I’m on a mission today to reconnect / follow up on leads / collaborate - apologies if you’re waiting for a response (it’ll come/ nudge me), and secondly, if you want to reach out to work together, now’s the time (my PhD is over! Disclaimer: cant promise anything, but will reply)
— M Plummer Fernandez (@M_PF) July 9, 2019
Vladimir Jankélévitch. Wrote a wonderful book on Bergson that influenced the latter’s own thought, and he’s one of the rare philosophers to take music seriously.
— Petite Dad (@rfriaz) July 8, 2019
The second volume of our long-awaited Journal of Futures special double issue is finally out! Eighteen more articles, interviews and essays on #DesignAndFutures from around the world: https://t.co/QNylruFKD3 pic.twitter.com/aqsfy4mMVo
— Stuart Candy (@futuryst) July 8, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/futuryst/status/1148104596952354816)
in a complex social system, there can be a conspiracy without conspirators
— 🅐🅩🅛 (@aaronzlewis) July 7, 2019
the emergent behavior of a system sometimes looks like a highly coordinated conspiracy, even if no one is actually pulling strings at the top
we don’t have good language to talk about this phenomenon
(via http://twitter.com/aaronzlewis/status/1147911846428585985)
#AtmosphericMemory is on until 21st July. So proud @FuturEverything is part of this important project. Not to be missed! #MIF19 pic.twitter.com/UQrCAVeeag
— Mirena Papadimitriou (@irini_mirena) July 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/irini_mirena/status/1147965294348001282)
All radicals should be encouraged to form institutions. Much moral high-ground posturing and insufferable certitude are rooted in not yet having reproduced pre-ideological institutional pathologies that are the root cause of most things they critique on ideological grounds.
— Venkatesh “Tactical in LA” Rao (@vgr) July 7, 2019
Two types of problems.
— Venkatesh “Tactical in LA” Rao (@vgr) July 7, 2019
A: Those that are hard because nobody knows how to actually solve them yet
B: Those that are hard because those who know how to solve them don’t care enough to do so, and those who care enough don’t know how to solve them
B takes starter luck to crack
The Facsimile Machine, rejected by multiple publishers in the mid 1960s , before its author finally abandoned the ms, was a shockingly prescient but fundamentally undramatic anticipation of fax technology.
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) July 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1147699940279250944)
TLDR:
— Annie Minoff (@annieminoff) July 6, 2019
- Particle accelerators can be really useful tools for solving art mysteries.
- If you are the Louvre, you can apparently afford to have one in your basement. 14/
(via http://twitter.com/annieminoff/status/1147639916526034944)
how have we had so many papers attempting to calculate the energy consumption of Bitcoin and not a one of them uses the pun “run the joules”
— Ingrid Burrington (@lifewinning) July 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1147568916811649024)
wicked, back online
— Oswald Berthold (@x7557x) July 6, 2019
Word of the day: “nefelibata” –– literally a “cloud-walker”; that is, a daydreamer, one who wanders lost in thought or wonder (Portuguese; poetic. From the Ancient Greek νεφελοβάτης, nephelobátēs, “one who walks the clouds”).
— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) July 6, 2019
Also–– esp. in art or literature––a rule-breaker. pic.twitter.com/bnZg5VvsrO
(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1147384730876350466)
🔤 (Input symbol for latin letters) has been the least used emoji for 222 days
— Least Used Emoji Bot (@leastUsedEmoji) July 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/leastUsedEmoji/status/1147484535816445952)
“Spinoza’s system is a white pantheism; that of M. Bataille is a black pantheism.”
— 🦇 ⤵️🕳 (@xenogothic) July 6, 2019
– Sartre going for a sick burn but actually making Bataille sound great.
