Every crashed Tesla is a sequel to Ballard’s Crash & Cronebnerg’s Crash that automatically recorded itself. They are works of art & literature & should all be preserved for posterity, as well as becoming the subject for PhDs @PenguinBooks Classics and @Criterion boxed editions. https://t.co/NzNq3GP6vK

— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) March 30, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1112098643845267457)

angel/angle || who/what
hath exploded, hath exploded pic.twitter.com/m0gM4Zz3pY

— Elytron Frass (@Elytron_Frass) March 30, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/Elytron_Frass/status/1112050590228582401)

Arrhenius, in 1896, was the first to use basic principles of physical chemistry to calculate estimates of the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) will increase Earth’s surface temperature through the greenhouse effect.

— K317X 🌅 (@k317x) March 30, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/k317x/status/1112029742226501632)

Good morning. ‘When honeybees and zebra fish, isolated from each other, were allowed to interact through robot intermediaries, researchers observed collective decision-making behaviors between the two animal groups.’ https://t.co/yiY6GRLrLD

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) March 29, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1111546696264282112)

Göbekli Tepe, (Turkey) the oldest place of religious worship in the world (9000 BC) It was deliberately abandoned sometime after 8000 BC. Göbekli Tepe is an archaeological discovery of the utmost importance to understand the development of a crucial stage of human societies pic.twitter.com/mlGS5sj1aN

— Omnis Ars🦋 (@ars_omnis) March 29, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ars_omnis/status/1111432332496371713)

Moving the Ohio State Building across San Francisco Bay.
Photo: Hamilton Henry Dobbin (1916) pic.twitter.com/iIqb6CNdly

— Jim Kazanjian (@studiokazanjian) March 20, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/studiokazanjian/status/1108446450671714304)

’[T]he creation of the world is the first unconscious act of speculative thought; and the first task of a self-conscious philosophy is to explain how it has been done.’

- A. N. #Whitehead

(S, T, & R, 101) pic.twitter.com/mezL03A6vg

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) March 29, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1111425290083811334)

Platforms hosting environmental data, algorithms and insights showing how well is the planet doing and SDG progress (thread)

— Eirini Malliaraki (@irinimalliaraki) March 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/irinimalliaraki/status/1110860964772175878)

Challenge your assumptions
Improve your collaborative skills
Contextualise your innovation
Experiment with futureproofing
Embrace serendipity
Design for failure
Prototype and iterate
Build antifragile systems
Cultivate interconnected approaches

— FoAM (@_foam) March 28, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/_foam/status/1111208693247414273)

I am excited to announce a new project, Rewild Our Planet.

Launching on 6 April at @ArtSciMuseum, this immersive & interactive exhibition made with @WWF, @Google & @netflix, shows how climate change impacts all living creatures.https://t.co/NdbaYyTDOJhttps://t.co/8PDxY2AMsp pic.twitter.com/biNngNa1O7

— honor harger (@honorharger) March 28, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/honorharger/status/1111161990288805890)

aerosmith or errorsmith? 🤪

— DEBIT (@delibeat) March 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/delibeat/status/1110935900685565958)

My son has developed out of nowhere a kind of idiosyncratic theology. He claims to believe God exists, but that he’s “just a guy” and “not a big deal”.

— Mark O'Connell (@mrkocnnll) March 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/mrkocnnll/status/1110909130376663042)

When governments say ‘we can’t afford to fix the climate’ that’s a lie. There is plenty of money available. We use need to use it to repair rather than destroy…. https://t.co/OYJxgGsc9M

— Extinction Rebellion Australia (@XRebellionAus) March 26, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/XRebellionAus/status/1110674855291244546)

Innovation: taking risks or making risks? — a performative lecture on uncertainty, complexity and unintended consequences @_foam (@deziluzija & @zzkt) 🧶 tonight at the Polydome of @EPFL_en in sunny Lausanne https://t.co/U0SCvb81oC pic.twitter.com/WXNKLauZ66

— FoAM (@_foam) March 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/_foam/status/1110931745795424256)

