.com/GE3yyDmjs0
— Councillor Peter Fortune (@PeterTFortune) August 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/PeterTFortune/status/1159176114230763520)
Question: Is the most effective thing that can happen to decelerate climate change and species extinction, a very severe and prolonged global economic crisis? If we take that to be true, current leaders globally are doing an excellent job crashing the system quickly. #degrowth
— samim (@samim) August 9, 2019
we’re a label, we have artist, new artist, but it’s #inaud1bl3 #generateandtest
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) August 8, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1159530451394072576)
Imagine those 80+ Biodiversity observation platforms were all open source and used a common protocol for (data) exchange… cc @carrieseltzer https://t.co/q8sPFwSgb5
— samim (@samim) August 8, 2019
Next time you make a mistake in lab, just remember: at least you didn’t spill Tardigrades on the moon.
— Susanna L Harris (@SusannaLHarris) August 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SusannaLHarris/status/1158909168499200001)
I have a list of Really Expensive Things That Have Their Own Twitter Accounts - do you have any suggestions?
— dan hon is back (@hondanhon) August 7, 2019
Note: I haven’t included airports for some reason, but have included bridges, canals, wind farms, ships, aircraft, space probes etchttps://t.co/Zo4xJDwmkg
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1159195147004866560)
Very pleased and thoroughly intimidated to be one of the 2019 recipients of the @artfund’s New Collecting Awards to build the @V_and_A’s digital design collection. Among excellent folk, congrats to my fellow awardees! https://t.co/SlXByPTosp
— Natalie D Kane (@nd_kane) August 7, 2019
74 years ago today, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. There are some pictures of this event from the air, and a few from the ground, and many of the aftermath. But this is the one I find most affecting. pic.twitter.com/xPD7DPpkkL
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1158736186174779393)
Ongoing attempt at producing GAN imagery without using the generator;
— Robbie Barrat (@DrBeef_) August 5, 2019
Usually when people make art using GANs they throw out the discriminator after training- i really wanted to throw out the generator instead and see what the discriminator knows about the structure of the body. pic.twitter.com/ALViKWJCxG
Battling tear gas with wok covers has definitely become a thing after Wong Tai Sin last night. pic.twitter.com/itCCGULJLt
— Antony Dapiran (@antd) August 4, 2019
Wonder if a good management theory could be constructed out of all the behaviors conspiracy theorists *think* Big Corporations are capable of.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) August 2, 2019
writing history as we go - #pop #steiermark exhibition museum für geschichte @Joanneum #graz pic.twitter.com/2CaIUANKjb
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) August 2, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1157320769166295041)
‘Nothing changes form so quickly as clouds, except perhaps rocks’ https://t.co/zWBp3ATdBk pic.twitter.com/MU8x9qeViV
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) August 2, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1157253493171920896)
The desert libraries of Timbuktu are well known, and have been the subject of global concern. Almost all the manuscripts have now been removed to Bamako. But there’s another, largely forgotten ancient desert library in neighbouring Mauritania, in the ghost town of Chinguetti. 1/7 pic.twitter.com/9giM6OoyHy
— Incunabula (@incunabula) July 31, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1156460080327360517)
towards unnatural selection#thisLettuceDoesNotExist #radicchioLatente pic.twitter.com/Qmr0W14lOw
— helena sarin (@glagolista) July 23, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/glagolista/status/1153625925885530112)
“Can machines think?” Surprised to read that #Turing considered telepathy (for which he claimed the evidence was “overwhelming”) to be the strongest possibility against the view that the (retroactively-named) Turing Test could provide an affirmative answer. pic.twitter.com/XDWUvCSeAJ
— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) July 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1156345167005310976)
The top image is a fictitious weather report imagining what the weather would be like in 2050 for a 2014 French TV documentary about climate change.