(via http://twitter.com/xenogothic/status/1147452767772041217)
Here’s the tuned mass damper that stabilises the skyscraper. pic.twitter.com/fFOJxrPb69
— Darran Anderson (@Oniropolis) July 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Oniropolis/status/1146799683077103616)
Unexpected moment in among these reflections on Pride. https://t.co/WmJ8Z3NwAc pic.twitter.com/Kcb9whHfeS
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) July 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1147426176912318464)
Regarding this “plant forests!” thing: I’m going to plug Joe Mercer’s @RCAarchitecture ADS1 thesis project from 2017/18 which argued a new belt of food infrastructure around London could allow for substantial reforestation and rewilding https://t.co/50gQVYUecv pic.twitter.com/Z7Yymlsgcc
— Douglas Murphy (@entschwindet) July 5, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/entschwindet/status/1147103869777956864)
[Obviously called DeepSqueak] Machine learning approaches to decoding animal languages - ultrasonic communication between rodents https://t.co/RhQRhxRq8m ht @colinmegill cc @augmentedeco
— giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) July 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/gquaggiotto/status/1147339843598372865)
Switching from clay to plastic at the scale of Indian tea-drinking was such an all-round disaster: environment, design/experience, flavor…
— Kingshuk Das (@kingshukdas) July 5, 2019
I still have these in memoriam. https://t.co/rzSvhLurnV pic.twitter.com/dDlPnAxX2Z
(via http://twitter.com/kingshukdas/status/1147160816954667008)
Shit, just realized I operate with an unconscious 2x2 in how I engage with people online. X-axis: harmless to dangerous, Y-axis, can’t take seriously/can take seriously. Dangerous+can’t take seriously is the basic avoidance category if you want to have a good time online.
— Venkatesh “Live from DTLA” Rao (@vgr) July 5, 2019
day 35: the algorithm now correctly identifies human figures and faces, but continues to insist that all brains are clocks 🤔 pic.twitter.com/I78kVTiQf3
— ᵐᵃʳᵏ ₙₗₘ (@total_exit) July 5, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/total_exit/status/1146995425125306370)
“First of all, I am a real Minimalist, because I don’t do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist, but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating. I really don’t do very much.”—Robert Wyatt pic.twitter.com/r3MZMeAMbv
— Samuel Andreyev (@SamuelAndreyev) July 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SamuelAndreyev/status/1146431633010110464)
I introduced a remarkable person (Ai Weiwei) to a remarkable tree (the Great Oriental Plane Tree) this afternoon. Unsurprisingly, they got on very well. “It is a family”, said AWW on entering the tree’s green-gold space; just so, a branching, rooting, tangled entity. pic.twitter.com/bxqJhNin7J
— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) July 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1146836203062382593)
I am very proud to announce a major programme of events at @ArtSciMuseum called Moongazers, which marks the 50th anniversary of the first #Moonlanding:https://t.co/qU894Igu72 pic.twitter.com/6oUG1mpun8
— honor harger (@honorharger) July 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/honorharger/status/1146611887783600128)
My desires are modest and my path to joy is clear: All I want to do is read animal histories and speculative fiction.
— anne would rather be with the 🐑🐑🐑 (@annegalloway) July 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/annegalloway/status/1146293916926447616)
“The White House allowed staffers to enter a lottery to receive up to 10 tickets per person — a sign of the administration’s rush to fill up that space on the mall” https://t.co/bSeB6l0zP1
— Scott Smith (@changeist) July 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1146528949842960386)
Our indoor perma-farm is thriving! Applying the principles of circular farming, reuse of waste, companion planting and soil health for indoor agriculture 🌱🌾 pic.twitter.com/wzZMAItM41
— Superflux (@Superflux) July 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Superflux/status/1146448141870350338)
Cool article with some great quotes from @Monica_Gagliano going out to bat for our more than human relatives “Gagliano is having none of it” // https://t.co/Tk30PFiXj4
— Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) July 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1146446852012818433)
sound nerds: there’s a new auditory illusion. if you replace a repeating texture with white noise, your ear hallucinates the continuation of the texture (on the scale of seconds). i imagine this explains some nuances behind shoegaze and noise music https://t.co/3yUe2hNFhP
— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) July 3, 2019
“Exhibiting ImageNet” at @TPGallery: all 14,197,122 photographs from ImageNet shown over 2 months (on spiders when I went) pic.twitter.com/PAcORJOk9u
— anna ridler (@annaridler) July 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/annaridler/status/1146434104436678657)
The sense of time I have as a millennial is so weird…
— Sandstone (@quartzen) July 2, 2019
1970: About 30 years ago
1980: About 20 years ago
1990: About 10 years ago
2000: About 10 years ago
2010: About 1,000 years ago
2016: About 10,000 years ago
2018: About 1,000 years ago
Last week: About 1,000 years ago
(via http://twitter.com/quartzen/status/1146121134179532800)
… the subjection of computational processes to sustained heat and to the various exchanges between sun, power, earth and processing.https://t.co/viK1MNcCsWhttps://t.co/Dwj42zHwFX pic.twitter.com/xUcr9Pif6d
— martin howse (@micro_research) July 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/micro_research/status/1146395808583098368)
TIL that it is really hard to get “quasiquotation” into a Britney Spears song
— Danielle Navarro (@djnavarro) July 3, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/djnavarro/status/1146330025211256834)
UNGREEN - RandomForests and DeepSteward will be at RIXC FESTIVAL - 5 July 2019 in Riga/Latvia https://t.co/qy6B3Moyoo pic.twitter.com/VeC4oEktYD
— FoAM (@_foam) July 2, 2019
Ever notice how the humanities and social sciences are expected to understand scientific research method but scientists don’t have to understand ours? In other news, it’s hella difficult writing a conference abstract about discourse analysis that scientists will accept.