“The ‘human’ cannot continue to be the sole benchmark against which other beings must be measured in order to count.” Interesting argument against granting natural entities legal status’ -> but clear plea for ‘radical restorying’ https://t.co/8WDqLvNY6F

— Anab Jain (@anabjain) March 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/anabjain/status/1110789494486323202)

killer gig with editions mego boss man peter rehberg last night in durham, nth carolina (w/mid-set pizza delivery). 2 x editions mego nights coming up in LA this week on wednesday & thursday at Zebulon @ZebulonLA @billorcutt @DanielMenche @pinkcourtesy @EditionsMego @prehberg68 pic.twitter.com/aYsIAHCyAZ

— Oren Ambarchi (@orenambarchi) March 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/orenambarchi/status/1110704633146568706)

If you’re annoyed at the outcome in the #CopyrightDirective vote and you live in Sweden, Germany, Czechia, Luxembourg, or another country that has a Pirate Party, remember in the upcoming elections that today the amendments were 5 votes away from being considered. #Article13 #EU

— Smári McCarthy (@smarimc) March 26, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/smarimc/status/1110536177814249474)

In Iceland, Pirates have put fixing the climate on the forefront of our agenda, simply noting that there are no civil liberties without a civilization, and there is no civilization without a survivable climate.

— Smári McCarthy (@smarimc) March 26, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/smarimc/status/1110540863460069379)

Oh! I’m in @Wired - can grow old having reached at least one life goal.

“We need to open those platforms up or at least make their workings more transparent. It’s not enough just to change the hyperlinks we need to crack the whole thing open.” https://t.co/gJwVRpZxgI

— Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) March 26, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/manjusrii/status/1110449900011950081)

So I’ve been making a system that generates insects with IK procedural animation. It also generates unique meshes and color palettes from scratch for each body part. here is a small selection #procgen #generative pic.twitter.com/vYQCippvRA

— Tom Betts (@TomNullpointer) March 24, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/TomNullpointer/status/1109926817027293185)

The art of perception is a wonderful practice. Cultivating patience, kindness, compassion, moderation, humility, simplicity and love not only fundamentally changes our perception of reality - but changes reality itself.

— samim (@samim) March 24, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/samim/status/1109925934189047808)

made some drawings for something upcoming… pic.twitter.com/Jwb6uvjfkP

— AGF*øɍɇvøɍ : ρѻﻉtﻉ§§ (@poemproducer) March 24, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/poemproducer/status/1109749529929232384)

Just discovered that #AccessLab is at the top of @NERCscience’s public engagement page: https://t.co/inIBJDa00I

4 years ago it was a hunch - few outside academia knew how to get hold of research findings, few people in academia actually asked their community what they needed.

— Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly) March 20, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/AmberFirefly/status/1108397400274726912)

Dreams as omens of death in Eastern European folk beliefs: walking in a cemetery, bees, monks, bread, teeth falling out, smoke, taking something from a corpse, ceiling collapsing, the death of god, oven falling apart, freshly-dug graves, black clothing, drowning in muddy waters.

— Christina (@dreamsofbeing_) March 20, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/dreamsofbeing_/status/1108314155952623616)

I sorted the entire CJK Unified Ideographs Unicode block based on each glyph’s similarity to a pattern, in this case, a short line segment at different height, and created this wavy curve out of a line of glyphs. pic.twitter.com/23Sdhy2uiO

— Raven Kwok (@RavenKwok) March 19, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/RavenKwok/status/1107999759803899905)

is human human the post transhuman?

— bogna konior 2.0 (@bognamk) March 19, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/bognamk/status/1108057012590526468)

just learned about the extraordinary motto and seal of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland pic.twitter.com/EehyZh0Iwb

— Nick Seaver (@npseaver) March 19, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/npseaver/status/1108038678864121857)

Scenarios are stories about what if. Stories don’t have to be scifi to be useful. The genre has more to do with appetite than substance.

