autist-american dervish communist writer, researcher, teacher, tutor.
Köppen zone Cwb, Mesoamerica
Joined September 2010
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Using google Lens for the Odd. It's meant to identify visual details: center the targeting brackets, et voilà! It's the Antikythera clockwork!
But SLIGHTLY OFF? (note wider border) gives you all KINDS of crazy stuff.
The more off target, the wider the drift into liminality.
the platform notified me i had a DM and led me through rigamarole to re-verify me before i could see DMs—then nothing new.
so if anyone wants to DM me again i appear to be available once more...
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NATHAN FIELDER Now do you understand what the principal and the superintendent are arguing about? You just saw him climb out the window to buy hamburgers across the street
ELIZABETH HOLMES They're ... they're talking past each other?
BILLY EVANS Ok, let's stop tape right here
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To what extent was knowledge and transmission of the reading traditions dependent on written works and/or notebooks rather than the semi-oral process of reciting the Quran to a teacher?
In the transmission of Ibn Bakkār from Ibn ʿĀmir the written transmission is very clear. 🧵
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Rare sand cats photographed in Kuwait
A sand cat mother and her kittens were photographed in Kuwait, offering a rare glimpse of one of the desert's most elusive wild cats
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SOMEONE BUILT A WEBSITE WHERE THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS 5 KM/H AND YOU CAN WALK THROUGH IT.
it's called Relativity Park → rivendell.dmitrybrant.com/re…
open the tab. you are standing in a 3D park. WASD to walk. mouse to look.
nothing weird yet. just a park.
then you start walking faster.
and the faster you move, the more the park starts lying to your eyes.
because in this world, light does not move at 300,000 km per second. it moves at 5 km/h. a brisk walk.
so all the Einstein stuff that usually hides at impossible speeds suddenly happens while you press W.
the world ahead of you turns blue. the world behind you turns red. lengths in front of you start to squeeze. your watch and the world clock stop matching.
you can toggle each weird effect one by one:
> L for light-travel delay
> G for aberration and contraction
> C for Doppler color
> B for relativistic beaming
not a textbook. special relativity turned into a tiny walkable world.
built by Dmitry Brant, a lead Android engineer at Wikimedia Foundation. also the guy behind DiskDigger. open source. 607 upvotes on Hacker News last week.
open tab.
press W.
watch the universe bend.
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Just received the highest honor in journalism.
Taxi Driver: You see they bombed all those boats?
Me: Yea it’s terrible, war crimes
Taxi: We’re at war and the pelucones (the rich) don’t care…I only know because there’s a girl who writes at a gringo newspaper…esté Dropé Esité something like that. She was recently on a radio show I like. She said all these things I hadn’t heard before. Anyways, súper pilas la pelada (super smart girl). She mostly writes in English but if you can read English you should check her out. I lived in Queens for 10 years so I can read English. I forget her name but the newspaper is called Dropé Esite and they’re my favorite newspaper now.
Got out the taxi and immediately started crying. Everyone knows taxi drivers are the true media critics so I’m counting this as my first award 🙂↕️ I’ve gotten death threats before I’ve even gotten my first official job in this industry. The financial precarity of being a freelancer has meant restructuring a bit of my life. My family’s terrified because the last journalist in our family was literally actually tortured by the CIA and sent to prison. My friends are annoyed that I choose all nighters writing over nights out with them. So, I really needed this validation lol. If it makes my paisanos feel seen then that’s what I wanna do for the rest of my life 🥹 Shout out to Dropé Esité News 😎
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Frellon Brothers' printer's mark. (Origin: Lyon, France, 16th century, woodcut) The word 'MATVRA' appears beneath the emblem (meaning 'hasten' or 'ripen')
This combination of a crab and a butterfly is a visual adaptation of the famous Festina Lente -- or hurry slowly -- principle, spanning from Ancient Rome to Renaissance Europe. By nature, the crab symbolizes slowness and cautious steps on the ground, while the butterfly represents rapid movement in the air.
When combined, the message is clear: You must be fast enough to take action, but careful enough to avoid critical mistakes.
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I’ve been ranting for years about how TVTropes and fandom wikis and youtube essayists did permanent damage to how people analyze stuff and discuss it online, only to find out that not only is there already a specific term for that phenomenon, but it predates all of those sites
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Ever seen a piece of 1960s space hardware still haunting Earth's neighborhood decades later? 🚀
This NASA JPL animation shows J002E3 - the spent S-IVB third stage from Apollo 12's Saturn V (launched November 1969).
In 2002, amateur astronomer Bill Yeung spotted it and logged it as a near-Earth asteroid. Turned out to be a 33-year-old rocket stage.
Watch the cyan path trace its journey from May 23, 2002 to June 17, 2003. It drifts in from the left, loops and twists around Earth and the Moon in wild, non-repeating arcs, threading past the L1 point - the gravitational gateway between Earth's and the Sun's sphere of influence - while the Moon tugs it back and forth in a chaotic, unpredictable dance.
No neat ellipses. No tidy repeating orbits. Just a 50-year-old rocket stage being slowly torn between three gravitational masters.
No trajectory predictor in 1969 could have told you where this thing would be in 2002. Chaos saw to that.
🧵 Part 2: the full orbital mechanics breakdown ↓
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Danish woman Emmy Ingeborg Brun made a small number of these Mars globes in ca. 1914, based on American astronomer Percival Lowell's books from 1906 & 1908. She viewed the planet as a potential model for Christian socialist cosmopolitanism on Earth. #astronomy #histstm #histsci
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Consciousness as a Physical Process Caused by the Organization of Energy in the Brain
frontiersin.org/journals/psy…
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Standalone demo is available here
haxiomic.github.io/demos/web…
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This one was fun – back in 2015 I used NOAA data to visualize Earth's wind flow – at the macroscale it looks almost like an ocean, you can see wind 'waves' crashing against continents
This was for the website of Attenboroughs Reef which is still online 11 years later
attenboroughsreef.com/
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tweaking so hard you decide you're on a mission from god to defeat satan? damn thats novel!
we don't even get bond villain level shit. if I were a billionaire I would be raising doggerland, bringing back aurochs, and making governments teach starhawk in schools. put me in coach
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Did YOU want to watch CCTV's AI Martial Arts cartoon about the Straits of Hormuz crisis? Complete with fighting Persian Cats? Well I subtitled it for you so you can enjoy it in all its trope-laden glory! Remember kids, the mountains will stay standing while the green water flows, and the true art of war is not figuring out how to fight, but how to stop!🥷😼🦅
