They never give you enough pickled ginger.
Facebook drains my energy so quickly.
How Antarctic bases went from wooden huts to sci-fi chic
Fascinating look at the evolution of the science station from "roughing it" to state of the art dwellings (that look nicer than my apartment)
INHALE! YOU ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE CALM! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59guruVL4o&feature=youtu.be
And it's not like this is a new desire!
I have robot toys from the 50s. They wind up, and shuffle around the table.
They are cute! They are fun! They are not friends!
Dudes in the 40s built Life Size! Humanoid Android Toys and paraded them around.
But now we have the tech to make them, you know... not useful exactly? But companionable, at least.
And I haven't seen one that is actually autonomous.
fucked up that spongebob did a better job explaining why the comic industry is fucked than aa 30,000 word twine essay https://witches.town/media/Ldu6Vqv-eQGD8RA40vs
Apple Macintosh Plus in a scene from Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home from 1986
The Macintosh Plus came out January of the same year and I think it was one of the earliest examples of product placement
It had a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 8Mhz (pitiful by the standards of The Enterprise) and only 1 MB RAM. Not nearly enough to fight Klingons with. Which is probably why they didn't use it for that purpose
Packing tape is p good at removing insect eggs and aphids without using pesticides. I wish I had enough plants to get the beneficial effects of polyculture.
Going to a Swing Left meeting today to work on getting a Democrat elected in ME-02. They're still raising money that will go to the dem nominee in a bunch of winnable 2018 House races. Go here to donate or find out how you can help locally: https://swingleft.org/district-funds
This dystopian epic wherein massive ships sail the swollen seas sucking up plastic and turning it into fuel, sailing for an untraceable destination. Waterworld 2? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-05/turning-plastic-to-oil-u-k-startup-sees-money-in-saving-oceans?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
All the bands on Jeff Ament's Rock Hall of Fame induction t-shirt.
http://uproxx.com/music/jeff-ament-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-shirt/
Phase-Functioned Neural Networks for Character Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul0Gilv5wvY
"Along with the phase, our system takes as input user controls, the previous state of the character, the geometry of the scene, and automatically produces high quality motions ... The entire network is trained in an end-to-end fashion on a large dataset composed of locomotion such as walking, running, jumping, and climbing movements fitted into virtual environments."
"Horseshoe crabs have a strong tidal rhythm. They know when high tide is coming, and they move to the edge of the water. Watson tested this several years ago with a colleague, by building a version of a hamster wheel .... They then placed it inside the buckets and found it would run every 12.4 hours, about the same cycle as the tides."
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a26038/the-blood-of-the-crab/
"... the Witness Protection Program as an example of what vigorous government-led rehabilitation could look like, the Witness Protection Program as an example of how our past weighs on our present, the Witness Protection Program as an example of both the salience and liminality of identity. "
https://priceonomics.com/what-happens-when-you-enter-the-witness-protection/
These are some very nice game progress stamps.
They would be great as NFC/Amiibo tags:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15223338/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-nintendo-amiibo-hacking-ethics
Okay folks, some of you were actually alive and using computers when #hypercard was a thing.
Tell me about your hypercard memories.
Did you make weird games or hypertext novels? Are any of them still out there? What were your favorites?
(I'm working on a thing, I need info.)
As people fawn over Neil Degrasse Tyson and Bill Nye, we truly miss someone like Crichton.
I would follow more bots if they posted once or twice a day instead of, like, hourly.
