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I joined Jordan Peterson's online school to dispel "woke nonsense": This is what I learned. (slTorontoStar) (archive.ph link here)

Machine Yearning is a 26 minute demo album by Linus A which consists of just 4096 bytes of machine code. You can read how it was made here. This follows on A Mind is Born, an infamous 256 byte demo. [previously]Bonus piano midi cover of A Mind is Born, which kinda slaps.

Minimus sum, mus sum. (I am Minimus, I am a mouse.) I live at Vindolanda (and in Suffolk) with my family. I'll help you to learn Latin. sequere me! (Follow me!)Minimus home page.

This giant burrowing cockroach could be the key to protecting undisturbed coastal reserve. There is a push to protect Queensland's Reedy Creek Reserve by having it recognised under a special state conservation law. The charity hopes that the giant burrowing cockroach, Macropanesthia rothi and a potentially new crayfish species of the Tenuibranchiurus genus will help to elevate Reedy Creek Reserve to the status of...

Manning Fireworks by MJ LendermanMJ Lenderman Keeps It Raw - "The artist discusses resisting the neutering effects of technology, his breakup with a bandmate, and his new album, Manning Fireworks." This month, Lenderman will release "Manning Fireworks," his fifth album in five years. He is often described—accurately—as the next great hope for indie rock, or however one might now refer to scrappy, dissonant, guitar-based...

Some people say rereading is the only reading, but sometimes I think first readings are the only rereading. This isn't total nonsense. First readings are when I pay the most attention, do the most doubling back. They're when I have the most capacity for shock and joy. When I reread I am always comparing my experience to my first impression, a constant distraction; I...

"Semenov had never belonged to a labor union before coming to Sweden. Now, he sits on the board of the country's most rapidly growing and undoubtedly most unique labor union: Builders in Solidarity. Founded in 2021, it unites migrant construction workers, most of whom hail from post-Soviet countries and have no previous labor organizing experience." A story from The Beet, Meduza's newsletter on Eastern...

If you're not familiar with the mystery of Celebrity Number Six, catch up here. In short, the internet has been looking for a photo for around three years.Earlier today, Reddit user IndigoRoom posted what appears to be the original photo. Or did they? Some users are suspicious that it could be generative AI. In response, IndigoRoom posted more details on how they got the...

Newport Art Museum Left Without a Single Curator After Layoffs. The layoffs follow on the heels of a mass resignation started by the departure of the Museum's DEI person and the unveiling of a surprisingly vague new strategic plan. Pro publica estimates they have been running at a deficit of a half a million dollars a year, which has probably put a pretty big...

The LARB's "Group Chats" (08/26/2024) gathers thoughts like Daniel Lavery's: "My experience of being in group chats has largely been one of a resentful sense of being corralled and press-ganged into consensus. To clarify: Whenever I create a group chat, I am Danny Ocean assembling a crack team ... for a daring heist." Also: US Magazine's "Celebrity Group Chats"; Kurt Ostrow's essay on friendship...

Las Thursday, Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo became the first man to score 900 career goals. Here are all 900. Here's an X thread with Cristiano Ronaldo's 1st, 100th, 200th, 300th, 400th, 500th, 600th, 700th, 800th, & 900th Goals.Top 5 Ronaldo "Siu" moments [TikTok]

The Pivotal Importance of Air Quality and Ventilation (podcast with transcript). See also environmental engineering professor Linsey Marr's work, who was inspired to focus on bioaerosols after their kid came home with an awful cold. Joseph G Allen's paper Recommitting to Ventilation Standards for Healthy Indoor Air Quality

"Please save it for me": Scientist carbon dates his own kidney stone to find out when it formed. Kidney stones are an annoying, painful condition that affects many of us, but it's not easy to tell when they form. A scientist who carbon dates objects for a living decided to work out the age of his kidney stone.

"It's different than knowing you can get women, or wanting to control women, or even loving women. He likes them. He appreciates them. He enjoys their company. Tom Cruise doesn't like women. Neither does Miles Teller. Channing Tatum likes women. So does Ryan Gosling. Brad Pitt used to like women but doesn't anymore.""But isn't that pretty basic? Don't most men like women?"

For several seasons, I have been making surprising discoveries in the dark, surrounded by animals that rise with the moon—creatures such as owls, salamanders, and glowworms. Is there anything more moving than awaking to wonders that you have been wandering among all your life unaware? Is there anything more hopeful than realizing that you've always been surrounded by sublime scenes, even when you were...

Maybe you've heard of the game where you start on a random Wikipedia article and then follow the first link repeatedly. It almost always ends at the 'Philosophy' page. But why? What does it say about the structure of the site? Can we visualize it somehow? What about second or third or fifth links? Does graph theory provide any tools to help? Oh look...

The recent court-martial of a US Navy Chief Petty Officer revealed how the senior enlisted crew of the USS Manchester conspired to install a Starlink-based WiFi network aboard ship.

While students recognise him, the Slovenian media ignores him and so, increasingly, does the mainstream left-wing press internationally. Žižek is in a strange place in 2024. Jokes are innate to his political pessimism, and his pessimism is offset by his energy; while humour drives his work, it also undermines its seriousness. "The fans are attracted to my dirty jokes, the idea that I am...

The giant gurgling earthworms of Gippsland. The secrets of giant earthworms that live beneath the rolling hills of eastern Victoria — where they can be heard but are rarely seen — are set to be revealed in new research. This is a species of annelid worm called the giant Gippsland earthworm (Megascolides australis). It earns the name giant because an average adult is a...

Sergio Mendes, global ambassador of Brazilian bossa nova, has died in Los Angeles.Born in southern Brazil in the 1940s, Mendes was on his way to becoming a concert pianist when he started noticing jazz instead - in particular bossa nova, a laid-back jazzy take on the traditional Brazilian samba. After touring Brazil as a backup pianist for other American jazz artists, Mendes formed his...

Webbed Briefs are brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them. They're packed with information, fun times(TM), and actual goats.I particularly liked Why the Indieweb and What's the Deal with Large Language Models.

Firsts: The History of Computing from the Paul G. Allen Collection. Items are currently being auctioned at Christie's. In addition: Pushing Boundaries: Ingenuity from the Paul G. Allen Collection and Over the Horizon: Art of the Future from the Paul G. Allen Collection

I had never cried so much. Nor had I ever masturbated so much, with such regularity, with so much calm, so much enjoyment. I expelled an excess of tears because thinking about plural love, parenting, or solitary pleasure sometimes leads us to imagine scenes we had never imagined for ourselves. Because thinking about your present wellbeing also means rethinking past humiliation — 'your silence...