Tag: via Twitter
March 31, 2018
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Done!
Hi, allies! On this #TransDayOfVisibility, why don't you consider putting your pronouns in your profile, or a link to your https://t.co/tREavTg4ue (e.g. https://t.co/NWH5lQ3xKy)? It helps normalize our pronoun sharing, AND it marks you as a✨Probably Good and Safe Person✨ to us!
— Trans. Daneel Olivaw (@mspowahs) March 31, 2018
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“how to pare down and beautify your home in preparation for your death so that you do not overburden your loved ones with too much stuff and ugliness after you go.”
Swedish death cleaning and the anorexic home | Literary Review of Canada
https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2018/02/swedish-death-cleaning-and-the-anorexic-home/
March 30, 2018
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I’m like 70% sure that office shrimp lunch story is made up
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Discovered in 1994, so they’re 30,024 years old now
The exquisite Chauvet horses were created over 30,000 years ago #IceAgeArt pic.twitter.com/sF37jJKSNM
— The Ice Age (@Jamie_Woodward_) March 30, 2018
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The new Casey Musgraves album is fantastic
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This is a great track. Check it out! pic.twitter.com/hSkEyGoqoq
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“Colourised photographs collapse time, flatten it, make a continuous present, if only for an instant, and our traditional defences against the past wobble. We can feel that it was real.”
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n06/tom-crewe/short-cuts
pic.twitter.com/cNlIZnqXEo
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“An individual army ant is practically blind and has a minuscule brain that couldn’t begin to fathom their elaborate collective movement.”
The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges – Nautilus
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-build-bridges-20180226/
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“When hundreds of “lone wolves” are reading the same websites, talking to each other, consuming the same stories, picking up easily accessible weapons, and killing the same targets, they have become a pack.”
How White American Terrorists Are Radicalized
https://psmag.com/social-justice/how-white-american-terrorists-are-radicalized
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“People lying on the Internet because they think it’s hilarious Day” is almost upon us.
March 29, 2018
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Think of the current US administration as a Chaos Monkey. It’s job is to randomly disable parts of the government to see what happens.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Monkey
pic.twitter.com/uWs3QGUbfx
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Toronto will be kicking cars out of the immediate area during major sporting events. This is good.
#Toronto police just created a security zone around the Rogers Centre https://t.co/ySREtUnrsi pic.twitter.com/4AY4Ut6du2
— blogTO (@blogTO) March 29, 2018
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Happy to see papacy acknowledging that priests sin, but why demand exhibitionism?
Pope on Holy Thursday urges priests to be close to flock, especially when they sin. https://t.co/N3fUMIzXOC
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 29, 2018
March 28, 2018
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The Internet offered us a whole new world and we funded it with directing marketing.
The Internet’s Original Sin.
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Current mood.
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My guess is that comedy news shows like The Daily Show and Colbert Report (and all their offspring) have been a net negative for public discourse. They’re built on mocking minor gaffes and lampooning hypocrisy, but I can’t see how that helps anymore.
March 27, 2018
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Hahahahhahahaahahaha
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The most level-headed response to the panic around Facebook I’ve read.
To Facebook — and Its Critics: Please Don’t Screw Up Our Internet
March 26, 2018
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🤭
I am at a losse to know whether it be my hare’s foot which is my preservative against wind, for I never had a fit of the collique since I wore it, or my keeping my back cool, or whether it be my taking of a pill of turpentine every morning.
— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) March 26, 2018
March 22, 2018
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🤷🏻♂️
analingus
— New New York Times (@NYT_first_said) March 23, 2018
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I miss Rdio
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I never say “thread”, but 😯, thread!
Our Stupid Monky Brains™️ as security vulnerabilities and the ease with which AI could exploit them that vulnerability is a new concept for me.
The problem with Facebook is not *just* the loss of your privacy and the fact that it can be used as a totalitarian panopticon. The more worrying issue, in my opinion, is its use of digital information consumption as a psychological control vector. Time for a thread
— François Chollet (@fchollet) March 21, 2018
March 18, 2018
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“Drop your bad news late on a Friday” is now such a cliche that I ANTICIPATE embarrassing Friday night revelations.
March 17, 2018
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There are 7.5 billion of us. We can tackle more than one problem at a time. As a whole we can tackle ALL the problems at once.
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I ordered Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five” through Scholastic Book Club when I was in grade six. Changed my life. pic.twitter.com/u7cqJj6tXR
March 15, 2018
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I wonder if we could domesticate another mammal to be a house pet. A third option, equal to 🐕 and 🐈.
Are there any likely candidates?
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I will never understand how people can walk and read a book. I don’t believe it’s possible. They’re doing some sort of performance art or something.
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TIL: The hip hop classic “White Lines” is based on a No Wave track by Liquid Liquid called “Cavern”.
Everything is a remix.