— Emily ‘Bergson tragic’ Herring (@EtheHerring) July 30, 2019
The bottom image is the real weather report from last week pic.twitter.com/wBpqq08LGN
(via http://twitter.com/EtheHerring/status/1156149048988119040)
I recently had the opportunity to visit an Arctic research station. One day we traveled four hours by speedboat to a stretch of exposed permafrost. The ongoing thaw had created a bizarre landscape: spongy terraces, hillocks of soil, disintegrating cliffs & scalloped walls of ice pic.twitter.com/zsezWheIr6
— Ferris Jabr (@ferrisjabr) July 29, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/1155914801719250950)
Pynchon on the secularisation of Sloth, as a sin no longer against God but “against a particular sort of time, uniform, one-way, in general not reversible—that is, against clock time, which got everybody early to bed and early to rise.” pic.twitter.com/r9CI67MiHA
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) July 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1156035479663308800)
I’m so obsessed with mine and @MelanieKKing & @SapphireGoss’s collaboration on micro/macro constellations and flipping the sky and the earth that I can’t even socialise like a normal person I just take a photo of someone’s beer because it looks like the moon pic.twitter.com/Ys5XKytNNf
— dr amy cutler (@amycutler1985) July 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/amycutler1985/status/1156161375099674625)
Experimental sonic kayak mapping in #Penryn pic.twitter.com/vIQh4AV40J
— Dave Griffiths (FoAM Kernow) (@nebogeo) July 30, 2019
Wonder how different society would be if we used more natural metaphors instead of mechanical ones.
— Ivor Williams (@ivorinfo) July 28, 2019
Germinating, branching, reinforcing, strengthening, blossoming , pollinating, fruiting, withering, stiffening, decaying, feeding, germinating…
(via http://twitter.com/ivorinfo/status/1155527056517672960)
The opposite of complexity is not simplicity, it’s reductionism. There’s nothing wrong with the reductionist method so long as we don’t confuse the method with how the world actually works.
— Rebecca Mills (@_rebeccamills) July 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/_rebeccamills/status/1155377444469129218)
the area 51 thing but someone makes an event called “Don’t Go To Work, They Can’t Fire All of Us” and then we trick everyone into a general strike by calling it a “meme”
— mike from summeяbruise (the band).com (@summerbruise69) July 27, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/summerbruise69/status/1154934728685969413)
“I reflect now that the earth is only a pebble flicked off accidentally from the face of the sun and that there is no life anywhere in the abysses of space.” pic.twitter.com/8BRjkAN0f5
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) July 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1154507631073157120)
Alternative poster for ‘Dracula’ (1931) by Vania Zouravliov and Aaron Horkey pic.twitter.com/SGFY43vSJ6
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) July 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1154439173329129472)
Tens of millions people in the Western Europe are experiencing the heat of the #climatecrisis as temperature records are being shattered across Europe.
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) July 25, 2019
There’s no planet B, there’s no time to wait. #ActOnClimate#climate #greennewdeal #HottestDayOfTheYear #hottestdayonrecord pic.twitter.com/mBYvDMiD5e
(via http://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1154425838252756993)
Yesterday was the 65th anniversary of Operation Moon Bounce. In 1954, James Trexler spoke into a microphone at our Stump Neck radio antenna facility, and his words “bounced” back 2.5 seconds later after traveling 500k miles. First transmit and return beyond the ionosphere. 🌕🎧 pic.twitter.com/rKRrYnSyZV
— U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (@USNRL) July 25, 2019
Humanity’s last message broadcast to the stars will be “the actions of a few do not reflect our values as a species or who we are as a planet.”
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) July 24, 2019
RT @judeswae@toot.thoughtworks.com
— Julien Deswaef | @xuv@merveilles.town (@xuv) July 24, 2019
If it’s made with Public Money, it should be Public Code. https://t.co/05VRX2j03N
A campaign by the FSFE. Please sign it and invite others to do so.#FreeSoftwarehttps://t.co/MAwg5v7VY2
Hands up if you think the 10,000 Year Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Markers Project (“THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR”) also works as a universal New Yorker cartoon caption in this year 2019.
— dan hon is back (@hondanhon) July 23, 2019
🙋🏻♂️
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1153717751032115200)
Wikipedia has a list of gods of time. Damn. 30 years ago this would have been many tedious trips to the library, and *if* you got lucky you might have found a reference work containing such a list. Sometimes you just have to stop and marvel https://t.co/R1Y8oYNsCc
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) July 23, 2019
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wdyt of this business card pic.twitter.com/LpEqzLiQoe
— yan (@bcrypt) July 22, 2019
In one year, a single acre of black soldier fly larvae can transform any kind of organic waste (Cafeteria refuse, manure, even toxic algae) into more protein than 3,000 acres of cattle or 130 acres of soybeans!!! pic.twitter.com/Yfid9rsRdg
— Daniel Keller 🕳 (@DnlKlr) July 21, 2019
How do we live in the 21st century? Simple. Embrace two paradoxes:
— Karl Schroeder (@KarlSchroeder) July 21, 2019
The first, our political principle, is: Zero tolerance for intolerance.