— anne would rather be with the 🐑🐑🐑 (@annegalloway) July 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/annegalloway/status/1145836643116412929)
Biologists analyzed 150 samples from across the U.K. and concluded that British knotweed was all a clone of that original plant, now one of the world’s largest. The DNA was identical. Not just one species but a single plant had conquered the entire UK. https://t.co/pp5IaMiIFO
— anna ridler (@annaridler) July 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/annaridler/status/1145740767077502976)
My SoundCloud is just the sound of bees buzzing so don’t bother
— Shackleford Hurtmore (@Not_shax) June 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Not_shax/status/1144410523141672960)
vns matrix archive is finally live. coded by the brilliant @francesdath the slime archive has taken over a year to build and has about 120 pgs (so far) of essays, projects, events, exhibitions + a hectic yet restrained palette that will phosphor burn you into the next timejump. pic.twitter.com/POc56GYwkY
— anomie.precious (@AnomiePrecious) July 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/AnomiePrecious/status/1145842699578142720)
There are 20,000 TOTAL Customs & Border Patrol agents in the US.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019
9,500 - almost HALF that number - are in a racist & sexually violent secret CBP Facebook group.
They’re threatening violence on members of Congress. How do you think they’re treating caged children+families? https://t.co/AfDB50cgHQ
Back from Glastonbury, playing on this stage as part of @CompliantAudio was wild !https://t.co/2wZPrEPbSE
— Alex McLean (@yaxu) July 1, 2019
People sometimes ask how’d you deal with corporations w/out a state. W/out a state & its legal structure there are no corporations. They’d just be gangs. The Medellín “cartel” isn’t a cartel, it’s precisely that: a corporation outside the legal framework of the state.
— David Graeber (@davidgraeber) June 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/1145365204219379717)
This is the greatest image anyone has ever posted on the internet pic.twitter.com/7sfbu2h3BX
— old blood fearer (@mywifecameback) June 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/mywifecameback/status/1145185773798469633)
A great Sunday morning long read: United States v. Scott Daniel Warren – The New Inquiry https://t.co/h6zVz4pGgz
— Mrs Smith (@hauspa) June 30, 2019
A few years back, I followed @archillect, because I like cool images.
— ⚕C. Reider, looks good⚕ (@vuzhmusic) June 29, 2019
After a bit I started to wonder why it had a seeming preference for military beauty and fascist stuff, decided it was pro-fascist propaganda and unfollowed.
(via http://twitter.com/vuzhmusic/status/1145076717800820736)
if you want an image of the future it’s this: police in Paris pepper spraying climate protestors on the hottest day in French recorded history - 45.9°C https://t.co/jv550CX54n
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) June 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1144741106128687104)
An honest suggestion: contact someone whose work you admire, enjoy or respect and tell them. Especially if you think they may be having a hard time. Solidarity, friends ✊
— Sam Kinsley (@samkinsley) June 27, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/samkinsley/status/1144255768339894272)
sometimes it’s important to take a moment for yourself, for self care, to look back on the years and to remember the good things you have accomplished and be proud pic.twitter.com/SPPtCfUzxl
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) June 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1144606668111720449)
‘An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) June 28, 2019
This advice seems so easy, and is in fact so difficult to follow.’
