Banquet in the Thames Tunnel, George Jones (attrib?), 1827. pic.twitter.com/lSTnrLnh3E
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) November 8, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1192867968432115713)
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)
“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)
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)
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)
‘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)
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)
‘Sure, the Jesuit Rat Car had its problems, but imagine how many rats it would have carried after 250 years of development by the people who gave the world fireworks.’ (Dan Albert)
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1139508590455263232)
‘Vinyl records these days amount to one of two extremes: either dusty, embarrassing garbage or advanced-level consumables. If a record isn’t something so valueless you can’t give it away, it’s the signifier of taste and an ambitious, highly tailored social life.’
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1135913016589860867)
Just mistook a flock of geese for the opening bars of the theme tune for The Archers.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) May 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1133478414382452741)
‘Salvage operations will commence as soon as practicable. A further notice will be issued when the wreck is removed.’
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) May 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1133271099557502976)
“Detroit Electric” all-electric car makes a promotional tour through the Cascade Mountains from “Seattle to Mt. Rainier,” circa 1919. (Library of Congress) pic.twitter.com/FcdgZTMdWJ
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) May 15, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1128765340568248321)
Suspect we might be due another round of Levellers, Diggers, and Ranters.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) April 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1118608877690458112)
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)
The votes will continue until morale improves.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) March 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1105911563054211073)
‘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)
‘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)
Updated terms and conditions: all Instagram targeted ad copy is now to be delivered by talking birds.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) February 9, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1094324530649223171)
‘Seek out the faceted moments of geomediation at the Hermits Rest, after staring down The Abyss. Layers upon layers, Bright Angel Shale, Vishnu Schist and Zoroaster Granite. The Great Unconformity (an absence, a non-layer).’ https://t.co/KOEP6nantK
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) February 9, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1094194518914666496)
Srinivas: Anthropology cannot be satisfied to train students for a crumbling world, but rather should allow them to imagine a world that could be and then give them the imagination to build a future that only they can see.’
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) February 7, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1093551331099455491)
Genuinely thrown by the Maroon 5 guy’s Hindi-language tattoo of the word ‘tapas’.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) February 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1092427146218360832)
Temporary autonomous filter bubble.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 18, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1086200152258424832)
Belated review of 2018, which came out a bit longer than expected. https://t.co/c5qDRVfavl
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1085851379137241093)
‘The Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC) was set up in London, United Kingdom, by the Colonial Office in 1945, with the aim of improving the worldwide forecasting and control of locusts.’ https://t.co/ooEsXyEkJW
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 16, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1085480322995757056)
‘How do you learn to ‘experience’ Bigfoot, to ‘see’ traces of Bigfoot, to accomplish the evidential practices of Bigfooting when scientific consensus maintains that none of these experiences and none of the material collected is evidence at all?’ https://t.co/rAVLMyYlVA 🔒
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1084924153642262528)
Woman takes a picture of an automated sweeper cleaning a road at the Inner Mongolia Normal University in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China (Ding Genhou) pic.twitter.com/eMgKiO9PQF
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1084515590096723971)
‘The Orkney electron gives me hope that the future can be otherwise, that there is another way of being and living that is not apocalyptic. The Orkney electron tells me the end is not nigh.’ https://t.co/AEcsHE1guq
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1083827851655286784)
Tomorrow composts today.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 6, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1081988953782304768)
Omens for the year to come. https://t.co/63HZ52z8HP
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) December 31, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1079682019267874816)
Maybe there was no Gatwick Airport.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) December 23, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1076886950240571392)
‘“He wrote some incomprehensible books that no one standing here has read and never will read,” said Russian Navy vice-admiral Igor Mukhametshin in an anti-Kant rant to his sailors, that has since been widely-viewed on YouTube.’ https://t.co/6yu6VyRh0m
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) December 6, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1070659563081347073)
‘The dinosaurs never die outright, and the new age of abundance never quite gains its inviolable foothold. The future just keeps arriving, mutating, bowing to the fickle pressures of advertising markets and quarterly earnings reports.’
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) September 19, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1042533874943844352)
Another reminder that, as yer man Sterling has it, the ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) September 14, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1040542780542672898)
Celebrity Military Coup for Comic Relief.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) September 11, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1039622352437432326)
‘Kalashnikov has been looking to take its brand in different directions and recently launched a clothing line and a catalogue of personal items ranging from umbrellas to smartphone covers.’ https://t.co/8UvKIgkrov
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) August 23, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1032773056236871680)
Members of Special Forces Cavalry—one of them with a snake around his neck—walk in front of Paraguay’s new president during a military parade in Asunción, Paraguay, on Aug. 15 (Marcos Brindicci) pic.twitter.com/pXCcoTmBxY
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) August 19, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1031273679676743681)
Everybody loves a commodity good that might, at any moment, eat your face.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) August 16, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1030041820498206720)
is this 🦋 solarpunk
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) August 9, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1027539877594898432)
Beibei, one of five mascots for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, lying among trees (Greg Baker) pic.twitter.com/OhuHx5vmn9
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) August 7, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1026813676593053698)
Free PDF downloads of the two-volume Global Encyclopaedia of Informality; a catalogue of gift-giving, bribery, interest-driven know-how, identity-based solidarity, co-option and control: https://t.co/gfcfrmAonx; https://t.co/JujPf7z3Xm
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) July 15, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1018588847532371969)
‘Unless we introduce a different business model, we will end up with more of the same. It is time to try a mixed economy in those digital markets whose products are in fact classic public goods, such as search and social media.’ https://t.co/z8PUTrQEt9
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) July 9, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1016406626172010497)
‘If the invention of general purpose computation and robotics had occurred in a society much earlier—one founded on the woven cosmos, what could it have looked like, and how would it have worked? What might it tell us about different ways of doing things?’ https://t.co/X1cofwbRN8
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) July 3, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1014088776199655425)
Andy Holden & Peter Holden’s ‘A Natural History of Nest Building’ (2017) is one of the best multi-screen video installations I’ve seen; Springwatch via Ray and Charles Eames. And funny! 👌
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 29, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1012717199327285248)
Pitch: seminar course on ‘failed’ technologies across time and space; OLPC, Free Basics, the Qinhuangdao straddling bus, the Dymaxion house, pneumatic and atmospheric railways, Cybersyn, airships, Aramis, Concorde, first-generation VR, etc.
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 28, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1012312329843806211)
Big fan of anthropologist Stefan Helmreich’s Alien Ocean, might be overdue a re-read; in the meantime, an interview on the sounds of STS. https://t.co/WwrGYVwnrv
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 21, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1009935338607915008)
’[Mongolia’s] monasteries are increasingly run by millennial monks, the first generation to come of age after decades of religious repression under the Soviet system wiped out almost all Buddhist clergy.’ https://t.co/YYz2xpjYm1 (Thomas Peter) pic.twitter.com/7KeohdJs9m
— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) June 5, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/justinpickard/status/1003977131263655941)