im terrified of the impermanence of technology. everything i used to like about technology is now gone, or has completely changed. new things have emerged that i like. but i can't invest myself in anything mainstream any more. what's the point? it'll be gone too!!! thats why, like all the other extremely cool people, ive become obsessed with making everything in a really simple way, and go all weird and my eye starts twitching when people talk about new layers of abstraction
Wye Oak covers Kate Bush: Running Up That Hill
This is a #vector drawing inspired by Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City, which is gone now.
This is the tallest thing I've ever drawn.
A tour of AT&T's Network Operations Center (1979) - AT&T Archives
Does Consciousness Create Reality?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h75DGO3GrF4
been kind of enjoying this dude's ~10min physics videos lately, he's pretty good at packing some real big concepts into a bite-size chunk of time
@TheGibson whoa, yeah, hope somebody is archiving!!
the fuck is this cat gonna do when I'm gone?? nobody else does that with him.
he clearly likes me best and he's not even my cat, which is its own tiny diplomatic issue, albeit a surmountable one.
(answer: he'll adapt. he's a cat. but still.)
tfw your favorite of the housemates cats hasn't learned how to exist on couches/beds/chairs with human beings, and now you're contractually obligated to carry him around in your arms for at least 15 total minutes per day so he can have the time he so clearly wants to spend laying on top of a human being & rattling while completely relaxed
covid, Brazil
turns out when you elect knuckledragging right-wing troglodytes of the type who prefer their intellectual betters lined up against a wall, there are consequences.
covid, Brazil
Brazil’s virus outlook darkens amid vaccine supply snags
Public health experts blame President Jair Bolsonaro for refusing to enact strict measures to halt infections and for clashing with governors and mayors who did.
Failure to control the spread has been compounded by the Health Ministry betting big on a single vaccine. Authorities ignored other producers and squandered opportunities until it was too late to get large quantities of vaccine.
ahh I just looked again and it's a lot harder to see the weird creepy compression effect when not watching it at full 1080p.
remember how the remote video feeds in Aliens were full of smeary analog vidicon tube artifacts, which somehow made them all the more creepy?
if anybody were to remake that film but with early-2020s cyberpunk dystopia tech, they should make the video feeds look like this: https://youtu.be/DbwZ8eoQrTY?t=240
I literally never updated this since the day I made my account, and now it's 3 years later. But hey, we don't have a grey goo problem yet!