(Honestly just turn this place into Ever Given content only; a massive distributed learning platform focused on complex systems, supply chains and maritime infrastructure through Very Online Discourse)

—Georgina Voss (@gsvoss)

i would love to read a book about the psychology or sociology of environmental awareness. like bonilla-silvas “racism without racists” but for the environment. just tons of interviews, and a dissection and naming of attitudes and behaviors.

—Kyle McDonald (@kcimc)

Designing insect-fed microstrip patch antennas … https://t.co/hCNps5rPjj

—martin howse (@micro_research)

recur to enjoy this album, one of the first documented cases making use of rla open licensing. keep pushing it, no limit. been recently accused of autopoeisis by third party with great joy #autopoesis https://t.co/WLAHyCx3j9 @internetarchive #recentlivearchive

—𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆е𝗋𝗌 𝖬А𝖭ᑌ𝖠ᒪ (@farmersmanual_)

I hate this century and want to fast-forward to the 24th.

—Charlie Stross (@cstross)

If it makes sense, it’s local optimization

—Venkatesh Rao (@vgr)

Neurotypicals should be referred to exclusively as neurocasuals

—A pile of juniper berries (@lemniskatie)

More often than not, when I encounter a proposal to address monopoly power, I return to that old Irish joke: “If you wanted to get there, I wouldn’t start from here.” 1/ https://t.co/eueCdNbCJB

—Cory Doctorow (@doctorow)

It’s midnight in Belgium. Today is the 22nd anniversary of the launch of Entropy8Zuper! https://t.co/BoVHNuDlau

—Tale of Tales (@taleoftales)

What causes neurotypicality? Research is ongoing but some of the likely culprits include: - egg whites - parenting - jet fuel - anything delicious - women probably - you let them keep their teddy bear too long - attention

—Neurotypicality Research Inc (@SNeurotypicals)

Ask yourself: Could this meeting be a zoom? Could this zoom be a phone call? Could this phone call be an email? Could this email be a text? Could this text be unsent? Could we in silence retreat to the forest? Could we, by game trails & forgotten paths, vanish into the trees?

—Louis Evans (@louisevanswrite)

scavenger society that doesn’t bother waiting for the precursor civilization to fall

—Chaos (@chaosprime)

.. a realization of the enormous educational task which must be successfully accomplished right now in a hurry in order to convert man’s spin-dive toward oblivion into an intellectually mastered power pullout into safe and level flight of physical and metaphysical success [bucky]

—𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆е𝗋𝗌 𝖬А𝖭ᑌ𝖠ᒪ (@farmersmanual_)

consideration (a beautiful word meaning putting stars together). ✨ [bucky]

—Oswald Berthold (@x7557x)

would go for a generator straight. i’ve got one that loads an svg as a starting point and deforms that by taking a random walk with the vertices. @LabJetpack logo hardcoded no quests https://t.co/l9F7l8XWFJ https://t.co/7Y0vBsVRde

—Oswald Berthold (@x7557x)

I learned about ResEdit at roughly the same time I learned how to use computers with GUIs. To me, the idea of a computer with an “operating system” is 1:1 linked with “you should be able to customize this infinitely and without effort”. Every computer since has dissatisfied me. https://t.co/oQ8jvyH152

—mcc (@mcclure111)

hey all, today i’m going for a ride around Sol on the planet ship. anyone wanna join? it’ll take about a year and can drop you off again right here. beautiful vistas, nice food and music

—Oswald Berthold (@x7557x)

📸 Explore ‘FoAM in 02020’ on Flickr, an album that weaves together FoAM trajectories through the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of 02020 ➡️ https://t.co/YkpAJtcL7I https://t.co/nqAnIfMA2H

—furtherfield (@furtherfield)

I say again: i am so tired of people whose art means something to me turning out to be pieces of shit, & i am equally if not even more exhausted of being told that my desire to not support the art of anyone who can’t just be goddam decent is somehow a personal failing on my part.

—Damien P. Williams, MA, MSc, Werewolf, Revenant (@Wolven)

Fewer cloud-based software services, more safety boots, spirit levels, and gouache.

—Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard)

Fewer cloud-based software services, more safety boots, spirit levels, and gouache.

—Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard)

Fewer cloud-based software services, more safety boots, spirit levels, and gouache.

—Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard)

Fewer cloud-based software services, more safety boots, spirit levels, and gouache.

—Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard)

Fewer cloud-based software services, more safety boots, spirit levels, and gouache.

—Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard)

‘Deloitte has a long history of making malfunctioning things for state and federal governments.’

—Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard)

Wall Street clearly underestimated a generation raised on highly coordinated Friday night World of Warcraft raids.

—James F. Puerini (@J_Puerini)

Tweeting for the first time in 6 years to say what the fuck

—DOGE Value/News (@DogecoinBot)

The confluence between the dematerialisation of art and the materialisation of music happened in 1968, when John Cage played chess against Marcel (and Teeny) Duchamp on a sound-generating chessboard. https://t.co/SKbBxL3m8O

—͟͞ө͟͟͞͞ı͟͟͞͞|͟͟͞͞ѿ͟͟͞͞|͟͟͞͞ı͟͞ө͟͞ (@sonocculturist)

LA has temporarily suspended air quality restrictions due to the surge in cremations but yes let’s hurry back to Buca di Beppo patio seating and get a mani

—Christopher Cantwell (@ifyoucantwell)

Probably shouldn’t choose a replacement phone based on its compatibility with a idiosyncratic bat detector peripheral, huh.

—Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard)

In all seriousness, there’s a temptation to see disciplines as communities that have simply made different choices about specialization. But this is wrong. Disciplines are divisions created by deep ideological and moral differences that are often in direct conflict.

—Beau Sievers (@beausievers)

Good reasons to not be an interdisciplinary scholar: - It is very hard - Literally everyone will hate you - It will ruin your life

—Beau Sievers (@beausievers)

i like when weird stuff washes up on the beach because it implies a very specific kind of shipwreck https://t.co/ffkrrHEmFj

—everest (@everestpipkin)

the most valuable lesson i have learned from having a job is that nobody knows what the hell they are doing.

—inconvergent (@inconvergent)

I would be plausibly intrigued by a cryptocurrency where the proof of work is something (a) physically tangible and (b) positive, e.g. “I planted a tree: its GPS coordinates are X,Y: it can be monitored here: this coin will be deleted/garbage-collected if/when the tree dies”. https://t.co/oVa7M78c71

—Charlie Stross (@cstross)

look at this planet that nasa found…shes gorgeous… https://t.co/Msn7wyVtGd

—jessi (@paintwater_boba)

I insist that there should be place where we can share malformed, imperfect and wrong thoughts

—visa is decluttering old drafts (@visakanv)

Godspeed Alexei @navalny. https://t.co/OShgufym8g

—honor harger (@honorharger)

thanks to Andrew Pam and @TheTedNelson there is now a new repo on @github - Original Perl Zigzag ™ code referred to by Ted Nelson as “Azz” (Andrew’s ZigZag) - https://t.co/YOgXCitpJD

—Oswald Berthold (@x7557x)

saturday night reading up on the history of notorious go games, as a refresher, and there are some real gems. https://t.co/NI7DSIood1

—😷 hugo reinert (@metaleptic)

farmersmanual is a research service provider (RSP)

—𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆е𝗋𝗌 𝖬А𝖭ᑌ𝖠ᒪ (@farmersmanual_)

‘This contact entry is a chat to send messages to yourself. Use this feature to jot down a note for yourself to review later or to share messages and files with your linked devices.’ https://t.co/IgyVe2ftMh

—Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard)

Pretty amazing that can now do whole weekly shop within a mile, and it’s all produced within that same area, and sold direct by the farmers/fishers/bakers/woodland managers. Hearing first hand of their struggles can also only be a good thing for people, to understand food better.

—Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly)

@michaelcurzi I think opposite is ok, but “the opposite” is awful. Pick an axis/feature to flip/invert, that gets you an opposite. “The opposite of blue” is like “the difference between blue”. Syntax error, this term takes two arguments

—Rob Miles (@robertskmiles)

Lacan: “When man, seeking to empty himself of all thoughts, advances in the shadowless gleam of imaginary space, abstaining from even awaiting what will emerge from it, a dull mirror shows him a surface in which nothing is reflected.”