— Scott Smith (@changeist) March 19, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1107922108687020037)

I’ve tried a hundred ways to distract myself but I’m still having one of those days when all I want is to abolish the nation state and the wage system and live amongst small, voluntary, self-governing cooperatives. Apologies in advance.

— anne g 🐑 (@annegalloway) March 18, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/annegalloway/status/1107478638033661953)

Dead Bison with Crows by Tyler Smith pic.twitter.com/WgwDigHOFX

— Abbie (@ab_tully) March 18, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ab_tully/status/1107446066688020481)

sultan of supercuts @sam_lavigne has produced this incredible 3h46m video of lightworker/energy healer jamie mcgonagill repeating the phrase “that’s true” 11,648 times https://t.co/bSMTMdRzQs

— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) March 17, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/kcimc/status/1107298636830904320)

Hallucinogenic Fish. (Ingesting the dreamfish “Sarpa salpa” can result in hallucinations that last for several days.) https://t.co/H8CKYBPnBJ pic.twitter.com/Fp2gydYpqa

— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) March 16, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/pickover/status/1106977185162842112)

BEWARE THE “JUST SO”

It was always assumed that civilization began with agriculture.
Gobekli Tepe, though, was built 500 years before its people built their first farms.https://t.co/obthKq4f9m

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 16, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1107012546639380485)

as he put it: it may have looked like pain, but the goldfish had no sense of self “weakened” by digital culture.

— notaleptic (@notaleptic) March 16, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/notaleptic/status/1106751188798713857)

I have this vague itch to build a series of clocks as a hobby, but *without* a modern clock for reference. Eg build a mechanical clock, but use an hour glass to cal9brate first run. Bootstrap time all the way to atomic.

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) March 15, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1106436254390849536)

On myths of smart technology, complex infrastructural networks and ecological crisis: @anabjain will be in conversation with @citizen_sense for the @hauntedmachines reckoning @DesignMuseum! https://t.co/U2amrsKYOw pic.twitter.com/O5kI6gVWeW

— Superflux (@Superflux) March 14, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/Superflux/status/1106161062183923714)

After the last and before the next… Final Session /002/ West germany, Berlin 21.00 16/03 … pic.twitter.com/PgpAOM7GWD

— martin howse (@micro_research) March 14, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/micro_research/status/1106130782526021632)

In the Balkans we’d call this ‘you dont know who’s drinking, who’s paying’

— Vlatka Horvat (@vlatkahorvat) March 13, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/vlatkahorvat/status/1105913642351030273)

This is like Gandhi’s joke about Western civilization. All of the former colonies the UK pats itself on the back for bringing democracy to should get together and return the favour.

— Deb Chachra (@debcha) March 13, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/debcha/status/1105935993390227456)

The votes will continue until morale improves.

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) March 13, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1105911563054211073)

From all those great digital possibilities, how did we get into this locked-down universe?

— Theodor Holm Nelson (@TheTedNelson) March 13, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/TheTedNelson/status/1105861454798835712)

The reason autopilots work well for flight control (since 1914!) is that high complexity and low complexity times are (normally) well defined and transitions can be preplanned or at least anticipated (storms). pic.twitter.com/kkJB2rNCz2

— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) March 13, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1105633448872591361)

Project: start, restart, plan, replan, repair, finish, review, refactor, abandon, backburner

Habit: start, rehearse, refine, stack, unstack, fall off wagon, get on wagon

Process: start, inspect, complicate, simplify, pause, resume, rewind, redo, restart, slouch, hustle, bg, fg

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) March 13, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1105623516664090624)

Yesterday, I gasped aloud when I learned the Inuktitut word for ‘Internet’: ikiaqqijjut, “the tool to travel through layers”. It’s also a nod to how shamans travel in a trance. https://t.co/1blSRzsA8x

— Deb Chachra (@debcha) March 12, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/debcha/status/1105546782233243649)

You need 90% energy in processes that won’t terminate till you die, but aren’t habits or projects. Each also has an associated “system” that grows continuously over your lifetime, and ideally reaches perfection 1 minute before you die.