A. N. #Whitehead
(R&S177) pic.twitter.com/aT3kZTeorN
(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1144661106746638337)
tonight in (invisible) savicenta #nevidljivasavicenta pic.twitter.com/BRX7vIxL1p
— FoAM (@_foam) June 28, 2019
I want to see a movie where the aliens come not to invade or teach us but to persuade us to collaborate on their performance art.
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) June 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1144417148145717249)
“Sadly enough, it’s an economically impossibility. The combined world economy is £59.9 trillion – so injecting several quintillion (a one with 18 zeroes behind it) into it would cause the whole thing to come crashing down” https://t.co/falHqGtnhX
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) June 27, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1144222281494867968)
randomly walking the city for hours like you’re tracing a sigil, anchoring yourself, it sort of works.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) June 27, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1144124597425639424)
Activists, for the love of all things profane, STOP WRITING ABOUT “HOPE”. That shit is a doubling down on the very same obsession with cognitive simulacra and human fantasy that brought us to this point. Drink some nihilism, get humble, and then calibrate your praxis. Do work.
— ◉●○•° (@brightabyss) June 26, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/brightabyss/status/1143988327621619712)
Mosques receive free energy in Iran. Iranians have set up Bitcoin miners in them. There’s around 100 here, producing around $260,000 USD a year. This money goes a long way in Iran’s choked sanctioned economy. https://t.co/fczwdqCPAd
— mahsa alimardani 🌒 (@maasalan) June 26, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/maasalan/status/1143786641909342209)
(got myself in a proper sweaty mood about Object Oriented Ontology late last night [I KNOW I know] & found myself thinking ‘maybe it’s not that there’s some side of objects which is always *withdrawn* and *unknowable* - maybe they *just* *don’t* *like* *you*)
— Georgina Voss (@gsvoss) June 26, 2019
“Sometimes the most direct way to tell the truth is to tell a totally implausible story, like a myth. That way you avoid the muddle of pretending the story ever happened, or ever will happen.” wearing Le Guin on my sleeve today.
— Anab Jain (@anabjain) June 26, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/anabjain/status/1143788810477678592)
From fantasies of departure to transformations in this world: “For Deleuze, it was never a question of ‘breaking-out’ of the world that exists, but of creating the right conditions for the expression of other possible worlds to 'break-in’,” (quoting Gregg Lambert)
— Jussi Parikka (@juspar) June 25, 2019
Give a man a noise tape and ruin his hour. Teach a man to make noise and ruin his life.
— Jordan Reyes (@jpreyes90) June 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/jpreyes90/status/1143295012991643648)
It’s all about custom nootropics from China on the dark Web. I’ll tell you about it in person.
— Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) June 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1143159616454483970)
Absolutely bowled over by the exquisite Gandharan Buddhas at the V&A. pic.twitter.com/w5oXZHasYU
— Soon-Tzu Speechley 孫子 (@speechleyish) June 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/speechleyish/status/1143117737369247746)
It’s only Data Science if it’s from the Data region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling statistics.
— Data Bear, PhD 🐻 (@dataandpolitics) June 23, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/dataandpolitics/status/1142874046687825920)
IF GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL WHY ARE WE GETTING WORSE WEATHER? I DON’T SEE A NEVER ENDING SUMMER, DO YOU?? pic.twitter.com/Q5U0oDBHla
— sophia (@stratospheria) June 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/stratospheria/status/1142179287639838721)
Image of Fanged Noumena, fifteen minutes, GIMP, an art style transfer website, and a catgirl image someone conveniently sent me right as I started
— Lilypatchwork (@Lilypatchwork) June 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Lilypatchwork/status/1142286811223527424)
‘The sinking was organised by the tourist board ESTAB and sponsored by the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project.’ https://t.co/2N0M5KQyoP
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1142002937293615104)
Bitcoin is such a comically perfect dark age hedge. It’s like it was invented for a tropey cyberpunk dystopia novel.
— Venkatesh “Tetris” Rao (@vgr) June 22, 2019
Editor to author: “Seriously? A decentralized digital currency that requires burning lots of energy and goes up when nations crumble? Isn’t that kinda lazy?”
