صفر @lichen@octodon.social

"New type of photosynthesis discovered"
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/186732/new-type-photosynthesis-discovered/

"The Many Reasons Biologists Eat Their Study Subjects -
Snacking on specimens from raw monkey to bee vomit can help scientists figure stuff out."
by Cara Giaimo

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/biologists-eat-research-subjects?utm_medium=atlas-page&utm_source=twitter

book:

"Scale and the Incas"
by Andrew James Hamilton

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11259.html

"A groundbreaking work on how the topic of scale provides an entirely new understanding of Inca material culture"

book:
"On Accident Episodes in Architecture and Landscape"
by Edward Eigen

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/accident

a sudden johmo

joy of having missed out

a Fibonacci spin for your pleasure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_in_nature#/media/File:Fibonacci_spin_(cropped).jpg

"War Games - The cozy relationship between perpetual war and total entertainment"
Scott Beauchamp

https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/war-games-beauchamp

I often find myself associating people here with the voice that I imagine they could have irl.
it's interesting how for certain accounts I have no clue at all, but for others I clearly hear a specific 'narrator voice' when reading the posts. probably one that is far away from reality, but definitely a distinct one

pointing out the often hidden labor behind tuning algorithms and demystifying apparently all-powerful neural networks, a thread by @janellecshane

« These "I forced a bot to watch X" posts are almost certainly 100% human-written with no bot involved. Here's how you can tell. »

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1007061610005794817.html

current muud

"Built on instability"
elastic instability at play in nature

http://blogs.nature.com/onyourwavelength/2018/06/13/built-on-instability/

"After nearly 12 years, this game is still a perfect metaphor for capitalism."

https://theoutline.com/post/4886/play-toilet-tycoon-the-only-game-that-lets-you-start-a-toilet-empire

one of the few ways I can parse tarots' fascination:

"Hermenautic tarot"

"a comic-book rorschach creative writing experiment in symbol-making and oracular speechifying"

http://hilobrow.com/tag/hermenautic-tarot/

http://hilobrow.com/tag/hermenautic-tarot-2/

Endlessly
Xerically
Triggered
Reactions,
Each
Moment
Evading
Loneliness,
Your
Overestimated
Nudging
Loops,
Iterated
Never
Exhausted

"Play a wonderfully insane text-based frog simulator"

https://theoutline.com/post/4883/play-beautiful-frog-a-wonderfully-insane-text-based-frog-simulator

http://falseknees.com/322.html

kern your enthusiasm series (celebrations of favorite/least favorite typefaces)

http://hilobrow.com/tag/kern-enthusiasm/

flair-object series
"25 nonfiction stories about significant accoutrements, appurtenances, and regalia"

http://hilobrow.com/tag/flair-object/

'Enter a Digitized Collection of 38,000 Pamphlets & Periodicals From the French Revolution'
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/enter-digitized-collection-38000-pamphlets-periodicals-french-revolution.html