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) March 12, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1105348647959461889)

I generally mistrust those writers who have much of a strident note. If you can’t wear your commitments lightly you haven’t really lived them.

— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) March 12, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1105302834336153600)

excerpt from LIVE debut of HP [@RussellHaswell x @odbpowell ] at London’s @Cafeoto last month, w/ Visuals by Mathias Gmachl [@farmersmanual_ ] @littlebigmusic

pic.twitter.com/WPuJB7IiAG

— Russell Haswell (@RussellHaswell) March 11, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/RussellHaswell/status/1105229061922672640)

Word of the day: “micro-season” - in the classical Japanese calendar the year is divided into 72 five-day micro-seasons or kō. Thus 6–10 March is 蟄虫啓戸, meaning “Hibernating insects surface”; 11–15 March is 桃始笑, “First peach blossoms”.
Precise, poetic, attentive phenology. pic.twitter.com/nkAnie7Ty9

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) March 11, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1105000494244814849)

MOLUCELLA PROGRAMING

— Library of Emoji (@libraryofemoji) March 10, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/libraryofemoji/status/1104644818045726720)

DAISIES (Vera Chytilova)
NEAR DARK (Kathryn Bigelow)
JEANNE DIELMANN (Chantal Ackerman)
BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis)
AESTHENIC SYNDROME (Kira Muratova) https://t.co/PM3MQWh3NQ

— Steven Shaviro (@shaviro) March 10, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/shaviro/status/1104535251630600192)

Due to blatant peer pressure, I’ve accepted the challenge by @changeist to post the covers of 7 books that I love & recommend: No explanations, no reviews.
The first book will surprise no-one I know.

I have to assimilate 1 person per day. So, for my first I tag in @datatheism. pic.twitter.com/DTELPe0745

— honor harger (@honorharger) March 10, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/honorharger/status/1104590576186417153)

There’s a family of interesting related arguments:

“You are not enough people” (Vonnegut theory of marital conflict)

“Reality has a surprising amount of detail” (John Salvatier theory of physical reality)

“Everything is harder than it looks” (David Wong theory of effort shock)

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) March 9, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1104523976603185153)

#falsch fb02 maeuse - maeuse 1999 #availability #rerelease https://t.co/bP9TL3sO0b #gt #forwardbackward

— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) March 9, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/farmersmanual_/status/1104368241961521152)

Inexplicably I’ve accepted the challenge by @akrishnan23 to post the covers of 7 books that I love/recommend: no explanations, no reviews. With each post I’ll ask another to succumb to the challenge. 1 book cover a day for a week, and for my 1st day I tag in @honorharger. pic.twitter.com/epBbagVRlj

— Scott Smith (@changeist) March 9, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/changeist/status/1104434888487383040)

The increasing level of amazingly outlandish untruths being accepted might eventually lead to the possibility of talking about actual truth.

— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) March 8, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1103993894646235138)

There exists a series of underground bunkers with no entrances or exits of any kind scattered across North America, each of which contains nothing but art exhibits; together, these form an exclusive museum available only to remote viewers.

— uel aramchek (@ThePatanoiac) March 8, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ThePatanoiac/status/1103915020369313792)

ONLY THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER STRANGENESS - what happens when AI meets the alien consciousnesses that already live amongst us? I got to write about something that’s been on my mind for a while, for the @BarbicanCentre’s Life Rewired season https://t.co/sqkZrkpXjL pic.twitter.com/0lbDhiO47x

— James Bridle (@jamesbridle) March 7, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/jamesbridle/status/1103645179444162560)

I’m in the non-apocalyptic camp of climate change believers. I don’t believe even the worst case will make the world uninhabitable. Let’s say that’s a 5% likelihood scenario of maybe 90% species loss and even 90% human population decline. But what do those numbers *mean*?

