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Band name of the day: rivers of pitch
Band name of the day: the monstrous burst
Maybe the difficulty in describing the hounds of tindalos is that all those sharp angles prevent them from being... differentiated. *badum-tish*
Band name of the day: the bottom of creation
Band name of the day: the lean and athirst
Band name of the day: pure duration
Band name of the day: the deadly silences
Band name of the day: dead instrument
They used Saint Pepsi as hold music, not Macintosh Plus. No one noticed.
Band name of the day: london after midnight
Hot take: only buy video games made by personal friends.
With his new all-red-meat diet, Jordan Peterson can no longer consume the flesh of the lobster and thus, by showing his dominance over it, gain its immortality.
Moderan reads like if dril was a battle-cyborg & tried to write his autobiography but kept on getting distracted by how COOL it is to PLASTIC-WRAP THE EARTH.
Band name of the day: extremely normal website
Making bad puns and then learning hidden truths by taking them too seriously is, basically, the most human form of human intelligence. That's why we make fun of people for doing it. Dad jokes are the foundation of cognition.
Hot take: disambiguation in symbolic AI is probably a mistake, & we'd be better off with systems that pun uncontrollably because they operate on the locus of concepts rather than on their boundaries. You know, like a person.
Can somebody with access to SciAm or Nature summarize the substance of this SciAm article 'Subliminal Messages Can Cause Forgetting' for me? Is it just something stupid like 'priming can interfere with reencoding via jamais-vu'?
Band name of the day: a creeping naturalism
In the grim dark future of 2020, nobody goes outside without first applying temporary tattoos of additional eyes to their face. Positioning of these additional eyes must be rotated every few hours for security purposes.
Band name of the day: rebound tenderness
Band name of the day: assault on society
Band name of the day: the abyssal zone
If you mixed human ashes into concrete (say, to make a cornerstone for a building) would the concrete still set properly? How much corpse-ash would you need to add before it started to compromise structural integrity?
The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don't work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.
I'm ambivalent about CloudFlare doing the IPFS gateways, but a lot of IPFS nodes are already running on AWS so I guess the ship has sailed on avoiding corporate data center creep in our p2p systems.
Band name of the day: FLESHCAKE
Hot take: a thick skin is a really useful skill to develop, but having it isn't really correlated with other useful skills, so we shouldn't use it as a proxy for who gets to contribute to things.
Pet peeve: folks who identify the neoliberal techno-utopian california-ideology currents with cyberpunk. To the extent that the cyberpunk literary movement had consistent politics, they were critical of Regan-flavored capitalism.
Bad idea of the day: univocalipogram.social
Band name of the day: a study in confusion and misery
Hot take: the profit motive is incompatible with goals of social equity simply because those who can afford to pay for their services will always be privileged by a profit-motivated organization
Band name of the day: the banana nightcap