The related article linked at the end is even better:

https://parametric.press/issue-01/the-myth-of-the-impartial-machine/

A lot of big problems in the last couple decades are down to most people not understanding this and most of the ones who DO understand it using that understanding to fuck over everyone else.

More people are finally catching on a little but it's way too late.

last night, i read about this guy. i thought this was a pretty isolated incident, but it's still a thing. WTF? anyone had experience with this phenomenon? 

TL;DR: imagine you got a roommate, and that roommate stops paying rent. you try and kick them out, but they don't leave. and cannot "legally" be kicked out. 

  On 3/8/2022 at 6:06 PM, Nebraska said:

last night, i read about this guy. i thought this was a pretty isolated incident, but it's still a thing. WTF? anyone had experience with this phenomenon? 

TL;DR: imagine you got a roommate, and that roommate stops paying rent. you try and kick them out, but they don't leave. and cannot "legally" be kicked out. 

Ouch, he sounded like a right **** Getting some Pacific Heights vibes. 

Endurance: Shackleton's Lost Ship is Found in the Antarctic

(no, not that Shackleton)

If you're unfamiliar with the story of Shackleton/Endurance, I can wholeheartedly recommend reading up on it. It's incredible. Alfred Lansing's book about the whole debacle is all I've read (it's great, seriously inspiring). This makes me wanna hear the full saga again. 

this is going to be cute until the IT guy driving your car has their console pwned

irl lol

Giant Spiders Will Reportedly Fall From the Sky This Summer in the U.S.

https://pethelpful.com/pet-news/news/spiders-falling-from-sky

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Behind each plastic bottle cap is a careful engineering process that balances cost, user experience, and manufacturability at massive scale. Let’s take a look at what goes into a few of these mechanical marvels with the help of our industrial CT scanner.

https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/food-packaging

check others scans..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page

changing of the guard @ the tomb of the unknown soldier; arlington cemetery virginia.

this is done every hour (on the hour)- every day. regardless of the weather.

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A Real Working INVISIBILITY SHIELD

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/invisibility-shield/invisibility-shield

'Fungi Appear to Talk in a Language Similar to Humans'

https://www.newsweek.com/fungi-language-communication-talk-similar-humans-1695146?amp=1

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/06/fungi-electrical-impulses-human-language-study

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-basic-language-fungi.html

The paper:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211926

Not particularly solid evidence yet for the grand claim that they are "speaking" in some sense (and the researcher fully admits this) but :mulder: I want to believe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loureedia

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Loureedia is a genus of velvet spiders that was first described by J. A. Miller in 2012. As of July 2020, it contained only four species: L. annulipes, L. colleni, L. lucasi and L. phoenixi. This genus of velvet spiders that live underground are named after Lou Reed, guitarist and singer for the Velvet Underground. 

Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (Artificial Truth)

Edge cases in this case mean exceptional things to consider when programming something to work with record (meta)data, e.g. Discogs. Autechre is represented with Untilted.

Woman rescued in Washington state after falling in toilet trying to get phone

https://www.cheknews.ca/woman-rescued-in-washington-state-after-falling-in-toilet-trying-to-get-phone-1015850/

When I was in my late teens, New World vultures were believed to be more closly related to storks than to Old World vultures (as well as to eagles, hawks, etc.) because of some obsucre morphological similarities (that I don't recall what were / are), but now because of DNA testing, it's been learned that they are indeed more closely related to eagles, hawks, and Old World vultures that to storks. Taxanomic reversals do something really pleasant for my mind. It's a particular brand of cognitive dissonance that is actually nice.

Turns out that if you begin with a view that information (binary yes/no, 1's / 0's) makes up the fabric of our universe, the dimensions of space and time can readily emerge from this basis. This would mean that space and time aren't even fundamental to the universe, they emerge from information. So the basic building blocks of the universe may be as simple as yes/no or on/off?

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Music sculpts time. Indeed, it is a structuring of time, as a layered arrangement of audible temporal events. Rhythm is at the heart of that arrangement, on every scale: the cycling and patterning of repeated sound or movement and the “measured flow” that that repetition creates. The most fundamental rhythm is the beat itself, the pulse that occurs at regular intervals and thus dictates the tempo, keeps musical time. In music, a beat is no fixed thing — it can quicken into smaller intervals (accelerando) and stretch out into longer ones (decelerando), depending on the character of a given musical moment and the feeling or fancy of the performer — but it does remain periodic, predictable, inexorable. Even at the level of pitch, which is really the speed of a given sound wave’s oscillation, we are really hearing the rhythmic demarcation of time, a tiny heart whirring at a beat of x cycles per second.

Yet in every piece of music there are also higher temporal structures at play. Repetition begets pattern, and pattern engenders form, at every scale; thus musical form itself constitutes a macro-rhythm, a pattern of alternations that move the listener through time.

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We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling (The Marginalian)

I don't know where to put this, but here's the Finnish PM Sanna Marin casually doing pull-ups in the playground wearing a leather jacket.

  On 4/25/2022 at 7:51 PM, dcom said:

I don't know where to put this, but here's the Finnish PM Sanna Marin casually doing pull-ups in the playground wearing a leather jacket.