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) March 7, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1103524374374580225)

I am SO thrilled to announce Atmospheric Memory, an epic new production by Rafael Lozano Hemmer (@errafael) curated by @FuturEverything, premiering at @MIFestival on July 4. 5 years in the making, it’s the most groundbreaking and complex exhibition project I’ve ever done #MIF19 pic.twitter.com/1SGvFvPjCo

— Jose Luis de Vicente (@Macroscopist) March 7, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/Macroscopist/status/1103647117963350017)

The meaning of this GIF changes when you realize that Kermit is in the Black Lodge with Dale Cooper … pic.twitter.com/HNEyuapqyj

— Weird Studies (@weirdstudies) March 6, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/weirdstudies/status/1103241951984398336)

FRACTAL LOCALISM
Defining complexity and selforganization before explaining socioeconomic LOCALISM pic.twitter.com/ogO0MC4Nmi

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 6, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1103404723762327555)

AI-created fine art could enliven galleries with visual aesthetics that humans couldn’t foresee, or it could become a self-contained, VC-funded machine-learning Thomas Kinkade automaton for hotel-room decor. Or it could do both.https://t.co/QoUAJK4t36

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) March 6, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1103416245116911619)

Actually, lemme try mapping the 8 metaphors

Mechanistic: GTD
Brain: BASB/PKM
Organism: Blitzkrieg model
Culture: Improv theater
Psychic prison: Waterfall
Instrument of domination: OKRs
Flux: Distributed+parallel computing
Political system: Agile

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) March 6, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1103408460769554437)

It took me many years to stop mixing up ‘eschatological’ and 'scatological’, though I suppose the former can be glossed as things taking a turn for the latter.

— Soon-Tzu Speechley 孫子 (@speechleyish) March 6, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/speechleyish/status/1103092356415279104)

Golden orb spider to smack you in the face. Yep I’m back in Sydney pic.twitter.com/ljsELszGSO

— Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) March 6, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/manjusrii/status/1103096940953137152)

Animal Property Rights, Totems and Zoöps https://t.co/fmYtNya7hB pic.twitter.com/lZWxsVGl5o

— FoAM (@_foam) March 5, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/_foam/status/1102900673685934080)

‘The documents were written on hundreds of strips of bamboo, about the size of chopsticks, that seemed to date from 2,500 years ago, a time of intense intellectual ferment that gave rise to China’s greatest schools of thought.’ https://t.co/tjR5iU6XjH (via @speechleyish)

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) March 5, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1102843081706139648)

Corvid pedagogy / remake all institutions as aviaries https://t.co/xx20Y3CMUz

— Georgina Voss (@gsvoss) March 5, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/gsvoss/status/1102856566825467905)

Something I’ve been meaning to say about The Tragedy of the Commons. Bear with me for a small thread on why our embrace of Hardin is a stain on environmentalism. tldr: we’ve let a flawed metaphor by a racist ecologist define environmental thinking for a half century. 1/

— mattomildenberger (@mmildenberger) March 4, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/mmildenberger/status/1102604887223750657)

Went to a talk last week by someone in the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology & it’s safe to say that many in the oil & gas industry assume something very close to RCP 8.5 (worst-case) emissions scenario for rest of the century. Paris-compatible scenarios were framed as ridiculous.

— Peter🌋Brannen (@PeterBrannen1) March 4, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/PeterBrannen1/status/1102671126851870721)

A summary of Octavia E. Butler’s advice for writers:

1. “Read omnivorously…”
2. “Forget about talent.”
3. “Write, every day, whether you like it or not. Screw inspiration.”
4. “It’s certainly not a matter of sitting there and having things fall from the sky.”
5. “Persist.”

— tamara k. nopper (@tamaranopper) March 3, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/tamaranopper/status/1102043025780457477)

’[D]rugs do not impart wisdom…any more than the microscope alone gives knowledge.They provide the raw materials of wisdom&are useful to the extent that[one]can integrate what they reveal into the whole pattern of his behavior&the whole system of his knowledge.’

– Alan #Watts pic.twitter.com/LLGqysONwt

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) March 3, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1102177814386753537)

Just gave a powerful talk in Hong Kong. I went on stage, delivered the entire speech in just 2 words – “Unlearn everything” – and left the room. Stunned silence.