Our design principle, going forward: All our crises are globally local.
Act accordingly.
(via http://twitter.com/KarlSchroeder/status/1152934537162383360)
6 stages of recovery
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) July 20, 2019
1. Chill, eat, sleep
2. Basic triage ordering to get to minimum functional potential
3. Escapist leisure to more orderly places (TV/fiction)
4. Advanced order restoration, short of OCD
5. Energy reboot with exercise
6. Low-stakes creative work-play (poiesis)
Looking back, landing on the moon wasn’t just our job, it was a historic opportunity to prove to the world America’s can-do spirit. I’m proud to serve the country that gave me this historic opportunity. Today belongs to you. We must hold the memory of #Apollo11 close. #Apollo50th
— Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) July 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/1152577513165598723)
I believe it was Arthur C. Marx who said that any sufficiently globalized corporation is indistinguishable from empire.
— Annalee Newitz (@Annaleen) July 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Annaleen/status/1152683744014135297)
I’ve updated my cryptocurrency paper trained word2vec model. Web interface now has a concept explorer in addition to the analogy interface.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) July 20, 2019
(new model is also slightly better trained)https://t.co/ottqm3NwfS pic.twitter.com/GlMLDRuIYp
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1152624460865794050)
Unfollowed by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
— frozen reeds (@frozenreeds) July 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/frozenreeds/status/1152289554524774400)
Doing the much sparser chamfer pass, direction 1 of 3 pic.twitter.com/WUUlntv3Tn
— Frederik Vanhoutte (@wblut) July 19, 2019
Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
— dan hon is back (@hondanhon) July 19, 2019
Hon’s razor: Never attribute to bureaucratic incompetence that which is adequately explained by executive-driven institutional lack of competency and unwillingness for systemic reform.
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1152272179938992128)
Asking the right question is hard. Coming up with wrong answers is easy.
— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) July 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1152223398904381440)
The glacier “Ok” used to be a glacier but lost its status as such in 2014 when it had shrunk too much. This is a brand new memorial shield in its honour. #climatechange pic.twitter.com/0YlIewvDJe
— Olafur Margeirsson (@IcelandicEcon) July 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/IcelandicEcon/status/1152095628421423104)
The opening page of Iannis Xenakis’s ‘Metastaseis’! pic.twitter.com/o6iJtU0Qt8
— Musical Notation is Beautiful (@NotationIsGreat) July 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/NotationIsGreat/status/1152109933447581706)
vast blue skies, horizon like a sharp straight line cut across and everything else far away, below the fold.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) July 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1152222698174631938)
incredible to see an OG computational artist remaking past work with new tools. get on lia’s patreon! https://t.co/USnLqCfDs2
— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) July 18, 2019
SQUID SALMPLE summer wear! @busycircuits pic.twitter.com/1jAmeRBZT3
— Russell Haswell (@RussellHaswell) July 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/RussellHaswell/status/1152169026505924608)
Cornwall Council declared #ClimateEmergency in Jan. & plans a 20,000 acre “Forest For Cornwall”. Good for wildlife, people & climate. I esp. like that it’s distributed planting: new trees “on our streets, in our hedgerows, new woodlands & forested areas”.https://t.co/eksJHPHH5I
— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) July 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1152147443829628928)
Been experimenting with steganographic approaches to image making lately. What are we permitted to See, Know / and what can we conceal in plain sight? pic.twitter.com/2oftvE23LD
— sougwen 愫君 (@sougwen) July 18, 2019
I am so thankful and excited to win the incredible #CollideInternational award and residency and cant wait for my time at #Cern, its more than a dream come true.
— Rosa M☵☲nkmɐn (@_menkman) July 18, 2019
Besides that, it means so much to me and my research to obtain acknowledgement for my research from this institution. pic.twitter.com/6eJJ0tLZn0
(via http://twitter.com/_menkman/status/1151861246595141634)
philosophers don’t agree on most things, but they did converge (mostly) on something crucial: what types of argumentation structure are valid
— Jasmine Wang (@j_asminewang) July 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/j_asminewang/status/1151241518977564673)
Wonderful tour of @SciGalleryLon by the brilliant @_johnoshea.
— honor harger (@honorharger) July 16, 2019
Their Dark Matter exhibition is fascinating and beautifully presented.
