Just because the research paper fits your maximally-doomist priors, doesn’t mean it’s actually science. https://t.co/h3IrjaIljZ
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) November 13, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1327347415075139586)
This is brilliant…
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) August 21, 2020
A German university is offering “idleness grants” to applicants who are seriously committed to doing nothing, as part of a design research project: “What can I refrain from so that my life has fewer negative consequences on others?”https://t.co/tXGhgauMNW
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Yes, I know Rome is burning. I feel a coward for ducking away from the topic in public speech, but I find myself still with nothing to say. Is there solidarity in sharing the same, self-evident truths as everyone else, or is it a hollow posture?
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) April 13, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1249700294952353792)
“There are some questions in science that can only be answered by strapping a pair of 3D glasses to an unsuspecting cuttlefish and setting it loose in an underwater movie theatre.”
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) January 8, 2020
By @iansample (via @elle_hunt) https://t.co/LIydRu1jjH
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Sci fi book of the year?@timmaughan’s Infinite Detail
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) November 30, 2019
“It’s hard to believe it is a debut, so assured and evocative is Maughan’s writing. As a portrait of the fragility of our current status quo it’s as thought-provoking as it is terrifying”https://t.co/amq2JMO89R
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There’s also the fact that half the people in @nimsdai’s summit queue photo are Sherpas. And:
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) May 29, 2019
“For a Sherpa, the last thing they want to do is to climb Everest.“
— Norbu Tenzing, son of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay who guided Sir Edmund Hillaryhttps://t.co/NLZ905gvTj
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“In its fruity excess and flaky glory, [pie-ing politicians] is a punishment that befits the crime of treating democracy like a farce.”
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) May 20, 2019
via @changeist https://t.co/Y6BxEsF0UR
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“In the east they throw shoes, in Greece they practise yaourtama (the act of yoghurt-throwing as a form of protest), and in Ukraine they hang noodles on the gates of the Russian consulate.
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) May 20, 2019
In Britain, it will always be eggs.” (2015) https://t.co/3QsjpSkG8a
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Part of the point of “post-authenticity” is that whether a thing is “real” or “fake” is not necessarily the most interesting or salient point about it. We’re after that now.
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) April 24, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1120861416943230981)
Maturity, to me, is learning when it is a virtue to compromise - and when it absolutely is not. The good life is often an unbalanced one, I think - because this enables you to dedicate yourself to the one thing that really brings joy.
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) April 18, 2019
Everything in moderation - even moderation.
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“Afforestation” (brand new forest) programs such as the “great green walls” planned across the Sahel and NW China have also had pretty terrible tree survival rates.
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) February 17, 2019
(Growing trees in deserts is hard.)
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1097273311120314368)
Folks, what are the famous C20th novels/autobiogs about going for very long, continent-spanning walks?
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) January 15, 2019
I am forgetting sonething obvious
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A fifth of Earth’s geologic history is missing. One theory: “colossal crustal consumption” by glacial erosion during ‘Snowball Earth’, a whole-planet ice age 700 million years ago.
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) January 5, 2019
This is wild:https://t.co/6pQRJpBEBX
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1081650405157883905)
Re-up for weekend reading ☕️
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) October 20, 2018
I explored the future beyond cyberpunk:
1. Chaohuan, the “Ultra-Unreal”
2. Afrofuturism
3. Gulf Futurism
4. Cli-fi
5. Solarpunk
6. Water Crisis Thrillers
7. Kitchen Sink Dystopia
8. Woke Space Opera
9. The New Weird https://t.co/HyKpeJfXW8
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1053557063668940801)
Strange and Modern Biology is taught by @jeffvandermeer
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) September 21, 2018
The Practicum in Geology Love is from @metaleptic, with @botaleptic and @notaleptic TA-ing
Marine Structures is @debcha’s design studio
Who wants to lead General Almosts of Anthropology?
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The dust, inevitably, wins. https://t.co/b6vT3qzf1B
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) September 4, 2018
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Mulling over writing a parallel review of Wind River (2017) and Winter’s Bone (2010).
— Jay Owens (@hautepop) June 26, 2018
They’re massively structurally parallel, and traverse the same themes: big, hard landscapes. Marginalised communities. The nature of justice in borderlands at the edge of the law.
(via http://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1011655367024136192)