— Gen. Jeff Jarviss (@ProfJeffJarviss) March 3, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ProfJeffJarviss/status/1102109629541056512)

Crop Yield Prediction Gold. Predictive systems are being heavily invested in by DARPA to predict social unrest via crop yield prediction. #agflation > rising demand of agricultural products driving up prices (key stressor in the Arab Spring, coined by Merrill Lynch in 2007). pic.twitter.com/ZY4tKamXh8

— FRAUD (@FRAUD_la) March 3, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/FRAUD_la/status/1102129267780055045)

When someone reaches for the prefix “post” to describe the evolutionary future of X it means they are having trouble seeing how emerging technologies might transform the *mechanisms* of X but have more clarity on the content.

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) March 2, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1101903711733866502)

FLEX machine, 1968
Smalltalks, 1971-1979
NoteTaker, 1978
Vivarium, 1986-1993
Playground, 1988-1992
Squeak, 1996-
Etoys, 1997-
Croquet, 2003-2007
STEPS, 2006-2012
CDG/HARC, 2013-2017
Tutor, 2016-

— Bret Victor (@worrydream) March 2, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/worrydream/status/1101930035643076610)

‘The “electronic” society is a special society contained within the wider “geometric” society …

the geometric society is a special society included in the vaster society of pure extension [etc.].’

– S. E. #Hooper

(1943, 214 – on #Whitehead) pic.twitter.com/5BL24Mp1vX

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) March 3, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1102007047044894720)

Documentary wants:
Throbbing Gristle
Crass
KLF
Adrian Sherwood and On U Sound
80s Liverpool Scene
Napalm Death
The Damned
Warp Records
Shoegaze
Ninja Tunes Records
Talk Talk
The Batcave scene/Goth/AlienSexFiend
Industrial Music
Strictly Rhythm
Ambient House
4AD

How about you?

— BlackWaxSolution (@eops) March 1, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/eops/status/1101609811622457345)

Damn, my GTD game has completely fallen apart in the last couple of years. My workflow is a global quantum entangled state of things moving along. I’m more wave function than set of particles 😕

I need a quantum GTD where actions collapse work wave one schrodinger cat at a time

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) March 2, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/vgr/status/1101928398329339904)

‘Government funding and tourism revenues … have their limitations. But the mayor of Easter Island has come up with an innovative solution: seeking royalty payments from nations whose explorers took some of Easter Island’s statues centuries ago.’ 🗿 https://t.co/kiZykmL7xB

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) March 2, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1101763119339241472)

I get grumpy when tech decides it’s not going to worry about ‘edge cases’. News flash: The real world is fractal. It’s *mostly* edge cases.

— Deb Chachra (@debcha) March 1, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/debcha/status/1101528872263270406)

My touchpoint is that the Air Force measured many dimensions of lots of people and realised there is no ‘average’ human they could design for—no one was even close to average for all the parameters. It’s why seats are adjustable. We are all edge cases.

— Deb Chachra (@debcha) March 1, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/debcha/status/1101540289490112512)

What you cooking Žižek? pic.twitter.com/vwQVqdlakE

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) March 1, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH/status/1101585457262063616)

Moral of the story is if you go browsing the weird e-commerce protuberances of Chinese manufacturing in the middle of the night half asleep, you might end up with fibre optic sneakers

— Matt Webb (@genmon) March 1, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/genmon/status/1101533575676153857)

“Plus, these estimates don’t allow for the possibility of World War III, a zombie apocalypse, a takeover by robot overlords” https://t.co/vZo09MB8y5

— Alex Randall (@alex_randall) March 1, 2019

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The average lifespan of a civilization is 336 years. via @LukaKemp & @BBC pic.twitter.com/qmnFDyPr1U

— The Long Now Foundation (@longnow) February 28, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/longnow/status/1101175963185020929)

It takes a whole lot of capital to convincingly render a bohemian scene in 2019. All those high-poly casual people, luxuriating in time and creativity within a relaxed urban environment.