A topic dear to my heart, intelligently handled. pic.twitter.com/pSDXSBtP7J
(via http://twitter.com/honorharger/status/1151109295338995712)
“Nearly every book has the same architecture—cover, spine, pages—but you open them onto worlds & gifts far beyond what paper & ink are. Some books are wings. Some are horses that run away with you. Some books are puzzles, mazes, tangles, jungles…”
— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) July 16, 2019
(Rebecca Solnit)
(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1151230770993913857)
The Turing Police, but they don’t go after AI that cross “the Turing line” and become sentient, they go after inappropriate usages of Turing complete languages in domains where doing so is fundamentally insecure
— dan hon is back (@hondanhon) July 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1150555740001558528)
This is because I made a VERY funny joke about a chameleon seven years ago. pic.twitter.com/cN2L1kBILH
— Tobias Revell (@tobias_revell) July 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/tobias_revell/status/1150098737798275074)
Reservoirs topped with ‘shade balls’ are my new obsession -their geometrical configuration is always shifting like the sentient ocean in Solaris. ‘How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?’ pic.twitter.com/9waFNCwuIR
— Matthew Turner (@MjTurner_) July 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MjTurner_/status/1149983039453310983)
Never complain about your enemies. You can insult them, anger them, expose them, but never whine about them.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) July 13, 2019
Push them to complain about you.
Mini-documentatry from @FIBERFestival’s Coded Matter(s): Terra Fiction last year
— Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) July 13, 2019
Features me talking about #solarpunk .
Also the voices of fellow excellent speakers @goldipipschmidt , @Catamaroon , Ivan Henriques, @mihatursic + Nik & Maja from @_foam https://t.co/RYjy1KokKu
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1149975598577651713)
My best aphorism is also my worst nightmare: Civilization is the process of turning the incomprehensible into the arbitrary.
— Venkatesh “Tactical in LA” Rao (@vgr) July 12, 2019
Ever since I thought that thought I’ve been trying to unthink it. It is not a comforting thought. Turns history into a horror movie.
I’d like to file a feature request on the English language. For the sake of source code aesthetics one of the word pairs transmit/receive, send/receive, or read/write should be updated such that each word has the same number of letters. Prio 4.
— Luke Gorrie (@lukego) July 12, 2019
Opera singers dubbed with dial up modems are gonna be big this summer pic.twitter.com/1SDwO3w6e8
— Olaf Falafel (@OFalafel) July 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/OFalafel/status/1149426868556369920)
Man who failed multiple driving tests decided to make himself a vehicle powered by #solarenergy in E China’s #Anhui. pic.twitter.com/1fILMvtTsi
— People’s Daily, China (@PDChina) July 11, 2019
Imperfect but useful therapies have been the rule, even as we refine our understanding of diseases. In spite of criticism, antidepressants are still the best available treatment for depression https://t.co/TkvqyEcvVg pic.twitter.com/W7xYuxPDlW
— Aeon (@aeonmag) July 11, 2019
the rumors of interdimensional travel have always been true. https://t.co/WgcHZ4QtJR pic.twitter.com/z79FDptp8E
— Masque of the Red Death (@doctorow) July 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1149313647853867008)
…&& more early computer art from the 80’s in the excellent reference: Computer-Grafik Galerie - Herbert W Franke [1984] #RogerVilder #ChihayaShimomura #ErnstSchott #AldoGiorgini pic.twitter.com/vwJrJ4EUg0
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) July 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MrPrudence/status/1149279842132795392)
Slightly annoying that ‘tristinction’ is not a word (it should be, considering 'distinction’ comes from Ancient Greek δίς [dís, “twice”]). 'Threefold distinction’ is a poor alternative.
— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) July 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1149296526713348096)
“2020 Visions” are just google calendar entries now.
— Sjef van Gaalen (@thesjef) July 11, 2019
Our essay “Making Things Physical”, co-authored by @_foam / Maja Kuzmanovic @deziluzija, Nik Gaffney @zzkt & Time’s Up has been published in the Special Edition of the Journal of Futures Studies, edited by @futuryst & Cher Potter https://t.co/51azwgxgVx pic.twitter.com/sFy1l3J0nP
— Times Up (@TimesUp_Linz) July 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/TimesUp_Linz/status/1149223404429557760)
Not sure if this will go anywhere, but at least this model-in-training gets the semantic maps wrong in an interesting way. pic.twitter.com/Cf24YPEihh
— Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo) July 10, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/quasimondo/status/1149049092636643328)