Approaching the edge, it was possible to see underneath, sometimes there was water, sometimes a vast nothing pic.twitter.com/x06UB6J3QR
— Kalonica (@Kalonica_) June 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Kalonica_/status/1142304677242920960)
Even further out, there were no environment props, just the vast barren landscape pic.twitter.com/Inqby7soWP
— Kalonica (@Kalonica_) June 22, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Kalonica_/status/1142303689291362304)
What most concerns me about Libra is the potential for further marginalization. People locked out of the financial system, unable to pay rent because a status update flagged them as a sex worker; unable to access healthcare because Facebook thinks their identity is fraudulent.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1142117424159850497)
We are pleased to announce that the 2019 joint @_foam/@edenproject Invisible Worlds resident is @AusHouldsworth.
— FoAM (@_foam) June 21, 2019
No buyer for your property? Has climate change ruined the housing market in your area? ‘The Intergalactic Estate Agency’ is here to help.https://t.co/41IdDLaXE3 pic.twitter.com/UYNxLGfl97
If you burn a lump of coal, the greenhouse effect from the carbon dioxide released from burning that coal will, over its lifetime in the atmosphere, heat the Earth about 100,000 times more than the thermal energy released from burning that coal.https://t.co/YyqbNXyew9
— Ken Caldeira (@KenCaldeira) June 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/KenCaldeira/status/1141849042189578240)
The only real political polarity is between those supporting the subsumption of time by space (Adam Smith’s logic of the modularisation of production, end-orientation, clock stans) & the subsumption of space by time (the “Anti-Clock Gang”, consistent Bergerism, Kevin Bacon)
— Thomas Murphy (@thomasmurphy__) June 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/thomasmurphy__/status/1141893279451160576)
Word of the (Solstice) day: “grimmelings”, also “grimplins”, “grimlins"––the first & last gleams of daylight (Scots, esp. Orkney), which around midsummer in northern latitudes blend to form the "simmer dim” (summer twilight).
— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) June 21, 2019
Cf Swedish “grim(b)la”, “to glimmer before the eyes”. pic.twitter.com/vkmBgy75b9
(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1141948979690856448)
The down side of being an academic gadfly who made no major contribution to any one field, just minor ones to several, is that u then get asked to do stuff for every single one of them.
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) June 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1141847037702524930)
New crypt currencies expose what I call,Satoshi’s Gap.
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) June 20, 2019
Currencies mean you either do a globally agreed known hard thing (mine metal) or a locally agreed unknown hard thing (work for the metal miner).
New currencies are new metal.
Hard to find new metal.
Easy to find new math. https://t.co/cCOY8tMJQi
Was deeply honoured to be able to say a few words about Sähkö, one of the greatest labels out there. https://t.co/Q0UbpJgTYo
— frozen reeds (@frozenreeds) June 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/frozenreeds/status/1141700670019366912)
you ever think about how stupid it is to be working while we’re accelerating toward a mass extinction event? doesn’t it feel like we should be doing something…else?
— Amanda (@catcontentonly) June 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1141683353424420865)
Tired: Women laughing while eating salad
— Fresh Wiggins (@TheBlackNerd) June 19, 2019
Wired: Women eating laptops pic.twitter.com/A6aAcEw6bS
(via http://twitter.com/TheBlackNerd/status/1141482236237287424)
‘The Zen approach is to enter right into the object itself and see it, as it were, from the inside. To know the flower is to become the flower … .
— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) June 19, 2019
The flower, however, is unconscious of itself. It is I who awaken it from the unconscious.’
- D. T. #Suzuki pic.twitter.com/5obqm9ocpd
(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1141383251627581440)
2016: You guys are overreacting. Trump will grow into the presidency.
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) June 19, 2019
2019: Yes, I mean technically they’re concentration camps, but they’re not extermination camps.
(via http://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/1141435059280515072)
Only the radical refusal of time can save us now.
— Ben Vickers 🐬 (@benvickers_) June 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/benvickers_/status/1141616172821024769)
There’s something like an uncanny horoscope effect, where if a fairly weak theory fits you personally very strongly, you’ll be tempted to assume it’s more broadly, deeply true than it is. Some mix of confirmation bias and attribution error.
— Venkatesh “Tetris” Rao (@vgr) June 20, 2019
FB coin is exactly like when Linux lost to Mac, or Firefox lost to Chrome. Stop spinning this as a victory for crypto. All the normies will use never use Bitcoin. FB coin will become standard online. States will outlaw unregulated cryptos and nobody will pay any attention.