—Taylor Adkins (@tadkins613)

Initial Viruscraft II artwork test - infection is next, the main question that needs answering is how many receptors/spike proteins do we need? @bnashby https://t.co/DF3uCM2ZZ9

—FoAM Kernow (@FoamKernow)

Next time I’m moderating a Q&A, I’m going to ask each person who approaches the mic “For what purpose does the person at the microphone rise?” and then insist that they start by saying “I rise to ask a question, which will be stated succinctly and in the form of a question”.

—matt blaze (@mattblaze)

@mtchl Also starting with esoteric databases - one of my favorites was taking archeological Inca Quipu knot data and setting a challenge to sonify it in order to attempt to understand it.

—Dave Griffiths (@nebogeo)

So, fuck you Frontex and your new uniforms. Here’s to an end to all borders everywhere. https://t.co/c4h8nn2mZH

—James Bridle (@jamesbridle)

#BREAKING Anger is rising in the reclusive British kingdom as implementation of the Brexit peace agreement, meant to calm trade-related tribal tensions across sub-Scandinavian Europe, imposes greater hardship on the inhospitable, covid-ravaged island’s poorly-fed population.

—gathara (@gathara)

Contradictions exist. We in a capitalist society. Sometimes we have to “participate” in order to survive present struggles. What we do with our contradictions matter. It’s important how we reflect & challenge ourselvs to live more by our principles & less by these contradictions.

—^ (@cocobrujaog)

Why oh why did I agree to pull together book on, of all things, the Internet? When I could have written about contemporary dance. Or food. Or even that one trip with Jetman. Or war. Or the mating habits of badgers. But no. The Internet.

—Nadia E. (@ladyniasan)

Sci Hub is such a perfect example of the difference between the legal and the moral. Significantly illegal, constantly on the verge of being shut down / blocked / excluded from platforms as a result, and a huge net positive for humanity with almost zero downsides.

—David R. MacIver (@DRMacIver)

“Just” do this. “Just” do that. This is brilliant advice, maybe 1% of the time. Or much more frequently, coming from an elder SME who has done it wrong every possible way you can imagine and many you cannot. Otherwise, “just” is, by far, the most offensive four letter word.

—Dan Kaminsky (@dakami)

BROKE: lockdown life is a shitty preview of a shitty life on Mars WOKE: lockdown life is a golden opportunity to rebuild the Earth whilst the apex predators are mostly all in their pens, in a solarpunk update of PKD’s The Defenders [https://t.co/vO5r6HxUMF]

—m1k3y (@m1k3y)

In all honesty the CIA rebrand is just another acknowledgement that we have crossed the rubicon where the dominant terrain of human activity, & thus manifestations of hegemonic power, is now in virtual spaces. Hence the adoption of deterretorial aesthetics; voids, orbitals, waves

—ཊལབསརངཧ (@David_Rudnick)

onthe sidewith thecomic bookcharacters wheres youat https://t.co/62vAA4vLQ0

—𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆е𝗋𝗌 𝖬А𝖭ᑌ𝖠ᒪ (@farmersmanual_)

A good definition of spirituality might be: the way in which you’re sensitive to unsystematized realities.

—Venkatesh Rao (@vgr)

A good definition of spirituality might be: the way in which you’re sensitive to unsystematized realities.

—Venkatesh Rao (@vgr)

how many times does the earth have to circle the sun, only to end up in exactly the same place, before people understand that speed is part of the problem https://t.co/W82kjFseAQ

—Kyle McDonald (@kcimc)

Y2K was 21 years ago. Looking back, I think the only thing we learned is that if a bunch people work really hard to stop a problem from happening, lots of other people will assume it was never really a problem.

—Steve Lieber (@steve_lieber)

‘As a result, we inherited a lot of fast-moving broken things.’ https://t.co/aKpWVSorV7

—Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard)

Covid changed the vaccine world by giving funds to try a ton of new kinds of vaccines but the urgency also changed how vaccine researchers work. They became more collaborative, connected, sharing work and learning from each other. They adopted open source techniques.

