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#introduction
this is a backup account
my formal aspect is a lichen,
I sometimes assume human form but that's rare..

anyway I'm a friendly lichen!

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

dataframe?

datafraid

datafrail
datafraud
datenfreude

datafrantic
datafrazzle

datafry
datafrappe

datafrass

dataflame
flaming data
datablame
blame data

disclaimer: I'm not a gamer,
but this is damn interesting

"an immortal Donkey Koch (of the Koch brothers) commissions a group of dogs to produce a digital opera for an arts festival scheduled for 2100."

by Katie Rose Pipkin, February 28, 2017

https://hyperallergic.com/361800/a-video-game-immerses-you-in-an-opera-composed-by-dogs/

my grandmother used to make goat cheese ("caprini") at home: in her house there was a storeroom where she hanged the dried stomachs the cheese was fermented into, and each time I visited I would sneak into the storeroom and stare at those yellowish pungent-smelly things, scared and fascinated at the same time