— Amir Taaki (@Narodism) June 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Narodism/status/1141510768426459136)
Consulting Tip #21: Pay attention to the peripheries of your network. Your best leads will come from your weakest ties. People who know you best are usually your weakest sources of leads.
— The Art of Gig (@artofgig) June 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/artofgig/status/1141390185231462400)
angels of darknet, tails of light @earthseattle out to do it
— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) June 20, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1141501104557047808)
“Never argue with people in private (you will not convince them); argue in public to convince others.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Wisdom (@TalebWisdom) June 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/TalebWisdom/status/1141475545504452609)
Thursday. The insects are plotting your downfall. Thursday.
— Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian) June 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/stilgherrian/status/1141475540450152450)
Mark Fisher & Justin Barton, “On Vanishing Land” https://t.co/kULsiYzNPJ pic.twitter.com/RAPnBQQdtS
— 🦇 ⤵️🕳 (@xenogothic) June 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/xenogothic/status/1141040934861385729)
I wonder if there’s a correlation between low numbers who think vaccines are safe, and when the last time a country experienced a serious epidemic? If people dying of measles doesn’t happen in your world, you don’t realise vaccines save lives?
— rosamundi (@rosamundi) June 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/rosamundi/status/1141306737930178560)
Last year, Facebook had so many videos of organ harvesting being uploaded to the site they couldn’t keep up. https://t.co/zpooj6mqoU pic.twitter.com/KTXtQquQ9h
— Myles Udland (@MylesUdland) June 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/MylesUdland/status/1141327200102354944)
Finally figured out how to access Galileo satellites with a ublox GNSS. Here’s to hoping for better positional information when out on the water with #sonickayaks @nebogeo @AmberFirefly pic.twitter.com/0VLyfY1coC
— James Duffy (@JamesPDuffy) June 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/JamesPDuffy/status/1141326118454202368)
How much distance is there between maintaining your own currency and running a country?
— ThatStupidDoll (@ThatStupidDoll) June 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/ThatStupidDoll/status/1141305539789492224)
‘There is no place to seek the mind;
— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) June 18, 2019
It is like the footprints of the birds in the sky.’
– The Zenrin pic.twitter.com/NBf6qnyhld
(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1141108216891412480)
I love abstractions. I love the dripping noise they make as they leak.
— John Backus (@backus) June 18, 2019
Me: “Why the hell isn’t this working?” *deletes entire working set, rebuilds* “Why is this still not working??? Wait a second…” pic.twitter.com/YZaj5EbTi7
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) June 18, 2019
2009: The blockchain will undermine central power!
— Evgeny Morozov (@evgenymorozov) June 18, 2019
2019: The blockchain will help Facebook to undermine the central power of the state by using the rhetoric of decentralization to actually centralize power in its own hands.
A decade of utter confusion.
(via http://twitter.com/evgenymorozov/status/1141015196657491968)
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favourite landscape today / standing in a rockpool which feels like it’s on the moon if the moon had very loud thunderstorms. If I have a spotify party for a min while I’m here, what song suits this landscape? pic.twitter.com/FDTC26fehj
— dr amy cutler (@amycutler1985) June 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/amycutler1985/status/1140985464528261120)
For those playing along at home, the spoiler is the phrase ‘the realities of life in the digital age.’
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1140944603681607680)
「この暗い図書館で何を見つけたいですか？」(‘What do you want to find in this dark library?’) (石の宝殿 Ishi-no-Hoden) pic.twitter.com/g02Vbvc9UP
— ケンプ ジョナサン jonathan kemp (@xxnorguk) June 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/xxnorguk/status/1140572292931391491)
You don’t create tools or toys specifically for infinite games. You view existing things in functionally unfixed ways. The finiteness is in your head not the object. https://t.co/F1AWn5zmLH
— Venkatesh “is moving to LA in a few weeks” Rao (@vgr) June 18, 2019
‘There is a kind of mysticism in perversion. We might compare it to a “black” theology where pleasure ceases to motivate the will and is abjured, disavowed, “renounced”, the better to be recovered as a reward or consequence, and as a law.’ —Deleuze
— ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇_▇▇▇▇_▇▇_AI (@qdnoktsqfr) June 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/qdnoktsqfr/status/1140872217334448133)