— Mat Dryhurst (@matdryhurst) March 1, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/matdryhurst/status/1101425796126834688)

Can anyone in the know illuminate which spoken language(s) pose the greatest difficulty to machine learning translation, and what about their articulation makes it such?

— Stephen Fortune (@stephenfortune) February 28, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/stephenfortune/status/1101235842381762562)

Do octopus dream? They do have something similar to REM. And they do change colour while they are asleep. So maybe they really do dream. (Vid via Instagram OctoNation) pic.twitter.com/MHIlkxmWGW

— Jan Freedman (@JanFreedman) February 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/JanFreedman/status/1100887564477784065)

Life before Go-Pro: Dan Merkel shooting footage with a 35mm camera in a waterproof housing (atop an inflateable ‘surf mattress’), back in 1977. https://t.co/jMRMlrl8uJ pic.twitter.com/FZkPC5ZW8d

— C.C. O'Hanlon (@ccohanlon) February 28, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ccohanlon/status/1101147019161337856)

A T SHIRT WITH A QR CODE ON IT AND WHEN YOU SCAN IT, YOU DOWNLOAD A PICTURE OF A SHIRT WITH A DIFFERENT QR CODE ON IT

— the dog is a chad to them (@HEXCELERATOR) February 28, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/HEXCELERATOR/status/1101073282139336704)

init farmersmanual #places, the stu, ~1995 pic.twitter.com/iRjylrMasY

— Farmers Manual (@farmersmanual_) February 28, 2019

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Words of the day: “trophic asynchrony”, “phenological mismatch” - disruptions to established seasonal patterns of migration, breeding, flowering, feeling etc caused by climate change.
Swallows in February.
Untimely unsettlements of being.#LexiconForTheAnthropocene
Ty @ginbat pic.twitter.com/somiPUQlTL

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) February 28, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1101014272208003072)

[cw: media theory]
I’m thinking you can make a greimas square of figures for post-broadcast infrastructure:
network = horizontal and connected
protocol = horizontal and disjunctive
the stack = vertical and connective
the vector = vertical and disjunctive.

— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) February 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1100867162049253384)

People are scrutinizing airline travel as a source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Yes, it seems pretty big, and mainly serves the wealthiest on the planet.

But keep numbers in perspective.

Airline travel is ~2.5% of global emissions.

Cement is 8%.

Food, Land, Forests is 24%.

— Dr. Jonathan Foley (@GlobalEcoGuy) February 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/GlobalEcoGuy/status/1100821592618061824)

I believe #gopher is making a viral comeback with good reasons; the hacker communities at large are reacting decades after Tim Berners Lee’s dismissal of it for the www and last not least the marketing of ‘solid’. Time has told what www has become. https://t.co/LA0f8b6Ffv

— Jaromil (@jaromil) February 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/jaromil/status/1100665204793372672)

Looks like I actually have to read Kierkegaard’s “Either/Or” now. pic.twitter.com/9r2UOnIlyQ

— Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo) February 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/quasimondo/status/1100729170634641408)

We live in anxious times, teetering on the edge of conflict, vulnerable to algorithmic manipulation. Our new work ‘TRIGGER WARNING’ looks for peace in this murky conflict.

Commissioned by @modatunisa with a score by @nabihahiqbal🙅🏾https://t.co/8eNRpLbvZP pic.twitter.com/ccZdNS3Wjq

— Superflux (@Superflux) February 27, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/Superflux/status/1100747329794129921)

Kodaiji in Kyoto unveils ‘Android Kannon’ designed to deliver portions of the Heart Sutra to the masses https://t.co/nyoOIcY7Tn

— Soon-Tzu Speechley 孫子 (@speechleyish) February 26, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/speechleyish/status/1100519960806285312)

You’re sat on a trolley hurtling down the track. Down one fork is a group of ethicists who think the trolly problem is the only materially relevant game in town. Down the other is software engineers who think technology is neutral.

How fast do you accelerate?

— Goth Merenghi (@farbandish) February 26, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/farbandish/status/1100366216512843777)