—rabble (@rabble)

An album weaving together some @_foam trajectories through the VUCA of 2020. Many thanks to all of you who accompanied us during the year as collaborators, supporters, followers and friends. We wish you a vigorous 02021! 💫 ☵ 🌟 ䷹ ✨ https://t.co/M7clj8KCLf https://t.co/ur6GCdyUpk

—FoAM (@_foam)

Here’s my end-of-year list. https://t.co/ICL14qo7nP

—Guy Birkin (@GuyBirkin)

People are having trouble telling the difference between surgical masks and totalitarianism

—Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii)

The only thing worse than managing dependencies with Nix is managing dependencies without Nix…

—Luke Gorrie (@lukego)

@zzkt hang on, that’s yet another one. byte impulse synthesis, waveform drawing, … see also #bytebeat #charrnn https://t.co/kSvoYcwXgu

—𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆е𝗋𝗌 𝖬А𝖭ᑌ𝖠ᒪ (@farmersmanual_)

#samplingthearchive tracks efxyz and efxyzz by defrost are pulsar synthesis pieces using native mp3 frames as pulsarets and #perl for modulation by generating `mp3asm` command lines https://t.co/5ft54DQjqI #falsch #fb07 @zzkt

—𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆е𝗋𝗌 𝖬А𝖭ᑌ𝖠ᒪ (@farmersmanual_)

This is mind-blowing: the digital adverts by Clear Channel have been hacked for the first time ever. Instead of adverts, passers-by saw and could contribute to a collective writing pad. No idea how they’ve done this but big, big bravo to @liegesanspub! https://t.co/4By4f9zWDa https://t.co/oGFAoa46R0

—AdDistortion (@DistortedAd)

“Entanglements are not a name for the interconnectedness of all being as one, but rather for specific material relations of the ongoing differentiating of the world.“ - Karen Barad

—||| (@brightabyss)

the UK is a joke, I flew into Accra, got a Covid test and results within 45 mins of arrival… I walked straight through heathrow yesterday, no test, no scan, no nothing.

—Olujimi (@Lord_Oke)

Tiny Mining: Exploring the Extreme Ecologies of the Body Merci! @makeryfr @eminencegris #tinymining https://t.co/ByqWiPyNvR

—martin howse (@micro_research)

cd_slopper - pfanscotcoe - out 2020-12-18 on SUPERPANG #SP37 @superpanghq - https://t.co/b9RC0cYmqq https://t.co/EWjYFziLTK

—𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆е𝗋𝗌 𝖬А𝖭ᑌ𝖠ᒪ (@farmersmanual_)

@lukego guix? (disclaimer: I haven’t yet)

—Daniel Barlow (@telent_net)

dzlorpity-ƛ #superpang #sp37 #pfanscotcoe #cd_slopper @superpanghq https://t.co/Q7uFLYADqQ

—𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆е𝗋𝗌 𝖬А𝖭ᑌ𝖠ᒪ (@farmersmanual_)

Petition to rename Cyberpunk that apes the aesthetics and refuses to engage with the punk tropes of the genre to “Neonliberal”

—Grindavikur (@GrindaViking)

you can totally study ethics to learn how to be a more effective evil person

—visa is working on his ebook (@visakanv)

#samplingthearchive #pxp #while #WAV04 original cover artwork https://t.co/ocafrN1nJO

—𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆е𝗋𝗌 𝖬А𝖭ᑌ𝖠ᒪ (@farmersmanual_)

After 9 long, strange months of C**** restrictions,seems that this months Funny Disturbed is seasonally schizoid, action-packed descent into sonic madness.This months episode PvdG joins Lowdjo to ensure theres plenty ridiculous to go with the sublime https://t.co/q3Jp2D61H3

—LowDJo (@Lowdjo)

The capsule in the Australian outback. Magnificent images have been released from today’s discovery and recovery of the #Hayabusa2 sample return capsule in the Woomera Prohibited Area, South Australia. 📷 @JAXA_en @haya2e_jaxa. https://t.co/2JaqxhMB7n

—Australian Space Agency (@AusSpaceAgency)

The beauty of starling murmurations – in pictures https://t.co/ktbe6o2l0A https://t.co/pl0jmy0y02

—Gordon White (@gordon_white)

Not what you usually find in a rockpool… those sharp teeth! https://t.co/UDc1C16q92

—Amber Griffiths (@AmberFirefly)

