TubularCorporation Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) 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. Edited March 8, 2022 by TubularCorporation 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scaramouche Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, 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. Edited March 8, 2022 by Shimon_Shimon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 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. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 this is going to be cute until the IT guy driving your car has their console pwned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 irl lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Giant Spiders Will Reportedly Fall From the Sky This Summer in the U.S. https://pethelpful.com/pet-news/news/spiders-falling-from-sky 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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iococoi Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Quote 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.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 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. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Quote A Real Working INVISIBILITY SHIELD https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/invisibility-shield/invisibility-shield 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 '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 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 (edited) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loureedia Quote 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. Edited April 9, 2022 by J3FF3R00 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dcom Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 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/ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mTesc Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 (edited) 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. Edited April 23, 2022 by mTesc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdamAnchorman Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 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? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcom Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Quote 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. We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling (The Marginalian) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcom Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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