I would rather people download frozen reeds releases illegally than listen to them on Spotify (where they have never been and will never be legitimately available). Fans should know better and if artists have to be the ones to remind them, so be it. https://t.co/Chy2k29O3v

—frozen reeds (@frozenreeds)

Nabi’s webinar on Art, AI and Everything Else ends tomorrow 5 DEC, with a session on Humanizing the Machine / Mechanizing the Human. https://t.co/IDL3DRYr9K

—Maja Kuzmanovic (@deziluzija)

The radical left is a stressful place to be a conflict-avoidant person who hates bullying, toxic in-group drama, and watching well-meaning people shout at each other. The problem is that I hate nazis more than all those things, so I’m kind of stuck here.

—Laurie Penny (@PennyRed)

any history of COVID-19 in the US should really start off with an anecdote about how the chernobyl miniseries came out in 2019 and there was immediately a conclave of pundits smugly declaring that we would never respond to a disaster with such epic and malicious mismanagement

—smack barm moon wet 👹 (@small_jawn)

This is so cool https://t.co/xKtwG95Q4q

—⚫ Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo)

those folks over at @ozm are either geniuses or crazy, b/c they’ve given me a new column on one of my obsessions: how the infrastructure and networks that underpin capitalism have become so complex and uncontrollable that it’s undermining democracy https://t.co/4hnmO6ZCGi

—Tim Maughan (@timmaughan)

“Motherlands are castles made of glass” https://t.co/XVEZi921ca https://t.co/DElNZyQbH2

—Maja Kuzmanovic (@deziluzija)

honestly i wish this was true in genre, so many audiences seem to aggresively reject relevance. can be incredibly frustrating. https://t.co/xKmmSrvKm5

—Tim Maughan (@timmaughan)

The “monolith” in the Utah desert disappeared. That is super-appropriate, I kinda figured it would reappear in space… But this makes that seem less likely, unless transcendent aliens are kinda slobs. https://t.co/D5vsXh0myo

—Nick Harkaway (@Harkaway)

I’m increasingly fascinated by scale-related cognitive boundaries ─ situations where substantial reduction in cost (time, money, resources, etc) suddenly opens up new types of thought that were practically impossible to even think about previously.

—Smári McCarthy (@smarimc)

The tragedy is, as w/ the past future defined by WIN/Office, we (west, and mainly US) will casually allow this future to be defined by a piece of tech that is clunky, bloats and over-defined by technocracy. Zoom is somehow the future we deserve, but by far not the future we need. https://t.co/1BiNGwYG1A

—changeist (@changeist)

The tragedy is, as w/ the past future defined by WIN/Office, we (west, and mainly US) will casually allow this future to be defined by a piece of tech that is clunky, bloats and over-defined by technocracy. Zoom is somehow the future we deserve, but by far not the future we need. https://t.co/1BiNGwYG1A

—changeist (@changeist)

For yesterday’s #cardstock with @deckhive, I quickly made an idea for playing with I’d been thinking of for years - a manual for @artefactcards as an actual set of cards. They turned out pretty well, so have started making a first limited run. More soon. https://t.co/T8WUOtXPKs

—John V Willshire (@willsh)

introducing the out-of-stack format - required for the upcoming #gt28 with unique relevance as a phuture farmacy precedent - ETA 2020-12-04 https://t.co/24rdgpLc51

—𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆е𝗋𝗌 𝖬А𝖭ᑌ𝖠ᒪ (@farmersmanual_)

59. Don’t summon demons. You can’t unsummon them. being metaphorical here: a demon is an all-consuming malevolent entity with no regard for human life. Outrage, vengeance, contempt. You might think you can “control” a demon to use as a weapon for righteous causes. You can’t.

—visa is cleaning out his notes (@visakanv)

Robert Anton Wilson interviews Buckminster Fuller in High Times magazine, 1981 https://t.co/OVyKxQYeod

—Richard Metzger (@RichardMetzger)

LOAD *,8,1 https://t.co/YLxOTy7KlD

—Luke Gorrie (@lukego)

1/6 Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from economics 2/6 Sufficiently institutionalized economics is indistinguishable from religion 3/6 Sufficiently conservative religion is indistinguishable from politics …

—Venkatesh Rao (@vgr)